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If I’d rode Cheers in the 1977 grand national.
1982, I guess you meant? 1977 was the year of Charlotte Brew and Barony Fort.
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If I’d rode Cheers in the 1977 grand national.
1982, I guess you meant? 1977 was the year of Charlotte Brew and Barony Fort.
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Just seeing if you’re paying attention.
Yes I meant 1982.
I would choose to ride Grundy when he beat Bustino in the 1975 King George. As a youngster it sealed my love of horse racing.
A truly great race that sadly finished 2 great horses careers.
Mind you Grundy would have had no chance with me on board !!this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU8mUfBRszs ears pricked and how far
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1973Every time I watch that I keep thinking that in modern nationals how many jockeys would settle for second place. Clear of the third and about 15 lengths at the last.
Id like to have been riding EiEi in his last race, then I could have pulled him up at half way and told the trainer he had done enough already for the year
Fatigue and / or the rigours of his recent itinerary did not kill Ei Ei – remember that he was a distance clear and about to win at his leisure when taking his fatal final-flight fall.
The race he was killed in, a 2m3.5f Market Rasen handicap hurdle in early June 2004, constituted just his ninth start of the calendar year – exactly as the corresponding race had done 12 months earlier.
That’s not the most excessive campaigning by Michael Chapman’s standards – compare this with, for example, Feeling Peckish’s 12 outings by the same race-week this year.
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True, but it was his 23rd outing since the June of ’03.
I just think there should be rules in place to stop those kind of training methods. It makes a mockery of animal welfare concerns, a horse isallowed
to be excitable when out to paddock. That doesn’t mean the horse cant wait to get back on the track, as was Chapman’s lame excuse post-race.
Zenyatta – Breeders Cup 2010 – ridden without the showboating and mis-timing…..next year I shall win the Derby in my armchair too
Depends if you want an armchair ride or not.
Armchair – Frankel in Guinneas or Rooster Boosters champion hurdle
Hard work – inglis drever in any word hurdle
Hard work: Quito De La Roque (James Nicholson Champion Chase)
Armchair: Hurricane Fly (take your pick)
Get one up: Jessies Dream (RSA )Jumps: Registana – 2004 Sporting Index Chase, Cheltenham.
Flat: Overdose – 2007 St. Laszlo Cup, Budapest.
Not going to treat this thread as The Jockey You’d Most Like To Shoot After A Particular Ride. So for thrill seeking:
Jumps: Desert Orchid in any King George. Wow! What a jumper!
Flat: Toss up between Frankel in the 2000 Guineas and Dayjur in the Nunthorpe. Both exceptionally fast.
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