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A few who I thing should have races named after them.
All the favourites I saw at Haydock in the late 90’s and early part of this century. General Wolfe, Young Kenny, The Last Fling, Bobby Grant, Kingsmark.
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The French beat us to it.
The Tierce Handicap at Auteuil run at the big winter jumps festival this Sunday is to be renamed the Prix Best Mate.
Oh hang on – some people on here are having a laugh. Best Mate – won 3 Gold Cups – how the hell can you call them poor quality gold cups???? Yes, best mate was beat by beef or salmon in the ericsson chase. But how many times did best mate destroy beef or salmon in the gold cups???<br>Best Mate never came out of the top 2, and there is no way i am including the haldon gold cup as a run. If the jockey club cup on champions day was named after Persian Punch last year, a race he won a few times, then why could the Gold Cup not be named after Best Mate for 1 year and then give him a permanent race.
You cant say that i think that hardy eustace should be given a race named after him. Hardy Eustace finishes 2nd or 3rd up until march, where he wins the champion hurdle and then wins a champion hurdle in ireland in april. he’s nowhere near as consistent as best mate, and the 2001 festival being abandoned didnt inconvenience hardy eustace anywhere near as much as it may have. Hardy Eustace probably hadnt even started racing then.<br>The Gold Cup is the entire reason that chasers exist. I’m pretty sure if you asked any trainer in the uk, which race they would want to win the most, it would be the gold cup. Arkle won it 3 years running, and <br>Best Mate has, so to treat Best mate with lesser respect is absurd.
How about the "Best Mate would have won this with a half-decent ride instead of coming second when Mounty was on at 10-1 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle"
Let it go man let it go. You’ll become even more bitter and twisted than you already are.
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