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Old 23-05-2012, 08:08
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Old 23-05-2012, 13:39
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Father Christmas - son of Santa Claus foaled 1970.
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Old 23-05-2012, 16:08
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Gatwick Racecourse....home of the National 1916-18
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Old 23-05-2012, 18:21
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Gatwick Racecourse....home of the National 1916-18
You know how to make someone feel old, I went there when it was a racecourse and a two hour bus and train trip. But I'm not as old as the best jockey trainer who has been around all my racing life......

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Old 24-05-2012, 08:19
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Ian Patullo - another from the sixties who trained not far from Peter Cazalet in Kent.
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Old 24-05-2012, 08:30
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Old 24-05-2012, 08:44
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Knott, Anthony - owner of Hunt Ball who claims to have won over £700,000 backing his horse last season.
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Old 24-05-2012, 14:04
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Old 24-05-2012, 15:53
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Old 25-05-2012, 05:58
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Old 25-05-2012, 06:49
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On Horse Racing - 1868 essay by author Anthony Trollope from where comes the following:

That a young, raw, uneducated Yorkshire or Newmarket lad, who can ride seven stone, but who cannot pen a letter of which a milkmaid would not be ashamed, should be welcomed to the homes of dukes and marquises - that he should be encouraged to smoke cigars, play billiards, and volunteer opinions without restraint in the presence of his betters of either sex - is one of the saddest anomalies of our modern civilisation.
This extract is consistent with Trollope's opinion that the intrusion of the working classes as participants and spectators into a pastime belonging to the upper classes was diluting its exclusivity and was responsible in no small way for a decline in the morality of the Turf.
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Old 25-05-2012, 06:58
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Old 25-05-2012, 10:39
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Queens Hussar. Sussex and Lockinge winner who as an unfashionable stallion covered La Pavia for the princely sum of £200 to produce Brigadier Gerard, he also sired the Queen's filly Highclere winner of the 1,000 guineas and the French Oaks.
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Old 25-05-2012, 11:31
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Robinson, David - successful businessman and philanthropist. Gave £20m to Cambridge University to establish Robinson College.

A big player in the 1960s & 1970s he had about 150 horses in training with Michael Jarvis and Paul Davey at Newmarket.
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Old 25-05-2012, 14:43
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Sadler's Wells probably the most famous winner of tomorrow's Irish 2,000 guinea in 1984.
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Old 25-05-2012, 15:58
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Tempering - holds a post-war flat racing record of 22 wins at the same track (Southwell AW between 1990 and 1996).
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Old 25-05-2012, 17:11
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Old 25-05-2012, 20:39
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Valedictory..a horse and a horse race in Canada.
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Old 25-05-2012, 21:03
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Old 25-05-2012, 23:06
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XII - number of fences to be jumped in a 2m chase.
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Old 25-05-2012, 23:54
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Old 26-05-2012, 11:15
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Zee Zee Top, high class filly and dam whose name appears to have no connection to the rock band being by Zafonic out of a mare by High Top.
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Old 26-05-2012, 12:44
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Ascot Gold Cup - following a visit by Czar Nicholas I of Russia in 1844 the race was renamed the Emperor's Plate.

A decade later when Anglo-Russian relations took a dive as a result of hostilities in the Crimea it quickly reverted to the original name.
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Old 26-05-2012, 14:22
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Old 26-05-2012, 16:30
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Churchtown Boy - second to Red Rum in the National having won the Mildmay only two or three days earlier. Ridden by Martin Blackshaw, son of a well-known north country trainer.
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