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for the most number of wins in a season by a 2y old,
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Provideo the wonder horse
In response to a reader - I've always wanted to write that - who asked about a reference I'd made to Provideo when discussing my horse Monsieur Chevalier . . . here you are.
Provideo was the story of the 1984 Flat season, never you mind about El Gran Senor, or Teenoso, or Sagace. He won the Brocklesby on the opening day of the campaign, won again next time out and then twice finished second.
And you could have been forgiven for thinking that there he was, exposed, beaten, ready to shrink back into the obscurity whence he came. But he didn't.
Trained beautifully by Bill O'Gorman, whose husbandry ensured that whenever Provideo went to the well there was always water, the dark brown colt won seven more races before June was out, usually making all under Tony Ives and resplendent in a pair of red and green check blinkers to match the silks of owner Ahmed Foustok.
Provideo added four more to his tally in July, including two wins in three days, making it 13 in all and giving him a share of the 20th century record for a two-year-old with Spindrifter and Nagwa.
The overall record for a two-year-old was The Bard's 16 wins in 1885, and after a couple of defeats Provideo came out and thrashed Lobbit at Ripon to make the 20th century record his alone. At the ****-end of October he notched win 15, and six days later he beat up a poor field at Redcar by seven lengths to take his score to 16 and a share of the all-time record. Not bad for a horse whose season had started eight months earlier.
He'd run out of time in Britain, but O'Gorman sent him to Hollywood Park a couple of weeks later to bid for the outright record. It was a massive step up in class and a longer trip than he'd tried, and it was little surprise when Provideo came up short, failing to make the frame for the first time on his 24th start of 1984.
He was around a stone below the best juveniles of the year and didn't do a lot as a three-year-old, but he didn't need to. He'd already gained immortality through his 16 wins and his Horse of the Year award, the first granted to a two-year-old.
And,in a rare display of idolatry, I'd stuck a glossy photograph of Provideo in full cry on to the cover of my school English file. Not many gained that kind of accolade.
Race record at two 112211121111211112213110
In response to a reader - I've always wanted to write that - who asked about a reference I'd made to Provideo when discussing my horse Monsieur Chevalier . . . here you are.
Provideo was the story of the 1984 Flat season, never you mind about El Gran Senor, or Teenoso, or Sagace. He won the Brocklesby on the opening day of the campaign, won again next time out and then twice finished second.
And you could have been forgiven for thinking that there he was, exposed, beaten, ready to shrink back into the obscurity whence he came. But he didn't.
Trained beautifully by Bill O'Gorman, whose husbandry ensured that whenever Provideo went to the well there was always water, the dark brown colt won seven more races before June was out, usually making all under Tony Ives and resplendent in a pair of red and green check blinkers to match the silks of owner Ahmed Foustok.
Provideo added four more to his tally in July, including two wins in three days, making it 13 in all and giving him a share of the 20th century record for a two-year-old with Spindrifter and Nagwa.
The overall record for a two-year-old was The Bard's 16 wins in 1885, and after a couple of defeats Provideo came out and thrashed Lobbit at Ripon to make the 20th century record his alone. At the ****-end of October he notched win 15, and six days later he beat up a poor field at Redcar by seven lengths to take his score to 16 and a share of the all-time record. Not bad for a horse whose season had started eight months earlier.
He'd run out of time in Britain, but O'Gorman sent him to Hollywood Park a couple of weeks later to bid for the outright record. It was a massive step up in class and a longer trip than he'd tried, and it was little surprise when Provideo came up short, failing to make the frame for the first time on his 24th start of 1984.
He was around a stone below the best juveniles of the year and didn't do a lot as a three-year-old, but he didn't need to. He'd already gained immortality through his 16 wins and his Horse of the Year award, the first granted to a two-year-old.
And,in a rare display of idolatry, I'd stuck a glossy photograph of Provideo in full cry on to the cover of my school English file. Not many gained that kind of accolade.
