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A-Z of Horse Racing (Part 2)
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Big Dipper
30-03-2012
Montelado - won two consecutive races at the Festival taking the last race of the meeting in 1992 (Champion Bumper) and the first race in 1993 (Supreme Novices' Hurdle).
jake1981
30-03-2012
Nassau Stakes
Terrence Chant
30-03-2012
Oaklawn Park, Hot Springs
Big Dipper
30-03-2012
Pall Mall - property handily located between the Electric Company & people just visiting other people in jail.

Also a 2,000 Guineas winner for HM The Queen in 1958.
Terrence Chant
30-03-2012
Question Mark - appears on the Chance squares

Also a horse that ran mainly on the all-weather at Lingfield
allaorta
30-03-2012
Royston.....one time training HQ of Willie Stephenson, Arthur's brother, whose jump jockey was Michael Scudamore and on the flat, Denis Ryan, father of Willie Ryan.
Big Dipper
30-03-2012
Spanking Roger - 1732 colt by Flying Childers.

The origin of the name is doubtlessly interesting but regrettably unknown.
allaorta
31-03-2012
Originally Posted by Big Dipper:
“Spanking Roger - 1732 colt by Flying Childers.

The origin of the name is doubtlessly interesting but regrettably unknown.”

Not to be confused with Rogering Roger.

Trampolene....19c proof of the importance of the female line so frequently ignored by breeders in the past.
dtcdtcdtc
31-03-2012
User Friendly
Terrence Chant
31-03-2012
Visored again
jmclaugh
31-03-2012
Originally Posted by Big Dipper:
“Spanking Roger - 1732 colt by Flying Childers.

The origin of the name is doubtlessly interesting but regrettably unknown.”

Flying Childers' dam's great grandsire was Spanker and her grand dam was Spanker Mare sired by Spanker. Spanking Roger's dam was out of Spanker Mare. Spanker was sired by Yellow Turk the rather forgotten sire I posted about the other day.

There is a lot of spanking in that pedigree but no idea where Roger comes from.

Anyway thankfully there isn't a horse with a W in all that.
Big Dipper
31-03-2012
^ Indeed. A W somewhere in there might have produced frowns of disapproval even in the somewhat louche times of the early 18th century.

Thank you.
Big Dipper
31-03-2012
XVIII - races won by Eclipse over II seasons (including VIII walkovers) for total prize money of MMCL guineas.
allaorta
31-03-2012
Yellow Ribbon
gemma-the-husky
31-03-2012
Originally Posted by Big Dipper:
“XVIII - races won by Eclipse over II seasons (including VIII walkovers) for total prize money of MMCL guineas.”

unbeaten (eclipse)

one of 3 stallions that all modern racehorses can trace back to. (i mentioned above under a for arabian)
Big Dipper
01-04-2012
Zimmer - 2006 colt by Empire Builder with a very stiff action.

Contested 12 races during his career (6 of them in the frame).
jmclaugh
01-04-2012
Alcibiade the first 5yo to win the National in 1865, which remains the youngest age of any winner and probably always will.
Big Dipper
01-04-2012
Brabazon, Aubrey - one of two jockeys I'm aware of who has won a race at the Cheltenham Festival and ridden a Classic winner in the same year.

Brabazon achieved this twice, firstly with Cottage Rake (Gold Cup) and Masaka (Irish Oaks) in 1948 and secondly with Cottage Rake (Gold Cup) Hattons Grace (Champion Hurdle) and Mighty Ocean (Irish 2,000 Guineas) in 1950.
gemma-the-husky
01-04-2012
Charley Smirke

won 11 classics, incl 4 derbies

surprisingly warned off for 5 years early in his career, for not trying (on a horse subsequently shown to be a regular non-trier)
allaorta
01-04-2012
Digitalis derivatives used to treat heart problems in horses.
Terrence Chant
02-04-2012
ESB, the horse that prevailed in the '56 National when Devon Loch stumbled.
jmclaugh
02-04-2012
Facile winner.
Terrence Chant
02-04-2012
Grimthorpe Chase
jmclaugh
02-04-2012
Hills Richard who hung up his saddle at the age of 49 on Saturday.
allaorta
02-04-2012
Ian Cox....you have to go back a long way to recognise this NH jockey who rode for A.J.(Arthur)Pitt an Epsom trainer. Arthur got down to one horse whose name I don't really remember other than it ended in "del Mar".....Lion del Mar or something similar. The horse won a fair number of races and knowing Arthur, he knew when to get on. I don't recall Ian riding for anyone else and when the horse was retired, Arthur and Ian also sailed into the sunset. I think they'd made enough money.
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