EBF Maiden Stakes
A-Z of Horse Racing (Part 2)
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Originally Posted by Terrence Chant:
“Gatwick Racecourse....home of the National 1916-18”
“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......
Reg Hollinshead
Knott, Anthony - owner of Hunt Ball who claims to have won over £700,000 backing his horse last season.
On Horse Racing - 1868 essay by author Anthony Trollope from where comes the following:
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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“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.”
“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.
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.
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.
A big player in the 1960s & 1970s he had about 150 horses in training with Michael Jarvis and Paul Davey at Newmarket.
Tempering - holds a post-war flat racing record of 22 wins at the same track (Southwell AW between 1990 and 1996).
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.
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.
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.
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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