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Your fav horse that most people wouldn't remember
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Happy Jack: Fremantle and I also backed a lot of 50/1 losers in those days. I still do, come to that.
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Grand Canyon won the US equivalent Grand National ended up in the London Horse Guards.
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Penny Drops - bailed me out more times than I care to remember in the early 1990's.
Started life as a mediocre 2yo (but she went into my notebook when she finish a very well beaten 2nd behind Musicale trained by Sir Henry Cecil, on that horse's racecourse debut). Musicale went on to be unbeaten as a 2yo and ran up six wins on the trot before eventually being a well beaten fav in the 1000 Guineas. Penny Drops ran 4 further times as a 2yo and was awful! So apart from that one run that I note-booked, Penny Drops had a mediocre career as a 2yo. So she started life as a 3yo handicapper off a mark of just 47 - and she bolted up at 10/1. She never looked back after that, rarely finished out of the frame and won 10 more races (usually at nice prices), including the Cambridgeshire by 6 lengths at 7/1, a Group 2 at Sandown and a handful of valuable/group races in Italy and Germany. What a girl! - that initial 10/1 win on her 3yo debut more than paid for all my subsequent bets on her and she was campaigned in such a way that all her wins came at times when I really needed them. |
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Firefright - a 4yo handicapper from 1973.
Always ridden from way off the pace and used to finish like a train. Possibly trained by Bill Marshall? Green, white sleeves, orange cap Ceol-Na-Mara : 5th in Rag Trade's 1976 Grand National as a 7yo. Died before it ever got chance to run in it again. |
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Swinging Rebel was 70's , backed it enough times including one Saturday when it was the last leg of my yankee, the first yankee i ever got with all 4 winners !
Fond memories of some horses from back in the day : Karen's Star/ African Safari / Fascadale / Radetsky / Cave Warrior / Nagwa / Traffic Leader who i believe ran his final race (7F) at the ripe old age of 17 ! |
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Cauda Equina for Mick Channon - approx 1997-1999 ish?
Fav or cliff horse is questionable.....I backed it every time it ran and never once got a shilling return. It ran twice in a week once, and that week I was away with my then girlfriend on the Isle Of Wight. My Dad called me up thinking i'd likely chopped it off and I wasn't aware the bugger was even running. Still makes me laugh to this day. |
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I hope you don't mind me posting this but for the record.....
Cauda Equina racked up 11 wins from 98 runs, Horatio. Those last two wins were only 2 days apart. Had also won two races, 4 days apart, back in September '98.  |
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Cyrano De Bergerac....beautiful horse...white feet
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Supermaster .. my pocket money went on him every Saturday afternoon.
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A handicapper called Keelby Cavalier (16/1). This is because he won me some money at a Mecca betting shop on Edgware Rd near Marble Arch. There was no picture then a just ticker-tape commentary and a boardmarker. I went to an evening job after. I was a student then.
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La Estrella 41% strike rate from 70 runs
 Only won £83,000 in career but I bet there were some lumpy bets on it  |
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The name of the horse was Keelby Kavalier.
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Quite a few along the years but Piccolo is one that stands out. A non racing friend rang me to say that he had a hot tip for Piccolo in the 1995 Kings Stand at Royal Ascot and didn't know anyone else with a credit account. We ended up with £50 e/w between us and it won at 33/1. Mick Channon again.
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Ikdam...won a bog of a triumph in 1989, was then and remains my biggest priced winner.
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Yamadori
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The grey sprinter Marchand d’Or for Freddy Head won July Cup with Davy Bonilla had ice in his veins
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A horse in the 1960s who I recall twice doing a big turn in Ascot handicaps at big prices - The Tickler
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top2rated 15 May 26 10:09
I hope you don't mind me posting this but for the record..... Cauda Equina racked up 11 wins from 98 runs, Horatio. Those last two wins were only 2 days apart. Had also won two races, 4 days apart, back in September '98. Not at all T2R....thanks for posting. I maybe should have been clearer but I didn't back the horse every time it ran but every time I knew it was running. I never collected...not once. If those 2 results in Sep 98 are as you said 4 days apart are from my very poor memory approx 9/2 and 15/8 sps then that was the week I was away with my at the time girlfriend....I was 21 and she was 28....Racing was down the list of "things to do" if you get my drift. |
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In the mid 80s as a teenage kid I had a soft spot for a horse called Lucky Dutch, always had him in my 2 1/2p round robin and listened to the racing results on the hour on radio 2 with fingers crossed.
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The mid 80s was also my grounding in the sport and Chaplins Club was sensational in 88, he ran 27 times, he ran 9 times winning 7 in only 18 days during July and August, a feat surely never to be repeated.
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Wasn't Glencroft another one similar?
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Same trainer, Chapman
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Egg
Must have been running about 30-35 years ago. Used to run on late in big field sprint handicaps. and also Shades Of Jade Similar early-mid 90s time. Sprinting mare who was lightning fast (at a modest level) for about 3.5 furlongs. Would gradually get fit enough to last home in a race or two midseason. |
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And I see Egg already has a mention here!
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Had a google and apparently Chaplins Club record was beaten by 1 day by one of Prescotts in 2004, Masafi, 7 wins from 7 in a day less.
Glencroft also managed 7 in a season. |
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Glencroft actually managed 9 wins in a year, Chapman could keep them sound thats for certain.
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Hunters Treasure, Eric Cousins hurdler, won 6 or 7 on the bounce, early 70's. Bob Davies, E Wilson and George Cadwaladr
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