The hunter-'chaser.

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Back on home turf, the JP McManus-owned gelding picked up a fifth Punchestown Champion Hunter Chase, a race he had first won as a five-year-old. The only reason I bought Cousin Pascal was because I wanted to go point-to-pointing during lockdown and at the time you had to be an owner to attend," he said. Do you have any recollections or fond memories of any of the 'Greats' (Double Silk, Baby Run, Teaplanter, Spartan Missile, Cavalero and Grittar) featured so far?

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: First Edition In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. Ted Walsh’s stable star was a former high-class chaser as a Grade 2 winner who had got within a length of Grade 1 success in the 2015 Hennessy at Leopardstown. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.After finishing second at the Cheltenham Festival he came out on top in a thrilling tussle to the line with the similarly progressive hunter Vaucelet.

When he died and the horse was moved to Windsor House there was an equine pool to swim around and Corky Browne, the head lad, couldn't believe how powerfully he could swim. Mullins has transformed Its On The Line from a maiden hunter chase winner at five to reach the top of the tree at six. He completed the season with a hat-trick of hunters' chase triumphs plus a fall, and the following year he emerged as an outstanding six-year-old when recording five hunters' chase wins and second place in the 1978 Whitbread (now Bet365) Gold Cup at Sandown behind the Tommy Stack-ridden Strombolus. He assisted Caroline's fledgling training career until his death at the far-too-young age of 68 when he was claimed by cancer.Grittar failed to win in another two seasons of racing while invariably attempting to defy the burden of top weight. Sale wrote of Baulking Green’s last race: “Broke down behind What A Myth at Newbury (on three legs from two out but would not be pulled up).

Libby says: "Frank would not pay a lot in stallion fees, reasoning you had no idea what you would get and the foal might die in a week. Greater historical note revolves around the age of his amateur rider, Dick Saunders, who at 48 became the oldest person to ride a National winner, a record that remains intact 38 years later. She adds: "He was a character, and he was staggeringly good at swimming, which we discovered after my father dug a trench on the farm, filled it with water from a brook and Spartan Missile would plough up and down.Enda Bolger’s star Hunter Chaser narrowly denied Colin McBratney’s Marito in the Cheltenham Foxhunters, whilst in the Aintree equivalent with Jamie Codd deputising for his suspended regular partner Nina Carberry, the Exit To Knowhere gelding proved to be eight lengths too good for Dineur.