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Your favourite horse ever

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  • #32
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    Winx


  • #33
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Flat - Hawk Wing

    Jumps - Istabraq


  • #34
    HarshOstrich
    Registered Users Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭HarshOstrich


    I’ve a few favorites that aren’t superstars, they just ran well anytime I backed them, my fav has to be caspian prince tho, you get everything from him every time and some big price wins down the years.

    Had a soft spot for peddlers cross the year hurricane fly beat him still hurts.


  • #35
    Shemale
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    Sea The Stars & Zarkava - flat


    Denman
    Lough Derg
    Monets Garden
    Neptune Collonges


  • #36
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,211 ✭✭✭secman


    Mr Ed.......... no horse could ever do what he did.


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  • #37
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    Labaik


  • #38
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    TheBoyFromAus wrote: »
    Winx

    :Rolleyes:


  • #39
    AhrSkidar
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭AhrSkidar


    The Galway horses of my youth - Steel Duke, Double Wrapped and Pinch Hitter.


  • #40
    Motivator
    Registered Users Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭Motivator


    For me it has to be Kauto Star. There aren’t too many horses that you look forward to seeing weeks before they run. 2006/2007 was magical. Jesus he was some horse.


  • #41
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,536 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Black beauty


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  • #42
    gimli2112
    Registered Users Posts: 13,407 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    Seabiscuit read a book about him that was fantastic
    Red Rum hard to beat his National record
    Desert Orchid was huge at a time

    Think they really captured the general public's imagination at their prime


  • #43
    Morleystreet
    Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭Morleystreet


    Istabraq.
    Never had a bet on him as was worried I'd jinx him!
    In the days when there were so few Irish trained winners at Cheltenham, he always delivered. A large photo of istabraq proudly displayed on wall in my home, much to the dismay of my wife. ( only a small photo of her on the mantelpiece).

    Also a mention for Morleystreet (......obviously!)


  • #44
    Bangor Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭Bangor Billy


    Can't believe Himself hasn't got a mention. You must all be too young. However, as a Scouser my favourite has to be Rummy.


  • #45
    zoe 3619
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭zoe 3619


    Red Rum definately.
    Don't follow the racing much recently,but yeah,suprised no ones mentioned him.


  • #46
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    Dessie for me


  • #47
    jj mac
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭jj mac


    Moscow flyer. Class act.


  • #48
    Angliru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Angliru


    Sprinter Sacre would be #1. A once in a lifetime horse. Loved Vautour as well, just so effortless. Thistlecrack out of current crop, hopefully he has his day in the Gold Cup, would be one of the greatest stories in the history of the sport.


  • #49
    paw patrol
    Registered Users Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    Angliru wrote: »
    Sprinter Sacre would be #1. A once in a lifetime horse. Loved Vautour as well, just so effortless. Thistlecrack out of current crop, hopefully he has his day in the Gold Cup, would be one of the greatest stories in the history of the sport.

    sprinter sacre for me .


  • #50
    Alpha_zero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Alpha_zero


    My Main man Ray


  • #51
    mickmackmcgoo
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 950 ✭✭✭mickmackmcgoo


    From a gambling point of view had to be Danoli
    Istabraq
    St Nicholas Abbey


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  • #52
    thegills
    Registered Users Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭thegills


    Garrison Savannah. Gold Cup 91 and a great run in the National.


  • #53
    Gringo180
    Registered Users Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    Also a notable mention for the first winner and maybe even first horse I backed. At 6 years of age. Mr Frisk who won the 1990 Grand National.


  • #54
    mirwillbeback
    Registered Users Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭mirwillbeback


    Five pages and no mentions of Best Mate?????
    3 time gold cup winner and a real battler when he needed to be.

    I loved Rooster Booster as well, he used to travel so well and when he won Champion Hurdle on the bridle - wow!


  • #55
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users Posts: 3,916 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Zarkandar. Made me plenty of $$$ :-)

    Used to work with a girl called Hayley O'Connor. And she told me about Zarkandar when it first came on the scene. She was great for the tips.


  • #56
    huey1975
    Registered Users Posts: 493 ✭✭huey1975


    As a child I loved Dancing Brave and his performance in defeat in the Derby was phenomenal.
    The first national hunt horse that I dreamt about was Montelado.
    Relkeel was another hurdler that probably would have won a champion hurdle had he shown up at Cheltenham in peak condition.
    In the Denman v Kauto Star era I was a Denman fan.
    I suppose the main thing these horses have in common is that they probably most remembered for defeats or injuries and not fulfilling their potential.


  • #57
    Pinesky
    Registered Users Posts: 449 ✭✭Pinesky


    I was fortunate enough to be a sports mad 10 year old in 1964 when Arkle and Muhammad Ali won their first Gold Cup and Heavyweight Title respectively . Their stars burn as brightly 55 years later .


  • #58
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    Brock Turnpike wrote: »
    :Rolleyes:

    :) Kingston Town, Octagonal and Red Cadeaux also up there.


  • #59
    paddy no 11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭paddy no 11


    Lamtara, cue card, treve accelerating twice in the arc was breath taking.


  • #60
    BrianBoru00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    Moscow Flyer over the jumps - Privileged to be at Sandown in 2004 to see him beat Azertyuiop and Well Chief.

    On the flat, because of his stud career I think he's often overlooked but Galileo was some animal


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  • #61
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users Posts: 17,962 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    Sizing Europe - That 2011 Queen Mother had me hooked on him!


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