On June 3rd 1992 Dr Devious won the Derby for trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam and jockey John Reid. Unusually his previous race was the Kentucky Derby. As far as I know Dr Devious was the last descendant...
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On June 3rd 1992 Dr Devious won the Derby for trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam and jockey John Reid. Unusually his previous race was the Kentucky Derby. As far as I know Dr Devious was the last descendant...
The Lockinge was nominally run on a Saturday, even when it was a Group 2 and 3. In 1991 it was run on the Friday ( I was there) and the Cup Final (Spurs vs. Forest) was on the Saturday. There must...
Why was it a Friday that year? Or wasn't it?
On Friday 15th May 1992 George Strawbridge's Selkirk won the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury, ridden by Ray Cochrane and trained by Ian Balding. Must have clashed with the FA Cup Final that year.
On Saturday the 2nd May 1992 Lester Piggott rode his last classic winner aboard Robert Sangster's Rodrigo de Troiano, trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam.
on the 4th March 1967 Persian War won the Victor Ludorum Hurdle at Haydock. The question then was whether he, as a 4yo, went for the Champion Hurdle or waited a month to go for the Triumph Hurdle....
On this day in 1971 Dick Hern trained Sun Prince to win the Prix Robert Papin at Maisons Lafitte. This was the trainers first Group 1 winner for Sobell and Weinstock who had that year taken over the...
I was trying to remember who he was 2nd to in that race. Thanks and thanks for the correction. I've made that mistake before.
For some reason Mercer had ridden Gunner B in many of his earlier...
On this day in !978 Gunner B won the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown. Though he'd won the Prince of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot it wasn't then a Group 1 so this was the first Group 1 of the Cecil/Mercer...
After-timing
On the 20th June 1969 the Derek Candy trained, Brian Jenks owned, Song won the Kings Stand Stakes (then the premier RA sprint) at Royal Ascot as a 3yo. He had won the New Stakes at...
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...
I love the story in Timeform of how Murless got Busted. Worth reading on Wikipedia.
Maybe not as old as me.
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...
18/10/1979
Henry Cecil's Kris wins his 7th race of the year (8 runs) in the Challenge Stakes (included Greenham, St James Palace, Sussex and QEII). It gives Mercer his 144th winner of the year and...
Oh no he didn't. Dick Hern did it in 1965 with Provoke (Jakie Astor) and Craighouse (Lord Astor)
Sept 8 1979
Henry Cecil's Connaught Bridge wins the Twickenham Stakes (£7015) at Kempton on her final outing to round off a hat-trick of wins (adding to the earlier Nassau Stakes (£17,730) and...
edgt, Hills must have been referring to the William Hill Gold Cup because Frankincense won it (must have been as a 3yo). I don't know when it was discontinued. It was still there at the end of the...
August 4 1979
Henry Cecil has a treble with Connaught Bridge (Nassau Stakes), Suavity and Tahitian King at Goodwood. This made it seven for the meeting following The Solent (Goodwood Stakes), Kris...
I was there, a bit damp if I remember. Was User Friendly third?
I do know Grand Lodge won the 6f 2yo race for newcomers ridden by Leanfranco Dettori, who was rehabilitating himself after a brush...
edgt, yes I almost put Sagaro in as the fourth. Just didn't overlap with the year or Le Moss, but that horse deserves to be up with them.
I have the Le Moss/Ardross Gold Cup on video. Wonderful race.
June 21
1979: In an emotional Gold Cup in which Le Moss, ridden by Lester Piggott, beat stable companion Buckskin (ridden by stable jockey Mercer) to win his first Gold Cup. Trainer Henry Cecil...
19th June 1979
Kris, second favourite at 11/10, impressively beats favourite Young Generation in the St James Palace Stakes to give Lord Howard de Walden his first Group One winner in a very long...
June 19
In 1975 Dick Hern trained the last 3 winners of the day. Sea Anchor (King Edward VII), Smuggler (CHesham Stks) and Zimbalon (George V Handicap). Lord Porchester's first time out Smuggler was...
Thanks Gareth. It looked like that. Having it on the 1st really compressed May, with Irish Guineas only a week before the Derby. The first Saturday after the first Wednesday was a better idea. Few...
Why was Sinndar's Derby run so late? The 'old' date was the first Wednesday in June. This year (2013) it was the first Saturday in June and personally I thought it compressed the calendar too much in...