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Just So
. Only actually ever won three races in his life, and none worth over nine grand, yet few horses have given me as much pleasure to watch.
What a shame the line frequently came too soon for this indefatigable grinder – usually about a mile too soon, even in a four-miler.
gc
Good old "Just Slow"! Remember his Grand National second in 1994.
Somehow backed the first three that year (sadly not in a tricast) and was sat at home with my parents and halfway up the run in started cheering on Just So (as I’d have won more if he’d won then Miinnehoma).
Cue getting told off by Mum for being selfish (as she had also backed Miinnehoma – mainly because he was owned by Freddie Starr)!
Had Championships been decided over 6 miles on heavy ground then we’d be declaring Just So the new Arkle
Not quite meeting the true description of the thread title but…
PERSIAN PUNCH – although he won many big races (Goodwood & Doncaster Cups etc…), never got that Group 1 he deserved.
Anyone remember Cahervillahow??
Fast finishing third in the Hennessy behind Arctic Call, Withdrawn from a gold cup by accident. Got left at the start in Ritzclub when finishing second to Seagram. Got beaten a nose in Irish National by Omerta, Ran a game second in the void National…
Thats to say nothing of the debacle of the Whitbred which set Anglo-Irish relations back a few months.
Amazed he retired in one piece.
Think he carried a big weight in the Ritz as well, + finished like a train up the hill; would have been a real contender in the Gold Gup
Mad Moose, bless his cotton socks. Second to Sprinter Sacre once, but nothing since. I wish he’d started just one more time and silenced all the mockers with a big win.
Depends on what you’d call a ‘big one’ (ooermissus), but I’d argue that Victor Chandler/Clarence House winner Somersby and triple King George winner Wayward Lad did that.
In recent times, I’d like to nominate Back In Focus. Racked by injuries, should have run in the 2013 RSA (would have won), stayed all day, big, powerful and lovely.
Forpadydeplasterer’s run of five seconds in Grade Ones made me warm to him enormously.
Exotic Dancer (God Rest His Soul). Nuff said.
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So don't run, just like the others always do
Oh don’t remind me of the pain of that day yet again gc
Your pocket as well as mine, I’m sensing…
gc
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and Southwestern to have won a Foxhunters.
Good call. The two late falls in Punchestown’s equivalent were desperately unlucky, too – I’d have fancied him to have held on for at least one of those.
gc
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I’m surprised GC hasn’t put up Quixall Crossett
Ah, I was nominating horses who deserved to win a big race, not just a race of any description
Bless him, I’m sure the second at Wetherby back in May 1998 was the one that got away, relatively speaking, as the leader Toskano’s jumping went to pot up the straight and the margin between him and Quixall got smaller, ever smaller… Another half furlong and he’d have had him. Really really!
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Though I’ve eventually won it twice it took Sea Pigeon like forever to win the Chmpion Hurdle so it was a great moment when he did.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Grands Crus – genuinely high class staying hurdler, won the Feltham impressively and then (barring a very good third in the King George) forgot how to be a horse.
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So don't run, just like the others always do
Great shout FLD. It was very sad to see Grands Crus struggling to land a blow in a handicap hurdle at Kempton before retirement.
Not sure if there were mental issues, physical issues or both. He always tanked along as if the ability was there, then folded to nothing.
This first one shouldn’t really count as he won the arkle, well chief should have really won a champion chase
Secondly Black Jack Ketchum, won the Albert Bartlett then fell in the world hurdle the year after, wasn’t the same after that
I don’t know, but I would guess a resounding yes.
Well Chief is a good shout. The Jimmy White of NH Racing.
Darlan.
Fell when looking all over the Betfair winner, just touched off in the Supreme, then looked to be fulfilling his promise the following year until Doncaster
Lee
The Fellow
‘s win in the Gold Cup was frankly deserved for his fourth entry in this race and after being twice narrowly beaten.
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