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Tudor Treasure wasn’t an outsider when he won the St James’s Palace in ’61. He was 11/4 favourite (in a poor renewal) on the back of his 8th place in the 2,000 Guineas.
He won 2 hurdle races and was 3rd in the Triumph Hurdle (then run at Hurst Park).
He moved from Barleythorpe to Blakeley Stud in Shropshire in the early 1970s. I think one of his best offspring was Beneficient, who won twice on the flat and 4 hurdle races, but I think he was a bit of a dud.
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IF the answer is Tudor Treasure it is interesting to note that he ended up (well 1979-1981 at least) standing at Penally Court Stud in Tenby, Dyfed.
I don’t know if he was much of a success although I have spotted some point to point winners by him.
Tudor Treasure won the 1961 St James’s Palace Stakes, when trained by Jack Watts. However he became just a handicapper in the latter part of his three year old career and Lord Derby sent him hurdling.
Mr Pilsen is correct of course with Switzerland.
The British trainer is Mark Johnston – back in 2003 with Financial Future.
Of course Richard Gibson, victorious in 2007, is also British but was training in France at the time.
Over to you Mr P..
OK that’s enough time…
They were Britain’s first racecourse commentators.
They were invited to do some test recordings during Royal Ascot 1952 and these three were picked to start during the Glorious Goodwood meeting the following month.
Anybody else fancy asking a question?
LOL – now that’s a memory. I never saw the attraction but my 80yo father was always keen!
A small clue – they all did something for the first time in Britain.
That is astonishing – pure guess. I just knew that Tom had trained a couple of winners at Cheltenham and I didn’t remember him as being old school racing like most trainers of that era.
VtoC – do you know anything more about him?
Back with a question shortly.
Which filly won 16 races in a row, including all 9 races as a 4yo, and was the first horse of either sex to earn $100,000 in America? She was only unplaced twice in 48 career starts.
I agree but as you’ve started a thread about a stupid rule here’s my twopenneth.. I cannot understand why a horse which comes out of it’s stall has to automatically be disqualified. Surely it should be at that starter’s discretion.
Presumably it will take a Classic favourite or a horse of Frankel-like profile to be scratched before this gets reviewed.
I also recommend The Pantry if you want lunch/dinner in town. It is a really nice restaurant right in the middle of the shopping centre and it is THE place where racing people go. It’s owned by Anne-Marie (Lady Cecil’s daughter) and does everything from proper meals to coffee and cakes.
I think that was Orpen Wide. He should have held on to him. He won 5 races for Sir Clement but no less than 14 races for his new owners (the last of them a couple of weeks before Sir Clement died).
I agree it was a funny letter and he was quite an entertaining read although I wasn’t so impressed in person.
and you’d be correct BH! Hamilton started evening meetings in the same year we had the first starting stalls. Over to you…
