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Yellow and purple check, Firefox, Kildimo, what a horse, big long backed
beast who on his day was up there with the best, i can remember him giving weight to "Desert Orchid" at Sandown one day and putting it down to the Grey at the last! Bradley rode him well in the Sun alliance, after not riding him so well in the Reynoldstown! Harvey smith got a nice win out of him around the National course at Aintree,when he had sorted his reoccuring back problems, i backed him for the Gold cup 12 months prior
to the race after winning the RSA thinking he was that good, he duly ran a stinker,which he certainly could do on occasions!Lady Harris I believe was in the carpet trade. Was she Mrs Allied Carpets?
Mark
Value Is EverythingLady Harris I believe was in the carpet trade. Was she Mrs Allied Carpets?
Mark
That would be Nerys Dutfield.
Her horses would
lay
up at the back, then the jockey would
pile
on the pressure two out, the stands would be
wall to wall
noise as the good thing won easily. Some people used to say they were
fitted
up.
(Quiet night here)
Lady Harris I believe was in the carpet trade. Was she Mrs Allied Carpets?
Mark
That would be Nerys Dutfield.
Wrong Rory,
Nerys is Mrs Axminster.
mark
Value Is EverythingLady Harris I believe was in the carpet trade. Was she Mrs Allied Carpets?
Mark
That would be Nerys Dutfield.
Wrong Rory,
Nerys is Mrs Axminster.
mark
Apologies Mark; you are of course right about the fertile Mrs Dutfield; I’m not sure that Lady Harris is the carpet lady though, but I’ll refrain from striking out for now
Lady Harris has recentley (2006) had a horse in training with Venetia Williams Called King on the run…. Jimmy Frost used to be her regular pilot in the late 80’s. Another one was Herbert United trained by Toby Balding and he nearly knocked me over in a parade at Ascot in 1989, in the H & T Walker Gold Cup Chase Limited Handicap. (I was leading up)
Lady Harris I believe was in the carpet trade. Was she Mrs Allied Carpets?
Mark
That would be Nerys Dutfield.
Wrong Rory,
Nerys is Mrs Axminster.
mark
I remember now Lady Harris is Mrs Carpetright not Mrs Allied Carpets.
Allied Carpets is or was French owned.
Have done one day’s work for both companies, one day was quite enough.
Mark
Value Is EverythingWhatever happened to Lady Harris..
Assuming Mark is right in identifying her as the wife of Phil Harris, he is reported as saying in 2006:
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I’ve been very interested in show jumping. My wife has taken up riding now. She used to ride racehorses and now she races cars. She did seven weeks around South America in classic cars. But she’s taken up riding again and her ambition is to get into the British team. So it relaxes me when she comes home with rosettes because it pleases her.
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he sounds an interesting chap:
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Philip Charles Harris was born in Blakes Road, Peckham on the 15 th September 1942, the son of Charles and Ruth Harris. Charles Harris, a war hero, began selling lino from a stall in Peckham Market. Philip was educated at Streatham Grammar School and in 1957 at the age of 15 he left school to take over the running of the family business, which consisted of three carpet shops, after his father’s premature death.By 1977 the shops had increased to 93. Later that year he acquired Queensway Discount Warehouse and in 1978 successfully floated the Harris Queensway Group. This was taken over in 1988 and Lord Harris went on to set up Carpetright, which was floated in 1993. Lord Harris is Chairman and Chief Executive of Carpetright PLC which now has over 440 stores.
Philip Harris was knighted in 1985 and raised to the Peerage of Baron Harris of Peckham, of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark in 1996.
Lord Harris married Pauline Chumley in 1960 and they have three sons, Charles,Peter and Martin and a daughter Susan.
Lord and Lady Harris set up the Philip and Pauline Harris Charitable Trust in 1981 which specifically donates to Medical Research (Guy’s and Birthright/Wellbeing Centres) and Education.
Lord Harris is dyslexic, as are his three sons, and this is one of the reasons why he sponsored theHarris City Technology College in Croydon and is also a sponsor of the Bacon CTC in Rotherhithe, Southwark. 2
Page 3Lord Harris has demonstrated his commitment to the education of young people frominner city areas over many years most recently acting as sponsor for the newly opened City Academy in Peckham, formerly Warwick Park School.
A youth centre in Peckham, which was rededicated in memory of Damilola Taylor,was funded in part by a donation from Lord Harris. The estate on which Damilola was unfortunately killed was the one on which Lord Harris grew up.
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best regards
wit
I was a little dubious as to whether or not Lady Harris was really the same person as Pauline Chumley, I must say, but I’ve hacked about a bit to clarify and Mark is certainly right (got that gem from The Duke). The only thing I really know is that she is a woman with a reputation of changing her hobbies often. When she had General Chandos with Susan Bradburne, she apparently showed very little interest in seeing him race or visiting him at the yard, which the Bradburnes found odd since he was the best horse they had had. I think she was into showing dogs at that time. Does anyone else think that Lady Harris of Peckham sounds a bit like Marlene from Only Fools and Horses?
Lady Harris owned show jumpers years ago – not a recent development (thouigh maybe her riding them is). I’m sure David Broome rode a number of top horses for her, so that dates it as it’s some time since he was jumping top level.
And yes they were in carpets as it were.
Her horses would
lay
up at the back, then the jockey would
pile
on the pressure two out, the stands would be
wall to wall
noise as the good thing won easily. Some people used to say they were
fitted
up.
I heard that they usually finished
shag
ged out.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Her horses would
lay
up at the back, then the jockey would
pile
on the pressure two out, the stands would be
wall to wall
noise as the good thing won easily. Some people used to say they were
fitted
up.
I heard that they usually finished
shag
ged out.
gc
Especially when they started double carpet.
As an ex carpet fitter I have heard them all.
Mark
Value Is Everything
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