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Excellent call, Mesh, as emotional a victory as I’ve seen in my lifetime. Even the old bugger himself was pretty choked about it, I seem to recall.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)
<br>I just thought he was plastered, as usual. :biggrin:
What about Halmahera winning 3 Portland handicaps?….a horse which Willie Carson actually called a ‘Proffesional loser’….in front of a packed out platinum racing party..!!!! how that man ate his words!!!!!
Guy Harwood getting Cataldi into a big handicap about a third of the way down the long-handicap weights, after coming third in a show of heads in an Eclipse or Champion Stakes, I think, in a record time – beating the record set by Brigadier Gerard not hat long before.
it was also an achievement of his, imho, to have kept his sanity after Te Agori Mou, I think, seemed to have been robbed of a classic, on a legal appeal by the Wizard of Cashel, in favour of the horse he trained – whose name I’ve forgotten.
Speaking of Halmahera reminds me of a horse that achieved a similar feat. The mighty Zuhair winning 4 Charlton Stakes at Glorious Goodwood (as well as a Stewards Cup consolation in the first year) was an excellent achievement. Dandy did so well to time the release of the brakes so well.
Quote: from Grimes on 6:18 pm on Dec. 21, 2005[br]Guy Harwood getting Cataldi into a big handicap about a third of the way down the long-handicap weights, after coming third in a show of heads in an Eclipse or Champion Stakes, I think, in a record time – beating the record set by Brigadier Gerard not that long before.
<br>it was also an achievement of his, imho, to have kept his sanity after Te Agori Mou, I think, seemed to have been robbed of a classic, on a legal appeal by the Wizard of Cashel, in favour of the horse he trained – whose name I’ve forgotten. <br>
<br>The O’Brien horse was King’s Lake who was first past the post in the Irish 2000 with the Harwood horse being awarded the race in the stewards room, only for the Turf Club to reinstate the original winner. Starkey gave a "V" sign to Pat Eddery when winning the St James’ Palace Stakes and gaining sweet revenge. Aside from Shergar, the battle between the two horses was the highlight of the ’81 season and got me interested in flat racing.
Cataldi did indeed run a blinder in the 1984 Champion Stakes when acting as a pacemaker before winning the following season’s Lincoln. But he certainly wasn’t leniently handicapped ~ he actually set a weight carrying record for the race!
(Edited by rory at 7:20 pm on Dec. 21, 2005)
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