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re Iris’s Gift – followed him [quite literally followed him, purely by chance] the year he won the stayers – and we were in Ireland when he was beaten by Rhinestone Cowboy when, or so we were led to believe, connections didn’t realise that the other horse was going to take him on and beat him.Seemed a bit unfair to me as all of ‘Ted’s’ connections had gone over to see him win. Still think he should have stayed over hurdles. Does anyone know how the horse is these days?Very fond memories of the old horse….
I don’t know if any of you read Kim Baileys excellent daily blog, but he’s been saying that training fees should be paid via Wetherbys because it’s still all done in very much of a shake of the hand sort of way, and sometimes owners move horses away and never pay any fees owing.However, I do have to chuckle at news items about Pam Sly’s stables referring to her as a bit of a poor country mouse compared to the big boys, and then look around me at my own little abode! [not knocking Pam by the way, was and still am chuffed to bits about the success of Speciosa and lets hope there are a couple more races to be won before she goes to the paddocks]. But it is another world I think…..mo
re Detroit City – I felt that the horse was over raced last year, a young horse, stillf growing into himself campaigned both on the flat and over jumps – however, Phillip Hobbs looked absolutely shell shocked after the Champion Hurdle, so must have been expecting the horse to win. Maybe the curse of winning the Triumph stll applies even though I understand the race conditions are different now. Probably still worth a little ew though at a good price.Would like to see the horse come good…..mo
Nevada Royale is obviously going to be no price at all when he debuts this autumn, so an ante post bet is the only one worth having. The only one I’ve seen is William Hill quoting 25/1 for the Sun Alliance Thanks for the info, I’ve been trawling the internet for ages trying to find out more about him with little success….mo
totally agree with what has been said – racing and racing folk are brilliant – I spent years not having anyone around me even remotely interested in racing and would have loved having internet access in those days. As a female racegoer I even used to go racing on my own sometimes and even then had a great time! I now have a partner who enjoys racing as much as I do, but it’s important to be able to go back over the years and chat about bygone era’s and great horses….Cheltenham this year was fantastic because I was there on the Tuesday and talking about it for the rest of the week with complete strangers….mo
in nostalgia land here about Vulgan and that era – I can remember they always showed the breeding of the horses running in the Grand National and they all seemed to be sired by Vulgan – I had no idea that he had actually ran himself; will now have to look him up…..
re Vulgan – wasn’t he a leading sire in the 1960’s as well; seem to remember him being the sire of Team Spirit and quite a few others….
may be wrong about this, but a few years ago – something to do with the Irish economy – more of the good Irish horses were being kept there instead of being sold to England and people started looking elsewhere, wasn’t it to do with not paying some kind of tax …..
"Cruella" wrote:
who is this horse Nevada Royale that I’ve heard about?
Unbeaten point-to-pointer now at Ditcheat, set to go novice chasing next season. Nicholls quoted as saying “potentially good, but something of an unknown quantity, as it’s hard to know how good his pointing form wasâ€Â
Blythe Knight for Champion Hurdle along with Clopf, and who is this horse Nevada Royale that I’ve heard about? [backed Sublimity at 80/1 last year, one of my best days racing ever!]and the northern horses may still be good value as they tended to get overlooked….
