Twenty Years Ago Thursday....1992 Gold Cup - watch and enjoy

[claypole]

Yes, when Trigg and Brent were in nappies, I have such fond memories of this race and it was 20 years ago today - when the Gold Cup was on a Thursday.  I guess it was when I fell in love properly with NH racing.

Cool Ground was trained at Whitcombe Manor in Dorchester - very near where I was bought up.  I went to college with Nick Mitchell, who now trains in Dorset and had The Listener - his dad trained Cool Ground and it won the Kmi Muir when we were doing our A levels - we were all on.  We subsequently went our separate ways - Nick's dad was "moved on" and replaced by Reg Akehurst then, Toby Balding.  However we all had a massive affinity with Jack, as he was known and knew he had a lot of ability.  

If you lived locally in Weymouth, and even more so if you had an affinity with the horse through a mate (I'd also tried it on with his little sister I think, who wenty onto be champion female jockey - its a bit hazy lol) - you had to be on.  I can't remember the exact numbers involved - but from memory I had about £40 EW - the world to me in those days - and the money kept me going for months.

Bought tears to my eyes when I found this - what a ride from Adrian McGuire, he was some jockey and lifted jack over the line - and obv after the recent greats AP, Scu, Ruby-  I put him up there as one just short of the very top class.  Beat a "wonder horse" - there's always one and just fab memories.  Any of you remember it?

GOOD FOR MORALE PRE THURSDAY / FRIDAY.....

Happy 20 year birthday Jack - hope I got the youtube link right

[treefella]

Remember the race well. Was a big hoo ha afterwards with Martin pipe and Jenny pitman. The pipe team blaming carvills hill defeat on the Jenny pitman yard putting the pacemaker golden freeze in the race.
Was one of the first instances of a pacemaker being used as a tactic to get the hotpot fav beat.
Carvills Hill was a huge beast of a horse that used to gallop the field into submission very impressively by setting a furious pace and making all however he always made jumping errors when another horse could manage to get upsides whilst jumping the fence.
Pitman knew this so put a 2 1/2 mile handicapper with no chance in to make Carvill tear off too quickly and aid her other runner Toby Tobias . Her plan would of worked if Toby had enough stamina to stay the trip.

Great race : )

[Girgy85]

23 smacks of the whip

[Josedinho]

Great race and great added info treefella.
My first thought though was that Trigg and Brent were in nappies for a long time.

[istrabraq]

Enjoyed race horse did well looked beat with 2 fences 2 go nice post