MY RACING MOMENTS TO REMEMBER

And then they had another thriller in Irish Champion when Christy Roche just seemed to ease off in the dying strides, perhaps wary that he was in danger of bumping his old rival?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19F7xwUuAYE

Two great horses there, great memories.

This next one is just a great memory for me, having gone to London on Arc Day to watch Everton away at Tottenham I decided to back my horse and tape the racing and watch it late on that Sunday evening having had a mere ten pound each way on my selection at 66-1 each way, Everton as usual let you down with Tottenham getting a late winner, but what a surprise when I put the recording on to watch my 66-1 only go and win the Arc.

https://youtu.be/zToAFDWCnr8

So here is the story with this racing moment of mine, I was going into Wetherby this day and said to my wife that I thought Barton Bank was a certainty especially getting the weight allowance and with a possible uncontested lead, 10-1 was taken before setting off, anyway a man in his country clothing turned and looked right down on me and simply said " Dont be silly, its got no chance " After the race I looked and looked but for the rest of the meeting he could not be found. 

https://youtu.be/5ODvSTQnAwQ

This memory was excellent, I went to this Arc and also for Dalakhani's but its this one that has the memory, I had backed Sakhee at 10-1 after his Juddmonte win and was in the stands having drank a little more than I expected, seeing Sakhee cruising I stood up and shouted " Go on Frankie when your ready " little did I realise that it was only the false straight and I thought oh dear now I am going to look more of an idiot than normal, however this was the best winner of an Arc I have ever seen and really had no need to worry and a nice evening in Paris thanks to this super super horse.

https://youtu.be/k6I77-HkKm8

Sioux and Sioux 1977 Lanark Bleasdale and Thornton for Guy Reed…..i was twenty…..smitten…

This time for hurdlers was fantastic, just very rare to get three or four top hurdlers at the same time and then we have this race which is the best Champion Hurdle for me we have seen, three fantastic horses, two hardcore champions and another with brilliance on his day. Side story on this one, I was told Hardy Eustace was going to hose up in the Stayers Hurdle early in the season, jumped on at big prices, next thing you know he is thirty three to one and running in the Champion Hurdle, my bets down ante post and then we got treated to this.

https://youtu.be/_x9_mLaemco

George I completely agree, St Jovite should have won that one as well but that said they gave us some great viewing

Good thread, which I can't resist adding to.

Best memory for me, among many in a lifetime of racing, is being at Ascot in July 1986 For Dancing Brave winning the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes. They went a million miles an hour for most of the race with the two pacemakers going besderk up front.

But the sight, and crowd noise that accompanied it, of Dancing Brave cruising up with Eddery looking across will live with me forever.

The horse had actually looked in a bit of bother 5 furlongs out when short of room but Eddery had great nerve and briefly rode him for a few strides to obtain a better postion into the straight. After that, well, the horse was miles better tha a class field - although he did tire in the final 100 yards.

A great, great day which came just 48 hours after I had been out with my wife of 35 years for the very first time!

Incidentally, I have just realised that the race came only three days after Prince Andrew (as was) had married Sarah Ferguson!!!

Great thread

Ah Dancing Brave, only Frankel stands next to him

So then here is another, this time I had no financial interest at all, this for me is right up there with one of the very best rides you could ever see, the horse in front was a champion hurdler so how much confidence do you need to ride this race, enjoy

https://youtu.be/WmzbEW1oSWc

Ok so now for probably the best staying chase I have ever seen, indeed the commentators state this immediately after they go past the post, I wont spoil it for anyone who is not aware of this race, again no financial interest for me, this is amazing, take a journey back to the 1984 Whitbread Gold Cup and just enjoy this amazing race.

https://youtu.be/DBJUMnefUCQ

It was Hardy Eustace in first Champion when he won at 33s, Manuel.

Your correct Brandy, got slightly distracted when posting that one, it was the year before when I got the nod not that it paid off but then the year after was the race to savour, thanks for pointing that out, need to concentrate more when putting these up

This collection just mean everything to me, this was my favourite flat horse of all time, everything you could ever want in a horse and when you look at these three races its easy to see why, when you look at the first race, just look at what that field went onto do, enjoy,

https://youtu.be/NfKg1K793FM

https://youtu.be/iEv9glDkGRY.

https://youtu.be/knY07WPVYW8

This one features the best two year old I have ever seen, this being the mighty Arazi, never really lived upto its 2yo form as a 3yo so all we can do is enjoy these three races,  he was mighty and to this day not seen another 2yo like this French wonder.

