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well?did it ever happen.
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https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/why-its-near-miracle-when-twin-thoroughbreds-both-reach-track/
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i did,but it does not say,it says the odds of a horse having twins are 10'000/1.but we all know there is no such thing as a certainty,so i am still wondering if it ever happened?
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Did you not read the link? It tells you it has happened.
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May’s Irish Racing Calendar contained a particularly eye-catching entry in the section for newly-named horses. It revealed that leading breeder Lady O’Reilly had named a pair of 2-year-old fillies Madeira Moon and Magic Mist. They are both by Invincible Spirit out of Madeira Mist - which, of course, means they are twins.
Twins are very much a rarity among Thoroughbreds, as veterinarians - and indeed Mother Nature - do everything in their power to prevent them. The harsh reality is that Thoroughbred mares are simply not equipped to carry twins to term successfully. Twin pregnancies are not actually uncommon in Thoroughbred mares - about 10 percent of 15-day-old pregnancies are twin pregnancies. However, if humans do not intervene, more often than not the mare will abort both within the first six weeks. Of the twin pregnancies that are still present after 40 days, 80 percent will not survive to birth, most being lost after the eighth month. Such late-term abortions can cause major physiological complications for the mares, as well as reduced fertility for the next breeding season. |
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Noel Murless had twins in training in 1972, called Freddy Farkel and Fanny Farkel. They were half-brother and -sister to Caergwrle, who won the 1000 gns, and St Chad, who was a decent miler who won the Jersey and the Hungerford. Freddy was reported to be one of Murless's better 2yos, but I don't think he ever made the track. Fanny raced, but wasn't much cop. She was tried as a broodmare, but I don't think she produced anything of worth. They were named after twins from the Farkel family, characters in the Rowan and Martin Laugh-In.
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Were they ginger with freckles ?
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the suspend man who works for betfair is ginger with freckles,well i imagine that is what he looks like.
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thanks for the knowledge lads,interesting to say the least,i often wondered.
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I'm almost sure Roark, who was one of Arthur Moore's Sweeps Hurdle winners in the 1980s, was a twin. He'd been a Flat winner in this country earlier on in his career.
He was very lightly raced for Moore, and after leaving him and returning to Britain had all sorts of leg problems and long absences. Every year or so he'd turn out for some small-time southern jumps trainer, until one day he sluiced up at 50/1 at Newbury for Harry(?) Willis in an ultra-competitive handicap hurdle. There was a feeling that Willis might have been associated with none other than Barry Stevens, but I've no idea whether there was really anything in that. Roark was bred by Dick Hern, who was a close friend of Bob McCreery, the owner of Stowell Hill Stud. I was renting a house on the stud 30 years ago, and I'm almost sure Roark was the horse one of the workers on the stud told me had been saved by the intervention of Mrs Hern after being born a twin. The horse was a son of Relkino, whom Hern had also trained, and had a really striking appearance, with a big white face. |
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I remember Roark Well ,Spec the Big white face
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Coneygree
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Yes, Michael and Richard Hills.
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Nice story screaming. Backed him ante post for the Triumph after he'd gone to Pipes before he'd run over hurdles. Hacked up first time out at Wolves but suffered a bowed tendon in the Triumph when a short price fav. Phil Tuck was a late sub in the saddle for the race.
Stevens is listed as the last registered trainer of him on the RP website with Willis as the owner and was last ridden in a race by the recently disgraced racecourse judge Felix Wheeler. |
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It is generally thought that twin thoroughbreds are smaller and less robust that singles so very few go into training.
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