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Mentioning Native Upmanship reminds me of one of my favourite hurdlers, Ned Kelly. Very talented but very fragile.
I suppose this all depends on when you got interested in the game doesn’t it? Or does it?
For me:
Noddy’s Ryde
The Mighty Mac
Provideo
Lear Fan
Chief Singer
Pebbles
Hallo DandyTalking of Mulryan horses, does anyone know what happened to Cyrlight?
Looked a potential star at one stage but since he picked up a leg injury I’ve heard nothing…
Here are mine – quite a few and going back a few years too!!!
Desert Orchid
One Man
Pegwell Bay
Ten Plus
Nick Dundee
Red Rum
Crisp
Arkle
Best Mate
Flagship Uberalles
Viking Flagship
Hallo Dandy
Flying Instructor
Behrajan
Scots Grey
Young Hustler
Dublin Flyer
Pendil
Bobbyjo
Waterloo Boy
and last but not least Nicolaus Silver – he was the first horse I can actually remember winning the National (I was riding my rocking horse at the time watching the race on tv!! ) and he’s responsible for starting off my interest in National Hunt racing all those years ago!!!Just a week Fist?
A mixed bag that you mention but interesting to see Highway Rambler in there (Canadius was pretty good too) and also Border Incident – he was a class horse. Aside from some of the other usual suspects, I used to like the USA imports – As a kid I backed Soothsayer E/W at 66/1 in Ten Up’s Gold Cup and later came Fort Devon – reportedly a vicious bugger – but a beautiful big Chestnut. It was interesting, too, when Derek Kent had some of the NZ horses – Grand Canyon was exciting and Navigation wasn’t bad either.
Canadius was a lovely horse Gordon sent him on more than a few raids down south…………..Didn’t Derek Kent win some hurdle race in France with Grand Canyon which was a big thing back then…..sure it was on TV. I remeber Soothsayer beat Bula for 2nd in that gold cup which was my first visit to Cheltenham………Meeting never got going going till the wed….My first bet was an ew on the tote was none other than Aldaniti finishing who finished 4th in the first race…..bet you not many would remember that
[.Didn’t Derek Kent win some hurdle race in France with Grand Canyon which was a big thing back then…..sure it was on TV.
May well have done, I don’t know, but I think that the horse also won that historic American "Chase" The Colonial Cup which was/is run IIRC at Camden in South Carolina.
Sea Pigeon also won that race once (maybe twice). The only time I remember him running over fences. I believe that the fences there were only slightly bigger than out hurdles.
What a tremendous thread this is and so good to know that so many of racing’s lesser lights have found their way into people’s hearts.
Having followed racing since the early 1960’s (especially National Hunt racing), some of my favourites over the years have been as follows :L’Escargot
Red Rum
The Dikler
Spanish Steps
Desert Orchid
Maori Venture
Racoon
Tenterclef
Cherokee Chief
Happy Ranger
Mor (winner of Velka Pardubicka 1974 and 1975)
Tingle Creek
Mill House
April Seventh
Otter Way
Highland Seal
Border Mask
Persian Camp
Sail By The Stars
Dialstone
Rainbow Cottage
Doran’s Pride
Into Viewand there are so many others I could name.
Can anyone else remember Cocklecootycottage – trained by Ken and Rhona Oliver at Hawick ? He was a very promising young horse and won twice over hurdles, but sadly broke down in his last race and was retired.
Good to see mention in previous lists of Arcturus, trained by Neville Crump, who was a good horse and twice won the Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby, though it may have been called something different back then. Sadly, Arcturus was killed in a fall at Ascot,
I also agree with Anglo German about the Czech-trained Registana. I am sure she would have won the Cross Country Steeplechase at Cheltenham but for taking the wrong course approaching the last fence, as she seemed to be going easily at the time and jockey Gehm had not really had to get at her.
Such good memories…………………
such good memories
mais oui and the eye
mists over….You ran alone
I waged a bob
you finished last
I blamed the dogoh yes I remember it well
Arkle was the pinnacle of every horse’s dream and he heads my list
Dunwoody mentioned that West Tip was the most important horse and gave him the best leg up in his carrear and I will check this statement with the flying agility of Red Rum who left me legless and from my lowly position started me seriously star gazing at this beautiful sport of whims.
Others that have inspired
Dancing Brave best turn of foot in a long race – blisteirng
Alex Bird’s pocket was not wrong
and Greville Starkey may your chain of massage parlours, if stil standing, pulverise their guests in honour of the greatest ever bad hand.
Zilzal most impressive miler I have ever experienced – you could barely see him through the dropping acorns.
Miesque what a bute and better than ecstacy.Financial perspective
The frog on stilts Baracouda was a dependable money machine for me and the only horse I have regularly risked four figures on and luck had it the eye went cold to cautiously reign me back when he went grey. I grew to love him. ( her love became his obsession – Phantom of the Opera )
Rough Quest was a gift from god or was it from the devil’s playroom he came ?I have never experienced such a strange and strong revelation on a double bed; fully awake and three weeks before the start and with hardly an inklling of his name or any runner’s list. You know the saying – Fortune favours the one eyed
others…
Al Bahathri the queen of six furlongs with the lovliest white blaze and the only creature to make Jimmy Linley strawberry rather than puce
in commentary.Kribensis just liked him
Remittance Man for the excitement
Viking Flagship had the courage of Waterloo Boy and terific guts in a finish
Perion A little nobody sprinter who only ran well when he had drizzle in his eyeOh dear I feel a little flat
RE: Timeform ratings
Chasers
Arkle (212),
Flyingbolt (210),
Mill House (191),
Desert Orchid (187)
Dunkirk (186)
Burrough Hill Lad, Moscow Flyer, Kauto Star (184)Hurdlers:
Night Nurse (182)
Istabraq, Monksfield (180)
Persian War (179)
Comedy of Errors, Le Sauvignon (178)
Lanzarote, Limestone Lad (177)
Bird’s Nest, Bula, Golden Cygnet (176)
Baracouda, Gaye Brief, Salmon Spray, Sea Pigeon (175)Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning
Doesn’t Willie Robinson still maintain that the Mill House that was beaten by Arkle in The Gold Cup was not the Mill House that had won the race the previous year, and that he was probably beginning to suffer from the back problem that was found to trouble him later in his career [fused vertebrae]. If this is the case what a horse he would have been injury free.[ok; I know I’m biased…]
RE: Timeform ratings
Chasers
Arkle (212),
Flyingbolt (210),
Mill House (191),Oh no…its a full moon and the coffin dodgers are wandering around accessing computers again
Nurse!
RE: Timeform ratings
Chasers
Arkle (212),
Flyingbolt (210),
Mill House (191),Oh no…its a full moon and the coffin dodgers are wandering around accessing computers again
Nurse!
Night Nurse ?
Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning
If today’s race is to be believed, Denman must be getting very close to Mill House, a horse who he greatly resembles – star on forehead, same height (17.3), Mill House a little more powerfully built.
RE: Timeform ratings
Chasers
Arkle (212),
Flyingbolt (210),
Mill House (191),Oh no…its a full moon and the coffin dodgers are wandering around accessing computers again
Nurse!
Even Jim McGrath admits they probably got them wrong. Phil Bul hated NH Racing and obviously left the ratings to the tea boy in those days.
Having followed racing since the early 1960’s (especially National Hunt racing), some of my favourites over the years have been as follows :
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