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Vaughan was a magic horse. I had started to follow his career over fences. I got chatting to his lass a couple of weeks ago at Newton, who clearly loved him to bits.
This is a real downer.
This is a real downer.
2007 Departures - Horses In Training
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Blue Monday - not so much a total departure as an export to Australia.
by Lee Mottershead
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PATRICK CHAMINGS on Sunday described Take A Bow as a horse who "gave everything", as he paid tribute to his stable star, who died after suffering a serious leg injury at Windsor on Saturday.
The remarkably consistent six-year-old suffered multiple fractures to his near hind leg entering the closing stages of the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes.
His death came just three months after he'd enjoyed the finest moment of his career when landing the Brigadier Gerard Stakes, also a Group 3, under regular rider Jim Crowley.
Before Saturday, and after finishing seventh on his two-year-old debut, Take A Bow earned prize-money in all his runs and finished out of the first four only once in 24 starts.
Twice placed in the Cambridgeshire, he raced on Saturday, as throughout his career, for 90-year-old owner Anne Wright, who was able to say a final goodbye to Take A Bow after the Windsor vets had delayed euthanising him until she'd seen him for a final time.
Describing Take A Bow as "astonishing", Chamings said: "He was a tough and resolute horse who gave everything. You come across few horses like that, and losing him leaves a huge hole in the yard.
"He had been better than ever this year, and his victory in the Brigadier Gerard was the highlight of his career. It's awful to lose him but we have the consolation of still having other members of his family."
Crowley said: "He was a top horse who was improving. He always gave 100 per cent and I'll certainly miss riding him."
Take A Bow won five of his 26 races, finishing second seven times, third six times and fourth on a further five occasions. He earned £164,176 in win and place prize-money, and received a Racing Post Rating of 115 for his Group 3success.
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PATRICK CHAMINGS on Sunday described Take A Bow as a horse who "gave everything", as he paid tribute to his stable star, who died after suffering a serious leg injury at Windsor on Saturday.
The remarkably consistent six-year-old suffered multiple fractures to his near hind leg entering the closing stages of the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes.
His death came just three months after he'd enjoyed the finest moment of his career when landing the Brigadier Gerard Stakes, also a Group 3, under regular rider Jim Crowley.
Before Saturday, and after finishing seventh on his two-year-old debut, Take A Bow earned prize-money in all his runs and finished out of the first four only once in 24 starts.
Twice placed in the Cambridgeshire, he raced on Saturday, as throughout his career, for 90-year-old owner Anne Wright, who was able to say a final goodbye to Take A Bow after the Windsor vets had delayed euthanising him until she'd seen him for a final time.
Describing Take A Bow as "astonishing", Chamings said: "He was a tough and resolute horse who gave everything. You come across few horses like that, and losing him leaves a huge hole in the yard.
"He had been better than ever this year, and his victory in the Brigadier Gerard was the highlight of his career. It's awful to lose him but we have the consolation of still having other members of his family."
Crowley said: "He was a top horse who was improving. He always gave 100 per cent and I'll certainly miss riding him."
Take A Bow won five of his 26 races, finishing second seven times, third six times and fourth on a further five occasions. He earned £164,176 in win and place prize-money, and received a Racing Post Rating of 115 for his Group 3success.
Brown Jack
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Totally gutted about Take A Bow. One of our favourites, a brilliant little horse only out of the frame in one of his races. You dream of owning a horse like this. We were so excited for his connections when he won the Brigadier Gerrad. God racing is like a bloody roller coaster! Such a shame.
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I agree, it was a terrible shame about Take A Bow. Somehow it always seems cruellest when a small, hardworking yard loses their star. Patrick & Phillippa deserve to have several more like him, a grand old boy.
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Run for Paddy retired.
Run For Paddy is one of the good stories - still in Carl's yard until recently and CL said his win on RFP [being his first win as a trainer and one of the few as jock/trainer] in the Scottish GN would be just about his best racing memory ever - this from a guy who has won two Grand Nationals! ... the implication is CL would have loved to race the horse another season.
But RFP's owner "couldn't wait" to get the horse back to his own paddocks for a happy retirement. Would there were more owners like that
But RFP's owner "couldn't wait" to get the horse back to his own paddocks for a happy retirement. Would there were more owners like that
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I'm gutted to have to say Kahlua Bear. He had one of the biggest characters I've known in a horse, a real darling. Even the most genuine of horses can't do a lot about a twisted gut though.
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SL and Arkwright that is very sad to hear. You can never take away your memories.
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Really sad news, SL and Arkwright 
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Terrible news SL and Arkwright, he was a grand servant to yourselves and Kirsty. Very sorry to hear.
crazyhorse
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Added it elsewhere, but so sorry to hear.
crazyhorse
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Btw, talked to somebody from Kildangan Stud in Baden Baden yesterday, and he told me that old Keen Hunter had been put down sometimes last year. Can´t remember whether it was mentioned here or in the papers.
