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Viltash,
Were you perhaps thinking of Rapporteur, who won 14 races on the AW, all at Lingfield between 1989 and 1994?
Strangely, Rapporteur also won 5 times on the Lingfield turf but never obliged anywhere else.
I wouldn’t argue that the AW & Turf courses at Lingfield are similar, so the horse was doubtless impressed with the scenery at the Surrey track.
Tempering won 1 from 32 turf races
Thank you!
China Castle’s record 25 wins on the AW was overhauled in March last year when Stand Guard won a match at Southwell. Stand Guard is 26 from 72 (AW) & 0 from 4 (Turf).
La Estrella joined Stand Guard on 26 wins when emerging victorious at Lingfield in January this year. La Estrella is 26 from 39 (AW) and 2 from 26 (Turf). The 12-y-o is entered up at Wolverhampton on Friday.
Suluk. Enough said.
While Suluk won 18 AW races over hurdles (all of them at Southwell between 1990 & 1993) he also won 6 on turf.
Tempering won 22 AW races (all of them at Southwell between 1990 & 1996). I can’t locate his turf record.
…By the way, don’t you people think that Southwell (NH) and Worcester are almost twin tracks?
Both use portable fences and hurdles, are very flat and oval left-handed tracks with a nice long straight (about 3f – 4f).Tangential to the above comment – The reason Worcester’s racing surface is so level is entirely due to Worcester City Corporation buying the site at Pitchcroft (in 1899) for use as a resource to dump the city’s landfill waste. The waste filled in all the natural hollows on the site leaving it as flat as a pancake.
I love this site, and visit it pretty much daily – although I don’t post myself. I have been a NH racing fan for as long as I can remember, but like to keep up-to-date on what is going on under both codes. I don’t use Twitter or Facebook, and mourn the passing of many good forums that have died the death since everyone seems to prefer to correspond via other media. As has been said already, the tone on TRF is generally much more tolerant than elsewhere, and there are some genuinely knowledgeable posters from whom I learn much…
What whippetlady said.
Furthermore, I have twice as many posts as she has so my opinion should carry twice as much weight.
Ard Patrick (Derby winner 1902) met Sceptre (winner of the other four classics in the same year) in the 1903 Eclipse beating her a neck. For good measure Rock Sand (1903 2,000 Guineas & Derby winner and later to complete his Triple Crown) was also in the line-up finishing three lengths adrift in third.
