Worst horses to have won at the festival...

I loved him. Won plenty on him but such a game little thing.

And had all the stats nerds slashing their wrists
 
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I'm new to the forum so forgive me for being a little lost with the Mick McCarthy reference. Please explain.
 
An ex contributor PM'd me with these:

Anzum, Iris's Gift, Scolardy, Made in Japan, Spectroscope, Contraband, Saulsalito Bay, Ebaziyan, Zaynar, Soldatino, Punjabi, No Refuge, Hussard Collonges, Call Equiname and Arcalis
 
Iris's Gift was a top class winner of a top class race.

Kicking King was a very good winner of a bad race.
 
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Piggott's only festival winner, Mull Sack, who won the Birdlip Selling Hurdle in 1954 (day 1, I think).
 
TheBear said:
So you think Kicking King was a good winner? That was a shocking renewal!
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I'm not having this, Kicking King was a top class chaser from 2m to 3m2f (he won six grade one chases ffs!) and whilst he's no Kauto Star or Denman, he certainly doesn't warrant being referred to as a sub standard winner. He won easy that day as well.
 
Agreed Aragorn.
He won 2 King Georges ,was placed in Arkle and Supreme ? Novice Hurdle and fairly p****d in in GC.
A lot of the younger Festival winners had their brains cooked in the process.
Unfair to scar the memory of perfectly decent horses who did their connections proud on the day.
No Foinavon type has won here for an awfully long time !
 
Kicking King inherited the same cannon fodder Best Mate had been putting to the sword time and again.
As for his first King George he essentially beat a decent handicapper and a bunch of 2 mile specialists. But the creme dela crap was most definitely the opponents for his 2nd King George. Impek was 3rd fav for goodness sake!

I'll accept that War Of Attrition would have to fall into the same category based on my argument, but I won't have it that either was a good winner of the GC.
 
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