Race record at two 112211121111211112213110
nice form figures but I would off layed him on his last run 
would have had to have been behind me in the queue there then foxy [;)]
Spindrifter was another one i grew up on -didnt think any 2yr old could achieve what he did until Provideo came along .....happy days eh
Spindrifter was another one i grew up on -didnt think any 2yr old could achieve what he did until Provideo came along .....happy days eh
Kincsem
Filly
Foaled 1874
Country Hungary
Breeder Ernst von Blaskovich
Owner Ernst von Blaskovich
Trainer Robert Hesp
Record 54 runs 54 wins
Earnings 199,705 fl = 379,805 goldmark (sic)[1]
Major wins
Hungarian Two Thousand Guineas (1877)
Hungarian One Thousand Guineas (1877)
Hungarian Oaks (1877)
Hungarian Autumn Oaks (1877, 1878, 1879)
Hungarian St. Leger (1877)
Austrian Derby (1877)
Austrian Kaiserpreis (1877)
Grosser Preis von Hanover (1877)
Grosser Preis von Baden (1877, 1878, 1879)
Staatspreis Eister Classe (1878)
Goodwood Cup (1878)
Grand Prix de Deauville (1878)
Honours
Kincsem Park in Budapest, Hungary
Kincsem Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Kincsem Horse Park, Tápiószentmárton, Hungary
Kincsem Hotel, Kisbér, Hungary
Kincsem Farm, Archer, Florida
Life-sized statue at Kincsem Park, Budapest
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)
Last updated on June 9, 2009
Kincsem (Hungarian for "Precious") (1874-1887) was the most successful Thoroughbred race horse ever, having won 54 races for 54 starts. Foaled in Tápiószentmárton, Hungary in 1874, she is a national icon, and is revered in other parts of the world, too. Over four seasons she won all her races against both female and male company at various race tracks across Europe, a record that's still unbeaten.
sire, Cambuscan, was owned by Queen Victoria. He was sold to Hungarian interests in 1873 and was brought to stand at the Hungarian National Stud, Kisber. Cambuscan, second in England's St. Leger Stakes in 1864, was by Newminster, his dam, The Arrow was by Slane. Kincsem was out of the Hungarian mare Waternymph, a daughter of the English horse Cotswold, by Newcourt (by Sir Hercules). Kincsem's third dam, Seaweed was also by Slane making her inbred to him in the third and fourth generations (3x4).[2]
A perhaps apocryphal story surrounds the beginnings of Kincsem. Running with a group of fifty horses on the grounds of her owner's ancestral Hungarian home, she alone was lanky and ungainly. She would stand with her head low and her eyes half-opened. One night she went missing...and when found again, was with a band of gypsies. "Why," asked her puzzled owner of the thief, "steal this horse when there were so many better to chose from?" "Because," answered the gypsy, "The other horses may be better looking, but she was the best of the lot. She'll be a champion."
Racing career
Kincsem's career began in 1876. She was entered for ten races in ten different places in Hungary, Germany and Austria as a two-year-old and won them all.[1]
As her unbeaten streak against Europe's best horses continued, Kincsem attracted great interest from the European racing public. Emperor Franz Josef was known to be a fan. As a three-year-old she won the Two Thousand Guineas in Pozsony, the One Thousand Guineas and the Oaks in Budapest, not to mention the Austrian Derby, the Kaiserpreis in Vienna and the Grosser Preis von Hanover and Grosser Preis von Baden. In all she had seventeen victories.
Her four-year-old campaign was equally successful, beginning with nine straight victories. She travelled to England to take part in the Goodwood Cup, but injury to the fancied Verneuil meant it was an easier challenge than expected.
As a four-year-old Kincsem won the Grand Prix de Deauville and the Grosser Preis von Baden again (after a run-off following a dead-heat).
