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Glasses Up runs at Ayr tomorrow a track he has won at 10 times
So when it comes to horses for courses who would you like to add to topicVF x
From years ago Rapid Lad used to win regularly at Beverley , and i think at Catterick a sprinter called Gods Solution won plenty there .
Hard to find one to beat Rapporteur, who won 19 races at Lingfield in 1990/94. Fourteen on the AW, five on turf.
He never won at any other track in an 84 race career.
Remarkably, despite his obvious love of the course, he only started favourite in three of those wins. Two of which were four runner races, the other, his last ever win, was at 1/4 in a three runner Lingfield claiming series final, sponsored by his owner!
Over obstacles Manhattan Boy is one that stands out.
Between 1986 and 1993 he won 14 times at Plumpton, all of them in Selling Hurdles, out of 64 runs at the course (88 total career runs).
Didn’t manage to win at any other track either.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
Manhattan Boy a blast from past , a mainstay of winter Mondays in William Hill .
A few from Southwell on fibresand .
Stand to Gain
Suluk when they had hurdles .
Tempering iam sure was a Southwell specialist but maybe mixed it with Lingfield .
Fontwell had a chaser in 80s won a a lot low grade races there , one day his name will come back to me .In the late 80s and early 90s St. Athans Lad won at least 11 races at Fontwell, 7 of them in a row.
Godolphin’s Tribalist has won 7 races at Saint Cloud, the latest win came three weeks ago.
St Athans Lad thats the one , thanks ERL .
Another i thought of some may recall , I saw him a bit on summers evenings at Lingfield was Al Amead ,he loved the straight Turf races there .Yes I remember Al Amead, would have been mid-1980s. I think he was one of a few Sheikh Hamdan owned runners that John Benstead trained (at Epsom?).
In the early days of the All-Weather there were a few David Barron trained, Alex Greaves ridden, horses that seemed to win loads at Southwell but I can’t remember the names.
Chaplins Club won at Ayr that many times they named a bar after him , lol he got turned over in a seller then next run finished second in the Ayr Gold Cup !!
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
Chaplains Club was some horse , won CH4 Trophy a couple of times I think . Then came Glencroft for David Chapman who won CH4 Trophy as well . I think Glencroft was tubed .
Chapman was some trainer , multiple multiple winners .Cool Roxy won eleven at Fakenham, of course, with nine other podium finishes from 26 course visits all told.
My favourite pointer Chesnut Annie won on ten of her twelve visits to Howick, including all nine between 2007 and 2012.
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I lived in Hertford for a while and Alan Blackmore was closest training yard to there .
Arsonist i think it was called was a decent horse he had in 80s , won a few at Huntingdon iam sure .
Physical Fun was another decent one out of that small yard but he went rogue and dug his heels in at starts in end .
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