Nacarat...........runs in the King george
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Overturn, runs in the Christmas Hurdle and dammit, I'm off out and won't be able to have a punt......I might have had a go at Master Minded.
Prix de la Salamandre - 7f race at Longchamp discontinued in 2000.
Etienne Pollet won the race 8 years in a row from 1955 to 1962, a training record for consecutive wins in the same (later) Group 1.
Etienne Pollet won the race 8 years in a row from 1955 to 1962, a training record for consecutive wins in the same (later) Group 1.
Ulysses - classic novel by James Joyce in which the action takes place inside 24 hours.
The day the author chooses is 16 June 1904, Ascot Gold Cup day. Who backs what horse in the race and why is a subject of some mistrust in the book, as several characters are on the beaten filly Sceptre but are subsequently led to believe the protagonist had the 20/1 winner Throwaway, which he didn't tip them.
It's complicated.
The day the author chooses is 16 June 1904, Ascot Gold Cup day. Who backs what horse in the race and why is a subject of some mistrust in the book, as several characters are on the beaten filly Sceptre but are subsequently led to believe the protagonist had the 20/1 winner Throwaway, which he didn't tip them.
It's complicated.
Yavana's Pace - the oldest winner of a Group 1 in Europe and possibly the world.
Mark Johnston's horse won the Credit Suisse Private Banking Pokal at Cologne in 2002 at the age of 10.
Mark Johnston's horse won the Credit Suisse Private Banking Pokal at Cologne in 2002 at the age of 10.
Black Sabbath - owned by the band's former producer & co-manager Patrick Meehan, the colt unseated its rider in the 1976 St Leger.
Freeman, George - Conservative MP for Mid-Norfolk and son of Arthur, winning rider on Mr What in the 1958 Grand National.
Originally Posted by Big Dipper:
“Freeman, George - Conservative MP for Mid-Norfolk and son of Arthur, winning rider on Mr What in the 1958 Grand National.”
“Freeman, George - Conservative MP for Mid-Norfolk and son of Arthur, winning rider on Mr What in the 1958 Grand National.”
And thereafter not a half bad trainer. I didn't know about his son.
Hard Ridden....Derby winner in the fifties with Charlie Smirke aboard and thereafter a half decent stallion.
Jack Jarvis...long time Derby winning Newmarket trainer who died in the sixties when Doug Smith took over the yard.
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