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If it had to be just one, then my vote is for Nottingham, but if it went would anyone notice?
I do understand your need to make a statement regarding the standard of the Welsh national team, but could I ask that future comments on this or any other subject are less long-winded.
I agree, Hagler, Leonard and Hearns provided us with several memorable contests, but my favourite in that division, at that time, was Roberto Duran. He barely altered his reckless lifestyle just because a fight was scheduled yet still produced some of the gutsiest performances I have ever seen.<br>My favourite Welsh boxer is Colin Jones.
Silicon can help, but it can also hinder. As far as I know, it’s more of a condition affecting the naturally endowed ladies.<br>I thought by now, you would be entering Warwickshire on the back of a donkey, as prophesied in the scriptures, and on the Lounge forum.
Dreadful coverage from ITV. Every time something interesting was happening, the director cut to a quieter scene. Even the replays were stopped just before the action had reached the point of watching them. The most frustrating was when the idiot ran down the track and within one second we went straight to a lengthy commercial break. Then, returning from a later break, Schuey was inexplicably well down the order and we were eventually told that he’d spun, but were not shown the footage. Amateurs.
Quite true, and odd really that any horse should run to "form", but it’s what makes a consistent performer all the more remarkable, and explains why horses like Mill Reef, Brigadier Gerard, Nijinsky etc., are continually in receipt of such high praise on pages such as these.
It does appear to be less predictable this year.<br>However, having tuned in to the BBC for their preview this morning, I was thoroughly cheesed off to discover that Craig Doyle will be even more involved than at Royal Ascot or Epsom.
So much for my promise to keep out of this!<br>I have several books where Lester contradicts himself, and one in which he claims Sir Ivor the best, but there are more than a few from him that hail Nijinsky the best. I have never seen any article where, as you claim, LP makes such a surprisingly unfavourable remark, and I would be keen to see the publication in question. It really would be odd if Lester trotted up in the fastest post-war Derby, and then thought it nothing unusual.
Sir Ivor (who???) was also a fabulous performer, and has a career record to prove it.
I hope this may be my final post on the Hawk Wing thread which is becoming strained and repetitive, and that’s just my posts!<br>Ian has said what many of us feel. HW is a handy Group 1 horse, it is the rash assertion that he is to be considered the equal of great names from the past that has provoked such a backlash. Several people have become so irrational as to declare him the greatest horse in the history of racing, and it is these assertions that are under such fierce attack, not the horse.<br>I wonder if my pledge to cease posting on this issue is equally unwise!
Apologies. I must correct my own error regarding Nijinsky’s career. He won eleven from thirteen, and not nine from eleven as I had stated earlier. Must stop doing things in haste!
cormack15
Nijinsky won 4 classics.<br>Hawk Wing won none.
No, I’m not having a laugh, I mean every word.
MorgansHarbour
Nijinsky won nine of his eleven races, including: The Dewhurst Stakes, The 2000 Guineas, The Derby, The Irish Derby, The King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and The St Leger. He came 2nd by a head in The Arc, and 2nd 1 length in The Champion Stakes. He held The Triple Crown.<br>Many of his victories were effortless, and I can never forget the final furlong of The KG when a motionless Lester looked repeatedly over his shoulder, mocking the struggling 1969 Derby winner, Blakeney. If, as you say, there are flaws in Nijinsky’s career, I take it you refer to his two runner-up positions. But if that is so, it would be interesting to hear of a few satisfactory racing careers. I can barely think of adequately disparaging remarks to describe HW’s abysmal history of failure, and he is not fit to be considered worthy of comparison to Nijinsky.<br>
Other Roberto one-offs; unbeaten, and never off the bridle as a two-year-old. Derby winner. Effortless winner of the Coronation Cup. I saw him. On the day he beat the Brigadier I was deeply saddened but not particularly surprised, but whatever may be said of him, his record was far superior to that of this (now annoyingly hyped) Hawk Wing whose accomplishments are thin by any stretch of the imagination. How can a victory in the Lockinge possibly merit this degree of marvel and esteem? There have been so many fabulous racehorses over the years, and Hawk Wing is not one of them.
