Tether

Equus ferus caballus - in other words, a horse.

Equus Ferrous....Stephenson's Rocket.

Gold Cup.

Should be on V non?

Victoria Cup

Withers - the ridge between the shoulder blades of a horse.

It's the tallest point of the body and is the place from which the animal's height is measured.

(Obscure and useless fact - singer, songwriter and guitarist Bill Withers (Ain't No Sunshine & Lovely Day) had a full-time job making toilet seats at Boeing before he became famous.)

Edit: Diagram of horse illustrating location of withers.

Edit: Video of Bill Withers singing Ain't No Sunshine.

Edit: I have time to kill. I should be out in the garden but the rain fails to relent.

Xaar Breeze

Yankee

Zeddaan....tidy horse from the late sixties.

Atty Corbett...way back Epsom trainer who as an amateur jockey rode Crudwell to win the Kim Muir at Cheltenham.

Bloodstock

Coronation Stakes, G1 3yo fillies race over a mile at Royal Ascot, first run in 1840 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria.

Deep Impact - 2005 Japanese Triple Crown winner, finished 3rd ½l behind Rail Link when a warm favourite for the Arc in 2006.

Subsequently disqualified after testing positive for the banned substance ipratropium.

Bobby Elliott....cracking young rider apprenticed to Tom Masson at Lewes where he rode the last winner before the track closed in the early sixties.

Folkestone racecourse

Gracchus.

Horse

Invincible Spirit. Top class sprinter and very successful sire who has sired G1 winners in Europe, Australia and the US.

Frank Jordan who sadly died a couple of years ago and succeeded by his wife Violet

King Charles - 7-y-o thoroughbred and grandson of Man O' War played the horse.

Ledsam Lad...decent handicapper in the sixties trained by Reg Hollinshead. Hard to believe he's still going after all those years.

Marju

Novice

Ortensia, ano Aussie sprinter who runs in tomorrow's King Stand.

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