A-Z of Horse Racing (Part 2)

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,535
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    ^ I have higher standards than a mare with a paltry 2 wins from 27 starts and total prize money of $3,810. Especially if she's dead.
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    Wootton, Frank - won the first of 4 consecutive flat jockeys championships in 1909 aged 15. Joined the Army in 1914 and served in Mesopotamia.

    While stationed there he rode the winner of the Baghdad Grand National, an event the history of which has thus far avoided the vast tentacles of the internet.
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    X = ten...furlong in a mile and a quarter race
  • jmclaughjmclaugh Posts: 63,985
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    Y, no horse with a name beginning with that letter is entered in this year's National.
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    Z: no horse beginning with this letter has ever won the Derby
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    Airborne. 1947 Derby winner who was thought to be impotent but an encounter in a paddock with an 18yo mare called Eastlock who was thought to be barren resulted in the birth of a foal who was rather aptly named Flyingbolt.
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    Bull, Phil - founded Timeform in partnership with form student Dick Whitford in 1947.

    Subsequently published Timeform: Racehorses of 1948 in the first of a series still going strong. A full set of these publications will set you back a sum well into five figures.
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    Cockle.....10/1
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    De Kock Mike who trained three winners on yesterday's card at Meydan.
  • gemma-the-huskygemma-the-husky Posts: 18,116
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    jmclaugh wrote: »
    Airborne. 1947 Derby winner who was thought to be impotent but an encounter in a paddock with an 18yo mare called Eastlock who was thought to be barren resulted in the birth of a foal who was rather aptly named Flyingbolt.

    The great flyingbolt?
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    Edredon Bleu
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    Fry, Harry - at 26 the youngest trainer in the country. Trains jumpers (notably Rock On Ruby) at Beaminster about 15m SW of Yeovil.
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    The great flyingbolt?

    The very one.

    Grade.
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    Handicapper
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    Ice crystals in the polytrack put paid to racing at Kempton a couple of weeks ago.
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    Jockey Club
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    Kylebeg Krystle, a rank outsider for the grade 2 Tied Cottage Chase at Punchestown today.
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    Lord Loris - winner of the 1914 Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris.

    The horse was subsequently requisitioned for service in the French Army and died of shrapnel wounds shortly after the outbreak of war.
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    Marion DuPont Scott Colonial Cup
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    Norton's Coin, 100-1 outsider who won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1990 and set a new course record.
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    Oxford Polytechnic Science Lab: where I listened to the above race
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    Prince, Philip - 20 year old apprentice with 11 career winners from 94 rides.

    Has had many problems to deal with including being born with one ear and a deformed jaw bone which has been surgically replaced by one of his ribs.
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    Quickly away.....
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    Rock On Ruby who won yesterday at Doncaster putting himself firmly in contention to retain his title as Champion Hurdler.
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    Seaton Delaval Stakes
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