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As well as the fact that DB proved he was a great, was the way the others all seemed to challenge in turn. A lthough initially I was following horses from 78, it was 1986 aged 17 when I was regularly in the bookies, and I did seem to back more winners then. Yes I had £10 on DB that day a lot of money for a YTS kid
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whilst there were loads of grp1 horses in that 86 arc and that can be a bit superficial sometimes it was the confidence behind so many runners big runners going into the race and you can see why Timeform gave it such a high rating, the style of victory (which of course doesnt show up in the figures) made it special, ok theres alot of nostalga on this thread, but it was pretty good too
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And it was on Channel 4 when they were good
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apart from mccririck telling everyone not to take 9/4 inductry price as the PM would pay bigger
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Does anyone remember Big Mac at I think Sandown in 86 talking about Reference Point being a horse expected to win next years Derby. I may have imagined this but Im sure it happened.
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steamship, no he said it was "an absolute certainty" on its debut, ok he shouldnt have said it on tv, would probably get the sack in these pc days, but its a great memory, everyone knew henry would win the derby after the dewhurst though
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*futurity (now RP)
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Rider/Gerard, don't get me wrong, I don't want to decry a great horse in any way, I just don't think he was beating the quality of field that history has decided he did.
It's really that run on which Dancing Brave's place at the front of the list of the greatest horses in history seems to rest, imo, somehow forgetting that the one time in his career that he ran into a truly top class horse, at the peak of his powers, he couldn't get to the winning line first... |
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A top class horse who had the run of a slowly run race though and despite that and DB not acting at Epsom(although somewhat better than his father)
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I knew that happened thanks Rider.
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Whats the biggest arc field you can remember, i seem to remember 88 and 83 having massive fields but they are pre RP form, there must have been 25 in one of them!!
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Tony Bin had 25, i think all along was in a massive field as well
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24 Sorry
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