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OLD HORSES FROM THE 60s/70s, ANYONE REMEMBER..?
OLD HORSES FROM THE 60s/70s, ANYONE REMEMBER..?
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The Buchanan Whisky Gold Cup run at Ascot was won by some great horses in the 60's and 70's:
Pendil Artifice I'm A Driver Bula Tree Tangle Flashy Boy Night Nurse Flyingbolt Into View |
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AlfieT, you're almost certainly thinking of the 1982 John Smith's Magnet Cup. Lafontaine, ridden by Piggott and carrying 10-3 (including an 8lb penalty) went off joint fav for the race but it was won by Buzzards Bay, ridden by Birch, who came from last to first and won by a length and a half at 7/1 from Cannon King, the other joint fav.
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Anybody remember Posse? Think that was what it was called. Real good horse. And Charlie Booth from Flaxton Gravel Pit Farm. My hero. Mademoiselle Derrière.
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..sounds like a relation of Princess Esra, who was out of Bottoms Up.
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Yes, I do remember Posse very well. He was really unlucky in the 1980 Two Thousand Guineas. The race was won by Nureyev who was disqualified and Posse was promoted to second place. He went on to win the St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, both times ridden with supreme confidence by Pat Eddery. The day before he won at Ascot a half share in him was purchased for $1,000,000.
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Yamadori - won the Hunt Cup in 1977, ridden I believe by Lester Piggot, having finished 3rd in 1976.
This fellow used to get miles behind, especially in his earlier races - almost tailed off, then come with a late storming run - something to get my then young heart racing |
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hooped colours - I saw him win at the Chester May meeting. Did he win the Newbury Spring Cup too?
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FJ-H
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Augustine, it was not that race, although it was a left handed track, in my race Buzzards bay was beaten, maybe it was the race where Lafontaine picked up the 8lb penalty.
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seens its wimbledon anyone remember a horse called virgina wade, one of my ist winners,also remember backing fearnaught in hunt cup and a stayer called japsilk,early winners also included sir montague,free state, and the lunatic ubedizzy trained by steve nessbitt
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Sir Montagu was offered at around 10-1 just after winning at Goodwood
 and was punted right down to 11-4(i think) on the day and won it half the track after kicking on early in the straightOn of the easiest winners of the race that ive seen, it was the day after Wollow had won the "Benson and Hedges" beating Trepan, who hadnt had his usual dose of jungle Juice that day[;)] |
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Hi, Alfie.
BUZZARDS BAY I knew him well - and was fortunate enough to 'catch him' when he won the Queen Elizbeth II Stakes At 50/1 in 1982..... having been 'with him' when he won 5 times the year before as a 3-yr-old. Before the QEII race - He was last turning into the straight in the John Smith's Magnet Cup - and then won by length and a half from Canon King 9/4 Jt-Fav - Buzzards started at 7/1 LAFONTAINE was the 9/4 Jt-Fav. In his race BEFORE the Magnet Cup - The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club Handicap at Sandown - Buzzards Bay tailed himself off, and was going nowhere - only to suddenly take off late in the race, to finish just outside the Places. LAFONTAINE Won the race - Piggott - 3/1 Fav He beat Noalcoholic in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes - BUZZARDS BAY stated at 50/1 - again coming from well back. Finished tailed off in the Champion Stakes, following QEII win. |
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Zil, the day Wollow won at York was my first ever day at the races. My dad took me and my younger brother. Piggott won the first race, the Acomb, on Padroug for O'Brien and I was hooked. Sarah Siddons won the Yorkshire Oaks and Coed Cochion the Melrose and Piggott on Jumping Hill (Murless) just got pipped in the mile handicap by Silver Steel (Brittain/ Carson).
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my apologies AlfieT - you were right
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Attivo won the Chester Cup and Northumberland Plate in 1974.
