chroniclandlord
Senior Jockey
I can't work out who to leave out, but Brown Lad and St Nicholas Abbey should definitely be in the list.
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Which races 'float your boat' and which are your ten favourite horses ??
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I can't work out who to leave out, but Brown Lad and St Nicholas Abbey should definitely be in the list.
Jaysus Troods. Your indecision is feckin up me Friday night. Buck up, woman.
trudij
Senior Jockey
It’s hard whittling it down isn’t it - and it’s so personal!! What always astonished me is that considering I’m 90% National hunt, I have a lot of flat horses always in my lists of favourites - and I get up to watch the Melbourne Cup ( plus nearly all of winx and black caviar’s races !) happily, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to say the same about any British racing. Time will tell....
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trudij
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Frankel
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You need to be getting some more elite beasts in that's for sure!
chroniclandlord
Senior Jockey
I thought that it was a pretty elite list to be honest.
chroniclandlord
Senior Jockey
Forty nine years watching horse racing is a lot of horses to pick through.
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Grand National but my first strong memories are of the Mill Reef/Nijinsky/Brigadier era. We always went to Royal Ascot on the heath as a family, I would ask my Dad to bet on anything grey. Loved the King George /Queen Elizabeth Diamond stakes - Ela Mana Mou being a favourite. I was lucky enough to go and see him when he was 30 in Ireland.
We never went jumps racing so only ever saw it on the tele. Over jumps first strong memories of Desert Orchid/Sea Pigeon/Monksfield/Night Nurse/Rummies GNs.
Loved the flat stayers, older bigger horses who hang around for a few seasons, cried buckets when saw Persian Punch collapse at Ascot. Alleged and Ardross who heart broken when didn't win the Arc.
Used to visit Simon Dow's yard and loved Londoner.
A flat horse then tried to be a hurdler, Mana Mou Bay, who saw first time out at Ascot at 2 and then followed, literally, anywhere. Beset by mental issues bless him. Stopped him being bought by the Pipes at a Donny sale.
Giant's Causeway - a prize fighter of a horse.
Bold Edge, loved him when racing and couldn't tell you why as not a fan of sprinters or chestnuts if honest, met him when he had retired and loved him all the more.
Hannigan's Lodger, if she had been called anything else how different the last 20 years would have been and first time I ever went to a jumps meeting was to see her.
My darling Molly, nearly 4 years now she has been gone and I still cry about her.
BBB known to me as Rowley, Basil to those that have him now, and his younger brother, Brodie aka muppet, on the recovery road and hoping to get him back for next season.
Favourite races: Tingle Creek, Stayers' Hurdle, KG/QE11, Arc, GN, Oaks, Champion Chase, Eclipse, any bumper, not sure what it is called now but always know it as The Whitbread.
ten horses not nearly enough!
We never went jumps racing so only ever saw it on the tele. Over jumps first strong memories of Desert Orchid/Sea Pigeon/Monksfield/Night Nurse/Rummies GNs.
Loved the flat stayers, older bigger horses who hang around for a few seasons, cried buckets when saw Persian Punch collapse at Ascot. Alleged and Ardross who heart broken when didn't win the Arc.
Used to visit Simon Dow's yard and loved Londoner.
A flat horse then tried to be a hurdler, Mana Mou Bay, who saw first time out at Ascot at 2 and then followed, literally, anywhere. Beset by mental issues bless him. Stopped him being bought by the Pipes at a Donny sale.
Giant's Causeway - a prize fighter of a horse.
Bold Edge, loved him when racing and couldn't tell you why as not a fan of sprinters or chestnuts if honest, met him when he had retired and loved him all the more.
Hannigan's Lodger, if she had been called anything else how different the last 20 years would have been and first time I ever went to a jumps meeting was to see her.
My darling Molly, nearly 4 years now she has been gone and I still cry about her.
BBB known to me as Rowley, Basil to those that have him now, and his younger brother, Brodie aka muppet, on the recovery road and hoping to get him back for next season.
Favourite races: Tingle Creek, Stayers' Hurdle, KG/QE11, Arc, GN, Oaks, Champion Chase, Eclipse, any bumper, not sure what it is called now but always know it as The Whitbread.
ten horses not nearly enough!
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