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Regardless if the horse became a superstar, household name or a flop, what was the best debut win that has impressed you the most?
Mine has to be Chief Singer’s success in the 1983 Coventry Stakes. The only newcomer in the field and won going away by a searing 4 lengths. Etched in my memory.
What is yours?
I was at Hexham when Seeyouatmidnight made his Rules debut.
Backed him at silly odds, and he led from start to finish, beating the warm fav Regal Encore.
You could hear a pin drop as he cleared the last, well except for me jumping about like a lunatic, swearing him home.
1st of October 1992 is a date etched in my memory!!
Somehow I ended up on a pub trip to Newmarket. Now I am not a big drinker but meeting at 8 o’clock in the pub car park and most of the coach started drinking then!!
I was only interested in the full english then a serious study of the Sporting Life on the journey down!!
It was such a shame that there was a big crash on the M1 and we ended up watching the racing in a Bedford betting shop. Suffice it to say that I was not best pleased having to spend the afternoon to ing and fro ing between the nearest pub and the betting shop but the whole day was rewarded and saved by an animal called BARATHEA who I thought would run a decent race first time up and told all the lads on the coach so!! I had 14/1 and so did plenty of the others. Frankie held him up and made good ground and in the end won pretty easily by about a length and a half and there was uproar in the shop as he crossed the line. Some of us had to wait to get paid out as they didn’t have enough money until the timer on the safe opened (an hour later) and for years after whenever I went to that pub that had organised the trip I never bought a drink!! LOL
And who would have thought that horse would end up second in the Guineas and win an Irish Guineas and a Breeders Cup Mile too!! Ahhhh happy days
24th June 1970
I was at Newbury races with my girlfriend at the time who worked for Dick Hern, she told me they had a very special horse and i should come and watch his debut.
That horse was Brigadier Gerard and the rest as they say is history, it was the way he won that race that led me to believe he was going to be a champion
All comers, all ground, all beaten
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