A-Z of Horse Racing (Part 2)

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    Earth Summit - the only horse to win the Scottish, Welsh & English Grand Nationals.
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    Flight.
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    Grand National Course - until 1887 the last two fences were, in fact, hurdles.
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    Hexham, the most northerly NH course in England.
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    I'm guessing that Rubio is the only horse ever to pull a trolley bus around the streets of Towcester then go on to win a chase at the town's racecourse a couple of years later.

    Rubio went on to win the 1908 Grand National.
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    Jerry, 1840 National winner.
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    Kirkland - the only Welsh-trained horse to win the Grand National (in 1905).
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    Last horse standing as in the 1928 National when 41 out of the 42 runners fell. A friend of the winning jockey, William Dutton, had called out to him before the race began, "Billy boy, you'll only win if all the others fall down!"
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    Morley Street - 1991 Champion Hurdler.

    Also particularly effective at 2½m around Liverpool where he won at least 5 times over that trip including a Grade 2 Novices' Hurdle and 4 consecutive Aintree Hurdles (1990-1993).
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    National this weekend :)
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    Open Hearted, a rrelatively rare runner over the jumps for the Queen.
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    Peter Simple - at 15 the oldest horse to win the Grand National when taking the spoils for the second time in 1853.
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    Quest, Rough: triumphant in 1986
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    Royal Athlete, was a popular winner in 95.
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    Sixes & Sevens - in 2012 the minimum age for a Grand National runner was increased from 6 to 7. A 6-y-o hasn't won the race since 1915 so the new rule probably makes little difference. In recent years 7-y-os haven't fared much better with the last winner from that age group coming in 1940.

    (Back in the mists of time 5 horses obliged at the age of 5, the most recent being Lutteur III in 1909.)
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    Topham Chase today......
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    Uxizandre - very useful horse. Can be used for U, X or Z as required.
    Uxizandre - takes a massive step up in class today by contesting the Grade 1 Sefton Novices' Hurdle for which he is freely available at 16/1.
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    Value
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    Workman - 1939 Grand National winner by Cottage who also sired later National winners in Lovely Cottage (1946) and Sheila's Cottage (1948).
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    Xcitement building already.......
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    Year - contains 365 days (mostly).

    In 1881 John Manners-Sutton (aka Lord Manners) struck a wager that he could buy, train & ride the winner of the 1882 Grand National. He bought, trained & rode Seaman to a short head victory in the race (although he doesn't seem to be credited with training the horse). With the proceeds of his bet Manners built a calendar house at Avon Tyrell in Hampshire.

    I hadn't heard of a calendar house before but apparently it's a residence that features architectural elements in quantities that represent the respective numbers of days in a year, weeks in a year, months in a year, seasons in a year and days in a week. Avon Tyrrell has 365 windows, 52 rooms, 12 chimneys, 4 wings and 7 external doors.

    (The corresponding numbers for my house are 10, 5, 0, 0 and 1.)
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    7 0 1 0 3 here for the record :D

    Anthony S. CruZ
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    Auroras Encore who while not having any windows, chimneys etc has a record over jumps of - 22521C62FF156P1F20191R4052F1P5006312U0P45F51. Grand Crus and Diamond Harry share the spoils of having beaten him by the longest distance, 116 lengths.
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    Betting slip
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    Chrysanthemum - daughter of Danehill Dancer and winner of 2 Group 3's who was confirmed in foal to Frankel early last month.
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