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As much as I like Kempton & jumps racing in general today’s card is dreadful, a far cry from the days of the Charisma Gold Cup which always used to be a good quality 3 mile chase to start the season. It’s a real shame that this race & the Mercedes Benz Chase at Chepstow have been consigned to the history books.
Am I right in saying that the 4.20 was the Captain Quist?
It’s not a great line up for that race but moving the Welsh Champion Hurdle to yesterday can’t have helped.
Am I right in saying that the 4.20 was the Captain Quist?
It’s not a great line up for that race but moving the Welsh Champion Hurdle to yesterday can’t have helped.
Yes you’re right it used to be called the Captain Quist hurdle & the clash with Ffos Las yesterday hasn’t helped. I remember an old favourite of mine running in that race Chiefs Song many years ago.
I actually went to Kempton yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. There were some really exciting races; none less so than the 2 mile handicap chase, and class on show as well from Old Guard.
An enjoyable days racing.
As much as I like Kempton & jumps racing in general today’s card is dreadful, a far cry from the days of the Charisma Gold Cup which always used to be a good quality 3 mile chase to start the season. It’s a real shame that this race & the Mercedes Benz Chase at Chepstow have been consigned to the history books.
Both the Charisma and the Mercedes-Benz do still exist in so far as the 3m handicap chases on the two respective cards have been retained continuously right through to the present day.
However, whilst the present-day Mercedes-Benz doesn’t differ hugely from its 1980s/1990s self in terms of the calibre of animal it can in theory or in practice attract, the Charisma has suffered several successive and increasingly humiliating donwgrades. I wrote this piece about its sad demise back in 2009, and it pretty much all holds true even now:
http://thatracingblog.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/kempton-in-october-is-little-fun-with.html
Per Patriot’s question, yes, the feature hurdle is the erstwhile Captain Quist, and until it was increased slightly in distance in recent years the then-2m handicap chase was still recognisably what was once the Ferry Boat Chase.
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