DS Forums

 
 

A-Z of Horse Racing (Part 2)


Closed Thread
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 23-10-2012, 13:54
Big Dipper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,523
Rite Of Passage - defied an absence of 510 days when coming back to win the Long Distance Cup on Champions Day at Ascot last Saturday..
Big Dipper is offline  
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 23-10-2012, 15:36
Terrence Chant
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Evening 🚶Morning Light
Posts: 816,941
Second Call - A secondary mount of a jockey in a race in the event his primary mount is scratched.
Terrence Chant is offline Follow this poster on Twitter  
Old 23-10-2012, 16:42
Big Dipper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,523
Three Legs - US filly foaled 1990.

Never raced, possibly because she only had three legs.
Big Dipper is offline  
Old 23-10-2012, 18:23
Terrence Chant
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Evening 🚶Morning Light
Posts: 816,941
UPS....unseated, pulled up and slipped in last three races
Terrence Chant is offline Follow this poster on Twitter  
Old 24-10-2012, 09:11
jmclaugh
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Devon
Posts: 48,001
Van Der Neer who has been supplemented for the Racing Post Trophy. A colt by Dutch Art he is named after the 17th C Dutch landscape painter.
jmclaugh is online now  
Old 24-10-2012, 09:21
Big Dipper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,523
Wizz Kid - the only French trained runner in a field of 18 when winning the Prix de l'Abbaye a couple of weeks ago.
Big Dipper is offline  
Old 24-10-2012, 09:37
Terrence Chant
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Evening 🚶Morning Light
Posts: 816,941
Xavier, a seven year old gelding
Terrence Chant is offline Follow this poster on Twitter  
Old 24-10-2012, 11:57
jmclaugh
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Devon
Posts: 48,001
Sporting Yankee, aptly named colt being owned by William Hill Racing Limited. The highlight of the career of the son of Vaguely Noble was winning the Racing Post Trophy in 1976 when William Hill began their sponsorship of the race which was then known as the Futurity Stakes.
jmclaugh is online now  
Old 24-10-2012, 12:36
Big Dipper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,523
Zoffany - Aiden O'Brien colt beaten only ¾ length by Frankel in last year's St James's Palace Stakes.

Put up another fine performance when failing by a head to land the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly the following month. Disappointing thereafter & now at stud.
Big Dipper is offline  
Old 24-10-2012, 14:00
Terrence Chant
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Evening 🚶Morning Light
Posts: 816,941
Acceptor - A runner officially listed to start in a race.
Terrence Chant is offline Follow this poster on Twitter  
Old 24-10-2012, 15:46
jmclaugh
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Devon
Posts: 48,001
Blenkiron William. Founder of the Middle Park Stakes in 1866 which was named after his stud in Kent, it was at one time the most successful in England and the largest anywhere.
jmclaugh is online now  
Old 24-10-2012, 16:40
Terrence Chant
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Evening 🚶Morning Light
Posts: 816,941
Claiming 4lbs
Terrence Chant is offline Follow this poster on Twitter  
Old 24-10-2012, 18:23
Big Dipper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,523
Dimble - Zimbabwean filly foaled 1992.

I'd like to report that Dimble is by Statistician out of Prediction but alas it would be a lie.
Big Dipper is offline  
Old 24-10-2012, 22:26
Terrence Chant
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Evening 🚶Morning Light
Posts: 816,941


Epsom downs
Terrence Chant is offline Follow this poster on Twitter  
Old 25-10-2012, 12:05
jmclaugh
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Devon
Posts: 48,001
F racecard form notation indicating fell as opposed to something useless.
jmclaugh is online now  
Old 25-10-2012, 17:32
Big Dipper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,523
Gatwick Racecourse - open for business from 1891 to 1940 after which it was requisitioned by the Air Ministry.

Gatwick Airport South Terminal is on the site once occupied by the home turn, grandstand & paddock. The rest of the course reached up to and beyond the North Terminal.
Big Dipper is offline  
Old 26-10-2012, 09:15
Terrence Chant
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Evening 🚶Morning Light
Posts: 816,941
Harness racing
Terrence Chant is offline Follow this poster on Twitter  
Old 26-10-2012, 11:09
jmclaugh
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Devon
Posts: 48,001
Isinglass 1893 winner of the Triple Crown and the 1895 Ascot Gold Cup who won £58,655 in prize money which was then a world record, in 12 starts he won 11 and was second once.
jmclaugh is online now  
Old 26-10-2012, 12:30
Terrence Chant
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Evening 🚶Morning Light
Posts: 816,941
Juvenile jolly....a two-year-old favourite
Terrence Chant is offline Follow this poster on Twitter  
Old 26-10-2012, 14:31
Big Dipper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,523
Keeneland - horse racing and thoroughbred sales operation in Lexington, Kentucky.

The conservatively managed Keeneland was the last racecourse in the US to broadcast race commentaries over its PA system. The track finally conceded defeat in 1997.

Also most of the racing scenes in Seabiscuit were filmed at Keeneland, apparently because the place has hardly changed since Seabiscuit himself was around.
Big Dipper is offline  
Old 26-10-2012, 16:30
jmclaugh
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Devon
Posts: 48,001
Limited handicap, jump race in which the range of weights carried by horses is narrower to encourage higher rated horses to enter as the weight they will have to concede is restricted. The flat equivalent is a rated stakes race.
jmclaugh is online now  
Old 27-10-2012, 08:29
Big Dipper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,523
Minster Son - 1988 St Leger winner for Willie Carson who thus became the first jockey to win a classic on a horse bred by himself.
Big Dipper is offline  
Old 27-10-2012, 09:09
Terrence Chant
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Evening 🚶Morning Light
Posts: 816,941
Newcastle
Terrence Chant is offline Follow this poster on Twitter  
Old 27-10-2012, 11:38
jmclaugh
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Devon
Posts: 48,001
O'Shea Tadhg.
jmclaugh is online now  
Old 28-10-2012, 13:23
Big Dipper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,523
Pitchcroft - area of Worcester about ½ mile from the city centre where the racecourse is located.
Big Dipper is offline  
 
Closed Thread




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 11:25.