Acceptances for Broadway Blonde Bash 7/1/06

[Heid]

Well I am from Newbury originally Tikay

Racing is a good subject for me .. not to mention, the last horse I rode had raced at Cheltenham

[TightEnd]

Yes, Major Dick Hern. There was one ALMIGHTY furore when they sacked the poor fella without good reason. Major Hern had a riding accident much earlier, & had been in a wheelchair for years, but had become an astonishingly successful Trainer, & that annoying little Scot, (arent they all?) Willie Carson, rode for him for many seasons.

At the time, Lambourn, Ballydoyle & Newmarket were THE only places to train Group horses, but I hear they train them in all sort of weird places these days, including Dubai, ffs. Dubai! The Sheiks & Arabs will be buying horses & stables next.

Dick Hern was one of my heros

As Tikay said, wheelchair bound because of his accident he trained his horses literally by teaching himself to look at them and know what the training regime should be and assess whether they were well or not

An extremely skilled and naturally intuitive horseman

I think Mick Channon now trains at those stables

  

[tikay]

Yes, he was real "old breed", no spectro-whatsits & fancy vets remedies for him, he could just look at a horse, & know if it was "right" or "wrong".

Mick Channon trans at Highclere now? Sacrilege.

[TightEnd]

I think so Tikay. Not Highclere, that's Ian Balding and family...West Illsley

[tikay]

Ian Balding still trains? Jeez, he must be getting on.

[The_nun]

Arn't you goinf to Walsall Tikay?

[tikay]

Yes Maureen - you coming?

[TightEnd]

Ian Balding still trains? Jeez, he must be getting on.

Handed over to his son Andrew two seasons ago

[tikay]

Ian Balding must be older than Karabiner.

[Karabiner]

Much older, in fact he's almost as old as Tikay.

Many years ago a good friend of mine had a horse with Toby Balding, Ian's brother.

I went up a few times to watch the string on the gallops and then have breakfast afterwards.

Happy days, I still adore National Hunt racing.

[tikay]

Ahh, brekkie in the trainers kitchen, after watching the early-morning gallops, heaven!

I was a Member at the world's greatest racetrack - Cheltenham - for many years, happy days.

Do the Easterby Brothers still train?

[TightEnd]

Peter Easterby was succeeded by his son Tim

Mick still trains

A fantastic part of the world, it is sometimes said that you can walk all the way from Malton gallops to Wetherby races without ever leaving Easterby land....a huge farming and land owning family

[tikay]

They  had confusing initials if I'm not mistaken - "MW" was Peter I think!

Peter - no Mick - no Peter - trained a glorious sprinter, Lochnager, if ever any horse looked like a sprinter, Lochnager did. Beautiful, huge, thick nexk, black, a stunning specimin. As with most Easterby-trained horses, improved greatly with age, they use to "milk" them in the handicaps first, then graduate to Group company. I think Lochnager may have won the Prix D'Abbaye, on Arc day, a race that was always, evey single year, dominated by British trained animals.

[The_nun]

Well Good Luck Tonight Tony..Produce the goods like last night   xx Wish I was going in a way...

[Ironside]

sorry a quiz isnt a quiz without the local knowledge and local history rounds we get them in every pub up here i will bring down some questions for you to use