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Was Browns Gazette the hurdler that had a heart attack during a Fighting Fifth or another Newcastle hurdle, died in mid stride? Awful to watch
CS It was Ekbalco that dropped dead
Ekbalco sadly broke a shoulder when falling in the Fighting Fifth, he didn’t die of a heart attack I don’t think?. I can’t remember exactly what it was that brought about BG’s death but I do think it was in the Fighting Fifth, I took a dislike to that race after that due to losing the above two in it.
CS It was Ekbalco that dropped dead
Ekbalco sadly broke a shoulder when falling in the Fighting Fifth, he didn’t die of a heart attack I don’t think?. I can’t remember exactly what it was that brought about BG’s death but I do think it was in the Fighting Fifth, I took a dislike to that race after that due to losing the above two in it.
The horse I’m thinking about just collapsed at full racing speed between hurdles and slid sickeningly across to the right with the jockey still on board, it wasn’t Ekbalco but it was around that time
CS It was Ekbalco that dropped dead
Ekbalco sadly broke a shoulder when falling in the Fighting Fifth, he didn’t die of a heart attack I don’t think?. I can’t remember exactly what it was that brought about BG’s death but I do think it was in the Fighting Fifth, I took a dislike to that race after that due to losing the above two in it.
The horse I’m thinking about just collapsed at full racing speed between hurdles and slid sickeningly across to the right with the jockey still on board, it wasn’t Ekbalco but it was around that time
Yea CS, I seem to recall that and I think your right in thinking it was Brownes Gazette. Crying shame, both of them were grand horses.
Must be Browns Gazette, lovely horse I agree, I do remember now it was DB on board
(after some hard searching in my memory…glad it still works)I can still see the incident as clear as if it was yesterday
It was definitely Browne’s Gazette. One of the C4 team (Lord Oaksey I think) mistakenly suggested during the commentary that he had tried to run out.
Parsons Thorns, full brother to Monsieur Le Cure who sustained subsequently fatal injury in the Sun Alliance Chase. Potential Gold Cup horse although I am a little biased because he was finest looking horse I have seen – in fact the last thing he won was best turned out for that Sun Alliance.
Boardroom Shuffle – a rare decent winner for Executive Perk, good ground horse who won his first six or seven starts and was a relatively short price to the win the Champion Hurdle as a novice but unfortunately started to break blood vessels and was never the same again.
Carobee – potentially the best the ‘Duke’ ever trained, don’t think he was beaten in completed starts but despite several efforts to get him back never returned to the track after injury.
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One horse who should definitely be in here is Richard Head’s Border Incident.
You would go a long way to find a better looking horse and when he was right he was as top class as they come.
Twas a long way from home when he came down 6 out in Tied Cottage’s Gold Cup but John Francome was convinced, having not moved a muscle on him, had he stood up he would have won.
Thorn Dance – Cecil hype horse which I got sucked into.
I believe he was owned by Sheikh Mohammed,he won the Acomb at York and made the very useful Batshoof look average!I think Batshoof went on to win the Prince of Wales at Royal Ascot!I dont remember Thorn Dance in the 89, 2000 gns though Corm!
Parsons Thorns, full brother to Monsieur Le Cure who sustained subsequently fatal injury in the Sun Alliance Chase. Potential Gold Cup horse although I am a little biased because he was finest looking horse I have seen – in fact the last thing he won was best turned out for that Sun Alliance.
That reminds me of another after reading this. Also in that Sun Alliance was the mare Call Me Later from Ireland, I remember thinking she was something else and was well chuffed when she came over for the race. I was absolutely beyond gutted when she died after falling, to a point where it put me off racing for a good while. A hell of a shame…
Apologies if she has already been mentioned on the thread, I did not check!
kildimo. fond memories of him beating desert orchid at wincanton though, and his bechers chase win. but oh my, the disappointments!!!
Carvills Hill, perhaps the best engine ever, just coudn’t jump, maybe should have stayed over hurdles. He was an iffy jumper as a novice, despite winning the Hennessey, but his fall in the Gold Cup seemed to ruin his confidence completley.
BTW the same thing I think, happened to Beef or Salmon, his jumping as a novice was superb, won the Lexus and Henessey, but after his fall in the GC he becmae more deliberate; still able to pick up 10 grade 1s, but never quite the same.
The message is clear, novices should avoid the GC; it shows the incredible achievemnet of Captain Christy and Dawn RunStrong Promise – I was in love with him from the first moment I saw him in a novice hurdle and I was sure he’d win a Gold Cup. I can remember the day he was killed at Aintree very clearly; I switched off and spent the rest of the day in a daze. I didn’t watch any racing for weeks afterwards and I don’t take time off to watch Aintree any more. The only good thing was that Geoff Hubbard had passed away before the Chelt Festival that year and didn’t see it.
Tokala – I saw this horse at the Cheltenham Trials day (such a pity the trainers didn’t support it going forwards). He looked like a hairy little monster but when he came back from his spin he looked like a *horse*. I followed him closely and made a tidy profit – he won his first two bumpers, then was second in a Listed bumper. Then JP bought him and all started to go wrong, culminating with him breaking a leg at Sandown.
Vodaktini – sooo much talent but sometimes he really just couldn’t be a***ed. I remember one time he jumped off but obviously wasn’t in the mood – tried to refuse, got a smack and at the next dropped his shoulder and dumped the jockey!
Not sure about Trabolgan; there could be a mighty Grand National run in him.
Not jumping like he did just now. I would be much happier if they retired him but the owner has his obsession.
I backed Strong Promise in the Gold Cup and bought some cowslips for the garden with my winnings, so every year I think of him when they flower. The day he got killed I drove to the village garage and rushed in saying ‘give me a packet of cigarettes, my favourite horse has just died’, and the lad at the garage said ‘I, know, I’ve been listening to it on the radio’. I still dread the Aintree meeting and it was awful that Strong Promise and his old adversory One Man should both lose their lives on the same track [perhaps even the same fence]. But I felt then and still do that they’re together somewhere; One Man and his ‘shadow’.
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