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We’ve seen plenty of examples of horses running one day and then turning out the next. At my local track, Perth I’ve often seen a horse run at an evening meeting then compete again the next afternoon.
However I can’t recall a horse running three times in 48 hours until today. And not just any old races.
Thursday – 2nd, beaten a head in a racing league contest at Windsor.
Friday – wins a sprint at Ascot by almost three lengths
Saturday – 3rd, from out the handicap in another Ascot sprint.
Picks up over £20k in prize money. Not bad for a three day trip.
Can anyone remember any horses accomplishing a similar feat?
I can’t, but if there is one surely it will be another sprinter, as they seem to be able to stand more racing.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Nothing exactly like that but Masafi won 7 races in just over 2 weeks back in 2004.
One Cool Poet won 3 times at the Galway Festival a few years ago.
7 in just over two weeks. That’s impressive!!
I wonder how much he went up in the weights.
As for today if Iona had kept in a straight it might well have been two out of three.
“Can anyone remember any horses accomplishing a similar feat?”
Sea The Stars.
Greatest of all time, don’t you know.
* Obviously, I’m not being serious but the deification of this good but not great horse is ridiculous.
It looks like his first win was off 53 and his last off 69. Presumably he carried penalties in some of the races.
Didn’t Chaplins Club win a lot of sprints in a short space of time back in the 1980s?
That’s a great shout CAS.
I just had a look at Chaplins record and he ran on consecutive days on six separate occasions which may well be a record but never on three days in a row.
Mind you he did win seven times in nineteen days in the summer of 88 and only went up eighteen pounds in the process.
Some horse.
Yes, I remember that. He became quite famous. I am sure his exploits were reported on the television news, back in the days when the media was still interested in racing.
Commercial Flyer ran in hurdle races for three consecutive days in April 2005. He won the first two, and was fifth in a field of 17 in a competitive handicap in the third.
I wish I had a prize for you Marlingford but that’s impressive. And Commercial was running in good quality races as well.
Sound of Iona entered in the £20k apprentice race at Doncaster on Wednesday.
Commercial Flyer & Sound Of Iona perhaps win the thread but, in a less rarified sphere of competition, Roy Cambidge trained the 10-y-o Threadbare to win three times in three consecutive racing days in 1973, the kicker being these races were in different disciplines of the sport. All races were selling handicaps:
4 August 1973 – Hurdle at Newton Abbot.
6 August 1973 – Chase at Newton Abbot.
7 August 1973 – Flat race at Wolverhampton.I’m sure Threadbare would have raced on 5 August if it hadn’t been a Sunday.
I haven’t looked this up so may be wrong, but in addition to Chaplins Club I seem to remember Timeless Times doing something similar in the 80s/90s…..
That’s a hell of a hat trick by Threadbare but it’s over four days so he’s disqualified
Timeless Times ran on consecutive days three times as a 2YO winning five of those six races but didn’t ever run three days in a row.
Unfortunately the Racing Post don’t have detailed records for Provideo so I don’t know if he attempted the treble.
I checked Provideo’s juvenile career from 1984 and he didn’t run on consecutive days – his races were (comparatively) well spaced out:
Mar 22 Mar 28 Apr 11 Apr 14
May 02 May 12 May 28 Jun 04 Jun 09 Jun 14 Jun 20 Jun 29
Jul 07 Jul 09 Jul 16 Jul 26
Aug 02 Aug 23 Aug 27 Sep 07 Oct 26 (7 weeks off!) Nov 01.I think David Chapman had another sprinter in the Chaplin’s Club mould that ran all the time but I can’t remember what it was called – I think it ran in his own colours, brown with orange sleeves? Or did Chaplin’s Clun do it twice the first time for Peter Savill and then for David Chapman?
Might you be thinking of Glencroft? I think he ran up a sequence of quick wins for Chapman.
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