Whatever happened to these old friends

[Coggy]

Hi All
New to the forum so apologies if I am repeating anyone.

I wonder if anyone knows whatever happened to some of my old favourites
Carvills Hill
Floyd
Randolph Place
Beech Road
Green Willow
Vicario di Bray
Monsignor

Thanks in advance to you all for any info

[FairyBridge]

Monsignor is one of the ‘mascot’s at HEROS, you can read about him here. He is well, looking fabulous and rainsing money for other ex racehorses with his public appearances. He is on their logo.

http://www.heroscharity.org/

I believe that Beech Road died awhile back.

Sorry do not know about the others mentioned.

[Coggy]

Thanks ever so much FairyBridge
Great link with wonderful photos – so nice to see the old boy enjoying himself so much
Sad to hear about old beech Road.

[Gerald]

Racing: Floyd dies on gallops

Friday, 8 January 1993

FLOYD, the 13-year-old hurdler who controversially came back into training with Reg Akehurst this season after spending most of his career with David Elsworth, has died while doing light exercise on the gallops at Epsom.

The gelding won 16 races over jumps, including the Fighting Fifth Hurdle twice and the Long Walk Hurdle, and three on the Flat, earning almost pounds 200,000. Elsworth, who guided him to those successes, had been dismayed at the decision of Floyd’s owner, Mike Walsh, to put the horse back into training.

[Gerald]

By Marcus Armytage
Published: 5:57PM GMT 21 Mar 2002

THIS diary, I regret, is no place for cat lovers at the moment. . .

LAST Thursday, while Best Mate was earning plaudits as the new kid on the block, Carvill’s Hill, the brilliant chaser at the centre of the controversial 1992 Gold Cup, was put down, aged 20, because of lameness.

Ironically, it was 10 years to the day since that infamous race and just two days after the colours of owner Paul Green were carried to their biggest jumping success by Hors La Loi III.

In his retirement, Carvill’s Hill had been hacked around the lanes of Oxfordshire by Anna Berry and led a happy and pampered existence.

Originally trained by Jim Dreaper in Ireland, Carvill’s Hill was switched to Martin Pipe and promptly ran away with the Rehearsal Chase and Welsh National at Chepstow. He started evens favourite for the 1992 Cheltenham Gold Cup but his ungainly jumping was exploited by the presence of Golden Freeze, who took him on for much of the race. Carvill’s Hill finished a distant last to 25-1 winner Cool Ground and never ran again.

At a subsequent Jockey Club hearing, Golden Freeze’s trainer, Jenny Pitman, and rider, Michael Bowlby, were cleared of running Golden Freeze as a `stalking horse.’

[Coggy]

Thanks Gerald
I remember the Golden Freeze sham, I think, if I remember correctly, Mrs Pitman was trying to set the race up for Toby Tobias. There is no doubt, in my opinion, that Golden Freeze was just in the race to upset Carvills Hill’s jumping.
Still that is nothing compared to returning poor old Floyd to training. I am not surprised that Mr. Elsworth was upset. What were Walsh and Akehurst thinking .
Nice to hear that Carvills Hill enjoyed his retirement.
Thsnks for taking the time to provide the info.

[Gerald]

Randolph Place was owned by Ger Lyons’ wife. Haven’t checked when he started training, but presumably the horse was the family pet.

edit. That was easy. Lyons was the trainer when the horse ran in and won its last race, aged 14.

[Coggy]

Thanks again Gerald
Nice to hear that he went out on a high.
I remember him as a very talented novice at Gordon Richards.
Suspect jumping seemed to be his problem. He was tanking along when coming down in the Arkle

[Gerald]

Last race was a 2m charity kind of thing flat race, so no worries about the jumps!

[befair]

The Carvill’s Hill gold cup was the only time I’ve ever seen a so horse specifically ridden to ruin another horses chance. It was quite unfair, and I was glad that Toby Tobias was well beaten

[Coggy]

Agreed Betfair
I used to like the Pitman operation, but that left a real bad taste in the mouth, and could have been dangerous to both horse and rider

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