https://youtu.be/jpJkn-xp48U.

https://youtu.be/LQx6WPqA6dI.

https://youtu.be/mYIQttbYOOs

Here is another fantastic horse who in this race turned in his best ever performance and there were many of them to choose from, the fantastic Daylami scoots away with the Irish Champion Stakes.

https://youtu.be/qAlNerlf9Qc

Many years ago I used to enter the AOL tipping competitions for Ascot and Cheltenham under the user name Bahoor, managed to win the first two and second in the third so did really really well, one horse I tipped up was a horse called Flashmans Papers which won the Windsor Castle at 100-1 for me which virtually won the Ascot competition on day one, looked everywhere to try and find that race but cant find it anywhere, anyone finds it please post it up, be great to see that again

I have never ever been a fan of Best Mate though I never doubt the achievement of the three Gold Cups, to put him in perspective at his very best Best Mate would be ten pounds behind Imperial Commander and fifteen pounds behind Kauto Star, so with all the hype around him each year it pleased me no end to see what Paul Carberry did at the end of this race.

https://youtu.be/O39qbsxGgZ8

The race time for St Jovite's Irish derby was wrong, and never corrected.

My best memory was Dr Devious winning the 1992 English Derby, watching it on a 14" TV brought into work.
Nick Mordin in the Sporting Life Weekender wrote an article before that Derby and his four possibles finished 1,2,4,11.
That started me analysing thoroughbred pedigrees to find out why one brown horse was better than another brown horse.
Now I have two mares, a 2yo in pre-training in France, and sold a 4yo to Australia (landed in Melbourne yesterday).

MANUELPADILLAJNR 30 Sep 26 16:09 
Many years ago I used to enter the AOL tipping competitions for Ascot and Cheltenham under the user name Bahoor, managed to win the first two and second in the third so did really really well, one horse I tipped up was a horse called Flashmans Papers which won the Windsor Castle at 100-1 for me which virtually won the Ascot competition on day one, looked everywhere to try and find that race but cant find it anywhere, anyone finds it please post it up, be great to see that again



Was that the J Best trained hoss that Nevison was involved in buying....I may be wrong?

Yes it was Bests horse, he also had the third in the race Mullionmilesanhour, dont know much about Nevison interest

Dont think it won another race after that

I have been searching since you asked and cannot find a thing....bloody annoying

17/08/08 - 17:30 - Windsor Castle Stakes...Cannot see why it's not there

Apologies....17/06/08

1 (13)    Steve Drowne silk        FLASHMANS PAPERS    <    premium content    >    premium content    Steve Drowne    2    9-3    100/1   
John Best       
2 (11)    Johnny Murtagh silk    ½    BUSHRANGER (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Johnny Murtagh    2    9-3    4/1f   
David Wachman, Ireland       
3 (25)    Liam Keniry silk    1¼    MULLIONMILEANHOUR (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Liam Keniry    2    9-3    16/1   
John Best       
4 (20)    Kerrin McEvoy silk    hd    EFFORT    <    premium content    >    premium content    Kerrin McEvoy    2    9-3    28/1   
Mark Johnston       
5 (6)    Richard Hughes silk    2½    SAUCY BROWN (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Richard Hughes    2    9-3    11/2   
Richard Hannon Snr       
6 (1)    Ted Durcan silk    ¾    TOTAL GALLERY (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Ted Durcan    2    9-3    66/1   
J. S. Moore       
7 (22)    Jimmy Fortune silk    1    DONATIVUM    <    premium content    >    premium content    Jimmy Fortune    2    9-3    33/1   
John Gosden    (b)   
8 (8)    Jimmy Quinn silk    ½    KINGSGATE STORM (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Jimmy Quinn    2    9-3    66/1   
John Best       
9 (4)    Frankie Dettori silk    ½    KHOR DUBAI (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Frankie Dettori    2    9-3    25/1   
Saeed bin Suroor       
10 (23)    Jamie Spencer silk    ¾    LIGHT THE FIRE (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Jamie Spencer    2    9-3    16/1   
Brian Meehan       
11 (7)    Jim Crowley silk    ½    MISS HOLLYBELL    <    premium content    >    premium content    Jim Crowley    2    8-12    100/1   
John Gallagher       
12 (5)    Hayley Turner silk    nk    BRAE HILL (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Hayley Turner    2    9-3    15/2   
Michael Bell       
13 (10)    Pat Smullen silk    1½    SILVER SHOON (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Pat Smullen    2    8-12    7/1   
D. K. Weld, Ireland       
14 (21)    George Baker silk    1½    MISSILE DODGER (USA)    <    premium content    >    premium content    George Baker    2    9-3    16/1   
Ralph Beckett       
15 (26)    Cathy Gannon silk    nk    KINGSWINFORD (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Cathy Gannon    2    9-3    100/1   
David Evans       
16 (18)    Eddie Creighton silk    ½    MOSS LIKELY (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Eddie Creighton    2    9-0    16/1   
Mick Channon       
17 (17)    Richard Hills silk    hd    AAKEF (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Richard Hills    2    9-3    7/1   
Michael Jarvis       
18 (24)    Shane Kelly silk    1½    COURT APPROVAL (IRE)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Shane Kelly    2    9-3    100/1   
T. G. Mills       
19 (12)    M. J. Kinane silk    1    BURNING FLUTE    <    premium content    >    premium content    M. J. Kinane    2    9-3    66/1   
Brian Meehan       
20 (15)    Michael Hills silk    ns    DABBERS CHIEF (USA)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Michael Hills    2    9-3    14/1   
B. W. Hills       
21 (3)    Andrew Elliott silk    ½    OFFICER MOR (USA)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Andrew Elliott    2    9-3    50/1   
K. R. Burke       
22 (16)    Pat Cosgrave silk    1½    KATE THE GREAT    <    premium content    >    premium content    Pat Cosgrave    2    8-12    100/1   
M. J. Wallace       
23 (19)    Eddie Ahern silk    7    GLORIOUS DREAMS (USA)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Eddie Ahern    2    8-12    100/1   
Tim Pitt       
24 (9)    Tom McLaughlin silk    1¾    SHE'S A SHAW THING    <    premium content    >    premium content    Tom McLaughlin    2    8-12    28/1   
David Evans       
25 (14)    Seb Sanders silk    9    ASAINT NEEDS BRASS (USA)    <    premium content    >    premium content    Seb Sanders    2    9-3    40/1