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Cockney Rebel REITRED.
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Connections retire Rebel after freak incident on gallops
by Tony Elves
COCKNEY REBEL, winner of this year's English and Irish 2,000 Guineas, has been retired after being injured in a freak accident when cantering in Newmarket on Monday morning.
The Val Royal colt had been putting in some sparkling work on the peat moss and Cambridge Road polytrack recently in preparation for a return to action in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on September 29 but those hopes have been dashed and connections are considering options for him to stand at stud.
Trainer Geoff Huffer said: “Cockney Rebel was cantering this morning and spooked at a piece of paper and hit his near fore leg with his hind leg as he finished his canter, when he went back to the stables there was a slight swelling on his near fore.
“The vet was called to scan him and on his advice he said the horse would need three months rest. After consultation with owner Phil Cunningham, Phil took the decision to retire Cockney Rebel, as he quite rightly points out the horse has proven himself to be one of the best milers for many a year. Whilst we all at Grange House Stables are saddened by this, Cockney Rebel has given us and many people such wonderful memories and I am sure his progeny will do the same as he is one horse in a lifetime.”
Huffer had never made a secret of how highlyhe regarded Cockney Rebel after he first burst onto the scene when a convincing winner on his debut at Newmarket in July last year.
The trainer still believed his stable star was an embryo of a horse when finishing a highly creditable third to Vital Equine in the Champagne Stakes at York on final start as a juvenile and that impression was borne out on his reappearance in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket in May.
On that occasion, Cockney Rebel came from virtually last to first to comprehensively reverse the form with Vital Equine and any thoughts that the performance was fluke were dispelled in Irish 2,000 Guineas when he followed up with a length defeat of the Jim Bolger-trained Creachadoir.
Huffer confidently ploughed onto Royal Ascot for the St James's Palace Stakes but, after travelling well into the straight, the luck ran out for the even money shot when he suffered a stress fracture to his pelvis and finished only fifth behind Excellent Art.
Cunningham paid tribute to both the horse and the team at Huffer's stable. He said: “It has been an absolute dream for me to own Cockney Rebel and in the interests of the horse, I believe this is the right course of action. I would like to thank Geoff and all of the team for giving us so many wonderful memories that can never be taken away.”
“I would also like to thank the team at Rossdales for all of their help and advice they have given me and I hope to be in a position to make an announcement in the near future with regards to whereCockney Rebel will stand.”
Connections retire Rebel after freak incident on gallops
by Tony Elves
COCKNEY REBEL, winner of this year's English and Irish 2,000 Guineas, has been retired after being injured in a freak accident when cantering in Newmarket on Monday morning.
The Val Royal colt had been putting in some sparkling work on the peat moss and Cambridge Road polytrack recently in preparation for a return to action in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on September 29 but those hopes have been dashed and connections are considering options for him to stand at stud.
Trainer Geoff Huffer said: “Cockney Rebel was cantering this morning and spooked at a piece of paper and hit his near fore leg with his hind leg as he finished his canter, when he went back to the stables there was a slight swelling on his near fore.
“The vet was called to scan him and on his advice he said the horse would need three months rest. After consultation with owner Phil Cunningham, Phil took the decision to retire Cockney Rebel, as he quite rightly points out the horse has proven himself to be one of the best milers for many a year. Whilst we all at Grange House Stables are saddened by this, Cockney Rebel has given us and many people such wonderful memories and I am sure his progeny will do the same as he is one horse in a lifetime.”
Huffer had never made a secret of how highlyhe regarded Cockney Rebel after he first burst onto the scene when a convincing winner on his debut at Newmarket in July last year.
The trainer still believed his stable star was an embryo of a horse when finishing a highly creditable third to Vital Equine in the Champagne Stakes at York on final start as a juvenile and that impression was borne out on his reappearance in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket in May.
On that occasion, Cockney Rebel came from virtually last to first to comprehensively reverse the form with Vital Equine and any thoughts that the performance was fluke were dispelled in Irish 2,000 Guineas when he followed up with a length defeat of the Jim Bolger-trained Creachadoir.
Huffer confidently ploughed onto Royal Ascot for the St James's Palace Stakes but, after travelling well into the straight, the luck ran out for the even money shot when he suffered a stress fracture to his pelvis and finished only fifth behind Excellent Art.
Cunningham paid tribute to both the horse and the team at Huffer's stable. He said: “It has been an absolute dream for me to own Cockney Rebel and in the interests of the horse, I believe this is the right course of action. I would like to thank Geoff and all of the team for giving us so many wonderful memories that can never be taken away.”
“I would also like to thank the team at Rossdales for all of their help and advice they have given me and I hope to be in a position to make an announcement in the near future with regards to whereCockney Rebel will stand.”
Gamla Stan
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Becoming a very sad day this is!
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Can't say more than others have said - Khalua Bear was a great runner for all connected with him,
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