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Memorable Quotes... Lester Piggott on his retirement from the saddle in October 1985 T HE REGULAR NEWSLETTER FROM H OMEBRED R ACING 1/2006 told the assembled press “Eating is going to be a whole new ball game - I may even have to buy a Know your rules: new pair of trousers!” Which tipsters Claiming get it right? and selling Did you know? races Snaafi Dancer is one of the The ideal job must be to be The Racing Post Naps most expensive equine flops of a weather forecaster - no Competition lists 52 tipsters and All horses which have come under all time.A bidding duel between one ever expects you to get their league table reveals no less starters orders in Claiming and Robert Sangster and Sheikh it right! Being a tipster must than 44 of them showing a loss to Selling races may be claimed at the Mohammed forced his auction be very much the same £1 level stake on their selections. period showing a profit of advertised price - excepting the Racing Post Ratings was the only £164.00 to £10 each way staked price to a staggering $10.2 although there’s a much winner of a selling race which is million for the yearling son of ‘industry’ tipster doing well (2nd on every selection.This follows offered for sale after the race by greater sense of expectation place) whilst Farrington of the on from results for the previous Northern Dancer. Sadly Snaafi attached to predictions. public auction. Rule 97 states that Dancer became a figure of fun Morning Star was the leader and quarters which provided a every claim must be made in Whilst putting a line under our - allegedly so slow on the gallops Bob Watts (Western Daily Press), £14.40 loss and profits of writing on the appropriate form website’s selections at the end of that the concept of racing was Paul Allen (Coventry Evening £76.00, £53.75 and £708.50 signed by the person making a the turf flat season we wondered ruled out. So he was shipped Telegraph), John Sexton respectively.Overall Inside Track is claim.A claim may also be made by how our own Inside Track off to stud but proved infertile! (Wolverhampton Express & Star), currently showing a profit of well the owner or trainer wishing to Stallion Profile: Septieme Ciel compared with the ‘experts’. Jeffrey Ross (Glasgow Evening over £1000 since 1st June 2004. retain their own horse.The claim The Racing Post monitors every Septieme Ciel was a top class Slew O’Gold, Slewpy and many, numerous Group 1 winners Times), Sam Turner (Shropshire Having said that it is, of course, form must be handed to the Clerk selection in the UK press and miler winning five group races in many more. including American Gypsy, Star) and Mel Cullinan hardly a fair comparison as we’re of the Scales not later than five Stud Open publishes a daily league table of France including the Group 1 Septieme Ciel’s dam is an equally Vivid Angel and Sixieme Sens. (Weekender) were the only others not under pressure to publish tips minutes after the ‘weighed in’ results in their Naps Competition Prix de la Foret. Foaled in 1987 successful line - Maximova being Additionally he should be in the black at the end of the every day.And it’s also clear from announcement.The horse will go Day 2006 which offers £4000 to the leading Septieme Ciel was bred in the a multiple group winner particularly suited to our season.Alarmingly the one the Racing Post’s table that those to the person submitting the claim tipster. It makes sobering reading USA and is the product of two including the Group 1 Prix de winning mare Snowy Mantle apparently closest to the action, sinking towards the bottom but if there are two or more claims and demonstrates precisely why of the very best racehorses of the la Salamandre. Maximova’s dam (dam of Snowed Under and Racing Post’s Newmarket Tipster, throw caution to the wind for the same horses the successful bookmakers ride around in big era - by Seattle Slew out of was also a winner and foaled 3 Divine White) as he reinforces languished near the foot of the hoping that a 33-1 shot might claim will be determined by ballot cars and can afford to winter in Maximova. Seattle Slew won 14 individual group winners whilst elements shared in their table having tipped no less than 152 transform their position. conducted by the Clerk of the the Caribbean. races and was champion 2 and 3 the granddam produced top pedigree tracing back to losers out of 200 selections! And The table also recently illustrated a Scales.The price of any successful pity poor Underhand of the very blank Tuesday when not one year old in the USA winning flight racehorse and multiple Nasrullah and Nearco. We’re very flattered that requests for claim must be paid to or secured to Newcastle Journal who endured 36 of the 55 tipsters managed to find the Kentucky Derby,The Group 1 winner Nonoalco. He initially stood at stud in the date of our Open