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11 Jan 20
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Millie certainly made that horse go giddy up!
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What a great jump at the last. Somebody asked on here, "what does saw a stride mean?", well she certainly saw one today!
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Yep, was some ride she gave the horse.
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I presume she's related to Derek Wonnacott and Mrs C Wonnacott (7), who used to make all in hair-raising fashion on Sakr and Lizzy Longstocking 30+ years ago.
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Don't know, but her mum is Claire, who trains pointers, and her father is David.
Here's a piece on her at 13... https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/showing/success-for-millie-wonnacott-at-bsps-summer-championships-302033 ...and one at 20, after riding her first PTP winner, in 2017 https://pointingdc.co.uk/2017/05/09/report-modbury-harriers-point-to-point-at-flete-park-saturday-6th-may-2017/ The last one mentions that Claire rode 3 winners at the track. |
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Thank you. You'd guess, then, that her mother is Mrs C Wonnacott (7) from all those years ago.
Lizzy Longstocking was owned by Linda Wonnacott, and trained for most of her races by the ultra-shrewd Cornishman Trevor Hallett. For her last few races she was trained by Mrs J Wonnacott, who also trained the semi-lunatic Sakr. The two horses actually took each other on, in a 3-runner hurdle on hard ground at D&E one afternoon in August 1990. MC Pipe had the beaten favourite, Mrs C Wonnacott (7) won on Lizzy as the outsider of three, while Sakr all but refused to race, and was pulled up lame and never ran again. It's fair to say the race would have been a bit controversial if the internet had been around in those days. https://www.racingpost.com/results/14/exeter/1990-08-14/36452 Sakr had been with Dick Hern (I think) as a youngster, but moved to Paddy Butler, who, in and interview with the Weekender, told the world that this was the horse which would finally put him on the map. It didn't. It somehow stayed 3 miles well enough to win some points in the SE, but proved a revelation following a move to Mrs J Wonnacott, with Derek Wonnacott in the saddle. The problem was the horse had only two gears: handbrake-on and turbo. Time and again it refused to line up, until Derek Wonnacott seemed to realize that the key was to charge the horse at the tapes with the choke out, and basically dare the starter not to release the tapes. This meant the horse used to nick literally half a furlong at the start sometimes, including one afternoon at Newton Abbot, where the Pipe/Scu combination had apparently been planning much the same manoeuvre themselves with a horse called Crofter's Nest, which was having its first run for MC Pipe. Cue much complaining and arm-waving in the unsaddling enclosure afterwards, with Sakr having basically maintained the half-furlong advantage for the whole race. |
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Thanks screaming for the link, trouble was when I looked it up the name David was mentioned as her father which led me to wonder if he was an uncle or similar.
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Had to look up what this was about as i couldn't remember, i see she hasn't ridden over jumps for over 3 years and concentrating on the flat with a fair degree of success, fancy her today sparrow?
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Not really stewarts, I was just wondering if Millie was related to Derek Wonnacott.
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Suffered a bad neck injury @ Cheltenham,looks like she was very lucky.
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Didn't know that penzance, thank you. Suprised her horse went 2/1 on in that race having been slowly away.
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Give that boy a lollipop.
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Took nearly 5 years, but somebody finally got it, thanks Geoff.
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Just to get the names right, Millies parents are Claire and David, not Derek.
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