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What links The Derby winners of 1971, 1978 and 1985?
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Back a couple of questions, and did have to search the Racing Post database, but John Reid had 7 winners at Ascot in 1996. Difficult to work out if any did it over the jumps as the year is split and it would be a manual check.
Regarding the 1971, 1975 and 1985 Derby winners, did they all win the King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on their next outing?
No, Rob, and btw it was 1971, 1978 and 1985.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Note to self – ‘read the question’!
I do know the answer for those years, but not fair to have 2 goes straight away so I’ll let someone else bang that one in the net.
A lot of trust in this sort of thread in that hoping that people are sincere not to Google stuff though the only way of proving it is answering within seconds – would have got this one immediately as I use get Pacemaker monthly from late 75 onwards this took an interest in pedigrees even then and it was also unwritten law that you had to read the Oakey MR book, this Q of course connected with him being the first link of three. I think when people get smitten with a particular sport they are able to remember the first decade or so with more clarity than the present – you’ll find footy fans reeling off the starting elevens from FA Cup finals in the 1970’s but unable to even name the winner of, say, three years back.
That’s totally the case for me – btw you take your name from the very first chaser I ever live jumping a live fence under rules (in a match with Royal Frolic at Doncaster in 1978) – as I am pretty good on my first few years following the game, not bad on this year, but somewhat hazy on the 40 years inbetween!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Embassy Premier Chase Final day Jan 1976 my first day racing and Cancello looked to be in with a winning chance when coming down two out – the racing going to the Winter/Francome favourite Floating Pound. That I remember Cancello more, being a so called unlucky loser, set me up to be a bad punter,by giving too much credit to those beaten, often fair and squarely – though in the case of Cancello he did win a Mackeson run at Haydock when Cheltenham were building a new stand.
Mill Reef (1971) was the sire of Shirley Heights (1978) who was the sire of Slip Anchor (1985).
Name the last horse John Francome rode before retiring in 1985.Correct.
Btw, though training’s loss was ultimately TV’s gain, I thought Francome missed a trick when he became a trainer.
The undisputed best NH jockey at the time, had he hung onto his jockey’s licence and exclusively ridden horses from his own yard the first season or two, I reckon he’d have got more owners, more quality horses to train, and made a go of it.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Not sure training was really his cup of tea in the first place to be fair and from how he tells what led up to his retirement it was fully planned (although the incident on the last horse he rode brought the decision forward from the end of that season to that actual day) so I doubt riding for his own yard was ever an option.
Aside from how the whole C4 Racing/Andrew Franklin/Highflyer gig ended (he chose loyalty to Franklin over money), he doesn’t seem to have any regrets with how things have gone and he is still heavily involved with the IJF amongst other things.
Francome would have been too busy trying to get in to the female owners pants to concentrate.
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Two different horses both with the same name, finished first and second in the Magnet Cup, less than 20 years apart. What is that name?
Yeats, I don’t understand the equestion 100%. Halkopous finished 2nd and 1st in the race in consecutive years. Is he part of the answer?
That was the same horse both times RubyLight. Yeats is after two different horses that happened to share the same name.
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