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Its a lot more modern than that Seasider !!
And World Premier did run in a classic against Mark Of Esteem BH but it is more modern than that one too!
Name the last Brocklesby winner to go on to run in a classic ?
Try doing it without google first LOL
Shamelessly using a search engine, I note that Hearts Of Fire won the Brocklesby in 2009 and contested the 2,000 Guineas the following year.
(A Brocklesby winner hasn’t won a classic since Donovan (Derby & St Leger) in 1889. I imagine this drought is set to continue until the end of time, or possibly later.)
Well done Seasider. Trained byt the man himself Pat Eddery.
Your turn again Seasider.
Reckon I supposed to have a go seeing I got the one about AA Milne.
So here goes:
What links the 1959 2000 Guineas winner to a Northern trained sprinter who won thirteen races in the 1940s?The sprinter was Como and is found in pedigrees of some good sprinters including Raffingora.
The connection has nothing to do with races they ran in.Still no idea.
Judging by the deafening silence I’d say this comment also applies to other aficionados of this topic. :)
Well I will add in another horse in common with Taboun and Como, Laureate, the winner of the 1968 Lingfield Derby Trial
Yes that is correct, I was going to add Born to Sea if no one got it today.
Como was bottle fed and then raised by a Welsh pony.
I was reading that stud farms keep mare for fostering nowadays and remove their foals, in the UK I understand they are not killed, but in some countries they are. They use gypsy cobs apparently for their steady temperament, I always understood that a racehorse mare was preferable because a foal imitates it’s dams action, this must have been disproved because I would have thought a gypsy cob would impart an undesirable high knee action to a fostered foal.Thank you Crepello, I just wrote a long answer to the fostermares, but it vanished, when I pushed send…
Anyway, the action an ability to run is in the genes of the horse, behaviour can be influenced after birth, and especially by the dam or foster mare.
Next Q, name the Dubai World Cup winner who retired to Stud in Scandinavia, as well as the country he retired to (first). His first crop is 4 years and so far has produced 17 winners.Best Wishes
SilkIndeed Crepello, the Fappiano-line Stallion retired to Sweden a few months (for the Northern Hemisphere season), the birthcountry of his owner Stefan Friborg. A service to swedish breeders and probably because he did’t attract to commercial breeders in the greater racing countries.
Best Wishes
SilkRon Sheather is perhaps best known as the trainer of Chief Singer, a triple Group 1 winner for him in 1984, and one of only two horses to win the St. James’s Palace Stakes, the July Cup, and the Sussex Stakes in the same season.
What less enviable feat was achieved by Sheather early in his career as an apprentice jockey.
I believe he was the only jockey to finish 58th in a flat race when last in a 58 runner Lincolnshire Handicap. Possibly 1947?
You are correct, rob.
Sheather finished 58th and last in the 1948 Lincolnshire Handicap riding Loucose. Unless the BHA chucks out its safety regulations regarding field sizes, and allows racecourses to put on 59 runner handicaps, this is a record that will not be beaten.
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