Another Jinxed Galway Hurdle Winner

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Bobbyjo

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I think it's a rule that you have to be dead within a year or two of winning this race if you want to take the spoils

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FARMER BROWN, winner of the 2007 Guinness Galway Hurdle, collapsed and died at trainer Pat Hughes's County Carlow stables on Sunday.

A seven-year-old son of Bob Back, and owned by Plantation Stud, Farmer Brown won six of his 19 starts.

Successful in a bumper at Limerick in April 2005, he went on to win four times over hurdles and also won a 2m amateur riders' Flat race at Wexford in August.

That Wexford win followed hard on the heels of his biggest victory in the Galway Hurdle, in which he landed a gamble, winning by two and a half lengths under Davy Russell.

On what proved to be his final start, he finished eighth behind Katchit in the Champion Hurdle.

His best performance at Grade 1 level was in the Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown in November, when he finished second to Jazz Messenger.

Hughes said: “We had some very bad luck this morning. Farmer Brown had just been taken out of his box when he collapsed and died.

“It was probably a heart attack, but we will be having a post-mortem carried out to confirm the cause.”
 
Ah....Say Again went onto win a Grade 1 novice chase at the Punchestown Festival after winning the Galway Hurdle!
 
Originally posted by Cantoris@Apr 1 2008, 04:07 PM
Ah....Say Again went onto win a Grade 1 novice chase at the Punchestown Festival after winning the Galway Hurdle!
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Beating Kicking King-I was working with the owners sons girlfriend at the time and had a nice bet on him.
 
Say Again was similar to Accordian Etoile. Needed fast ground and just got two miles.He very rarely got this. He also suffered a lower back problem in a fall at the last in Roscommon as a novice which always caused him trouble. When he got his conditions he was very good like Etoile. When he didn't he was an ordinary horse. Luke, the owners son would be a good mate of mine.
 
The guy that works/worked in the land registry or social welfare office in Waterford?.I think a friend of mine probably knows one of your syndicate-someone who works/worked for Campus.
 
I'd know the brother that was in dublin and he has two brothers in Waterford but don't know them particularly well. They are great supporters of the national hunt and it was great to see them with a good horse. Pity about his back problems which were never really published so I'd say most people just thought he had gone off the boil or was soft towards the end.
 
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