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If you’re referring to the July Cup, blame the horse not the jockey. War Fronts rarely train on and AFB is just proving that to be the case.
Do I need to go to Specsavers or is Minding not wearing a tongue tie in that photo?
There’s a blob of white but I think it’s just foam from mouthing the bit, about to drop. If it’s a tongue tie…what is it tied to? Her lower jaw is completely clear.
I do believe is one Ruby Walsh? Grade 1 hurdles he hasn’t won yet.
That’s it, TO. They’re actually the only Grade 1 British NH races that Ruby hasn’t won (yet).
You’re both right that they all haven’t been won by the same person. Just not got the right person yet.
It’s not a trainer.
This is a head scratcher …
My best guess is British Grade 1 hurdle races on a LH track that have not. so far, been won by WP Mullins!!
Very very close! The handedness of the track isn’t relevant, and it’s not the trainer but…
Nice try but no.
Clue: It’s not specific to the 2015/6 season, just a fact that holds true up to that point.
I find it much easier to answer than to ask!
What do the Fighting Fifth hurdle at Newcastle, the Albert Bartlett (Spa) novices’ hurdle at Cheltenham and the Future Champions Finale juvenile hurdle at Chepstow have in common, as of the end of the 2015/6 NH season?
Montjeu threw stock along the whole spectrum from “keen and coltish” to “absolute nutjobs” but it didn’t stop him siring three Derby winners and a Guineas winner among his fifteen or so individual G1 winners (or a Champion Hurdler!) so I wouldn’t be too worried about the flashes of temperament amongst Frankel’s youngsters. They’re still obviously trainable or they wouldn’t be getting to the track in May / June of their 2yo year.
It’s inevitable some Frankels are going to end up going hurdling in time. They’re not all going to be world beaters. The best hurdler of my lifetime so far was by Sadler’s Wells and a half-brother to a Derby winner. Didn’t stop SW being the preeminent Flat stallion of his generation and a multiple champion though. Just meant even his hurdlers were better than most!
I doubt it. To be grey, a horse must have at least one grey parent and therefore one can expect roughly 50% of Linamix’s progeny out of non-grey mares to be grey. Of course, any of his progeny out of grey mares will be grey and grey only.
Linamix was a homozygous grey, so all of his progeny were grey regardless of the colour of the mare.
Incidentally two heterozygous greys can have a non-grey foal if neither happen to pass on the dominant grey gene (so approx 25% of the time – the same probability as two heterozygous bay parents having a chestnut foal).
Fair Eva by 4l.
I adored Frankel. I was there at York for the Juddmonte, I’ve visited him at Banstead Manor. I know it’s ridiculously early days to get too excited but I cannot articulate how ridiculously pleased I am that his first runners are proving to be capable of winning. He was the Flat horse of my lifetime and I’d be gutted if he turned out to be a flop at stud. I want the legend and that aura of ‘specialness’ around him to continue!
Lady Lightfoot (b.1900 so just 20th C) was a half-sister to Flair, winner of the 1000G, and dam of Prince Palatine, winner of the St Leger. Both LL and Flair were out of Glare.
China isn’t a member of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (who agree and maintain the criteria for international name protection) and has only signed some of the articles of the International Agreement so don’t consider themselves bound by the same rules of naming and keeping or changing names as the majority of racing countries who have signed up fully.
