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Betfair Hurdle or the Schweppes?
Betfair Hurdle or the Schweppes?
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That's the one. Thanks Geoff. Think No Bombs was Snailwell Stud which was owned by Mrs Stanhope Joel.
Who was the Murless owner, Yellow with Black disc? Attica Meli. |
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Same TMM black spots Louis Freedman.Think she ran 2nd to Rheingold in Hardwicke and won Yorkshire Oaks Park Hill probably a few more which i cant recall and ended up winning Doncaster Cup
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Yellow Black disc were Louis Freedmans second colours.
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Will always be the Schweppes to me.....mind it did get cancelled a lot back in the day.
But the Game Spirit is the race that brings back one particular memory for me. In it's previous name as the Newbury Spring Chase ,the legends that were Pendil and Bula clashed ......but finished only 2nd and 4th of five runners to 25/1 shock winner ....Shock Result. |
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No Bombs ran in Mrs Stanhope Joel's colours of pink/green checks with pink sleeves and cap. This these are synonymous with Snailwell Stud.
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Yes, the Alverton colours.
Regards Attica Meli, I thought they might have been his wife's colours but I stand corrected. |
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Schweppes Gold Trophy - always.
I rememeber the 70's and telling anyone that wanted to listen in the weeks leading up to the race, back Good Review (trained by no other than V O'Brien) I thought it was a fantastic bet. On the day of the race, guess who didn't back it  |
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ged - re: the aforementioned Orient War - bought by John Banks.
He originally raced in Ireland - and, on the same card as the previously mentioned 1975 Schweppes Handicap Hurdle, contested by Lanzarote, and won by Tammuz - Orient War won the Soapey Sponge Hunter Chase - as a 12-y-r-old - ridden by a 7lb claimer called Richard Linley.  |
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I remember one year late 70s early 80s there was a massive tip/gamble on Bedworth Boy to win that year's Schweppes. He finished 4th bind Bootlaces but we got our stake back and he paid us handsomely once he went chasing.
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onlooker -thanks for that. Some other one-time-decent chasers in the 'Soapey Spunge' HC that day - Chatham, who'd won a Mackeson Gold Cup 5 years before, Kinloch Brae, and Simian.
Also a few other notable jockeys - Mr N Henderson, Mr P Hobbs (I think that was Philip, and not his brother Peter), and also, although he's the only one not declared on the card in the paper, Brod Munro-Wilson, having his first ever ride (he PU'd). |