Flat: Horse - El Gran Senor Trainer - William Haggas Jockey - Christoph Soumillon Course - Newbury Race - The Arc Memory - Lester Piggott winning the Breeders' Cup Mile on Royal Academy NH: Horse - Desert Orchid Trainer - Nick Williams Jockey - Ruby Walsh Course - Cheltenham Race - The Arkle Memory - The reception Denman and Kauto Star received after finishing second and third, respectively, in this year's Cheltenham Gold Cup.
It passes a boring ten minutes at work! Flat: Horse - Sea The Stars...what a Summer! Trainer - Henry Cecil Jockey - Lester Piggot Course - Ascot Race - Canna name an individual race - Royal Ascot's the highlight for me so Kings Stand; St James Palace; Queen Anne; Prince Of Wales; Gold Cup; Coronation Stakes & Golden Jubilee. Memory - STS's Arc win and the 'Perfection in Equine form...' commentary although I still shake my head having watched this seasons 2000 Guineas several times now! National Hunt: Horse - Rooster Booster Trainer - Philip Hobbs Jockey - John Francome Course - Cheltenham Memory - Rooster Booster snarling on the turn for home before winning the Champion Hurdle & the commentary that went with it!
Don't fancy any horses today so: Flat: Horse - This is very difficult as we don't have legends in UK. Ribot/Pebbles/Zenyatta Trainer - Henry Cecil/Sir Michael Stoute Jockey - Gordon Richards Course - Ascot Race - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes Memory - Pebbles smashing the course record when winning the Breeders Cup and when going through the field like a knife through butter in the Champion Stakes National Hunt: Horse - Desert Orchid Trainer - None Jockey - Ruby Walsh Course - Cheltenham Race - Champion Hurdle/Grand National Memory - Desert Orchid winning the Gold Cup In fact it is all very difficult as there are so many fantastic memories. Ask me next week and I might not come up with the same answers.
Richard Johnson is my favourite NH Jockey particularly good at fences. Always tries even for minor places which can't be said about many big jockeys who just pull up/gives up as soon as they know they can't win. Never seen a horse like Frankel before.
To fill in five minutes, before I have to find something else to do for the next five minutes. Flat: Horse: Vo Rogue. Wonderful tear away front runner. Trainer: Bart Cummings. Won everything in Oz except the lotto. Jockey: Mick "The Enforcer" Dittman. Course: Moonee Valley. Race. Melbourne Cup: The race that stops the nation. Memory: Watching racing from the now defunct Albion Park. National Hunt. None.
Flat: Horse - Paco Boy Trainer - Henry Cecil Jockey - Ryan Moore Course - Ascot Race - The Arc Memory - Sea The Stars romping to victory in the Arc NH: Horse - Kauto Star/ Woolcombe Folly Trainer - Paul Nicholls Jockey - Ruby Walsh Course - Cheltenham Race - The Gold Cup Memory - Big Bucks storming home to 3rd sucessive world hurdle after it looked like Grand Cru was running the better out of the 2.
