RoXy Music - 1989 filly by Song out of Roxy Hart.
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Agoraphobic - 2007 New Zealand colt by Zabeel.
(Agoraphobia being a pathological fear of wide-open spaces I'm guessing this animal was useless.)
(Agoraphobia being a pathological fear of wide-open spaces I'm guessing this animal was useless.)
Challenge Stakes for the 7f specialists who for some bizarre reason have still to get a UK G1 race of their own.
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“Sharp Hat - sprinter trained by David Chapman until its retirement 6 years ago at the age of 13.
The horse ran 217 times in 12 seasons (winning 24 races) which is probably a record number of career starts for a horse trained in Britain.”
“Sharp Hat - sprinter trained by David Chapman until its retirement 6 years ago at the age of 13.
The horse ran 217 times in 12 seasons (winning 24 races) which is probably a record number of career starts for a horse trained in Britain.”
Dvinsky - 11-y-o gelding trained by Paul Howling. Known as Dave in the yard. Winner of 19 races over 10 years at 6f-8f.
Dave broke Sharp Hat's record when racing for the 218th time (finishing a slightly disappointing 9th of 11) at Wolverhampton on 21 September.
First Gold - won the 2000 King George VI Chase following which he was bought by JP McManus for a reported £500,000.
Successful in the Martell Cognac Gold Cup (currently the Betfred Bowl) at Liverpool in 2001 & 2003 and victorious in the Punchestown Gold Cup also in 2003.
Disappointing thereafter with no wins from 15 further races until retirement in 2006, failing to complete the course in his last 4.
Successful in the Martell Cognac Gold Cup (currently the Betfred Bowl) at Liverpool in 2001 & 2003 and victorious in the Punchestown Gold Cup also in 2003.
Disappointing thereafter with no wins from 15 further races until retirement in 2006, failing to complete the course in his last 4.
Gee Tom who in 1875 founded the Dewhurst Stakes as race for juveniles expected to contest the Classics and put up the £300 prize money for the inaugural running. The race was named after his Dewhurst Stud in East Sussex and is the most prestigious 2yo race run in England.
Ipswich: Weighing - print of an illustration by Henry Alken.
There was racing at Ipswich between 1710 & 1911 on an area of land between the Felixstowe & Nacton roads. The date of the print is probably somewhere between 1816 & 1831.
Alken produced many sporting prints, 150 of which can be found here.
There was racing at Ipswich between 1710 & 1911 on an area of land between the Felixstowe & Nacton roads. The date of the print is probably somewhere between 1816 & 1831.
Alken produced many sporting prints, 150 of which can be found here.
Jannette. 1878 Oaks & Leger winner and the first filly to win the Champion Stakes in 1878. She raced 23 times over 3 seasons winning 17 races and was unplaced only once.
King Edward VIII (while Prince of Wales) takes the Welsh Guards' Race on his own horse Degomme at Beaufort Point to Point in 1928.
The 2 minute footage is from Pathé News. There's no sound. And there's not much of the race, either.
The 2 minute footage is from Pathé News. There's no sound. And there's not much of the race, either.
Le Tremblay, before Longchamp, hosted L'Arc....Loterie Nationale funded it and (Groupe) Lucien Barriere sponsored it previously
Maher Daniel. US born jockey in 1881 who was amongst the first to be included in the US Racing Hall of Fame in 1955 and was champion jockey in the UK in 1908 and 1913. He died of consumption in 1916 aged only 35.
Like a number of US jockeys he left the US for Europe due to anti-gambling and other restrictions on racing at the end of the 19th C and became a British citizen in 1913. He won all of the English classics including 3 Derbys and with Piggott and Richards has the highest number of wins, six, in the Middle Park Stakes. He had a win ratio of over 25% from over 6,000 rides in the US and over 5,000 in the UK.
Like a number of US jockeys he left the US for Europe due to anti-gambling and other restrictions on racing at the end of the 19th C and became a British citizen in 1913. He won all of the English classics including 3 Derbys and with Piggott and Richards has the highest number of wins, six, in the Middle Park Stakes. He had a win ratio of over 25% from over 6,000 rides in the US and over 5,000 in the UK.
Penitent who was supplemented for the Prix de la Foret in which he finished second has been supplemented for the QEII at a cost of £70k so he'll have to finish in the first three to be in profit.
Rockfel the 1938 winner of the 1,000, the Oaks and the Champion Stakes and who the G2 7f race today for 2yo fillies is named after. First time out she finished unplace in a seller.
Shock Result - such as yesterday's 66/1 Cesarewitch winner Aaim To Prosper who carried 9st 10lb to victory in becoming the first horse to win the race twice.
Valenzuela, Pat - US jockey whose 34 year career has been punctuated by suspensions due to drug & alcohol abuse.
Despite these problems Valenzuela has ridden over 4,000 winners to date the best of which would be Sunday Silence, winner of the Kentucky Derby & Preakness Stakes in 1989, and Arazi which he rode to a mind-blowing victory in the 1991 Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
Despite these problems Valenzuela has ridden over 4,000 winners to date the best of which would be Sunday Silence, winner of the Kentucky Derby & Preakness Stakes in 1989, and Arazi which he rode to a mind-blowing victory in the 1991 Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
Wobbler: A neurological disease due to compression of the spinal cord. Seen principally in 2-year-olds and 3-year-olds.
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