If you could pick two horses currently in training for a match race..

Karel Miedema Wrote:

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> Tich,
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> I still lived in England then.
> Might dig something from old mags some time.


LOL no prob bud..anything would be a bonus thnx a mil

bad company Wrote:

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> Imagine if jooste put 250k and adams 250k in a
> winner takes all race between variety club and
> gmtgl in CT, that would surely get the crowds to
> flock in. No excuses of draws, pace or gaps with
> striker and marcus riding

And the club to put in R250k - that's what usually happens

Very early 80's, UK, match race with Lester Piggot vs Willie Shoemaker to determine the "greatest". The Shoe won the match but cant remember whom he was riding. But who did Piggot ride? Spanish Pool, before he was imported into SA.

Mac found this on google...



American Champion Jockey WILLIE SHOEMAKER on PRINCES GATE (left) coming home to beat Britain's LESTER PIGGOTT on SPANISH POOL in the Long John Scotch Whisky Challenge at ASCOT. The two horse match over the old mile course was in aid of charity.

Txs Titch

Ah gee tks Titch. I expected to get a barrage of "no-ways" was it Spanish Pool whom Piggot rode 'cos it doesn't seem to be widely known.

Would agree Mac that trivia had me stumped

Superb thread! Makes for great reading!

England XI in South Africa, 1989-90


Combined Bowl XI v England XI at Kimberley, 26-28 Jan 1990
South African Universities v England XI at Bloemfontein, 30 Jan-1 Feb 1990
South African Invitational XI v England XI at Pietermaritzburg, 3-5 Feb 1990
1st Rebel Test: South Africa v England XI at Johannesburg, 8-10 Feb 1990
2nd Rebel Test: South Africa v England XI at Cape Town, 16-21 Feb 1990
1st Rebel ODI: South Africa v England XI at Verwoerdburg, 16 Feb 1990
2nd Rebel ODI: South Africa v England XI at Durban, 18 Feb 1990
3rd Rebel ODI: South Africa v England XI at Bloemfontein, 20 Feb 1990
4th Rebel ODI: South Africa v England XI at Johannesburg, 22 Feb 1990

So it wasnt one of these matches on the same day as the Senor Santa/ Northern Princess match race...Wonder what it was then?

@SAFBETTINGCLAN please ask Karel to do a thread or article on the 80's winter handicappers. Merasyn, Washington, Blue Moves, Fenwick of Bywell, Spider O' Toole, Green Silver, Meet the Press, Heracles, Generator, Mystery Me, Post Master, Up in Lights, Symbolise, Execute, Lucinius, Counter Punch, Front Cover, Lord Randolph, Sunera (9 length debut in heavy), Devon Air (Amos up easy in heavy), Space Shuttle, Cool Sensation, Izindaba, the Ferraris raiders cc @sportingpost

The most tragic match race?

July 1975, Belmont Park, Ruffian vs Foolish Pleasure. 50 000 racegoers and a TV audience of 20 million.

The match race was Ruffian's 11th race. All Ruffian's previous races were won by an average 8 lengths. She equalled two track records and eight stakes records and every record bar the Mother Goose (won by Rachel Alexander) still stands today.

After 600m when Ruffian was in front by a length she smashed her sesamoids in her right front leg. The jock couldn't stop her and she continued running ripping her skin and tearing her ligaments. She went into surgey but when she recovered from her anaesthetic she flailed wildly until the plaster cast smashed her "elbow". She was euthenised.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruffian_(horse)