Day at the the satisfaction of the Clerk of the consecutive losers - a record nearly a single winner amongst all the Preakness,The Belmont Stakes Septieme Ciel’s appeal as a Kentucky for a fee of £20,000 stud get earlier every year! Snapshot Scales within 30 minutes of the matched by the ‘best tipster’ runners from 4 meetings. and the Marlboro Cup to name stallion is not just his exceptional before transferring to France This year it will be Sunday 16 July - It’s smiles all round in the ‘weighed in’ an announcement. Farrington who also managed a And a final interesting fact, for but a few. breeding but his serious where he raced so successfully. and we hope that as many as possible winner’s enclosure at Lingfield Where an owner successfully losing run of 31. So in the light of those that like to stick to the His success continued at stud as racecourse ability at 2 and 3 Septieme Ciel has his first will be able to make it. Everyone Park with Homebred Star who reclaims his own horse the claiming such carnage we’re pleased to the sire of over 110 black type years over distances of up to a season in England this year will be receiving a personal invitation romped home an easy 33/1 favourite in every race, is that the procedure is regarded as being races including many Group 1 mile. He has also proven himself standing at Dairy House Stud in due course together with more winner of the Betdirect Stakes report that by comparison Inside stats show you have less than a one recinded and the horse simply winners such as AP Indy, at stud having already produced in Wiltshire. details about the day. over 1 mile in his comeback Track did rather well over the same in three chance of collecting. remains the property of the owner. race. Martin Pipe has been very successful at improving horses out Course factfile: Newton Abbot Let us have your ideas of sellers and claimers and it can and views... prove a very economical route into Newton Abbot is a small, flat, oval Location: London 220, ownership.The horse is race fit at course of just 1 mile 2 furlongs, Exeter 15 and Plymouth someone else’s expense and its with a very short run in, suiting 23 miles. ability to race is proven - which is very often not the case if buying a nippy types who can slip their Telephone: 01626 horse at one of the recognized sales. field around this turning track. 353235 Going often turns soft very Trains: From quickly even for their early Paddington and via bus summer and autumn jumping Did you know? to course cards. It’s a particularly happy Pregnancy does not necessarily Celebrations: Office: inhibit racing performance. hunting ground for champion Grattons Court, Grattons Drive, Notable wins include trainer Martin Pipe who Thatched Cottege Pound Hill, Crawley RH10 3AG Tel: 01293 884433 Fax: 01293 884201 The Princess (1844 Oaks), monopolizes many of the novice at Kingsteignton Glass Doll (1907 Oaks) and Stud: events.Always allow plenty of (01626) 365650 Prengwyn, Llandysul La Flèche (1894 Ascot Gold time to get in as traffic queues can Cott Inn at Darlington Cardiganshire SA44 4LS Cup and Champion Stakes) who were all carrying foals at (01803) 863777 email: [email protected] be exasperatingly long! www.homebredracing.co.uk the time of their successes. W Post 12-2005 25/9/07 4:53 PM Page 2

back a well-beaten third, four emptying of the lungs so a sudden lengths behind his own barn 500 years explosive expiration is involved; companion Angle Light. the horse coughs. ‘He’s a non-stayer, like all the at a gallop! Infection is often associated with other Bold Rulers’ the know-alls The first recorded racing was at discharge at eyes and nostrils and declared - and even some of Chester in 1540 which today is signs of a sore throat appear, Secretariat’s most ardent followers Britain’s oldest surviving racecourse. causing difficulty in swallowing feared that to be the case. Racing got the Royal stamp of and a soft cough. Obstructions to In fact, trainer Lucien Laurin had approval when Elizabeth I attended the inward air flow will sent the champion into the Wood races at Salisbury in 1580 and invariably produce a noise e.g. ill-prepared for the test. It was twenty five years later James I visited the horse with a hemiparalysed neither the first nor the last time Newmarket. Other key early dates larynx will become a whistler or that Secretariat’s human were Charles II’s patronage which a roarer which will be more connections let him down; established Newmarket as racing’s readily heard at faster paces and granted better luck in that H.Q.The first of the trio of Arab with the head flexed. department, he would probably horses to be imported, and which Prolonged heaving flanks after never have known defeat. are now the cornerstone of the exercise are a warning that the But all went spectacularly well in modern breed, arrived in 1689. muscles have been overstressed