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Richard Dunwoody on Miinnehoma in the 1994 Grand National. Coolness personified.
(The fact I had a hefty wedge on him and landed one of my biggest ever wins has nothing to do with this being my choice – honest.)
And Sheik Mo has also played his part in making sure racing stays on terrestrial TV (new sponsorship deal with Channel 4).
Without terrestrial coverage, I reckon the game would be dead within 20 years. (Or would end up resembling something akin to Point To Point racing).
Racing fans have a lot to be grateful to him for.
I’m another Barton Bank (King George) hard luck story.
I had him in an ante post each-way double with Master Oats in the Welsh National (won). Can’t remember the sums involved, but I do remember it would have paid for Xmas that year.
Thanks for the info AndyRAC.
I’d always assumed he died in the race, as he never ran again after that fall.
I always thought Cruising Altitude (Oliver Sherwood) would go to the top, in the late eighties. Unbeaten over hurdles on Good or faster ground, slamming Morley Street by 6 lengths in the Gerry Feilden in one of those runs. Sadly died in the Champion Hurdle that season, falling early on.
Thanks for that steveh31, I missed the incident yesterday.
A future Grand National winner perhaps? He’d have no trouble with the Chair by the looks of things.
Glad jockey and horse are okay, a scary incident indeed.
What a great race this looks (on paper anyway). Looking forward to this race more than any other all weekend.
For what it’s worth, I think I’ll be on Rio de la Plata. He looked like something special at Goodwood
I didn’t read into this that Hen and Terry are giving up training and vacating the premises, I must say. After all, there’s no mention of them getting rid of their most important training aids – rabbits’ feet, four-leafed clovers, black cats or other items of superstition and mummery.
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Dont forget the bails of cotton woll.
To be fair to Tom Segal, the owner said after the race that she had had a stone bruise, and they seriously thought about pulling her out of the race last night.
Well, I can’t complain too much because I had a 10-1 win bet on Red Clubs. I think all horses had equal chances to win the race and Red Clubs was clearly the best horse today. It was a good betting race because all conteners but Sakhee’s Secret went off at good prices. And for punters it means good prices when the favorite finishes out of money.
On the other hand I also wonder if the watering was really necessary.Red Clubs was clearly the best horse on the false (not as advertised) ground today.
You are right in respect that all horses had an equal chance (on the ground). The point is that punters did not!
thought it was a good days racing actually, three high weighted horses filled the first three places in the big long distance handicap. "disgrace" a bit of an overeaction.
Well that would be fine, IF they preferred a bit of cut in the ground!
