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Top 10 Irish Horses Ever!

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    #62
    I said
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    sting60 wrote: »
    why do you think we never saw the best of Golden Fleece.vob retired everything early due to the policy of coolmore.best 3yr i ever saw but the best horse i ever saw was a 2yr old storm bird who never trained on.

    Injuries prevented him from running after Epsom so can't really measure him


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    #63
    Itziger
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    sting60 wrote: »
    why do you think we never saw the best of Golden Fleece.vob retired everything early due to the policy of coolmore.best 3yr i ever saw but the best horse i ever saw was a 2yr old storm bird who never trained on.

    Early June in a 3 yr old season is very soon. Shame the horse didn't run against his elders and/or over 10 furlongs later that year.


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    #64
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    I said wrote: »
    Nick Dundee that's the great thing about racing,the what ifs and buts

    The same with Golden Cygnet.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_8KSgxz4pg


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    #65
    Shemale
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    Our Conor is another that could go on that list


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    #66
    NaiveMelodies
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    Shemale wrote: »
    Our Conor is another that could go on that list

    Come on......


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    #67
    Shemale
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    NaiveMelodies wrote: »
    Come on......

    Really? Did you think he was **** and had no potential to be very top drawer?


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    #68
    NaiveMelodies
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    Shemale wrote: »
    Really? Did you think he was **** and had no potential to be very top drawer?

    Sorry- I thought you were referring to the top 10 list as it were!
    I see you were referring to the previous posts though regarding unseen potential.

    Certainly a horse who was going big places.


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    #69
    diomed
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    Pretty Polly (1901)
    The Tetrarch (1911)
    Blandford (1919)
    Ballymoss (1954)
    Arkle (1957)
    Flyingbolt (1959)
    Nijinsky (1967)
    Alleged (1974)
    Sadler’s Wells (1981)
    Galileo (1998)

    Some were Irish bred and English trained.
    Some were USA/Canada bred and Irish trained.


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    #70
    freewheeler
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    Dawn Run gotta be in there somewhere?


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    #71
    barney4001
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    UrbanFret wrote: »
    Arkle
    Flying bolt
    Golden Cygnet
    Dawn run
    Istabraq



    Sea the stars
    Nijinsky
    Ballymoss
    Alleged
    Gailileo


    i have a feeling Vatour will enter the group of elite N/H HORSES


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    Johner
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    freewheeler wrote: »
    Dawn Run gotta be in there somewhere?

    Without a doubt, the greatest mare of all time.


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    #73
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    Johner wrote: »
    Without a doubt, the greatest mare of all time.

    If she was around these days and trained by Willie Mullins, he'd be aiming her for the Mares' Hurdle at Cheltenham, year after year after year......


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    #74
    Baggio1
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    arkle
    flyingbolt
    prince regent
    lescargot
    captain Christy
    imperial call
    Moscow flyer
    brown lad
    istabraq
    hurricane fly

    that's my top 10 jumpers... will leave the flat to better knowledged folks on here :) I did admire very much sts, Nijinsky, the minstrel, giants causeway,


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    #75
    sting60
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    Nulty wrote: »
    Arkle
    Hurricane Fly
    Istabraq
    Sea The Stars
    Nijinsky
    El Gran Senor
    Flyingbolt
    Moscow Flyer
    Monksfield
    Limestone Lad


    Theres a few to get you started

    Living next to draper for years in bullstown tom said flying bolt was the best but arkle proved it on the track.what about the mare anaglogs daughter and the horse with legs of glass montelado.


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    #76
    abarkie
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    sting60 wrote: »
    the horse with legs of glass montelado.

    Isnt he the only horse to win 2 cheltenham festival races in succession?

    He won the bumper when it was the last race on the Thursday ( remember the 3 day festival :rolleyes:)

    He then won the Supreme Novices from Granville Again (from memory,approx 1993)

    Sadly he never seemed to fulfil his potential :(:(


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    #77
    sting60
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    abarkie wrote: »
    Isnt he the only horse to win 2 cheltenham festival races in succession?

    He won the bumper when it was the last race on the Thursday ( remember the 3 day festival :rolleyes:)

    He then won the Supreme Novices from Granville Again (from memory,approx 1993)

    Sadly he never seemed to fulfil his potential :(:(
    I was there when Richard Dunwoody won the bumper 10/1was had for 100k to win 1m and Charlie swan won 9/2 to fortunes.Mick kinane won at the curragh 1/1 got off the horse and said the best handicapper he ever rode,but he broke down after that race.look him up on YouTube he was beast,not flyingbolt,arkle but what he could have been but for legs of glass.


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    #78
    the groutch
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    abarkie wrote: »
    Isnt he the only horse to win 2 cheltenham festival races in succession?

    He won the bumper when it was the last race on the Thursday ( remember the 3 day festival :rolleyes:)

    He then won the Supreme Novices from Granville Again (from memory,approx 1993)

    Sadly he never seemed to fulfil his potential :(:(

    just after watching the youtube vids of those races, the speed he got up the hill was just crazy.


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    #79
    Itziger
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    Wow, that Supreme Novices display was special. They were the years I was away and I had never heard of this horse. Thanks for the heads up.


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    sting60
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    I said wrote: »
    Carvils hill shame about the jumping had everything else

    He was schooled on my land over stone walls.I wrote a report about this and advised martin pipe to buy the horse.


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    #81
    I said
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    sting60 wrote: »
    He was schooled on my land over stone walls.I wrote a report about this and advised martin pipe to buy the horse.

    Thanks for sharing that must have been some sight going over the walls.
    The point I was making was pressure unnerved his jumping.


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