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After sorting through some entries for Thursday I noticed a horse trained by Christopher Kellett named Femme D`Espere with an official raing of just [b:3vyieu53]10[/b:3vyieu53]!
I can not recall seeing a horse once qualified for a rating as a low as that and wondered if anyone else had seen anything quite so extreme?
Tim
Even more to the point it’s the mare’s initial rating! Most horses at least start at 30 or 40 and then work their way down!
The mare is the only foal that has run sired by 9yo Celts Espere, a poor maiden jumper that pulled up at Bangor last week, best effort a well held third in a dire 0-90 hurdle at Southwell. He’s now a gelding and presumably got ‘the chop’ before racing as he would have sired Femme D’Espere when he was 2! I suspect Femme D’Espere might have been the result of an unintended mating…
There’s a picture of dad and daughter on the Blog page of Chris Kellett’s website.
Rob
Thanks for expanding on that Rob, good info! I suspect you are very much right, hardly the breeding stallion dreams are made of!
I suspect Femme D’Espere might have been the result of an unintended mating…
Aye aye, behind the stables? Did she drop her chips?
Mike
The prize for the lowest rated winner has to go
Becolark
who ran at
Clonmel
on the 5th April 2007, his official mark was only
1
and he was 2/1f
.I thought that this was a typo, looking at the results from both the Racing Post and Raceform they both have his OR that day as
1
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On his next run his Official mark was
102
, work that one out as this has me very confused
Femme D’Espere was once agian beaten a long way last yesterday evening. Surely common sense will prevail and she won’t be asked to ‘race’ again?
I overheard a conversation at Musselburgh yesterday where a trainer was telling owners in the politest of terms that it really wasn’t worth racing their horse. Hopefully they will heed advice and the animal in question will be re-homed.
Rob
More lowest-evers were mentioned in this thread a while back:
https://theracingforum.co.uk/horse-r … jo#p216497
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