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Nathan,your answer fits the question and it’s my fault for not realising more than one fits the bill.Therefore, well done as I cannot deny it is the correct answer though mine was an animal that ran in a 1970’s Hennessy, went very close, also ran in a King George, Gold Cup and Grand National. And the trainer did not train any Champion Hurdle winners and the bias towards the chasers was a notable one. The son owned a Group One winning horse in England during a later decade.
This gelding was not beaten far in a Hennessy.
The silks were taken over by the owner’s son who owned a Group One flat winner.……. The trainer was an established top class NH trainer with most success in the chasing sphere.
The G1 winner in the owner’s sons name came during a later decade with a different trainer.
OK, my turn I believe. I am not putting a pic on yet as it would be a Timeform posed portrait and they have always tended to be taken in the same spot in the yard, hence you can sometimes spot straight away the location.Mind you, you prob won’t need a photo as it may not be quite as hard as seems.
This gelding was not beaten far in a Hennessy.
The silks were taken over by the owner’s son who owned a Group One flat winner.Ahhh, using Brigadier Gerard again as the very famous horse, I think it could be Gold Rod.
North Briton was being used as a teaser when he sired Dewhurst runner up Call To Arms – Tony Morris wrote an odd article about it shortly after, that’s the only reason I remember.
Thought your horse was Sparkler for a short while,as he fits some of the clues,but he sired Scintillate so it won’t be him.
I’ve been looking down the lines of something sired by a teaser though may be on the wrong tracks there.
Also, when you say G1, do you mean a race what would have been a G1 now as the Pattern did not start until 1971 and that looks a very old pic.
One noticeable one from recent years was Masked Marvel. There was an original with Henry Cecil in the late 1970’s who was also quite useful. He was part of that Wildenstein intake that included Hello Georgeous, Buckskin, Vacarme and Many Moons.
As for Ballydoyle and repeat names; MV O’Brien had a Brahms in the mid 1970’s who was quite decent and not far, ability wise, behind the later version with AP O’Brien. The 1970’s Ballydoyle team also had a Yeats.
They have also had a Road to Mandalay (the original, a decent staying hurdler), Zoffany ( the the original once a promising Guy Harwood trained horse) and the ill-fated Gypsy Dancey ( the original a Niarchos owned Peter Walwyn trained animal).
There was a time when if a trainer had three in the Ante-Post market quoted at 33’s or less during the Winter,then he could be said to have a very hopeful hand at the very least.
Think it’s worth bearing in mind where the yard’s previous Derby winners were at this time of the year as juveniles;
Galileo – had not run
High Chaparral – 2nd in Punchestown maiden
Camelot – had won a Leopardstown maiden
Ruler of the World – had not run
Australia – impressive G3 winner on third start
Wings of Eagles – had won a Killarney maiden on second startThus out the six you’d only have Australia and Camelot on any sort of long list – cannot be a short list yet at such an early stage.Not being purposely negative, but it may be more fruitful searching for candidates from alternative yards.
Unfortunately,this has come about because they have woken up to the fact that most of the younger generations who visit race meetings are not fans in the sense that the older generations were/are.In other words they realise how stupid most of them are, and it would be these racing ‘fans’ who may get confused as opposed to the Golf fans
Enable is very good, but numerous horses better than her have been beaten in this,and she has been on the go from early on. Even if the trials next Sunday don’t, on the book, produce a performance that would worry a top of the form Enable, I just feel it is more than possible that she will be gone for the year and run well below her best.
Times and attitudes certainly have changed. After Jayne Thompson was killed John Francome was adamant that the girls should not be allowed to ride as they don’t have the natural instinct to curl into a ball to protect the crotch area,so are thrown around like Rag Dolls.It I remember correctly,the comment was aimed at all forms of racing and not just the National Hunt scene.
