sixtwosix - "Provideo , Spindrifter , Timeless Times .........didn't see any of them in a classic........"

I remember Sir Mark Prescott explaining in an interview or article, how the racing programme at that time made it much easier to run up long sequences of 2yo wins. Can't remember the details, but someone will.

Didnt take long to find...........

He was a tremendous horse, he made training look easy, and no horse will repeat what he did – or what Provideo and Timeless Times did for Bill O'Gorman a few years later – because the racing programme has changed. In those days [1980] there were lots of conditions races, especially ones for horses who hadn't won a race worth £2,500. I had to be clever and not win a big pot, but early that year I asked his owner Graeme Waters whether he'd like a crack at something like the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot or would rather win a lot of races. He said he'd rather win a lot of races. Spindrifter trained himself really, he was a very hardy horse but one of relatively limited ability and his campaign just showed what careful placing could do – I exploited what he was good at, which was the ability to handle firm ground and to run freqently. Five years earlier Nagwa had won 13 races for Barry Hills, and amazingly both Nagwa and Spindrifter were bred by Joe Crowley, Aidan O'Brien's father-in-law.

Her most notable win however, was in the Nunthorpe Stakes in which she became one of only three juveniles to win a Group One race in open-age competition. Her speed and diminutive stature led to her being nicknamed

Not sure if its correct  taken from wiki.

Of course Kingsgate Native, (great horse but never quite right after)

They get a huge amount of weight in Nunthorpe, 2yo run off 8-1, 3yo 9-9, older 9-11 with a further sex allowance of 1lb.

Surprised more don't try, looks more than fair.

A pleasing thread!

For what its worth, Henry always felt that Diesis would have beaten even a top form Gorytus. I guess he would say that wouldn't he, but he did feel that D was a better 2yo than even Kris.

Trying to find Cordobas form, think was trained by Stoutey in about 1988. Cant locate anything

Cheers BB

Tromos, as he really smashed the script with most going into the Dewhurst polarised in either the R B Chesne or More Light corners, who both were exciting prospects at the time.

next best -  blackbarn

Did not know that, as such, existed on Youtube ... Must have been uploaded by an absolute enthusiast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqeJeYAktmk

Tromos was moved up in class and distance to contest the Group One Dewhurst Stakes, Britain's most prestigious race for two-year-olds over seven furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse.
He started at odds of 11/4,[6] making him third favourite in a field of six runners behind R B Chesne and More Light, who had finished first and second in the Champagne Stakes.
Lynch sent the colt into the lead from the start and set a strong pace which soon had the other contenders under pressure. Two furlongs from the finish Tromos accelerated away from the field and won very impressively


Bombed out entirely after that, though.

Celtic Swing, even if it did win a French Derby

Celtic Swing was top rated 2yr old i think and you cant say didnt train on.....just beat in the 2,000 and won a derby. I was lucky enough to be working for Lady Herries when Celtic Swing was racing. When it won the French Derby Peter Savill gave every member of staff 500 squid and the old fella looking after Celtic Swing 10,000 squid....and we had a big party to celebrate

Great story D.B.  What a wonderful memory to have.

truehoncho - I think the OP had in mind something a bit more interesting than a simple list of names. Oh and you should have thought longer on Boynton

I was there and backed Boynton in the Vintage

Blackbarn - to be honest, I think I worded the thread tag badly as what I was
really looking for was NOT a list of horses that didn't train on, or were injured
but who mysteriously were unable to reproduce the immense promise of a superb debut
or early graduation race.

That's why that Cordoba suggestion epitomised what I was after...not Minstrella
(as I suggested) as she was already at the top of the tree and failed to train on.

Cordoba went into EVERYONE'S notebook after his sparkling debut...a bit like Kerrera
around the same time, though that filly was placed in the Guineas so again, she wouldn't
be an ideal qualifier.

George's Lujain most certainly dropped off the landscape dramatically but he did win the
Middle Park before going AWOL so he wouldn't really fulfil the criteria like Cordoba.
Certainly an intersting suggestion and a mystery for Arthur C Clarke

Possibly only one of a pair of horses trained by Cecil for Sangster...that always puzzled me
as to how that came to happen.

Musicale was a top flight performer and the other one that I recall wasn't too bad either but
never had the opportunity (for reasons I'm unaware of) to show it - can you guys name it?

Sir Henry trained five for Robert Sangster, the one you are probably thinking of is Imperial Ballet who won a Hunt Cup for them in 93

Penzance - that's a fair example...though he did reach a half-decent 115 official rating.
He did go AWOL for a long time though.

Hugely surprised nobody's mentioned the unholy trinity of Dilum, Green Green Desert and Killer Instinct yet.

That'll be you then Acey
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