Plate, a shoe and the name of a number of famous races.
A-Z of Horse Racing (Part 2)
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Quite Good - 1993 US-bred colt by Quiet American with career earnings of $62,000.
Quite Good wasn't quite as good as Brilliant (2003 colt by War Chant) whose career prize money amounted to $727,000.
However No Good (1985 filly by Market Fever) wasn't quite as good as Quite Good because she doesn't appear to have won anything at all.
Quite Good wasn't quite as good as Brilliant (2003 colt by War Chant) whose career prize money amounted to $727,000.
However No Good (1985 filly by Market Fever) wasn't quite as good as Quite Good because she doesn't appear to have won anything at all.
Originally Posted by jmclaugh:
“Unplaced.”
“Unplaced.”
Just like most of mine yesterday. Even the winner I had, dead-heated.
Very close.
Amboyna....mid-20C filly well named after sire Bois Roussel, broadly translated meaning red wood. Amboyna is a scarce red wood usually in burr form and not too dissimilar to burr yew.
Bath, the UK's highest flat raceourse where in 1953 a ringer called Santa Amaro ran under the name Francasal and the telephone line to the race course was cut so on-course bookies were unaware of the heavy off course bets being laid on Francasal who started at 10-1. In todays money the gamble landed £1m, however the perpetrators were subsequently brought to trial and convicted, one of them a Cardiff bookmaker, Gomer Charles, was shot to death by burglars 13 years later.
Don Pasquale....Low grade flat horse a few years back and even lower grade over hurdles. I guess he was trying his hardest though.
Going Stick. Courses have been required to provide readings since 2009 at the declaration stage and on race day. The lower the reading the softer the ground is.
Noverre, named after a French balletmaster being by a Northern Dancer mare, a top class miler for Godolphin who was subsequently sold to breeders in India where he died this year.
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