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I am sure that I can recall a horse winning two races in one day in the late fifties or very early sixties. Can anyone verify this or am I hallucinating again ?
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maybe too much port brigadier
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Think it happened on the beach at Laytown.
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it nearly happened on a racetrack in ireland in the 90s, you won't find it in any results though
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Altay won 2 races on the same day in 2003.
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I won two bets on the same day a long time ago.
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I certainly remember horses running in two races on the same card maybe without winning both races.
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Maybe on a Saturday afternoon on the old ITV seven
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Here's part of a John Randall answer to a similar question....
The last horse to win two races in one day in Britain was probably Muster, who landed two 3m chases at the Vale of Aylesbury Hunt meeting on March 31, 1927. That feat used to be commonplace, the most famous example being when the great filly Virago won both the City and Suburban Handicap and the Great Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom on the same afternoon in 1854. Later that year The Wild Huntsman won five races in three days at Stirling. |
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...and here's a bit more of it, about horses running twice in 1 day...
The last horse to run twice in one day in Britain was Texas Blue, a moderate two-year-old filly trained by Mel Brittain who took part in consecutive races at Southwell's all-weather meeting on December 6, 1989. She finished ninth and last respectively. 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. The other five horses who have run twice in a day in Britain since 1970 are St Trinian (Newmarket 1971), Isleamrada (Uttoxeter 1974), Huntress Grace (Fakenham 1983), Silver Snow (Fakenham 1988) and Dancing Belle (Pontefract 1989). None finished better than third in their second race. |
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Thanks Ged for confirming that it would appear that I have not lost my sanity.
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1989 - ged
I thought that the Jockey Club had BANNED horses from running more than ONCE on the same day, before that. The BAN must have come into effect shortly afterwards. |
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Hi Onlooker I have sent you a message.
Stuart |
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ok - more John Randall knowledge....
" The ban on horses running more than once in a day in Britain was not introduced until the late 1990s. The present rule 182 of the rules of racing states: "A horse is not qualified to start for a race . . . if it has already run in a race, other than a walk-over, run on the same day." ...and... "Until 1931 dead-heats were usually decider by a run-off later that day; that was how Cadland beat The Colonel in the 1828 Derby. Succubus and Dick Dunn dead-heated for the 1914 Welsh Grand National at Cardiff, and in the run-off 90 minutes later the two horses raced over the entire 3m100yds again, with Succubus winning by ten lengths. " |