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Well done Drone – it was Thirsk.
The 1940 running of the St Leger was won by Turkhan, run at Thirsk over a mile and 7.
The 2001 Carlisle Bell was, at Thirsk, by Tim Etherington’s Kestral.
Over to you..
9th December..
Donny Osmond was born 9th December 1957
Smallpox was finally officially eradicated on 9th December 1979
Sir Patrick Moore died 9th December 2012It was also my late father’s birthday!
For a couple of hours I was convinced it was something to do with being trained by Harry Dunlop! Back later with a question..
I wanted to say Wolverhampton but that was first floodlit meeting…
So I’ll say Hamilton.
and you’d be correct BH! Hamilton started evening meetings in the same year we had the first starting stalls. Over to you…
Awesome
You may be thinking about the photo finish… I was unsure if starting stalls were around that early (in the UK at least). So I checked it out and stumbled across this cool video.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/new-starting-stalls/
Anyways, Clement Freud once wrote a letter to a racehorse. Which one?
Nope…
He wrote the (IMO) hilarious letter explaining to one of his horses that he was about to be gelded. The horse was a very versatile one who was still running as recently as last October.
I think that was Orpen Wide. He should have held on to him. He won 5 races for Sir Clement but no less than 14 races for his new owners (the last of them a couple of weeks before Sir Clement died).
I agree it was a funny letter and he was quite an entertaining read although I wasn’t so impressed in person.
The very same.
Here’s a link to the letter in question;-
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/’I+rememb … 0123997450
I never had the (dis)pleasure of meeting Mr Freud although your less than glowing review of him doesn’t surprise me. I’ve been disappointed on several occasions on meeting people who I previously held on a pedestal. Conversely, I met others whom were previously regarded with indifference that I now think of decent apples.
Over to you, Adrian.
Which filly won 16 races in a row, including all 9 races as a 4yo, and was the first horse of either sex to earn $100,000 in America? She was only unplaced twice in 48 career starts.
Which filly won 16 races in a row, including all 9 races as a 4yo, and was the first horse of either sex to earn $100,000 in America? She was only unplaced twice in 48 career starts.
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