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At the only racecourse in Norway we had a hurdler/steepler called Great Gatsby(GB). Then someone imported a Derby hopeful from America. Great Gatsby(USA).
After two seasons we two steeplers called Great Gatsby, in a three horse fieldBack in 2007 Nicky Henderson had an Irish bred horse with the Norwegian name of some part of the male atonomy
Go for the Champion Hurdle. Let’s see how good she is. That is why there are Champion races, isn’t it?
If she goes for another race and wins it, some will say "but Annie was not there" after the Festival.Champagne Fever in the opener. What a race and what a ride. From then on, Cheltenham was giving us texcellent performances again and again
I wrote such a fine answer and lost it into the blue. Wellll , again, and shorter this time:
After that I got new glasses, specially made for working by a screen, I can watch race replays in longer intervals that before. The eyes relaxes more ,and my brain does not want to send me to sleep after 10 minutes.Man are not meant to study running horses on a tiny screen. Your eyes needs some help.
Camelot is the best colt of his generation on the British Isles. Let the other 3yo’s make the yard stick against the older horses.
A Triple Crown would imortalise Camelot, as it imortalised Bahram in 1935. I think it would be silly to go for anything less.I have thought the thought myself. This Derby doesn’t look very interesting. At the moment Camalot crossed the line as the winner of the 2000 Guineas, many of us said, Ok, he’s the Derby winner too.
Maybe we forgot to look behind the results of the other participants in the Derby, maybe there is a dark horse in the Derby field who will thrill us, or maybe Camalot will follow Bahram, Isinglass, West Australian and the other triple crown winners.
And let me mention a poor Derby winner: HenbitBorn in Norway 1970 and beginning her life as jockey in 85 Yvonne Durant was known for her beaty and strength. Called "the Snow Queen" when riding in South America. Yvonne was Skandinavian champion several times, and statisticly the most winning jockey when there was a tight finish. Later she moved to Sweden to train horses, and last year, she and her husband and children moved to South Africa to start farming.
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Yvonne Durant photo Aftenposten.Today Skandinavian race goers have the joy of watching young Swede Anna Pilroth riding.
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I remember the old trainer who traines our first race horse. If I asked him if one of his horses had any chances in a race, and his answer was NO. It was no. If he said, No, the ground is against her, or the distance was a bit too short, or whatever, the real answer was YES.
5. Long distance human athletes often train by running hundreds of miles each month. Why can’t horses do the same?
Human athletes who do long distance competitions (and one is wrigthing this) "trains hundreds of miles" at low intencity, often described as L1 training for developing endurance. For a horse the L1 training would be walking. For developing of heart and lounge capacity the humans will train harder over much shorter distances in intervalls.
To stay or not to stay is also a mental thingNice research Himself.
Amongst wild animals the average ones are those who have the best opportunities to have a long and healthy lifes.
For race horses to big is too big and too smal is too small.
Watching from outside, from my non-whip-country, I might have no right to raise my voice here, but…..
I have never enjoyed the sight of a horse being persuaded to continue by the whip two miles from the winning post in NH races. To see a tired and frustrated animal being treated like that is no good PR for racing.
It gives me more to see a horse giving his all because it will not loose, rather to see him running on under the whip.William Buick (Because he knows mummy is watching?)
And / or daddy! Remember that William’s father Walter, who is one of the commentators on SIS’s German language feed nowadays, was formerly champion Flat jockey in Scandinavia and so naturally spent plenty of time out there.
I’d take the application that William always applies in Sweden and environs to be an acknowledgement that it’s a corner of the world that has served the Buick family so well in the past, and it’s a favour he wants to continue to repay on their behalf.
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Walter lived in Norway, and was champion at the track there ten times or something like that. In fact he was the first jockey who rode our first horse in a race (came in last
)It usually doesn’t pay to engage international top jockeys to ride in Scandinavia. If they at show up, they are often not prepared to do a job.
Two jockeys known for always giving their best even at those remote places are William Buick (Because he knows mummy is watching?) and …. Edi Ahern
Imagine it had been Dream Ahead/ L. Piggott instead of Dream Ahead/H. Turner.
I believe the result would have been the same,victory, but no-one (maybe with the exeptions of some old Americans) would have mentioned the word luck.1833 Dangerous
He had a walk over after his Derby win (his only win), but never raced again.
Or was he a four-year-old. We never will know now.Sir Lando ( Blue with white sleeves) came second, and kept the place after the stewards ……
I wrote such a fine answer and lost it into the blue. Wellll , again, and shorter this time:
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