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chateau – Chelsea were for many years the best-supported club in England, till Man Utd overtook them around 1960.
Sunderland in 1936 were the last team to win the league wearing striped kit.
I’d like to see a three-day Festival based around apracing’s suggestion from the end of last year – running all the chases over the New Course, all the hurdles over the Old Course and converting the chase track on the Old Course to a cross-country course where no jockey should get lost. Then we have one day devoted to each discipline, which should suit the fans of all three
I’m not sure it’s a question of the value of sectional timings, more the conclusion Mordin is drawing. The article left me puzzled at the time, and on a re-read still does – he appears to be asserting that the beaten horses are better because on the day they were slower…
Kingston Blount is about a mile from the Lewknor junction of the M40, which is served by at least some of the very frequent express coaches between London and Oxford.
I looked at stats for fallers at the 2006 Festival a while back. I don’t have the figures to hand but this fence accounted for something like half of the fallers on the Old Course, and the majority of them had not made a mistake at the fence, but jumped it cleanly and sprawled on landing. This makes it less than ideal as a test of jumping.
Can’t have Granit Jack, first run over British fences which are very different to French ones and this is not the kind of race to form a nice safe gentle introduction.
…What I don’t understand is why everything is constantly being reviewed [nhs, education etc] re organized and then eventually put back to how it was in the first place.
It provides a nice little earner for politicans’ friends in management consultancies.
I doubt Mid Dancer is the best France has to offer – both Princesse d’Anjou and Or Noir de Somoza ought to have beaten him that day had they stood up. I doubt the mare would beat Kauto Star, but Or Noir de Somoza could be anything and it would make for a fascinating contest one day.
It has to be Belussac, for refusing and nearly decanting his jockey into the water jump at Auteuil when favourite for the 1998 Grand Steeple-chase de Paris, having had a good think about doing so on the previous circuit.
He had previously finished fifth in the Prix Murat after being brought down twice (once by a loose horse) and refusing, all in the space of the final three fences.
I find the official going descriptions at Auteuil about as credible as those at the Festival. There is a consistent seasonal pattern to racetimes there – slower in the winter, faster in the summer – which the going description rarely seems to reflect.
Bath racecourse sits on top of a hundred feet or so of limestone, which makes watering a bit pointless.
Dont quite agree they are better bred.
Thay are quite thin boned made jumpers in France,they usually hit there peak at around 5-7 years(theyll be heeps of exceptions!!!).
And i will always say the Irish still breed the best National hunt horses on the planet..Just myOpinion
Isn’t it simply that because horses starting their careers in French NH do so younger, so wear and tear from racing catches up with them earlier?
It would be interesting to compare their longevity with ex-Flat horses switching to NH, or with French-breds brought over to Britain as store horses and following the traditional NH route.
