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218th outing at Wolver tomorrow night. Beats Sharp Hat’s modern day record.
Great stuff on the all weather!
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Utter nonsense , a dross horse , running in the lower ranks plodding along each week , it shows everything that is bad about our game
Just because we have too much racing and most if it rubbish class 5 /6/7 , surely we should not be celebrating one of its participants
Dross and Drivel
Carry one with the Chavving …….
imo
Ricky
Ricky
Change the record.
Your readiness to p*** on anyone’s parade is well established and getting rather tedious.
IMO
Rob
Ricky
Although I ‘get’ the mischief in your statements, I have to agree with Robnorth that the act is getting a bit stale now.
All sports operate at many different levels. Not all football is Premiership, not all cricket is Test Match.
All we are talking about here is the longevity of a moderate horse who seems to thrive on his racing and has no doubt provided his owners with loads of fun times. Seems worth celebrating to me.
Mike
Wonderful! Not a bad handicapper on all weather actually, 10% win, 42% first three. Owners must love him fancy buying a horse and having 218 races with him!!
Ricky, no.
Ricky there isn’t such thing as a class 7. Have a look at Kempton prize money and you’ll see that it pays more for for class 6 races that allot of other courses.
With regard to Dvinsky, I said it before and I’ll stay it again.
"He’s brilliant, an all weather pioneer. A real poly track veteran. He’s only a couple of years short of being a living breathing Equitrack fossil. If they make a Dvinsky hat I will buy one!Any horse who lasts that long in good shape and still being competitive ought to be celebrated, I think.
He doesn’t hold the record though, at least the world record for most lifetime starts. Even if we have a strict definition of "modern day".
http://www.pedigreequery.com/behavin+jerry
http://www.pedigreequery.com/sharon+caper
http://www.pedigreequery.com/dot+the+t
http://www.pedigreequery.com/diplomatic+gossipSpoilsport
They do clearly state British record. If we added not on latex or some other drug banned in the UK would it be the world record?It’s some achievement all the same and you have to take your hat off to the owners for keeping him so long as it probably cost them 150-200K after they deducted winnings,
Goes to show that racing is not all business which is just as well
Ricky there isn’t such thing as a class 7.
fwiw ~48 Class 7 races were run in 2011, all were AW handicaps, all were at Wolv or Kemp.
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…on latex
" – priceless!!
Anyway, very well done to Dvinsky.
But, if we define "modern day" as running in the post-war era, then the (thoroughbred) record remains with good old Hiblaze, http://www.pedigreequery.com/hiblaze ,who ran from 1937 to 1950, winning 79 out of 406 starts.
From a UK perspective, the interesting thing about this tough old battler is that his paternal grandsire Wrack, a tiny little horse of Lord Rosebery’s, was a top-class hurdler who won the Gloucester Hurdle (now the Supreme) at the Festival meeting.
He proved a notable success as a flat sire in America, standing at Bull Hancock’s famous Claiborne Farm.
Lovely old boy. Sorry he didn’t make the frame yesterday, but probably many more chances. He must be such fun for his owner. Good luck!!
Spoilsport
They do clearly state British record. If we added not on latex or some other drug banned in the UK would it be the world record?
Lasix wasn’t legalized in the US until the mid 1980s. New York didn’t give in until 1994.
He proved a notable success as a flat sire in America, standing at Bull Hancock’s famous Claiborne Farm.
Wrack was a good jumps sire here as well…
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