Trained By Cyril Mitchell who is grandfather of jockey Jack Mitchell. |
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alfie t
I see you mentioned Ulster Prince that was Cyril Mitchell trained too. |
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We never forget our 1st day Aug
Mine was when Bula beat Tingle Creek in a match over 2m at Sandown, i had the "Tote Treble" up as well with Lord Oaksey winning the last leg, paid a really bad dividend though  esp as Bula was around the 5/2 outsider of the two |
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Does anyone remember a grand old handicapper from the 70s called Traffic Leader? I´m sure I saw it run twice on the same Musselburgh card around 1973?
And what was the name of the J Glover ridden (or trained) handicapper that won the Cambridgeshire at 25-1? I backed it and tipped it to all my mates - probably the last time I gave them a winner... |
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Rambos hall or Clifton Fox??
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"Traffic Leader was a 13-year-old when Harry Bell ran him twice in an hour at Edinburgh in 1974. The same trainer ran Never Stop in consecutive races over hurdles at Newcastle in 1981; the four-year-old was unplaced and pulled up respectively."
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thx Zil, it was Rambos Hall.
Re Traffic Leader, not like Harry Bell to be cruel to animals... |
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"July 1, 1974
Traffic Leader (Harry Bell) goes close to winning two races in one day at Edinburgh. After Jock Skilling has partnered him to victory in the seller, the trainer's daughter, Margaret, takes over for the ladies' race and they are beaten a length into fourth behind Clear Melody (Steve Nesbitt/Diana Weeden)." |
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I remember vaguely a horse called Swift Fellow ridden by Kimberley?? running down my outside bet at around 40-1 called Mon Legionaire in the city and sub in the early to mid 70s
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Swell Fellow?
Traffic Leader was a 13yo at the time (above) |
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it could have been ged, circa 75???
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yes - he won the Geoffrey Freer in 1976, under Kimberley.
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..2nd in the Prince of Wales at Ascot in 1975, as a 4yo. (Giacometti was 3rd).
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Remember Averof of Clives??, won the St James Palace when Cellini was fav
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Anyone remember a chaser called Straightjacket,it was the first horse i ever saw fall ,i was standing next to the open ditch just before the stands at Sandown one day, i think Chris Read rode it, i think it was the same day Flying Diplomat won the Imperial cup.
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Milton Burn, King Charlemagne, Seymour Hicks.
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Remember one eyed Belper winning City and Suburban.
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scholarship -
I bet You will also remember the Grand Metropolitan Handicap (2 miles) going the opposite way from the Winning Post at Epsom. |
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I remember the Great Met. It was a great race to watch. The field snaking across the Downs before rejoining the racecourse.
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some great old memories and names on here just a few more to throw into the mix .
north stoke manor farm boy jebb lane full extent circus ring lyric fantasy marwell spindrifter pegwell bay the dealer al trui birds nest beacon light moorestyle kazaroun the dancer |
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happy days
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throw donegal lad in as well
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Anyone old enough to remember Baulking Green a heroic hunter chaser trained by Tim Forster
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I remember Posse. It was trained by John Dunlop. It had a great turn of foot.
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Found this on Wikipedia, posy -
Baulking Green * 1961 2213 10-3 lb * 1962 f1f1(disq)111 11-10 lb 3rd top-rated hunter chaser * 1964 b11112 11-13 lb 2nd top-rated hunter chaser * 1965 1111 12-2 lb champion hunter chaser * 1966 1u111 12-0 lb champion hunter chaser * 1967 11f1f 12-0 lb joint champion hunter chaser * 1968 2 11-7 lb 6th top-rated hunter chaser * 1969 7 11-1st Geoffrey Sale (from whose annual publication Hunter Chasers & Point-to-Pointer the above is taken) wrote in the 1968 annual that Baulking Green was “just about the most gallant animal that ever looked through a bridle”. Sale wrote of Baulking Green’s last race: “Broke down behind What A Myth at Newbury (on three legs from two out but would not be pulled up). The most courageous of horses. Will long be remembered”. Ron Liddiard wrote a biography of the horse (Baulking Green: Champion Hunter Chaser) |
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i remmember derby he won the first derby but i ma over 400 yearsd old
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