On This Day In (Racing) History

And there was me thinking that in 1947 the winter was so severe that the whole of Britain and Ireland was under 25 ft of snow until the end of July
 
Diamond Geezer said:
This day 1967 Mill House trained by Fulke Walwyn, ridden by David Nicholson, won the Whitbread Gold Cup.
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And Busted must have won the Coronation Stakes, trained by Noel Murless and ridden by George Moore. (sorry about aftertiming).

A good day's racing with one really good horse almost bowing out and another great horse announcing his arrival on the big stage. Tough horse Busted: later in the season he won both the Eclipse and King George on consecutive Saturdays.
 
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Eleanora Duse said:
And Busted must have won the Coronation Stakes, trained by Noel Murless and ridden by George Moore. (sorry about aftertiming).

A good day's racing with one really good horse almost bowing out and another great horse announcing his arrival on the big stage. Tough horse Busted: later in the season he won both the Eclipse and King George on consecutive Saturdays.
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Consecutive Saturdays -that's mad Ted.
 
LUKE said:
Consecutive Saturdays -that's mad Ted.
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They were tougher then. Don't know why it was consecutive Saturdays that year. When Brigadier Gerard won it I think it was only 2 weeks apart. Now it seems the poor souls struggle to run 4 weeks apart.

(Worth reading the Wikipedia article for Busted (horse) as the bit about how he came to be trained by Murless is amusing).
 
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May 20th 1943 Vincent O'Brien sent out his first winner, Oversway, at Limerick Junction now known as Tipperary.
 
50 years ago today, starting stalls were used for the first time in Britain, and Lester Piggott rode the first winner.
 
30 years ago today, July 21st 1985, Leopardstown staged the first ever Sunday race meeting in Britain or Ireland.
 
July 26th 1907 the first ever dead-heat was recorded between Flip Jack & Blue Flame in the Wiltshire Selling H'cap at Newbury (which is in Berkshire :confused: )

1992 Doncaster hosted the first Sunday race meeting in Britain. First winner was the Michael Jarvis trained Savoyard,
 
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14th August 82.Lester Piggott rode his 4000th winner on Henry Cecil trained Ardross in the Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury
 
On this day in 1950 15 year old Joe Mercer (future Champion & Classic winning jockey) rode his first winner, Eldoret, at Bath.
 
On this day in 1958, Ballymoss ridden by Scobie Breasley and trained by Vincent O'Brien was the firstIrish winner of the Arc de Triomphe.
 
On this day in 1964 Fred Winter trained his first winner with his first runner, Jay Trump (Tommy Smith) at Sandown, a year later the horse won the Grand National.
 
On this day last year Golden Horn made his racecourse appearance in a 1m 1/2f maiden 2yo race at Nottingham winning by a head beating Storm The Stars.
 
On this day in 1983 Desert Orchid won for the first time, when he beat Lucky Rascal by 20 lengths in a Novice Hurdle at Ascot.
 
Slip Anchor another Nottingham maiden winner was he not ?
Lester also retired there first time around.
The track did well to leave NH racing behind to concentrate on the flat.
How long before a Wetherby maiden winner goes on to win The Derby ?
 
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