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Fantastic finish, wonder what price Dawn Run would have been on betfair on the run in?
Had it been any other horse than Wayward Lad she was chasing then you would have got odds against!
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Dawn Run was to become the most important winner Jonjo ever rode even if he was unaware of it at the time.
Has been said it was the race that changed JP MCManus’s life.
How he must have felt when Dawn Run came under pressure at the top of the hill….desoite still being there with a shout he then sees Forgine N Forget range up at the last, a horse who had flown up the hill in the past.
Then as he falls back beaten, Brad gets an extra gear out of Wayward Lad and looks like he’s going to run away with it. Jp’s heart must have been in his mouth.
I know Wayward Lad was said to be short of a gallop and stopped but only Jonjo who never ever gave up could have conjured up that little bit extra and got there.
If Jonjo and Dawn Run had not won that day there would be no Jackdaw and JP reckoned he’d have been skint within days.
Dawn Run and Jonjo made history that day in more ways than one.
What price would she have hit in running on Betfair?
Not sure, but Brad would have hit 1.02 and fortunes would have been lost.
Forgive and Forget
ran right up to his mark that day and as they approached the 2nd last he would have been odds on fav! It just shows the 86 Gold Cup was one of the best ever! I actually backed
Run and skip
in the race as he was the young pretender that season progressing with every run,he never disgraced himself either!
I always thought it was the accepted view that Wayward Lad never quite got the trip up the Cheltenham hill in the Gold Cup. Just look again, is she quickening or is he emptying out. The latter, in my view.
Would the weight Dawn Run was getting due to being a mare, ie 5lbs, have made the difference and is this being taken into account on the betfair side of things.
You’d say, Fist, that JP would have found a way of bouncing back had Dawn Run not taken advantage of the weight allownace.
One of the very few races that’s reduced me to tears the ’86 Gold Cup. It had everything.
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