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Your Favourite Horses who weren't champions?
Your Favourite Horses who weren't champions?
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s'pose it is ok to put Top Cees in? It isn't the horses fault it after all,very game and genuine when allowed to be.
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Pentire.
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AraziTheGreatest - The reason I remember is that I backed him on the course side when he started the streak at my local track.
A chap called Tony Rider with a painted board, underage bets a pleasure. It was allowed then!! Followed the 'oss thereafter. About the same time my user name was plying his trade with distinction. |
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For me it would be Monet's Garden, and Restless Harry. Just love how game Restless Harry is, his performance at Haydock was just pure guts. Grand horse, and his lose to Teaforthree isn't looking to bad... Next years winner of the 4 miler?
As for Monet's Garden, there are fewer better sights than a bold jumping, front running grey. He just seemed to love racing! |
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I'll throw in a third, Jacarado. Seen him run probably more than any other horse being a Towcester regular. Was brilliant seeing him win his last race.
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I backed Takenhall every time he ran - I'm not quite 40 yet but my local bookie still took phone bets from me at the time (he knew my Dad really well!). I lost a fortune in pocket money on him and then my first couple of years wages too! But I still loved him at least as much as my first girlfriend who came along at the same time!
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Anyone remember a couple of my old friends, Basil Boy & Chaumiere?
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NH - Run And Skip, Drumadowney, Floyd
Flat - Bedtime, Young Inca, Penny Drops |
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New Halen
Whiggie Geo Easter Eel W Six Times |
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loved Chaplins' Club,Glencroft and Red Matauder of those named
would add Double Dutch |
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Anyone remember John Upson's chaser Very Very Ordinary? Remember the Most exagerated waiting tactics one January at Ascot, must have sat 30 lengths off the field and came through to win at the last. Did it again a month later... What's John Upson up to these days?
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yep, remember V V Ordinary. Upson had Zetas Lad too, which was really fancied for the ghost national. Not sure what he's up to these days
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Ming_the_Merciless.....PEATY SANDY..brought back memories...loved Newcastle...a proper stayer
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18-year-old Sonny Somers won two steeplechases in February 1980.
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Mister McGoldrick
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I loved all the rogues Eddery use to ride to perfection,
Rock Hopper Batshoof Celeric, yeh I won a few quid on those rogues, I don't usually give jockeys much thought but PAT was the one for the rougish ones!. |
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memory is strange isn't it ?...of all the times i've been to cheltenham i remember j. francome winning on linawn for f. winter on a rainy day scooting up the hill ,no festival day , no champion at all ...in the old arkle bar , having a pint and the rain beating down on the windows .yet i may struggle to remember champions i've seen there ....and before you say it , yes , it's dementia probably .
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Quixall Crosset
MacVidi Staffordshire Knot K Battery Rough and Tumble Sea The Stars  |
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Hawker always seemed to get up and win by a shorthead.
Easby Abbey given the best ride i have ever seen in defeat by Ron Barry The Fossa seemed to run in every Grand National,question for the forum was one of his jockeys a royal cuckold. Ribofilio started favourite for all the classics and the Irish Derby and won none of them. |
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Quixall Crossett - designed for betfair layers
 and you're not getting STS - even with the wink! |
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Here is one I will never forget.........Karens Star.......won 12/1 on 27th August 1979............a day that was marred by murder and mayhem.No doubt you will remember that day WMFB?
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Chatham Island
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Feroda,Barton Bank,Challenger Du Luc,
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GT MOLE don`t remember the horse would rather not remember the day but think your friend Never Give Up would look on that day as one of victory.
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mountbatten gt
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And Warren Point Greg.........put horseracing into perspective that day for sure.
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Warrenpoint?
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L'Aventure - i absolutely loved her
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Some ancient ones here
Flat Spring Cabbage Le Garcon D'or NH Mr Mellors Clonmellon |
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Warrenpoint Pauli,colleagues killed and maimed by bombs.Lets not get into that,I was really just highlighting how some things stick in the memory although completely unrelated.
I backed the horse at 1000hrs that morning and didnt collect the winnings until over a month later. |
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SoYouThink :)
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Dublin Flyer
Shes Our Mare |
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Aldaniti was another horse I will never forget,backed him in the morning.........by race time I was in hospital with bandages on my eyes having had hot hydraulic fluid blinding me from a ruptured pipe.Doctors got the hump when they discovered me 2 wards away having followed the sound of the radio commentary for that years GN.
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Another shout for Peaty Sandy, also
Venture To Cognac Monkerhostin Young Spartacus Quito |
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Needle Gun was always being placed in top races.........made more in prize money than many better horses than himself.
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Mr ED....that horse could talk....
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Flat
Chucklestone (loved Bath) De Riguer NH Knock Hill Elfast and of course myself , thx for the mention Gerry G :) |
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Starfen.
No Bombs. Prayukta. Righthand Man Vodkatini. |
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Old glencroft mentioned a few times, good mate of mine Alan Proud rode to
win three races, got on really well with the horse, good old proudy good judge of a sprinter. |
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Morceli.... The day he beat Big Matt at Ascot, Ive never seen a horse jump so well...
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