Some gold-dust after-timing there from Manuel and I'm very surprised he hasn't had a few hoofs
to the bálls & general bellendry from the usual suspects, who refuse to believe anything...but
I can 100% attest that everything he's said is TRUE - they're his lifetime's achievements

He still won't STFU about them decades later!

Needless to say, The Bash Street Kids will routinely assume we're the same person, but as ever...they're wrong

PS - I'm sure Nevison did have some involvement with Flashman's Papers though I couldn't find any
citations of that...but what I did find interesting which I didn't know was that it was bred at Cliveden Stud.

Flashmans Papers raced in America after (if it's the same horse), he Won 16/61 races.

Not the same horse Penzance, though he did go to America, Racing Post have him running a total of fourteen times.

So this next one holds a comical meaning to me as well a racing one, in 1984 myself and HERBIE off here decided we would go to Haydock for that years Vernon Sprint, what is now the Haydock Sprint Cup, we had no money and used a local saveaway ticket for the buses in Liverpool to get us to Prescot were we would then catch a bus to Haydock, problem was the saveaway did not cover that area, so we decided to let everyone at the bus stop get on before us and just flash the saveaway although meaningless to the driver who hopefully will not notice and then we are ok, the bus turned up and we waited at the back of the bus stop, thing is nobody put their hand out and the bus went past without stopping leaving us to miss the races and head back to Liverpool, the race that day was won by a grey horse i really really likes called Petong who beat a stellar field having previously won that years Wokingham and Stewards Cup off top weight, enjoy.

https://youtu.be/dASVZmJ1j0A

This one of my very earliest near misses, this is the 1984 Arc De Triomphe, I had a bet ante post on the French Filly Northern Trick and got 25-1, she then went off on the day as the 9-4 favourite from memory, just a case of hitting the crossbar though for me.

https://youtu.be/RGpsgoGjPIc

Think that is the same Flashmans Papers, same breeding, from Clivedon Stud .Stopped racing in 2013.

Strange the racing post only have his form until 2009, your right same stud and owner changed in 2009

I should've mentioned that many of the old timers on here will know the Cliveden Stud colours as Louis
Freedman...owner of the excellent Reference Point and one of those old-fashioned owner/breeders, typical
of Henry Cecil patrons back in the day like Jim Joel, Charles St.George, Lord Howard de Walden etc.

PS - Manuel...STFU about our miscreant teenage escapades when we were a pair of rogue, cheap chancers

Daniel Wildenstein,the manner of a wild hog…..” you are only a boy never ride for me again “ Pat did well after that tbh….

Buckskin the notorious…

Form - how remiss of me

The infamous colours…..

