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Old 07-05-2013, 10:26
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Crucifix. The first filly to win the 2,000 and the 1,000 guineas in 1840, she also won the Oaks and was unbeaten in 12 starts.
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Old 07-05-2013, 13:58
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Old 07-05-2013, 16:04
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Z - no winner of the Chester Cup has a name beginning with 'Z'. Not only that, no winning horse has a 'Z' anywhere in its name.

None of tomorrow's runners feature a 'Z' in their names either so this peculiar record, going back all the way to 1824, will hold for at least one more year.
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Old 08-05-2013, 07:02
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Old 08-05-2013, 11:05
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Old 08-05-2013, 12:17
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Chester Vase - 5 horses have won this race since its inception in 1907 and then gone on to take the Derby.

The relevant years were 1923, 1933, 1934, 1980 & 1981. The last horse to run in the Vase and win the Derby was Quest For Fame in 1990.
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Old 08-05-2013, 12:19
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Dee Stakes - about as good a Derby Trial as the Chester Vase.

4 horses in 200 years have won this race and then taken the Derby (1890, 1959, 1999 & 2003) the most recent being Kris Kin.
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Old 08-05-2013, 13:27
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Old 08-05-2013, 15:39
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Forty Three - during the past 15 years 43 races over 5f at Chester (out of a total of 205) have been won by the horse coming out of stall 1.
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Old 09-05-2013, 06:58
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Old 09-05-2013, 09:33
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Hold up, a tactic generally not suited to Chester.
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Old 09-05-2013, 09:53
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Old 09-05-2013, 12:57
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James, Frank - brother of the more famous Jesse.

In his post-outlaw days he worked for some time as a betting commissioner at the Fair Grounds race track in New Orleans.

Also, the Kentucky Derby website has him visiting Churchill Downs for the 1889 renewal.
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Old 09-05-2013, 14:34
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Old 09-05-2013, 16:13
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Lily Agnes - great racemare and top broodmare. Dam of Ormonde.

Commemorated by the Lily Agnes Stakes run on the first day of Chester's May meeting.
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Old 10-05-2013, 07:18
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Mailman....a prominent horse in Clare Balding's "My Animals & Other Family"
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Old 10-05-2013, 12:26
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Newspaper Tipsters - Cayton, once a tipster for the Morning Star, holds the unenviable record of selecting 54 losing naps in a row.
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Old 10-05-2013, 14:10
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Odds-on 1/4 favourite should have been his selection one day just to break the sequence!
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Old 10-05-2013, 15:19
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Penalty, as in extra weight to be carried for winning.
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Old 10-05-2013, 15:21
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Newspaper Tipsters - Cayton, once a tipster for the Morning Star, holds the unenviable record of selecting 54 losing naps in a row.
Odds-on 1/4 favourite should have been his selection one day just to break the sequence!
Russian Hero - 1949 Grand National winner at 66/1. Cayton nailed this one (although working for a Communist newspaper there wasn't much else he could pick).

Cayton also topped the naps table 4 times, an achievement that must be considered a triumph for Marxist-Leninist tipping philosophy over that of the more bourgeois and reactionary newspapers of that time.
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Old 11-05-2013, 13:00
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Thousand Stars - ran second to Hurricane Fly in the Rabobank Champion Hurdle at Punchestown 2 weeks ago.

This was the 10th race in which the horse has finished behind his illustrious stablemate, all of them at Grade 1 level.
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Old 12-05-2013, 12:32
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Velouette, well bred unraced dam of Dante and Derby contender Telescope.
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