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EBF Maiden Stakes
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Father Christmas - son of Santa Claus foaled 1970.
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Gatwick Racecourse....home of the National 1916-18
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Ian Patullo - another from the sixties who trained not far from Peter Cazalet in Kent.
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(Diamond) Jubilee Stakes
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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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Life & Style Novices' Chase
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Mumtaz Mahal.
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Nearullah.
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On Horse Racing - 1868 essay by author Anthony Trollope from where comes the following: Quote:
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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PHS Waterlogic Classified Stakes
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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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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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Sadler's Wells probably the most famous winner of tomorrow's Irish 2,000 guinea in 1984.
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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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Undergraduate out of Unfuwain and erm, Starlet
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Valedictory..a horse and a horse race in Canada.
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Willis Lease Finance Corporation Handicap
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XII - number of fences to be jumped in a 2m chase.
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Yankee
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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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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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Betfair Brigadier Gerard Stakes
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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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