This was my biggest win in horse racing terms, not really one for putting huge amounts on horses, always kept to 100.00 maximum bet and normally a lot less, on this day I had done 3x5ew doubles and a 5ew treble, The first horse was a horse called Mass Rally who went and won a York competitive sprint at 14-1, giving me 75.00 onto the next of the three horses, which was Scatter Dice in the Cesarewitch at 66-1, just hoping to get a place if I was honest and then the following happened, just so you know the last of the three got hammered so just an each way double which for a forty quid outlay returned 5400..ish, by the way Scatter Dice I think was drawn around 33 in the Cesarewitch field so virtually the outside of them all.

https://youtu.be/nkltETOoIy0

I was at Royal Ascot in 2014 and was so lucky to witness the victory of Kingman, didn't back him as couldn't see any reason why he should beat Night Of Thunder after the 2000 guineas, that said the real memory for me was standing at a certain angle and just watching Kingman unleash that fabulous turn of foot, he went just as he got in my eyeline and what a burst that was, enjoy.

https://youtu.be/xk2iDQMKTyw

I went to my very first Charlie Hall Chase day at Wetherby in 1992 and in all the years since I have only missed three, this one as far as betting goes was the best, this race had a questionable couple at the head of the field and the rest were not amazing either, so decided to take a punt on the 40-1 outsider Ballybough Rasher and as they say the rest is history, I was a real form student most of my racing life but something just looked wrong about this race and you know what I got lucky, no form helped, just some intuition and luck.


https://youtu.be/ATNaPG7kPUw

The Champion Hurdle of 1966 was my first visit to a Festival day at Cheltenham. I was aged 21 and must have taken a day off from university to go with father and brother. John Haine was a childhood friend as his father and mine were in the same class at school together and remained close friends so we made the journey to watch John ride Salmon Spray. The only vantage point we found in tatts was halfway up a staircase where there was a window looking down the course. It was a foul wet day so we got a very poor view of the race until they turned for home. Two chestnuts with big white blazes. Flyingbolt and Pat Taaffe towered over John on Salmon Spray but the flat race style of the latter won the day with Flyingbolt, who had won the 2 mile chase the day before, fading to third.

Sage, must have been great to see Flying Bolt, amazing to think that at their bests he was rated 17lbs above Kauto Star which is just unthinkable and of course Arkle a couple of pounds ahead of Flying Bolt.

Sometimes in racing you see things that you just cannot believe and even after the race you still scratch your head and cannot find anything to justify what you saw, I have been a form student most of my life but cannot explain what happened in this race. We have a horse rated 109 winning the Juddmonte beating a fantastic champion of a horse rated at the time 130 thats right 21LBS difference in a group one. The only thing you could possibly think is that the champion never run to his best and yet he ran to the pound with the third horse whom he beat in the previous race which was the Coral Eclipse, someone explain this race away.

https://youtu.be/iMg6X2zAoFk

Two performances stick in my memory.

We got out first TV in 1963.
I watched the English Derby on BBC in 1965 when Sea-Bird won.
I remember running out to the kitchen to tell my parents I had seen the best horse ever.

Monthjeu won the Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh in 2000.
That was the most impressive performance I've seen on a racecourse.
He pushed his way between horses and rocketed away.
"RESULT STANDS After a Stewards Enquiry, the placings remained unaltered."
"held up in touch, always travelling easily, boxed in over 1f out, improved to lead between horses well inside final furlong, not extended"

Kinscem my friend was a huge fan of Montjeu and I was a huge fan of Giants Causeway, we often had discussions about what would happen had they met over 1m2f.

Kinscem my friend was a huge fan of Montjeu and I was a huge fan of Giants Causeway, we often had discussions about what would happen had they met over 1m2f.

Have to say this is one of the best novice chases I have seen and so sad that he never got to fulfil his potential through injury, here we have GLORIA VICTIS winning the 2000 Racing Post Chase carrying top weight 11st 10lb, just jumped this lot into the ground and then went to the Gold Cup before falling and breaking his leg when in the lead, could have been something very special, enjoy this.

https://youtu.be/hIYbLDYhZc4

Have to say this is one of the best novice chases I have seen and so sad that he never got to fulfil his potential through injury, here we have GLORIA VICTIS winning the 2000 Racing Post Chase carrying top weight 11st 10lb, just jumped this lot into the ground and then went to the Gold Cup before falling and breaking his leg when in the lead, could have been something very special, enjoy this.

https://youtu.be/hIYbLDYhZc4