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Terrific site, Darren – likely to provide the answers to many of my queries about German racing for many weeks and months hence! Great stuff.
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Thanks so much for that Jeremy! Still yet to get any lake race photos for you, although hopefully that should all change next year – destination Hamburg! I’m also looking to add some ‘interesting’ links, including the course at Warendorf – not used since 2006, but basically a flat course with a ‘dirt’ surface, and a chicane half way down the back straight! Actually, why wait….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGrP3-293g
The race actually starts 1:40 into the video (no stalls, they would have probably sunk!), and at 2:40 you can see the chicane. At 4:10 is a head on down the home straight so you get a good view of the erm..surface!
Darren – AngloGerman
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http://www.anglogermanracing.comOh, thats rotten news about Flipper..Desert Orchid Chase day was very special to lots of people on lots of different levels and I will never forget it, either. Good luck to Flipper in his new home, anyway.
One thing I should actually mention – Mario Hofer was the original trainer of Flipper. He trained him as a 2 and 3 year old, but then Mr. Zimmermann sent him to Christian to go hurdling/chasing. You could say then that he’s gone back to his original home, but you don’t have to be Einstein, Mystic Meg, or indeed Ugly Mare to know how I feel!
Darren – AngloGerman
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http://www.anglogermanracing.comReviving this old thread for an update as, if my dodgy French can be trusted, Readymade has just broken his duck for Christian Von der Recke in a 15,000 Euro race at a French provincial track called Wissembourg. If that’s right, congratulations to him on scoring with what looked a very difficult horse last October.
Also updating on my purchase mentioned earlier here, Cordiality. Sadly he hasn’t made the grade as a racehorse and has been sold on to a local lady who fell for his looks on first sight and who will train him for show jumping after a summer at grass. His first run this year at Kempton didn’t look too bad, but he was struck into during that race and needed five stitches in a bad cut on a hind leg. Whether that affected him physically or mentally we’ll never know, but on two subsequent attempts at Wolverhampton and Windsor, both jockeys reported that he’d lost his action in the closing stages and his form was getting worse with each run.
Since neither the horse or his owner seemed to be getting much fun from his racing career, it seemed better all round to let him try something else.
AP
Best result in the circumstances – delighted to hear Cordiality’s been found a happy home and new role, AP.
I trust Salute’s still having the time of his life in retirement with his old mucker Greenwood, is he?
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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.
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