Possibly Ron, I'd had a few beers when I dreamt this up. Having said that though, there aren't that many G1s and I suspect everyone will have Faugheen in their list. For me he is the only CERTAIN grade 1 winner out there. I was reading they might be looking at a French campaign for Un De Sceaux
The Chuckles squad composes of: Annie Power Faugheen L’ami Serge Might Bite Miss Crick Peace And Co Red Hammer Top Notch Un de Sceaux Yanworth If this was a ‘2 to follow’ my pair, incidentally, would be MIGHT BITE and RED HAMMER. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more...
Could have done max 2 horses from any given stable. 80% off all selections will be the same otherwise with Mullins machines dominating every posters list. Edit: sorry I didn't state this earlier!
CONEYGREE DOUVAN BLAKLION MORE OF THAT UN DE SCEAUX CALL THE COPS SIZING JOHN GOD'S OWN FAUGHEEN DON COSSACK
Just to bring the "ah but Mullins will win all the Grade 1s" discussion into perspective, here a list of all Grade 1 races in Britain (table 1) and Ireland (table 2). There really are a lot more than we think:
It's a bit of a pain with the competition starting before all the entries are in and recorded but I'll cope. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
The Tullow Tank Padge Douvan Vyta Du Roc The Young Master Coneygree Min Blaklion Oscar Rock Peace and Co
Douvan Annie Power Un De Sceaux Vautour Djakadam Faugheen Sirabad Don Cossack Windsor Park Saphir Du Rheu
I was just posting the Grade 1s Woolly, it always amazes me how many there are. Here are links to the wiki sites showing all graded races in the UK and Ireland - plenty of bonus points up for grabs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_National_Hunt_races https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_National_Hunt_races As far as I can see there are no Grade 1 handicaps, but a number of Grade 2 races are handicaps (e.g. the Old Roan Chase, Haldon Gold Cup). But perhaps the 2 best known handicaps in the racing calendar, the Hennessy and Grand National, are both Grade 3s. Prize money, of course, is much higher in those 2 - Wishfull Thinking collected 35 grand for winning the Grade 2 Haldon Gold cup whereas Many Clouds collected just shy of 100 grand for the Grade 3 Hennessy and a whopping 561 grand for the Grade 3 Grand National.
So far (for info) Horse Selection Count Horse No of times Selected A GOOD SKIN (IRE) 1 ADRIEN DU PONT (FR) 1 ANNIE POWER (IRE) 6 AUX PTITS SOINS (FR) 4 BACHASSON (FR) 2 BARTERS HILL (IRE) 1 BEAST OF BURDEN (IRE) 2 BELLSHILL (IRE) 1 BITOFAPUZZLE 1 BLAKLION 2 CALL THE COPS (IRE) 1 CONEYGREE 8 DISKO (FR) 1 DJAKADAM (FR) 2 DODGING BULLETS 2 DON COSSACK (GER) 4 DON POLI (IRE) 4 DOUVAN (FR) 11 FAUGHEEN (IRE) 13 GENEROUS RANSOM (IRE) 1 GOD'S OWN (IRE) 1 HANNIBAL THE GREAT (IRE) 1 HARRISTOWN 1 IRISH CAVALIER (IRE) 1 L'AMI SERGE (IRE) 2 MIGHT BITE (IRE) 2 MIN (FR) 2 MINELLA ROCCO (IRE) 1 MISS CRICK 1 MODUS 1 MOON RACER (IRE) 4 MORE OF THAT (IRE) 3 NICHOLS CANYON 1 NO MORE HEROES (IRE) 1 OSCAR ROCK (IRE) 1 OUR KAEMPFER (IRE) 1 PADGE (IRE) 1 PARLOUR GAMES 1 PEACE AND CO (FR) 9 RED HAMMER 2 SAPHIR DU RHEU (FR) 4 SILVINIACO CONTI (FR) 2 SIMONSIG 1 SIRABAD (FR) 1 SIZING JOHN 2 THE DRUIDS NEPHEW (IRE) 1 THE GREY TAYLOR (IRE) 1 THE NEW ONE (IRE) 1 THE TULLOW TANK (IRE) 1 THE YOUNG MASTER 1 TOP NOTCH (FR) 1 TYCOON PRINCE (IRE) 1 UN DE SCEAUX (FR) 11 VALUE AT RISK 1 VAUTOUR (FR) 10 VYTA DU ROC (FR) 1 WAIT FOR ME (FR) 1 WALK TO FREEDOM (IRE) 1 WINDSOR PARK (IRE) 1 WISHFULL DREAMING 1 YANWORTH 1
Don Cossack finishes 2nd at 1/4 But no worries for those on him; the horse in front didn't have a jockey
