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Ayr Gold Cup memories / stories
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Two - Instant - and outstanding Memories for me ....
ROMAN WARIOR - Nigel Angus - 10st top-weight (Record) - Won on a Friday - race delayed, too, seem to recall COASTAL BLUFF - David Barron - 6/1 Ante-post - 3/1 Fav on the day.... Quite possibly on of my largest-ever Wins Other Notable mentions... JOHN SPLENDID - on his beloved Heavy ground BLUE CASHMERE - in Stoute's early days - maybe his first year training LOCHSONG - ridden by apprentice Francis Arrowsmith - instead of Frankie Dettori. |
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Gold cup,silver cup,bronze ffs what next cardboard cut out……
I think channel 4 used to show the thing in the nineties….. |
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Anyone know the year of the first silver cup it surprised me
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DANDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Cheating bastardo but great fun trying to spot his Ayr Gold Cup prospects. Comparing RPRs and ORs on the day for his winners, not many were accidents. 2000 Bahamian Pirate 33/1 Up 24lbs July-September with 3 wins en route RPR 14 pts above OR on the day 2001 Continent 10/1 - Down 5lbs and kept under the radar with no wins. RPR 13 pts above OR on the day. Versatile  2002 Funfair Wane 16/1 - Down 2lbs. RPR 15 pts above OR on the day 2004 Funfair Wane 33/1 - Down 5lbs. RPR 16 pts above OR on the day 2008 Regal Parade 18/1 - Up 13lbs March-September RPR 13 pts above OR on the day 2010 Redford 14/1 - Down 4lbs. RPR 18 pts above OR on the day Heartbreaker he never got Kimberella past the post. 5th in 2016. Trotter a nap to get there at some point. |
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Great post Mr
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2000 to 2004 incl. Dandy nearly got to keep Jim Goldie
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How about a memory of a winner today? Distant imo, ships on the horizon fading to grey
Ffs lads, wakey wakey, it's 2023. |
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Read the title of the thread
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As Jimnast says when Able Albert won, coming up the stands rail, racecourse commentator didn't spot him and never gave him a mention! He called Alakh( J.Tree/Pat Eddery?) as the winner! Confusion and chaos...before the Judge managed to call the correct result! I watched many punters throw away their Able Albert tickets when commentator didnt even mention it....fortunately I saw the horse coming up the rails and knew the commentator had dropped a bollock...so kept my ticket! As for Sparkling Boy winning a couple of years later...I think he was owned or part owned by Alec Bird, who at that time was seriously ill. I saw him in the parade ring...but didn't take the hint that he'd obviously made the long journey north for a very good reason. I didn't have the brains to put two and two together!
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Judge Bob Speer did not spot it and called wrong result. He corrected it a few minutes later after stewards had informed him of mistake. |
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My memory is playing tricks! I think the horse Alec Bird had an interest in was Final Shot... not Sparkling Boy!
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Not So Silly, a Terry Ramsden Gamble, i think it was 25s in the morning
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Definitely final shot julio ran in Peter hursts name a real character
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Won a seller at York
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The Alex Bird (involved with the Owner - a local 'businessman') was Final Shot 1990
The horse had finished 3rd, beaten a head twice, in the previous year's (then) big prize-money Rous Selling Stakes (for 2-y-olds) at the Ebor meeting - and Alex Bird bought the horse off Owner Ian Bray - but the horse stayed with Trainer M H 'Peter' Easterby (father of current trainer, Tim). Final Shot was a 3-yr-od - of which - only 6 have Won the Ayr Gold Cup in the past 33 years .... But - 4 Three-year-olds Won the race in the 10 years before Final Shot. |
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Some real old favourites in final shots ayr gold cup,Bertie Wooster,Cumbrian waltzer and hard to figure who was a very good horse
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Hard To Figure Won the AYR Gold Cup 3 years later - a real regular in all the big Sprint Handicaps
Remember it winning the Great St Wilfred, too. |
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Onlooker are you sure the York seller was at the ebor meeting?
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2:05 York 23 Aug 1989
Same day as the Gimcrack Still a 3-day meeting then - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Think they only downgraded the Seller, and then moved it, when the Ebor meeting went to 4 days |
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Your right onlooker I remember him winning on the July Saturday but that was not a seller it was a couple of months before he won the Ayr gold cup
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Poor hard to figure spent the later part of his career running around that sh.thole bath in claimers
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Couldn't remember exactly when seller finished at the Ebor meeting but way before the 4 days.
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Hello ribero you will remember the owner of final shot I would think
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Yes always at Haydock although I know Ian Bray better,he's still about,think he lives in Harrogate,owned Cybrandian of course.
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Just checked the seller at the Ebor meeting as couldn't remember betting on it,looks like 99 was the last time at the Ebor meeting,my first year!
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Must admit jimnast first time Hard to Figure was mentioned i thought of Bath
Agree with the Bath assessment. |
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Didn’t cybrandian lead over the last in the delayed gold cup won by the thinker
Blue colures |
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Not seen Peter hurst for a long time ribero probably at York the last time,there was a very moderate horse named after me who actually did win at Southwell,his name originated from something Peter hurst said to me at the breeze up sales.
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Hayden
By a long way the worst racecourse in the uk,probably the world in every aspect |
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Correct,red cross of Lorraine,used to see Ian in our local after racing most Saturdays in the summer in the mid 70's,he went with a group of friends,didn't see him for a few years and suddenly he was owning horses,he'd been to work in Dubai and obviously made a few bob.
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Last time I saw him would be at The Spread Eagle at Midhurst Goodwoo week,early 2000's,he was with Veitch and Nigel Tinkler.
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He was right hand man to both the two mentioned on this thread he did once tell me one was totally different class.
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Just had to watch the Cybrandian finish again after reading , about a length clear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tst2QSoQtkw That's the day some bookmakers broke the law ( well mine did anyway ) and went past the 6.30pm max closing time when Half Free won the last. |
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That’s correct Hayden in those days the last was the Cathcart it soon reverted back to the country hurdle which it still should be.
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We've maybe exhausted our memories so back to the future , what wins today
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Hopefully Fast Response.
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This REALLY will not be last. It Takes Time with a wee group of 6 whizzing up the stands rails on the fresher ground.
Silver Cup run middle to low. So confident, I bet my place into the first 3 market. |