Horse-by-horse guide
A-Z of Horse Racing (Part 2)
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Ireland - with 26 racecourses and 4.5m people Ireland reportedly has the highest number of racecourses per head of population in the world.
Kettledrum - tipster for former racing paper the Sporting Chronicle (first published 1871 & last edition 1983).
Named for the 1861 Derby winner.
Named for the 1861 Derby winner.
Mauritius - location of the Champ de Mars racecourse (opened 1812).
Founded by the Mauritius Turf Club, allegedly the oldest horse racing club in the Southern Hemisphere.
Founded by the Mauritius Turf Club, allegedly the oldest horse racing club in the Southern Hemisphere.
Peab - racecourse near Boden in Sweden about 50 miles south of the Arctic Circle, possibly the most northerly racecourse on the planet.
Shakespeare, William - author of many plays and sonnets including Cymbeline written in about 1611.
Cymbeline (King of Britain) has a daughter Imogen who needs to get somewhere in a hurry. Upon being told a horse will travel 20 miles in a day she complains the animal isn't quick enough:
Why, one that rode to's execution, man,
Could never go so slow: I have heard of riding wagers,
Where horses have been nimbler than the sands
That run i' the clock's behalf.
Cymbeline III.ii.67 - possibly the only reference to betting on horse racing in the entire Shakespearean canon.
Cymbeline (King of Britain) has a daughter Imogen who needs to get somewhere in a hurry. Upon being told a horse will travel 20 miles in a day she complains the animal isn't quick enough:
Why, one that rode to's execution, man,
Could never go so slow: I have heard of riding wagers,
Where horses have been nimbler than the sands
That run i' the clock's behalf.
Cymbeline III.ii.67 - possibly the only reference to betting on horse racing in the entire Shakespearean canon.
EXterminator - won 50 races from 99 starts (including the 1918 Kentucky Derby) for 9 different trainers and 18 different jockeys.
Nicknamed 'Old Bones' or 'The Galloping Hatrack' because of his awkward and unprepossessing appearance.
Nicknamed 'Old Bones' or 'The Galloping Hatrack' because of his awkward and unprepossessing appearance.
Originally Posted by Big Dipper:
“Zee Zee Top - won the Group 1 Prix l'Opera for Michael Stoute in 2003.”
“Zee Zee Top - won the Group 1 Prix l'Opera for Michael Stoute in 2003.”
Her daughter Izzi Top runs today at York in a race her mother also won.
Bolkonski 1975 2,000 Guineas and Sussex Stakes winner named after a character in War & Peace.
^ Nice winner too (Izzi Top, that is).
Comedic Art - Dermot Weld's 17th winner at last year's Galway Festival, easily setting a new high for a trainer at this meeting.
Comedic Art - Dermot Weld's 17th winner at last year's Galway Festival, easily setting a new high for a trainer at this meeting.
Fascino Rustico - 4-y-o gelding, won a Carlisle bumper a month ago on his racecourse debut before going to Cheltenham's April sale and fetching no less than £310,000.
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