Anyone remember Tenby?

no, remember the day though as one of my Dad's bosses was holding some ridiculous antepost voucher on it from 2yo days, and obviously no way to lay it off (I guess, he never said anything).  made worse for him by my grandfather backing CIC because of the name (usual £2 on the tote)

and of course we all had the Wednesday off to attend...

A mate of mine at Uni had approx. 25% of his grant on it.  He WILL post on here if he sees the call and isn't still traumatised - fair play he took it well enough - I'd have been off to find a high tree with a short rope...

ahhhh............the commander ...my first bet on the derby

I went that year as well.  Tenby 1st colours of Khaled Abdullah, went off around 4/5?  Stuft.  And yes, I did back it. 

Just got from Wiki that it went off at odds of 4/5 and finished 10th - what an utter disaster that must have been for many more than just my friend.  But why ? what was the excuse ? surely it was'nt something as lame as "he did'nt stay"

the bookie shops in tenby were nervous that day

It drifted to 4/5 as well

won the dante at about 1/3. never achieved much after the derby either. from memory i think he ran in the champion  stakes

Tenby won a couple of mickey mouse races as a 3-y-o prior to Epsom, flopped in the Derby and in three more races after that. He should have been retired after the Derby thereby preserving his worth at stud, but as it was, Tenby finished 1993 a 10lb worse rated horse than he started.

had  my own bookies at the time and didn't fancy it much.tried to lay it at evens all day  hardly any takers.

can remember reading an article a few days before the Derby about how it was a SUPER horse and was fed and trained different to all the others....

Tenby won the worst Dante ever run then had a colic scare two weeks before Epsom. Could be that his short price was largely due to the prowess at the time of his trainer.

was that colic scare in the trade press though?

Roger
If I knew about it then so did everyman and his dog. [;)]

He was as short as 4/9 in places after the Dante!!


Can remember rumours of a scare and Commander In Chief was quite well backed, think it won the Middleton at the same meeting at York

some shocking aftertiming here. tenby was a very good two year old and impressive in the dante. it wasn't the worst dante ever run. quite why he ran so bad in the derby, and afterwards, remains a mystery.

Quite a small horse though wasn't he?

FIVE DAYS after proving he had recovered from indigestion, Tenby also had his main headache eased when his stable-mate Armiger was removed from Derby calculations.(cecil...Commander In Chief is well balanced and should be suited by the course.)




was common knowledge....

everybody (i knew) went with CIC....

He wasnt the biggest of animals though MP, had very little scope.


I remember spittin image doing a sketch around the time when a punter goes to a bookmaker saying he backed Tenby and wanted his money back

It ended with "Not another bleedin LLOYDS NAME"

Quite topical at the time............

zizal i'm sure you're correct. he was a small horse and perhaps didn't train on as well as others, although he did win the dante so couldn't have been completely useless as a three year old.

my theory is that he didn't handle the hustle and bustle of the derby and flopped miserably, and his confidence never recovered. hindsight is a wonderful thing, but if this thread is anything to go by I was the only one who didn't back the commander [:p]

MP
The horse that ran second in the 1993 Dante was rated by Timeform at 110d (deteriorating), about 15-20lb below what is required to win a well contested Group 1. Not aftertiming, just plain solid fact.

was common knowledge....

everybody (i knew) went with CIC....

even peter beardsley