Con Horgan....Ryan Price's assistant for many years and who took over from him when he retired. Price rated him highly but he never reached the heights. I don't really know what happened but Price and others took their horses away and Horgan moved from Findon, eventually training at Billingbear almost exclusively for one of the Sumners. I haven't seen a Horgan runner for two or three years and assume he's finished training..
Nupsala - trained by Francois Doumen, won the King George VI Chase in 1987 thus interrupting Desert Orchid's progress to his own four wins in the race.
Pigeons - according to The Story of Your Life: A History of the Sporting Life Newspaper (1859-1998) by James Lambie carrier pigeons were a racing news conduit until the late 1840s.
Problems for newspapers using these birds were (a) hawks and (b) they tended to get shot down en route to the offices from the racecourse.
Whether the pigeons were targetted randomly or whether they were shot down by punters desperate to know the racing results is a moot point.
Rules Of Racing - the establishment of the Jockey Club in 1750 effectively meant that horse racing became the first sport in Britain to be officially regulated.
Originally Posted by jmclaugh: “Jardine Lloyd Thompson who sponsor tomorrow's Lockinge Stakes and I'm going to see the mighty Frankel in the flesh.”
I'm seriously jealous and may have a bet on the winning distance if they'll lay me. Then I'll email Henry and ask him if I can come down to Newmarket for the day.
Thomas Tompion....named after the daddy of all clockmakers