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I used the one which AngloGerman put at the bottom of page 2.
Right! Didn’t work for me, but some kind soul has posted the race on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTFZ0HPx_0g
Darren – AngloGerman
___________________________________________‘The Hungarian’s going hell for leather’ – Jim McGrath
thanks for that; I’ve been searching utube trying to find the race…surely most of the runners went the wrong side of those flags; what a shame for the jockey who thought he’d won.
Was there a fatality? – Klip – he fell at fence following the wrong side of the markers incident – he looked very injured and jockey upset … ???
Someone has now posted on YouTube that Klip did sadly break a leg. RIP.
Also reported that Klip’s owner Hrebcin Albertovec died on Monday … he also owned Amant Gris who finished first and was disqualified …Also reported that Klip’s owner Hrebcin Albertovec died on Monday … he also owned Amant Gris who finished first and was disqualified …
Hrebcin Albertovec is actually the name of the stud farm and stables that form part of Albertovec Racecourse where Milan Theimer trains both Amant Gris and Klip. I think they also own the racecourse.
Can confirm the sad news though that Klip did break a leg and had to be put down.
Darren – AngloGerman
___________________________________________‘The Hungarian’s going hell for leather’ – Jim McGrath
Thanks for that info – someone posted that the owner had died on the You Tube video comments section and I took the "owner’s" name from RP site and assumed it was a person’s name! Put 2 and 2 together and made 5 – good job I’m not in the police force! Has the owner passed away?
Just seen it on the Czech tv site.
Sixteen looks decent enough, hope Edward Gillespie can persuad connections to come and have a spin at Cheltenham.
Love Cross Country races, something special about them, maybe Kauto and Denman can have a try one day.
I agree completely with you Neil – there is something very special about the Cross Country races.
They take us right back to the roots from whence steeplechasing came and I am certain that the variety of fences stimulates the interest of a few jaded horses. I haven’t seen the Cross Country races live at Cheltenham – only at Pardubice – but from what I have seen on TV of those at Cheltenham, they do present a great spectacle.
They’re definitely that, Seventy Four – I expect I’ll be somewhere on the infield of Prestbury Park come day one of the Open meeting, watching them stream over these diverse obstacles at closer order. Absolutely wonderful.
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.
Also reported that Klip’s owner Hrebcin Albertovec died on Monday … he also owned Amant Gris who finished first and was disqualified …
I’ve just got home and I’ve received an answerphone message that, if correct (and it’s from a very reliable source) is absolutely tragic. Only a couple of hours after seeing Amant Gris be disqualified and Klip being put down, the owner of Hrebcin Albertovec (didn’t catch the name too well unfortunately, sounded like Jozef Kayak?) collapsed and died, and apparently, he was only in his 50s. An absolutely tragic end to the day for the stables from the eastern part of the Czech Republic.
Darren – AngloGerman
___________________________________________‘The Hungarian’s going hell for leather’ – Jim McGrath
Excellent – am really glad you enjoy them too Graysonscolumn. :D
I love the cross country races too. I would also love to go to Flagg Moor for the High Peak Harriers members over stone walls. Jumping for fun and the Big Green Annual (john Beasley’s publication) have great photos. Looks great fun.
The Ledbury Hunt ran a race called the Golden Button ride a couple of years ago and that was a proper cross country race as well. Don’t know if it is still being run but there were some photo’s and a film around on the net but I’ve lost the link.
Excellent – am really glad you enjoy them too Graysonscolumn.
I love the cross country races too. I would also love to go to Flagg Moor for the High Peak Harriers members over stone walls. Jumping for fun and the Big Green Annual (john Beasley’s publication) have great photos. Looks great fun.
The Ledbury Hunt ran a race called the Golden Button ride a couple of years ago and that was a proper cross country race as well. Don’t know if it is still being run but there were some photo’s and a film around on the net but I’ve lost the link.
I’ve been to Flagg Moor on one occasion Bob and it was great fun seeing the races run across natural country like that. The High Peak always used to have their meetings on Easter Tuesday and a work colleague of mine rode his own horse in one of the Members races over stone walls (he was unseated several fences from the finish but when seemingly going ok, though possibly not like a winner !).
The one drawback at Flagg Moor is the weather though – it can be very windy and cold there – and as someone who spent any number of afternoons standing on a cold windy hillside at Eyton-on-Severn in the early 1970’s trying to follow the horses as they raced almost out of sight down by the River Severn,I know that not everyone derives the same kind of pleasure from such masochistic tendencies !!!
The Ledbury Hunt ran a race called the Golden Button ride a couple of years ago and that was a proper cross country race as well. Don’t know if it is still being run but there were some photo’s and a film around on the net but I’ve lost the link.
Is this it?
http://www.goldenbutton.co.uk/goldenbutton2007.html
This looks great, and like the Pardubicka, it looks like natural hedges too.
Funnily enough, I’m not sure if it’s the same thing, but about 15 years ago, a friend of mine was involved in something called Team Chasing, which I think was along these sort of lines, jumping hedges cross country etc. It was his daughter who used to compete, and if I remember correctly, she was quite successful too in the Leicestershire area.
Darren – AngloGerman
___________________________________________‘The Hungarian’s going hell for leather’ – Jim McGrath
The Ledbury Hunt ran a race called the Golden Button ride a couple of years ago and that was a proper cross country race as well. Don’t know if it is still being run but there were some photo’s and a film around on the net but I’ve lost the link.
I’ve got a good idea that it took place last year at least, as Carl Evans did a feature on it in the Post. He had a ride in it, as did a variety of current Flat and jumps jockeys for whom it was as much of a giggle as a day’s hunting.
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.
The High Peak always used to have their meetings on Easter Tuesday
Still do – this season’s High Peak meeting is confirmed as Tuesday, April 14th. As for a number of years now, the Croome and West Warwickshire race at Upton-on-Severn on the same date.
The one drawback at Flagg Moor is the weather though – it can be very windy and cold there – and as someone who spent any number of afternoons standing on a cold windy hillside at Eyton-on-Severn in the early 1970’s trying to follow the horses as they raced almost out of sight down by the River Severn,I know that not everyone derives the same kind of pleasure from such masochistic tendencies !!!
I see your windy Eyton-on-Severn, and raise you a storm-lashed Ystradowen (or more or less any other South Wales pointing venue, come to that)!
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)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.
I see your windy Eyton-on-Severn, and raise you a storm-lashed Ystradowen (or more or less any other South Wales pointing venue, come to that)!
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)I think you have me trumped there Jeremy – and like my namesake, I may just have to graciously accept defeat.
The Ledbury Hunt ran a race called the Golden Button ride a couple of years ago and that was a proper cross country race as well. Don’t know if it is still being run but there were some photo’s and a film around on the net but I’ve lost the link.
Is this it?
http://www.goldenbutton.co.uk/goldenbutton2007.html
This looks great, and like the Pardubicka, it looks like natural hedges too.
Funnily enough, I’m not sure if it’s the same thing, but about 15 years ago, a friend of mine was involved in something called Team Chasing, which I think was along these sort of lines, jumping hedges cross country etc. It was his daughter who used to compete, and if I remember correctly, she was quite successful too in the Leicestershire area.
Darren – AngloGerman
___________________________________________‘The Hungarian’s going hell for leather’ – Jim McGrath
Team Chasing is slightly different – there’s 4 or 5 in the team and they compete over a cross country course with each team going at 2 minute or so intervals, they negotiate hedges, gates etc. and the first three or four over the line count towards the time – they take the 3rd riders socre I think (similar to the team time trial in the cycling)
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