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I had a dream last night about a great race horse that won 16 races in a season
Provideo - trained by Bill O'Gorman
O'Gorman Runs Today Haydock Park 13:45 - I'm on this big
PROVIDEO
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
Provideo - trained by Bill O'Gorman
O'Gorman Runs Today Haydock Park 13:45 - I'm on this big
PROVIDEO
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
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david galaxy affair
scweppshire lad
ardu
timeless times
david galaxy affair
scweppshire lad
ardu
timeless times
Anyone remember another very fast 2yo from the early 80s called I think he was called Brondesbury, if there were 4 furlong races he would have been a superstar. In his early races he'd be 10-12 lengths up after 2 furlongs but he didn't quite get the 5 so against better horses he'd get nailed close home.
He was another O'Gorman 2yo that won the Brockelsby. Probably his best. He used to say he was looking for a sprinter who stayed. I don't think he ever found one.
Brondesbury lightning from stalls. Won a 5f race by 25 lengths as a 2yo. Think only ran once as 3yo and got beaten by Soba.
Thank you to all for the good posts
I will take a good look at all the horses mentioned
I will take a good look at all the horses mentioned
inono -
The long winning runs of all the prolific 2-yr-olds mentioned on this thread can NEVER happen nowadays.
Due to Race conditions having been changed - from many former 2-yr-old races ALSO being open to winners, who simply had to carry a penalty, or penalties, for multiple wins - to the nowadays conditions of horses having to be being MAIDENs at starting.
The long winning runs of all the prolific 2-yr-olds mentioned on this thread can NEVER happen nowadays.
Due to Race conditions having been changed - from many former 2-yr-old races ALSO being open to winners, who simply had to carry a penalty, or penalties, for multiple wins - to the nowadays conditions of horses having to be being MAIDENs at starting.
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