Kincsem had her fiftieth victory in Frankfurt the next year. Her last race was the Hungarian Autumn Oaks which she won for the third time.
Filly
Foaled 1874
Country Hungary
Breeder Ernst von Blaskovich
Owner Ernst von Blaskovich
Trainer Robert Hesp
Record 54 runs 54 wins
Earnings 199,705 fl = 379,805 goldmark (sic)[1]
Major wins
Hungarian Two Thousand Guineas (1877)
Hungarian One Thousand Guineas (1877)
Hungarian Oaks (1877)
Hungarian Autumn Oaks (1877, 1878, 1879)
Hungarian St. Leger (1877)
Austrian Derby (1877)
Austrian Kaiserpreis (1877)
Grosser Preis von Hanover (1877)
Grosser Preis von Baden (1877, 1878, 1879)
Staatspreis Eister Classe (1878)
Goodwood Cup (1878)
Grand Prix de Deauville (1878)
Honours
Kincsem Park in Budapest, Hungary
Kincsem Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Kincsem Horse Park, Tápiószentmárton, Hungary
Kincsem Hotel, Kisbér, Hungary
Kincsem Farm, Archer, Florida
Life-sized statue at Kincsem Park, Budapest
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)
Last updated on June 9, 2009
Kincsem (Hungarian for "Precious") (1874-1887) was the most successful Thoroughbred race horse ever, having won 54 races for 54 starts. Foaled in Tápiószentmárton, Hungary in 1874, she is a national icon, and is revered in other parts of the world, too. Over four seasons she won all her races against both female and male company at various race tracks across Europe, a record that's still unbeaten.
sire, Cambuscan, was owned by Queen Victoria. He was sold to Hungarian interests in 1873 and was brought to stand at the Hungarian National Stud, Kisber. Cambuscan, second in England's St. Leger Stakes in 1864, was by Newminster, his dam, The Arrow was by Slane. Kincsem was out of the Hungarian mare Waternymph, a daughter of the English horse Cotswold, by Newcourt (by Sir Hercules). Kincsem's third dam, Seaweed was also by Slane making her inbred to him in the third and fourth generations (3x4).[2]
A perhaps apocryphal story surrounds the beginnings of Kincsem. Running with a group of fifty horses on the grounds of her owner's ancestral Hungarian home, she alone was lanky and ungainly. She would stand with her head low and her eyes half-opened. One night she went missing...and when found again, was with a band of gypsies. "Why," asked her puzzled owner of the thief, "steal this horse when there were so many better to chose from?" "Because," answered the gypsy, "The other horses may be better looking, but she was the best of the lot. She'll be a champion."
Racing career
Kincsem's career began in 1876. She was entered for ten races in ten different places in Hungary, Germany and Austria as a two-year-old and won them all.[1]
As her unbeaten streak against Europe's best horses continued, Kincsem attracted great interest from the European racing public. Emperor Franz Josef was known to be a fan. As a three-year-old she won the Two Thousand Guineas in Pozsony, the One Thousand Guineas and the Oaks in Budapest, not to mention the Austrian Derby, the Kaiserpreis in Vienna and the Grosser Preis von Hanover and Grosser Preis von Baden. In all she had seventeen victories.
Her four-year-old campaign was equally successful, beginning with nine straight victories. She travelled to England to take part in the Goodwood Cup, but injury to the fancied Verneuil meant it was an easier challenge than expected.
As a four-year-old Kincsem won the Grand Prix de Deauville and the Grosser Preis von Baden again (after a run-off following a dead-heat).
Kincsem had her fiftieth victory in Frankfurt the next year. Her last race was the Hungarian Autumn Oaks which she won for the third time.
Spindrifter was when Sir Mark wasn't looking for handicap marks
shearer,great post on provideo mate,brought back a lot of memories from my early years of betting and watching horse racing n the early eighties,provideo seemed to run and win every week! he was amazing,my mate has a framed picture of the horse in his front room.
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