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Your Favourite Front Runners Past or Present
Your Favourite Front Runners Past or Present
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Annaglogs Daughter 2m chaser traine by Ted Durkan
Skyrne chaser trained by Tom Dreaper |
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flat - slip anchor in the 85 derby under the majestic cauthen
jumps - make a stand won a claimer before pipe somehow turned him into a champion hurdler |
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honorable mention to im a driver was a
 front runnerused to plough through fences like they wernt there trained of course by the mighty michael dickinson what a shame he got into cahoots with sangster |
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Get Real - 2m chaser trained by henderson
had to be a few lengths up jumping the last as he always slowed down on the run in |
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Collingwood - Such a bold Hennessy effort
Night Nurse - Everything that is good about the sport Annas Prince - Headstrong MH Easterby 2 mile chaser Slieve Felim - Headstrong looney - killed in action at Ascot |
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Must be a NeC thing north east - loved that horse as well as the OP's namesake from same yard - Frankel in the guineas was sensational AND practically everything that ran under the Martin Pipe banner in late 70's- early 80's with so many running up large sequences with races won after barely two hurdles.
Two others stick in the memory though not sure if they were true front runners - Carigeen Hill and a Gordon Richards novice chaser that im sure won its first ten races and was sadly killed before it reached his prime - name escapes at moment but will come back to me |
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Danish Rhapsody, trained by Lady Herries. A good friend of mine was involved with the horse and we had a right good punt at Folkestone where he won before making all next time out at Goodwood where we won stupid amounts of money. An unbelievably game little horse who won several times at the Sussex track.
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The one-eyed Belper at Brighton.
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Given Brighton's reputation, that sounds like a bit of a euphemism.
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I second hello bud
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Uncle Bing
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Make A Stand deserves a mention.
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Noddy's Ryde for shearer
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Oh, and keep up..
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Millwall66
Was at Epsom one day and was going to back Belper my bet was going to be £600/100 something like that went and had a look at the horses in the paddock and said to myself I am not going to back a horse with one eye You know what happened agggggggggggggggggggggggg |
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that was the one g2d
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Edredon Bleu.?
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Glad to see my namesake got a mention, if only there were 4 furlong races!
Next big one will be UN du sceux |
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St Athans Lad.....Derrick Morris firing him around Fontwell.
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Not picking on Mrcombustible but Anaglogs Daughter wasn't trained by Ted Durkan.
He was nominally trained by Bill Durkan but actually trained by Ferdy Murphy. Also thought Skryne was trained by Waring Willis. Limestone Lad Muir Attivo Ben Stack. |
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Dessie
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Sorry Wildman I meant to say Bill Durkan rather than Ted. Yes Bill held the licence and Ferdy did the work.
Regarding Skryne from memory he was owned by Waring Willis and I think he was trained by Dreaper and Willis at various stages, I could be wrong.Maybe I am mixing him up with another horse as Dreaper had a lot of front runners. |
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I see Out and About has been mentioned. My early memories of the GN always have him a fence clear.
Actually Arkle was often a front runner. People's memories/knowledge of him tend to come from the 64 GC when he was held up but after that he was inclined to go off in front ( not against Dunkirk of course ). |
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dawn run.
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Deano's Beeno
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Double Trigger
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Young Spartacus
Venture to Cognac Fabulous Monkerhostin Rock On Ruby Always hard to narrow these things down. |
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Hypnosis
Mr Point |
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Dayjur deserves a mention
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Just noticed it's for front runners
Tied Cottage, or Delmoss for me. |
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Tom Sharp
who remembers that Ces  |
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Traite de Paix
and one for the 4F race - Moor Lane |
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Ya Malak and Repertory for 3 furlongs,
and that American quarter horse for 2 furlongs |
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Overturn for me, loved his Chester Cup win in 2011
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Ballyregan Bob also deserves a mention !
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Tudor Crown ? a winning pacemaker at Goodwood. Coed Cochion was in the race.
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Mysilv always took some catching and she nearly won the Stayers two days after a tough Champion Hurdle run
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4 furlong hoss (actually on over a mile once
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Dublin Flyer too
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