the Triple Crown series. By 1740 the first regulation came in relative to the degree of firmness. Ron Turcotte did not make it outlawing any races worth less than easy for him in the Kentucky £50 to check proliferation of the Putting a horse under pressure Derby, dropping him back to last sport and within 10 years the Jockey when it has a breathing problem soon after the start, then having to Club was set up at the Star and can cause long term damage and steer wide when it became Garter pub in Pall Mall, London. ultimately make it prone to apparent that the only clear path The earliest recorded steeplechase breaking blood vessels. would be on the outside. took place in 1752 when When this occurs performance is The supposed doubtful stayer, Mr Edmund Blake challenged seriously compromised and usually Racing Legends: Secretariatmade to run via the longest Mr O’Callaghan to ride a match of ends a racing career. route, thought nothing of the 1 4 ⁄2 miles from the Church of The causes of broken blood When Secretariat won the US never his fault when he did not. inconvenience. He flashed home Buttevant to St Leger Church in vessels, or ‘bleeding’, are still not Triple Crown in 1973, he was the He won the Hopeful and the to an easy victory in track County Cork. fully understood but some first to record that feat in a Futurity, both with complete record time. Problems with heavy breathingracehorses, perhaps through quarter of a century. It was taken authority. and treated stronger In the Belmont, Secretariat not genetics, seem particularly prone. as one of the measures of his opposition much the same in the only lowered the 12-furlong track Racehorse on a treadmill at the Animal Health Trust where research continues Other factors are environmental - greatness that he had achieved Champagne, only to forfeit his record by more than two seconds, Breathing problems in the guide to normality and as a coincides with foreleg strike, and caused by poor stabling and dirty what had seemed to be beyond win on account of his jockey’s but was also clocked inside the measure of fitness. breathing in with suspension. bedding and or hay. Horses are the powers of the modern horse. wayward riding. In the Laurel world record for 13 furlongs racehorse are the single biggest If the horse moves, becomes After exercise, breathing, visible by generally much healthier and Secretariat was foaled, just after Futurity and the Garden State while Turcotte tried to pull him up. cause of poor performance. excited or frightened, there is an the horse’s heaving flanks, happier if kept out. Other theories midnight on 30 March 1970, at Stakes he overwhelmed his rivals. This was acknowledged as the We look at the factors. implicate racing on firm ground. Meadow Stud in Virginia. Although it was not the done greatest performance in any immediate increase in the speed continues fast as the body repays When the horse breathes, air is But studies of random samples of A bright chesnut with three socks thing to name a two-year-old Classic race, with Secretariat first and depth of his breathing. the oxygen debt incurred by severe drawn down into the lungs, from As the horse breathes faster a muscular effort. racehorses show that 80% of all and a diamond-shaped star, the ‘Horse of the Year’,there was no disposing of Sham in a furious Chester - nearly 500 years of racing last and greatest champion son of other option. where the oxygen is transported noise, heard only when breathing The time taken for it to return to runners break blood vessels during battle at top sprinting pace, then Racing colours started to be the outstanding sire Bold Ruler Secretariat dominated his class across the cell walls, through the out, is produced as the compressed the resting rate 8 to 15 breaths a race - irrespective of whether opening out to register a winning registered in the mid eighteenth epitomised all that the word completely at two, and so cells of the alveoli - small air sacs air escapes into the atmosphere. per minute - is a measure of they’ve won or disappointed. margin of 31 lengths. It is hard to century.The inaugural running of ‘Thoroughbred’ implies. He was obviously threatened to repeat in the lungs - and into the blood In-breathing is still silent to the fitness.This to-and-fro fast It seems to be the degree of conceive how any horse in the St Leger at Doncaster was in all power and symmetry, so much the performance at three that a capillaries, thence to the heart ear.As the body-heated air meets movement of post-exercise air bleeding that’s important - but history could have lived with 1779 and other English classics of the beau idéal of his species that syndication deal put together and so throughout the body. a colder atmosphere it condenses also helps to dissipate the heat certainly horses prone to it need him, at any distance, on that the Oaks (1779) and the