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Baulking Green, was a sixteen year old on his last start.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
That’s the one. Noticed the comment when glancing through old Hunter Chaser and Point-to-Pointers on the old books stall at Kelso on Sunday.
Fine old hunter chaser and I was given a copy of a book about him back in 1972. The dad of a schoolmate of mine worked for Major Michael Pope at Streatley and got me a whole load of racing books.
rob, I’m assuming that the book you refer to is Baulking Green by Ron Liddiard. There’s a copy currently available from Amazon at £12, if anyone is interested.
I remember Baulking Green well. Big horse, big heart. Won the United Hunts’ Challenge Cup 4 times at the Festival and beaten a short head in the 1968 renewal at the age of 15.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hunter+chaser+who+raised+the+roof%3B+Baulking+Green.-a0281145106
How did Paul Carberry emulate his father at the Cheltenham Festival?
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
Was it by riding a Sun Alliance Chase winner who went on to win the following year’s Gold Cup? Tommy rode Ten Up (Sun Alliance in 1974, Gold Cup in 1975), while Paul rode Looks Like Trouble to win the Sun Alliance in 1999 but missed out when second on Florida Pearl in the following year’s Gold Cup.
No, not what I was thinking of. This achievement occurred a few years before.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
Taking a bit of a flyer here, but did both win on their first ride at the Cheltenham Festival?
Correct.
Paul won on his first ride at the festival in 1993 – Rhythm Section (Champion Bumper)
Tommy won on Tripacer (Gloucestershire Hurdle [Div I]) in 1962.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
TRF poster yeats has provided a naming inspiration in the fields of both sport and culture.
Not only was multiple G1 winner Yeats named after the OP of this thread, but the family of Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) actually changed their name to Yeats in homage to him.
Anyway, identify the connection between WB Yeats and a European Classic winner of the past 15 years.
You will be unsurprised to learn the answer is not Yeats.
The European Classic winner won another G1 (in England) at 3 but didn’t win again and was retired at the end of his Classic season.
A tenuous link but what about Shamardal who won the French Guineas then the St James Palace and then retired due to injury.
And here is the link ( I Hope) was owned by Godolphin and I think Yeats might have gone to Godolphin school ??
Fingers crossed but if it aint right God Knows!!
Sorry raymo – not Shamardal.
WB Yeats’ body of work includes a shedload of poems, one of which includes the name of the Classic winner, although that name isn’t in the title of the poem.
Great question, but shouldn’t it be Rob North setting the question as he got the last one right?
Cormack, going by the original rules that’s certainly true.
That said, nobody posted a question from July 2014 to December 2015, at which point VTC resurrected it from the dustbin of TRF history, I think at my request. Recognising that the thread stalled when (a) nobody posted a question at their turn or (b) clues were needed to drive the question forward, I offered to set questions myself after 2 or 3 days of inactivity. I am also not above asking for a clue from time to time. This is simply not a problem for me, and nobody objected when I proposed this stratagem a couple of months ago.
It keeps the thread going, and every top-class horse racing forum needs a quiz.
Not Night Of Thunder, Crepello.
Blimey its getting high brow!! I must go and read up on my Yeats poems!!
raymo, I hope I can save you some time by suggesting you restrict your research to the collection The Wild Swans of Coole (1919) which contains a mere 46 poems. Actually, that doesn’t help much so concerning the horse, you might wish to consider which group of owners has a penchant for naming its horses after figures in classical literature, music and art.
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