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Always thought Rule of Law (Goldphin horse) who won the ledger 4 or 5 years back would have made a fine hurdler.
Was as tough as nails.
It must be Ardross; the perfect blend of speed, stama and athleticism
You would never have heard of Desert Orchid/Best Mate or Kauto had he jumped a fence!! 
I’ve got visions of Double Trigger being a class act over jumps.
He would have been an Im a Driver type go off clear…….but have more in the tank than the aforementioned
to many of these are stayers; too slow, and would they have to scope to jump a fence?
Remember Moonax, while talented, most certainly quirky, but too slow for 2m Hurdles.
Also, weren’t there rumours about Knifebox (John Gosden) going Hurdling? In the end, nothing materialised. Would have suited soft ground with his pronounced high knee action.
Carlingford Castle was one of them……..I think there was talk at one stage of him going hurdling
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The 1961 St Leger winner Aurelius
did
go hurdling, after proving infertile at stud. He was 2nd to Saucy Kit in the 1967 Champion Hurdle, and later also won over fences.
He was a top-class colt in his prime, who also won the Craven Stakes, King Edward VII Stakes (both at 3) and Hardwicke Stakes (at 4) at Royal Ascot.
I would have liked Le Moss,tough Gold Cup winner. Bought some of his progeny. Although I bought a horse ,I thought would be my ultimate jumper, from Royal Ascot,after he had just been beaten by Landing Light and Marble Arch,called Its Definite.
Won a few times for us but never lived up to expectation. Point to Pointing now.
Not easy this transition.Yeats is the obvious one. Also would like to have seen Scorpion. He’s now a NH sire in Coolmore so they obviously think his offspring will go better over jumps.
I would of liked to have seen Vinnie Roe run in a champion hurdle he is by definte article who is now a jumps sire. Another horse who may make a good hurdle judging by bloodlines is Schiaparelli who’s dam is by Old Vic. He will make a cracking jumps sire in the future. I once heard a rumour that Phillp Hobbs was going to train Mr Dinos in juvinile hurdle races I dont know how true that was.
Can’t wait to see Scorpions’ progeny; bet they’ll be beauties. He certainly had the ‘wow’ factor.
I see nobody nominated Mad, Andrew Reid’s Banded-class mile Polytrack performer.
If your mind does work in such strange ways, though, you’ll rejoice in learning he’s set to make his debut in – oh good grief – point-to-points at Lockinge this holiday Monday.
And even then he isn’t the maddest entry in this sphere during 2009-10 – don’t have them to hand at present, but I’m sure there were a couple of ex-6f sprinters in at Black Forest Lodge on day one of the season.
Next week – Look Busy lines up in the Scottish National.
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Pinza, do you know what happened to Aurelius? Did he die in training or have a happy retirement somewhere?
I’m going for Dancing Brave, purely because he was schooled a few times over hurdles even though he never ran over them.
Guy Harwood always used to school all of his lesser 3 year olds over hurdles for a bit of variety. At the time they didn’t know how good Dancing Brave actually was.
Mark Perret always said that he was a natural.
Of present horses – if nobody minds – Age Of Aquarius has always taken my eye as a potential jumper.
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Pinza, do you know what happened to Aurelius? Did he die in training or have a happy retirement somewhere?
Good question. As far as I know he was retired after his fencing career in one piece.
Ascot used to host the
Aurelius Hurdle
, a significant event which has probably been turned into the Fredbare Gold Cup Limited Handicap, or something of the kind.
Thus do we serve our heroes….
Apparently Persian Punch was schooled over hurdles and hated it.
The former Sir Michael Stoute-trained,
Warringah
. Huge horse who finished fifth in the Ebor last year.
On a slightly different topic, the strangest recruit to the National Hunt game must have been
Hard To Figure
. The former Ayr Gold Cup winner made his debut over timber at the age of ten – the big grey was unsurprisingly pulled-up and never saw another hurdle again.
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