Derby Charlie Hatton, the most gifted valued him at $6.08 million - an magic afternoon of 9 June 1973. Conversely, carbon dioxide, the to form the characteristic puffs generated by work. special care - running them when (1780) were also established. and experienced racing journalist unheard-of price for any horse, There came four more victories, waste product of respiration, is lost at the nostrils.At faster paces, they’re not right does further It wasn’t until the late nineteenth To meet the demands of work of his day, was moved to write let alone one who had yet to one in world record time for nine from the capillaries to the airways damage. New technology is century that further regulation breathing locks on to the triple parts of the respiratory system that ‘trying to fault Secretariat’s prove his mettle as a three-year furlongs in the Marlboro Cup, and out of the body. helping trainers be certain about resulted in licensing of jockeys, a rhythms of canter, for example, dilate to facilitate air movement. conformation was like dreaming -old.The only way the colt could another in course record time for To the trainer it is simply the when, or when not to run. draw for starting positions and the so that this visible breathing out The horse flares his nostrils when of dry rain’. justify the price-tag was to a mile and a half in the Man o’ breathing in and breathing out, its Tracheal washes are a quick and first starting gate. Strangely, doping breathing out and the head and It is almost a rule of racing that accomplish what none had War Stakes, his first effort on rate and depth and the associated simple test to check that airways was not outlawed until 1910. neck are extended to straighten the best-looking horses do not accomplished for 25 years, and en grass.There were even a couple of sights and sounds that matter as a Snapshot are free of mucus and bugs. The Cheltenham Gold Cup was the ‘pipeline’, and, unseen, the make the best runners. Secretariat route to the Triple Crown the shock defeats, for which his Broodmares Snowy Mantle run for the first time in 1924 - a larynx - the voicebox - opens. broke it, while utilising his 25- sceptics and cynics sat back and trainer was patently to blame. (dam of Divine White) and Fever will speed up metabolism - foot stride to break records too. waited for things to go wrong. At the end of his second season, year which also saw compulsory Royal Brush (Sweep Home) skull caps for jockeys. enjoy an early morning gossip. the rate at which the body burns Did you know? But he did not begin with a win. First time out at three, in the Bay he was an automatic choice for The highest Timeform rating was On his first outing, at Aqueduct, Shore Stakes, Secretariat proved ‘Horse of the Year’again.The Tote betting arrived on 2 July 1929 oxygen - and generate a need for and three years later the Epsom more oxygen, resulting in faster, achieved by Brigadier Gerard he was caught flat-footed when nothing he had not proved three-year-old Secretariat was the who attained a rating of 144 as a the gate opened, then impeded before.The competition was no only horse to whom the award Derby was the first race to be deeper respirations and increased televised. Starting stalls were loss of body heat. 4-year-old.The Brigadier when another runner cut across better in the Gotham Stakes, but came as an insult; the application established a European record of him; 10 lengths off the lead at the there seemed a need to prove of the same term for his introduced in 1965 and the The fever need not arise in the following year the Jockey Club was respiratory system, but when it 14 wins in pattern races (7 Group quarter pole, he finished just over something, so he equalled the outstanding form at two and his 1’s, 5 Group 2’s and a Group 3) in forced to also grant training does, additional signs appear - the a length behind the winner. Aqueduct track record for the monumental achievements at a career of 17 wins from 18 starts licences to women.The latest rate and depth of breathing increase He had eight more starts that year mile.Then came the moment for three seemed inappropriate. which included a comfortable 3 development of real significance and expiration is often forced with a and was first home every time. the doubters to say ‘I told you so’. Those who were present on lengths win over his great rival Thereafter he always competed in Racing for the first time over Belmont day will always insist was the inaugural meeting on an all double lift of the abdominal wall. weather surface at Lingfield on 30 Mill Reef in the 2000 Guineas - top stakes company, and though nine furlongs in the Wood that ‘Horse of the Century’ was a Inspiration is often audible and on the only occasion they met. he did not always win, it was Memorial Stakes,‘Big Red’ came more fitting description. October 1989. there is a need for periodic