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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQIOAhPkC2A
Love Sign d’Aunou is the clear favourite for the bumper. Quite an overreaction.
First race that came to my mind too LD73. Mainly because of Eddery’s contemptuous glance.
It’s a good one LD, but it might not be enough to satisfy Gladders. I think he wants the “perfect canter”.
It would appear that Pat and Rainbow Quest had some previous because in the race before his Coronation Cup ‘canter’ he did this:
OK me thinks me might have found a perfect definition and in a NH race….TRF’ers I give you Sprinter Sacre breaking the course record (whilst also trying to yank Geraghty’s arms out of their socket) in the Game Spirit at Newbury
Thanks for posting that, LD – I have been looking for that video for years but could never find it.
Two I remember well, but aren’t on YouTube, are Carobee in the March 1992 Swish Hurdle at Chepstow and Barton Bank in the November 1992 Aga Worcester Novice Chase at, er, Worcester. Both won by miles without coming off the bit at any stage.
Thanks for the reminder about Carobee. He looked a top class novice. I remember seeing him win at Aintree after his Chepstow stroll. He beat Halkopous (a decent performer on the Flat) with Flown, the Supreme winner, well beaten back in fourth.
Unfortunately he picked up a serious injury afterwards and never ran again.
I can’t find the Chepstow race but his Aintree victory is in this package, starting around 2 minutes in.
David Nicholson always said Carobee could have gone right to the top over hurdles or fences. Pity he never ran again after his novice season – he picked up a serious tendon injury – as I was certain he would have won 1993 Champion Hurdle.
Glad/CAS – I also remember Carobee but I always thought anything that he did over hurdles was going to be a bonus, as he had chaser stamped all over him. But when you do a deep dive into his form, he could have easily been a Champion Hurdler.
Said deep dive found these facts, in that Chepstow stroll the 4th horse that day (beaten 37L) was Martin Pipe’s Valfinet who would go on to win 8 of his next 14 races including the G2 Elite and back to back G2 Kingwell Hurdles (where in one he beaten former Champion Hurdler Kribensis).
The horse that finished 3rd at Chepstow that day (beaten 22L) was an even more significant horse as it was a certain Mighty Mogul, who at the time was trained by Jenny Pitman and was coming into that race off of the back of a win in the G2 Persian War Novice Hurdle. By the following season (92/93), MM had been transferred to Nicholson’s yard and he would go on to win his next four races including the Christmas Hurdle (after which he was ante post fav for the 1993 Champion Hurdle) but sadly he broke down in his very next race, the 1993 Cleeve Hurdle and whilst he was initially saved and operated on, a severe complication from that meant that he had to be put down on humane grounds.
MM was also famously the horse that won the farcial G2 Waterloo Hurdle at Haydock where the race had to be run in two stages due to hurdles being incorrectly dolled off – roughly a mile and a half into the 2m3f race Dunwoody convinced the other jockeys the race would be declared void if they didn’t pull up, which they did and crazily after deliberation officials decided to re-run the whole race again. The outcome still saw Mighty Mogul win easily by 6L having raced a combined 4 miles!, which prompted the rather ironic comment from Nicholson of “well at least we know he stays”!
Just 19 days after said farce, MM was out again and won the Christmas Hurdle (then his 5th race of that season….imagine that!) in which he beat Flown (by 5L) and Granville Again (by 8L) who would actually go on to win the 1993 Champion Hurdle himself. Incidentally, in that said Champion Hurdle, Vintage Crop was 6th and he would go to win that year’s Melbourne Cup but more significantly, the horse that finsihed 3rd (beaten 3½L) was a certain Halkopous, who Carobee beat 4L in that Aintree race.
Just goes to show what might have been for Carobee had injury not curtailed his career.
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