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18 Feb 16
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Not necessarily at the same meeting!
Can't think of any off the top of my head. Am I missing something obvious? Denman had two wins (RSA Ch, GC) and a 2nd (RSA Hdl.) Cue Card has two wins (Bumper, Ryanair) and a 2nd (Arkle) and could obviously go on and win the Gold Cup (c'mon Don Cossack!!) I can't come up with any better than that, though I'm sure other horses which escape me can match that, at least. Prepared to be embarrassed at my shameful lack of knowledge here.
Ged...?
Can't think of any off the top of my head. Am I missing something obvious? Denman had two wins (RSA Ch, GC) and a 2nd (RSA Hdl.) Cue Card has two wins (Bumper, Ryanair) and a 2nd (Arkle) and could obviously go on and win the Gold Cup (c'mon Don Cossack!!) I can't come up with any better than that, though I'm sure other horses which escape me can match that, at least. Prepared to be embarrassed at my shameful lack of knowledge here.
Ged...?
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Bobs Worth - Bartlett, RSA, Gold Cup
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Forgive N Forget thwarted by John Francome - greatest jockey .. ?
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Flyingbolt - almost made it 4 in 3 years.
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Well done sc1883. Prize in the post.
How the feck did I not think of Flyingbolt? |
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Champagne fever came pretty close
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Montelado won consecutive races at the festival
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Indeed TS. I preferred it when the bumper was the last race of the meeting.
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Buck house won supreme and queen mother and 2nd in arkle
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I'll probably need therapy soon - this thread has triggered some bad memories - Boreen Prince another bad one.
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Dawn Run won two I can think of CH AND GC
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If there was a mare's race in the dawn run era I would guess she won it.?
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Ten up wom sun alliance chase then gold cup
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One of the most underrated horses of all time, Pearlyman, won the Grand Annual as a novice and then 2 Champion Chases. Might well have been 4 if he hadn't been injured.
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and placed in a Sun Alliance hurdle brassneck.
Florida Pearl Bumper RSA Gold Cup place twice Sprinter Sacre Arkle/Q.M and Supreme place The West Awake 2 Sun Alliances |
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Willie Wumpkins Sun Alliance Hurdle and was it 4 Pertemps ?
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No mares race then but she finished 2nd in the equivalent of the Neptune
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3 pertemps Geoff last one aged 13
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Sir Ken won 3 Champion Hurdles and the 2 mile Novice Chase.
Persian War won 3 Champion Hurdles and a Triumph Hurdle. Arkle won 3 Gold Cups and the 3 mile Novice Chase. L'Escargot won the Supreme Novices (div) and 2 Gold Cups. Bula won the Supreme Novices and 2 Champion Hurdles, and was a decent 3rd in a Gold Cup. Saffron Tartan won a Supreme Novice (div), a Gold Cup, and was 3rd in a Champion Hurdle. |
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Cheers Patsy
Hardy Eustace Neptune 2 Champions BUla Supreme 2 Champions Istabraq Neptune 3 Champions Moscow Flyer Arkle and 2 Champion C |
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Cheers Patsy
Hardy Eustace Neptune 2 Champions BUla Supreme 2 Champions Istabraq Neptune 3 Champions Moscow Flyer Arkle and 2 Champion C |
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Half free won a mildmay of flete and 2 cathcarts as well as those 2 mackesons.
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Quiz question chaps - Which horse with a link to a horse mentioned on this thread, won a festival novice hurdle, and returned six years later to fail as a short priced favourite, in a festival novice chase ?
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Quita Que was one of Tom Dreaper's less well known horses (at least, he's generally forgotten now), but in a run of 4 years, he was 2nd in 2 Champion Hurdles (the first time by 3/4 length), then won a Cathcart by a distance, then won the first ever Champion Chase (at 4/9), then would have been a hot fav to win it again the following year, but got injured. His stablemate Fortria took over, and became the new 2 mile chase king.
Saffron Tartan, incidentally, was the overnight favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1959, but was withdrawn as he coughed. He then placed in the 1960 Champion Hurdle (going off 3/1 2nd fav), and then won the 1961 Gold Cup. He was a big horse, who had dodgy wind, who was hobdayed in the autumn of 1959. He also won the 1960 KG chase. |
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Good old Galmoy 2 world hurdles he was our only Irish winner the 2nd time he won
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bobs worth the only one so? 3 diff races..
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bankit
struggling with that one, he must have been 10 at least in that novice chase  |
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No Kavvie. Ged was correct with the great Flyingbolt - the races that are now the Supreme Novices, Arkle and Champion Chase. He famously came 3rd, to Salmon Spray, in the Champion Hurdle the day after winning the Champion Chase.
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Brave Inca
Champion Hurdle (2006) Supreme Novices' Hurdle (2004) Deloitte Novice Hurdle (2004) |
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Arctic Gold won 3 diferent races in the 50's, Flying Bolt & Bobs Worth as mentioned, these 3 are the only horses to have won 3 diferent races at the festival.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Alberts Run, RSA & Ryan Air x2. Never got the credit he deserved that one... |
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Pearlyman was great horse. I remember Stormyfairweather winning 2 cathcarts in a row.
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Looks Like Trouble
RSA Chase (1999) Pillar Chase (2000) Cheltenham Gold Cup (2000) |
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festival races only it says?
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The horse bankit is referring to is Sabin Du Loir, and it looks like the only two horses who have won 3 different festival races are Flyingbolt and Bobs Worth.
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Correct jimeen - ridden to victory in the Sun Alliance Hurdle by Barney Curley's favourite jockey - Good old Brad.
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I think it beat Dawn Run as far as i can remember, a fair scalp to take for a four year old.
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That's right jimeen - could have been a real superstar but for injury.
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I have to say I wrote some cr&p about Quita Que above. He was trained by Dan Moore, not Tom Dreaper. I think that's twice I've got that wrong. The horse went on to win another Cathcart as a 12yo, so he had a fair old Cheltenham record altogether.
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Horses going for 3 this year
Cue Card Don Poli Sir De Champs already 2nd in a GC Vautour |
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Did L`escargot run at the festival in his Nov. Ch. year.
Winner of the Supreme and 2 Gold Cups and a G. national. |