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1960's - Two Mile Chase Division
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Great thread all. I learnt loads from it. Love racings history
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There was a horse that won consecutive races at the Cheltenham Festival
 Montelado, who took the last race, the bumper, in 1992 and the opening Supreme Novices' Hurdle in 1993. |
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Tommy Carberry also won a Gold Cup on Ten Up who was owned by Anne Duchess of Westminster . At that stage Carberry was now stable jockey to Tom Dreaper's son Jim. He was previously stable jockey to Dan Moore and also married Dan's daughter Pamela who was a great brrod mare for jockeys
Amazing that the Duchess also owned Arkle. Some people are born lucky |
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And of course there was Willie Wumpkins who won the Pertemps final 3 years running ridden by Champion Amateur Jim Wilson who also won the Gold Cup on Little Owl. Other notable feats were winning the Imperial Cup and the County Hurdle. They were 5 days apart but winning both earned a fat bonus in addition to the prize money. Moody Man did it for Philip Hobbs and owner Jim Burley while Blowing Wind did it in 1998 for Martin Pipe and Peter Deal. A friend of mine Peter Emery had a mare with Philip Hobbs which won on both days of the Cheltenham April meeting. She was called Celtic Native, nicknamed Kelly. All of the mares races at that meeting are on the same day now so it won't be repeated.
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I think it was really MW Dickinson who was responsible for making the 2-mile division a championship in its own right. He had so many top-class chasers that some of them had to be kept to 2 miles simply to find races for them (this was in the happy days before the Ryanair Chase).
If you weren't punting back in the 1982-5 period, it's hard to grasp now just how dominant Dickinson was. Not only in terms of number of winners and strike rate, but in the way every animal he got hold of appeared to have championship potential. I remember the period in November and December 1982 when it felt as though every meeting from Market Rasen northwards would feature a Dickinson chasing debutant winning by 30 lengths in a canter. In any other yard that horse would have been campaigned as a Gold cup horse. But Dickinson seemed to have literally dozens of them, so they had to go somewhere else. Hence, I think, the rise in prestige of the 2-mile division at that time. I mean, we all know about the Dickinson famous five in the Gold Cup, but it could have been famous ten really. |
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Make it famous 11 please
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Badsworth Boy was the Dickinson horse that got publicity winning 3 years running but I am old enough to remember earlier star 2 milers such as Fortria who won it twice, Ben Stack (Duchess of Westminster again) Dunkirk, Royal Relief (twice with Crisp in between!) Hilly Way and Skymas twice each. All before the Dickenson era. Then followed Pearlyman who won twice after winning the handicap the year before, Remittance Man who only won once but was a very high class horse and then the more familiar Viking Flagship, Edredon Bleu and the best of the lot, Moscow Flyer who had epic battles with Well Chief and Azertyuiop.
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I remember being absolutely gobsmacked when The Mighty Mac won The Hermitage Chase at Newbury in October 1982 I think?
All his chasers seemed to jump impeccably. |