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oldfrenchhorn said:
Ah, was it The Beggars Opera which was in the early 80's I think?
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That's the one Frenchie. Originally written as a satire both on politicians like Robert Walpole, well known criminals and also on the conventions of the Italian opera. I think the writer, John Gay, thought it would sound more gritty without musical accompaniment but a score was more or less imposed on him at the last minute.
 
He was a jockey who, on June 4, 1923, suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a steeplechase at Belmont Park in New York State, USA. ... The thirty-five-year-old Hayes had never won a race before this was i think the first horse race won by a dead jockey ... The horse, a 20-1 outsider was..called Sweet Kiss.... tragic
 
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