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Well done, Venture To Cognac..you beat me to it…and I saw your namesake in action and stroked him a few times at Lambourn when he was with Fred Winter who trained the ill-fated but potentially best horse he ever had,Killiney,as well as the crack novice chaser,The Dealer,and brilliant Gold Cup winner,Midnight Court,during the same era in the 70s !
Great question,Bachelors Hall !
Hate setting the question.
Which horse fell in The Champion Hurdle, Gold Cup, and Grand National in the last 30 years.
I remember repeatedly watching the 1994 Grand National as it was the first one I ever taped on my first VHS recorder. I was led to believe that The Chair was remarkably daunting yet that year, it only claimed Black Humour.
Hate is such a strong word… Relatively simple one this time,
Name the missing horse.
Mandarin, Mill House, Arkle, ?????, Burrough Hill Lad
There should be two missing horses…The Dikler and Captain Christy as all won the Gold Cup and the King George !
Not what I’m looking for. There’s only one missing horse on this particular list.
edit;- There’s only one horse missing in the sequence. You can add Teeton Mill to the list.
Nope
For clarity’s sake, this is the full sequence. I want the missing horse.
Mandarin, Mill House, Arkle, ?????, Burrough Hill Lad, Teeton Mill
Indeed it is
They all completed the Hennessy/King George double in the same year.
Over to you.
O.K i’ll try this one for starters.
What current well known entertainer was once a stable lad at Ginger McCain’s and at whose stable did Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins have aspirations of becoming a jockey.
Both names please.
Sorry i’m a bit late.
That is a tough nut to crack,wyldesyde…to show that I am curious I will guess Freddie Starr and Noel Murless as the answers and will take my hat off to whoever gets this right !
Lee Mack had a work experience (I think) stint at Ginger McCain’s. The Hurricane’s jockey ambitions began and ended with Eddie Reavey.
I had to cheat a little with the latter as, unfortunately, Eddie Reavey is a mere name to me. Although I do see that he had a maiden named after him at Salisbury for a few years.
Nice to hear from you both and sorry for the delay.
And the winner is Bachelor’s Hall.
Lee Mack – the first horse he sat on at the stables was, yes you’ve guessed it, Red Rum.
Eddie Reavey – trained a few good 2 and 3 year olds in the 60’s and 70’s.
End of term report – written by Eddie’s wife Jocelyn.
‘Alex is a nice lad underneath but everytime you leave him to do a job he disappears to the bookies. Apart from anything else, it’s illegal for a fifteen-year-old. He has certain ability as a horseman but no staying power. As a worker , he’s well nigh hopeless.’
The fact that snooker’s greatest genius was also an even greater feckless ******* in every sense of the world is one of the many peculiarities that makes life so darned interesting.
Which commentator once called a point to point race that featured the surprise guest appearance of a "whippety thing"?
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