Bill O'Gorman - His flying 2 year olds....

Great video,Alan Munro got a good few decent winners out of them.

Timeless Times was a prolific winner. He won loads of races. Another was Provideo.

Grear stuff aberdonia. Thanks for posting that. We will never see the likes again.

.... and don`t forget Nagwa and Spindrifter.

Emma had a few armchair rides.

i remember the 80s and alan munro riding for him, great jockey

Munro, a good jockey? I think some will beg to differ. I remember one of his howlers on Cool Enough.

Munro was very Generous

Very indeed on Cool Enough.

Kung Fu

Interesting to see these historical posts but does it illustrate how many of us have lost interest in current racing?

when i think cool enough,my memory is dishonest dean easing up at carlisle 1989,was on YTS,grotty aitkins in bulwell

Tony Ives long before Munro got the gig.

Racing just seemed better back then....Maybe because you are younger, but commentary, analysis just seemed better, probably wasn't, but racing seemed more exciting back then..

YouTube is a great memory finder..

Superpower is the nag I remember.  Lester Piggot put Tony up during his short lived training career.

Ivesy has been in a bad way health wise in Thailand but his Go Fund Me is doing quite well.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tony-ives

"and don`t forget Nagwa and Spindrifter."

Nagwa was trained by Barry Hills .... No one mentioned Timeless Times who won 16 races the same as Provideo .... also i think he trained Abdu who won around 8 or 9 races for O'Gorman

Wasn't Superlative just about O'Gormans best ever horse , maybe not for numerical wins but seem to remember it running in all the top race with credit.

I think us old-timers are more critical these days with 'live' pictures at hand, and more likely to pass judgement on a horse or jockey given our accumulated experiences and longevity in the game. And, I think we're more prepared to disagree with the bookie stooges (with self-interest at heart) on their sponsored papers and racing channels.

'townley', you're right. Dean Mckeown was appalling on Cool Enough at Carlisle.

Jack Berry mentioned there then for the first time in many many years the words ‘red shirts’ came into my head ha ha

Horage won a stack of 2yo races for Matt McCormack

When this thread started, I thought immediately of prolific 2 year olds, not trained by the great Bill. My first three were Horage, Sky Gipsy and of course, Cawstons Pride.  I looked up Horage in the 1982 Timeform and here is what it said....

"Horage's record now stood at nine wins from nine starts, a truly remarkable achievement. There have been several other amazingly tough 2yo's since the war - Nagwa and Spindrifter both won 13 races with Spindrifter winning 10 races in a row, Kursaal won the last nine of her ten races in 1967 and Abdu won nine times in 1978, but none of these won a pattern race. The only animals we can think of whose achievements compare with Horage's are Sky Gipsy and the French filly Texana. Sky Gipsy's ten wins in 1965 included the Windsor Castle, and the July and Richmond Stakes.

The above, of course was written before Cawstons Pride!!!

Hope this is of interest MFW?

Remember Horage so many memories in racing we were a lucky generation see such great horses over the years and this is just the flat.

Anyone remember Lear Fan for Guy Harwood i thought he was going to be a jet plane when i first saw him run lol.