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6:10 – Ladies Church & Ruthin (Canonized)2:30 – Brave Nation (Pillow Talk)
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18:10 – Improvised **NB** (Haziya)2.30 – Lights On (Order Of Australia)
3.05 – Bradsell **Nap** & Late September (Age Of Kings)
3.40 – Golden Pal (Nature Strip)
4.20 – Angel Bleu (Maljoom)
5.00 – Bring On The Night (Pied Piper)
5.35 – Juan Elcano **NB** (Cadillac)
6.10 – Stowell (Cleveland)There’s a character in the TV series ‘Superstore’ named Bo Derek Thompson. His marriage proposal to girlfriend Cheyenne goes like this:
“Cheyenne Tyler Lee, will you marry me? Or are you gonna be, like, a dick about it?”
I’d like to think Tommo wasn’t quite so crude when proposing to any or all of his three wives, but you can never be sure.
There was a close thing more recently than The Two Avertis in 1994.
A divided handicap at Musselburgh featured Exchequer and Exchequer in the second division thereof. Exchequer was redirected to the first division to avoid this clash of the Exchequers, leaving Exchequer as the only Exchequer in the second race.
The switch was highly unusual in that it came after declarations had been made. What would have happened if the race had been indivisible, I don’t know.
This happened sometime during the past 6 years.
I am pleased to discover that a colt named Handicapper won the 2,000 Guineas in 1901. It now becomes imperative to find out if a horse called Classic Winner ever won a handicap.
There have been at least six horses so named but it’s unclear whether any of them did.
It’s a shame about your feet, Drone. Still, nobody’s perfect.
Circumstances surrounding early runnings of the Derby are often shrouded in mystery but it seems that 15 winners of the race were making their first appearance on a racecourse.
Ten of these instances occurred between 1787 and 1809 and the last FTO winner was Blair Athol in 1864. Middleton (1825) and Amato (1838) won the Derby on their only racecourse appearance. I believe Merry Hampton (1887) was the last maiden to win the race.
I don’t endorse the practice of coupling but I would like to know the current PMU position.
“Coupling forces punters into backing every horse from a yard in the race.”
Ian, coupling can mean anything you want it to if you’re the authority doing the coupling.
Last year two jockeys got married only to learn from the New York State Gaming Commission that whenever they rode in the same race their mounts would be coupled for betting purposes. That rule was naturally challenged by the newlyweds. I don’t know the outcome.
I’m wondering if the PMU still operates coupling. It used to combine horses not only from the same yard, as you say, but those in the same ownership. I can’t find a recent confirmation one way or the other.
Roberto cost me a few ££s in the 1972 Derby when chinning Rheingold. The annoying aspect of that race for me was that Piggott would have won on either of them.
I can’t help but think that it was Braulio Baeza who got the best tune out of Roberto when winning the inaugural Benson & Hedges Gold Cup from Brigadier Gerard in record time. The Brigadier also beat the previous course record despite finishing 3 lengths adrift. It was officially 10 lengths back to the third horse but it looked a lot more than that. Baeza flew in specifically for the one ride, his first in the UK. He went home straight afterwards and, as far as I’m aware, he never returned here.
I wouldn’t violently disagree with anyone who suggested that both horses ran their best ever races at York that year. Roberto certainly did, while Brigadier Gerard less assuredly may have done.
Please add my name to the long list of those dismayed by the events of June 4.
The idea was bizarre. I’m wondering if any other racecourse has ever tried this. It’s doubtful but if it has happened surely it would only have been once. It’s not easy to find out because all searches lead to Epsom.
I doubt this will happen next year but if it does, and adding to the possible enhancements suggested upthread, I’d go for Catherine wheels at the two-pole, bangers at the distance, and a track-wide row of giant sparklers across the finish line. The first horse to knock over a sparkler wins the Derby.
Fingers crossed the correct decision will be made.
Two Irish Guineas winners won their classics on racecourse debut.
Ballymore collected the 2,000 in 1972 and Lady Capulet obliged in the 1,000 in 1977. The latter was a half-sister to Drone, described as a ‘successful breeding stallion’.
Not to be prurient or anything but perhaps Drone could elaborate on this.
“I think Snurge was a maiden when he won the St Leger.”
Factually correct of course but he was a maiden only by courtesy of some French stewards.
The horse won the Critérium de Saint-Cloud by 3 lengths in 1989 only to be controversially and mysteriously disqualified.
I’d never heard of this, Marlingford. Here’s something about him from the Free Library:
Racing historian Chris Pitt discovered that a five-legged horse had run at Warwick.
Pitt explained: “The name of the horse was Panche Calyan and he ran at Warwick on September 9, 1957.
“He was a three-year-old who, when he was born, had five legs! “The freak leg was removed and he carried a scar but that handicap did not prevent him from winning races. “He won a total of 13 races under Rules and he got his name from the Hindu meaning Five Wonderful Things.”No knowledge is ever wasted but I have no idea how I’m going to slip this into a normal conversation.
After all this talk of eyes, ears, and tails I’m sure the curious among us will be wondering what else a horse can do without while remaining functional.
Apart from the unkindest cut of all I can’t think of anything. Therefore, moving seamlessly from absent body parts to concealed ones, ‘Horse & Hound’ informs its readers that 15% of 2-y-o and 3-y-o colts are rigs
