nigel twiston davies - mad moose question

thesaturdayman

lads, what a training performance to be fair! a 9 yo staying chaser (relative failure to his expectations as a 5 year old!) re invented as a flat horse... runs away with decent 1m 4 maiden and then places in a group 3 on the flat on his second run...

must be one of only presenting offspring to place and group level and almost definitely one of oldest....

can anyone give me a few national hunt horses (older the better) that have placed at group level on the flat? i was totally stumped trying to think of any!!

well done on the punting today men too read this site for nigh on 7 years now and only set up a profile other day! kudos!

Overthelast

Rite of Passage

Overthelast

Overthelast wrote: »

Rite of Passage

Actually, my bad, misread, he's not by a NH sire.

thesaturdayman

yea he did it alright to be fair, but bred by giants causeway and flat bred mare!

madmoose

Long live the moose, had him in that race ew at 50/1 the other day and as you say what a performance, surprised he has been getting out of the stalls though the quirky moose.

jimjamcos

madmoose wrote: »

Long live the moose, had him in that race ew at 50/1 the other day and as you say what a performance, surprised he has been getting out of the stalls though the quirky moose.

Using a fecking computer now too!!.. Is there anything you can't do Mad Moose??

kksaints

jimjamcos wrote: »

Using a fecking computer now too!!.. Is there anything you can't do Mad Moose??

Start a jumps race?

Johner

jimjamcos wrote: »

Using a fecking computer now too!!.. Is there anything you can't do Mad Moose??

The bastard also likes to lose me money by refusing to race.

jimjamcos

kksaints wrote: »

Start a jumps race?

Hahaha touche...everyone has their small faults! :P

klairondavis

thesaturdayman wrote: »

can anyone give me a few national hunt horses (older the better) that have placed at group level on the flat? i was totally stumped trying to think of any!!

Vintage Crop won a bumper and two hurdles before he ever ran on the flat. He made a mess of the second last when travelling ominously well in the Champion Hurdle the March before he won the Melbourne Cup.

UrbanSea

Alderbrook won a Prix Dollar and one of the very few top class hurdlers that was an entire horse

Sir des champs

Theatreworld runner up in 3 champion hurdles won numerous flat races

UrbanSea

Hurricane Run won an Arc and was just beaten by Shamardal in a French Derby and was champion 3 year old and has won 2 Champion Hurdles.

stretchaq

Hurricane run : hurricane fly two different horses

fangee

UrbanSea wrote: »

Alderbrook won a Prix Dollar and one of the very few top class hurdlers that was an entire horse

And I backed him at 33/1 before he won his Champion hurdle !

Please note SRFC this is not after-timing as I'm not sure the internet existed back then.

BQQ

You don't need the internet to aftertime, unfortunately.
Anyway, it exists now, which is when you're doing the aftertiming

fangee

BQQ wrote: »

You don't need the internet to aftertime, unfortunately.
Anyway, it exists now, which is when you're doing the aftertiming

Yeah but lack of internet at the time kind of prevented me from posting it up.

UrbanSea

stretchaq wrote: »

Hurricane run : hurricane fly two different horses

I may have been messing :cool:

Pinesky

UrbanSea wrote: »

I may have been messing :cool:

Reminds me of sunalliance(supreme) novice 2002 overheard a guy telling his mates that Galileo must be a cert given he had won the 2001 Derby.They partied long and hard after their 12/1 winner .

the groutch

i wouldn't be surprised to see Pique Sous run on the flat over the summer, might pick up a couple of decent prizes.

klairondavis

the groutch wrote: »

i wouldn't be surprised to see Pique Sous run on the flat over the summer, might pick up a couple of decent prizes.

He won nicely at Dundalk before Cheltenham. It would be a good way of protecting his handicap mark before a crack at the Galway Hurdle.