A-Z of Horse Racing (Part 2)

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• allaorta Posts: 19,050

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  26/03/12 - 07:47 #77

  Quito de la Roque

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• Terrence Chant Posts: 1,333,417

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  26/03/12 - 09:55 #78

  Ruby: The Autobiography....Ruby Walsh's eponymous autobiography title

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• jmclaugh Posts: 63,996

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  26/03/12 - 11:00 #79

  Specify a neck winner of the 1971 National owned by Sir Fred Pontin of Pontins holiday camps. He wanted to change the horse's name to Specify Pontins but Jockey Club rules prevented horses being renamed after they were three-years-old.

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  26/03/12 - 13:30 #80

  Trotted up

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  26/03/12 - 16:44 #81

  Unsinkable Boxer - staying hurdler trained by Martin Pipe.
  
  In 1997/1998 improved by 54lb to a mark of 148 over 5 races culminating in good wins at Cheltenham and Liverpool.

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  26/03/12 - 17:04 #82

  Vincitore of Starborough and Viva Vodka

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  26/03/12 - 22:02 #83

  Wilmot, Norah - in 1966 the first woman in the country to be granted a trainer's licence.

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  27/03/12 - 07:23 #84

  Xtra furlong the horse needs

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• allaorta Posts: 19,050

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  27/03/12 - 07:47 #85

  Zoffany...successful American horse in the 1980s.

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  27/03/12 - 12:15 #86

  Arabian Stallions
  
  all (flat) racehorses in britain trace to 3 original stallions including the Darley Arabian and Godolphin Arabian
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoroughbred
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_horse

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  27/03/12 - 13:47 #87

  Bumper

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  27/03/12 - 13:57 #88

  Cecil: The Biography.
  
  Brough Scott's book about the Great Man is scheduled for publication in September.

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  27/03/12 - 17:22 #89

  Distance winner

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  27/03/12 - 17:37 #90

  Terrence Chant wrote: »

  Two hundred to one winner at Taunton the other day - Two Hundred And Fifty To One is the British record for the longest priced winner

  The horse in question being...
  
  Equinoctial - took a novices' handicap hurdle at Kelso in November 1990 at 250/1.

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  27/03/12 - 18:06 #91

  :cool:
  
  Flat switch for Graham Lee

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  27/03/12 - 19:15 #92

  Gee-A - won the Mildmay of Flete Handicap Chase (now the Byrne Group Plate) at the 1987 Cheltenham Festival.
  
  Ridden by Gee Armytage for owner/trainer G A Hubbard (after whom the horse was named).

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  27/03/12 - 19:47 #93

  How does the Dipper keep 'em coming?!!

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• allaorta Posts: 19,050

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  27/03/12 - 21:23 #94

  Ibrahim Hussain.

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  28/03/12 - 07:18 #95

  Junior.

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  28/03/12 - 07:29 #96

  Kings Best (2000 Guineas winner)

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  28/03/12 - 07:36 #97

  Latest odds

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  28/03/12 - 07:39 #98

  Market Move

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  28/03/12 - 10:13 #99

  Not quoted, a now defunct practice whereby on-course bookmakers would accept bets at odds offered by backers. Cure-All and Pioneer were consecutive winners of the 1845 & 1846 Nationals at 'not quoted' odds.

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  28/03/12 - 11:44 #100

  On-course bookie

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  28/03/12 - 12:19 #101

  Pershore - Worcestershire town well-known for plum growing (the Pershore Purple tastes particularly delicious).
  
  The Land O'Plums steeplechase originally run at Pershore (the town's last racecourse closed in 1939) was revived at Worcester in 2010.

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