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Old 30-03-2012, 16:17
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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).
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Old 30-03-2012, 16:20
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Old 30-03-2012, 16:59
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Old 30-03-2012, 17:47
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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.
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Old 30-03-2012, 19:43
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Question Mark - appears on the Chance squares

Also a horse that ran mainly on the all-weather at Lingfield
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Old 30-03-2012, 20:13
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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.
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Old 30-03-2012, 20:30
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Spanking Roger - 1732 colt by Flying Childers.

The origin of the name is doubtlessly interesting but regrettably unknown.
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Old 31-03-2012, 05:22
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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.
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Old 31-03-2012, 08:06
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Old 31-03-2012, 08:44
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Old 31-03-2012, 11:27
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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.
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Old 31-03-2012, 12:32
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^ Indeed. A W somewhere in there might have produced frowns of disapproval even in the somewhat louche times of the early 18th century.

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Old 31-03-2012, 12:34
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XVIII - races won by Eclipse over II seasons (including VIII walkovers) for total prize money of MMCL guineas.
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Old 31-03-2012, 21:24
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Old 31-03-2012, 23:41
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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)
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Old 01-04-2012, 07:46
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Zimmer - 2006 colt by Empire Builder with a very stiff action.

Contested 12 races during his career (6 of them in the frame).
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Old 01-04-2012, 11:50
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Alcibiade the first 5yo to win the National in 1865, which remains the youngest age of any winner and probably always will.
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Old 01-04-2012, 16:35
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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.
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Old 01-04-2012, 23:17
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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)
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Old 01-04-2012, 23:30
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Digitalis derivatives used to treat heart problems in horses.
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Old 02-04-2012, 08:24
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ESB, the horse that prevailed in the '56 National when Devon Loch stumbled.
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Old 02-04-2012, 11:06
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Facile winner.
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Old 02-04-2012, 11:32
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Old 02-04-2012, 13:03
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Hills Richard who hung up his saddle at the age of 49 on Saturday.
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Old 02-04-2012, 16:27
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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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