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I remember backing him just about every year in the Abernant. Great old horse.
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Dick Hern
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Hern and Mercer ? one of my favourite teams
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Owned by Lady Beaverbrook - Maple Green and Brown colours.
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Joe wouldn't ride him first time out, Brian Proctor rode him. Bit of a maniac until he was gelded and for a while after. Top class sprinter. Lady Beaverbrook's.
Wore leather sheets to stop him biting himself. |
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he would win this years race even at the age of 40 which is what he would be
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Quite a few former Abernant winners would be the current crop of 'much of a muchness' so-called 'group class' sprinters.
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* beat
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carried 10st plus and won even with Carson on board
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Great horse - heart of a lion.
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He must have been one of the first winners for the Hern/Carson combination.
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Bloody hell Boldboy I remember Tromos - now that's a story
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Didn´t Tromos´Greek owners have a few good ones with Bruce Hobbs around that time? And then nothing.
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Lady Beaverbrook used to like naming most of her horses using seven letters. Can't remember one called Aroused though.
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TiptheOdds 15 Apr 00:11
Didn´t Tromos´Greek owners have a few good ones with Bruce Hobbs around that time? And then nothing. They also owned STILVI who was ridden by Geoff Baxter. |
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Tromos was favourite to win the boat race in the spring of 79
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George Cambanis (Black with white spots) had many horses with Bruce Hobbs.
Stilvi was a real good sprinter for him and was the dam of Tromos, Tachypous and Tolmi. (I think) His best horse after that clutch was probably Amyndas. |
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http://www.pedigreequery.com/progeny/stilvi
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Tromos......was a huge 2-y-o if I remember rightly...a man among boys at the time
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did he used to joust with vaigly great and double bloom or was that a few years prior?
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Tyrnavos was another. Irish Derby winner I think.
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Alex Bird was disappointed after he decided Tromos could not be be 2,000G
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No relation.
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Cumanis sprinter Ialysos harks back to Stilvi.
Think owned by G.Cambanis daughter |
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Didn't Boldboy win back to back Victoria Cups?
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Do I remember Tromos! Wish it had the heart and guts of Boldboy.
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Stilvi was the dam of Tachypous (r/up in 2000 gns),
Taxiarchos (top class miler), Tromos (dewhurst and champion 2-y-o), Tyrnavos (Irish Derby winner), Tolmi (Coronation winner and r/up in 1000 gns). I think they were her 1st 5 foals, but I'm sure that she had at least one more top class foal. Any contributors. |
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I doubled Tromos with One In a Million for the Guineas Antepost. Tromos well beaten in the Craven, never heard of again, the other won.
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as I referred to earlier ...
Today's Abernant Official ratings - 106 - 105 - 105 - 104 - 103 - 102 - 99 and even a 45 ! A good STONE, or probably more, below the quality of the race when BOLDBOY, et al, were taking part. |
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Come to think of it - Today's renewal must have been the worst Abernant Stakes ever, and by some distance, too.
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