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CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL 2013
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Tuesday March 12 to Friday March 15
BRITISH HORSERACING
CHELTENHAM JUMPS TURF CHAMPIONSHIPS
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Rodney Masters:
NICKY HENDERSON'S FESTIVAL TEAM
"Cheltenham's record-breaking trainer talks us through his exciting squad."
A HORSE BY HORSE SEVEN BARROWS SPECIAL GUIDE
(p 2-5)
"Cheltenham's record-breaking trainer talks us through his exciting squad."
A HORSE BY HORSE SEVEN BARROWS SPECIAL GUIDE
(p 2-5)
"NICKY
HENDERSON is fine-tuning a team of 35-40 horses for the Cheltenham
Festival but he was adamant yesterday
that it was "utterly impossible" to repeat last season's
record - breaking achievement of seven winners at the meeting.
record - breaking achievement of seven winners at the meeting.
"He
is 8-13 favourite with William Hill to be leading trainer, for the jumps turf season 2012 - 2013 , but considers
another seven winners is beyond reach. "I've no chance, somebody said the
other day I must be joking about that, but honestly, I'd settle for one winner.
It's so competitive and difficult...."
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TEAM HENDERSON HORSERACING ADVENTURE GUIDE
Equus Zone Form Reference File (taking a closer look)
Punters Zone Form Reference File (taking a closer look)
A must read, a must keep, for your very own reference file " British Turf Jumps Reference File Season 2012-2013." For all those starting out on their very own adventure into horseracing worldwide.
This can be developed in two -parts in two different files if needs be: It's up to you.
British Turf Hurdle Racing.
(small hurdles three foot) (over several differant distances)
(small hurdles three foot) (over several differant distances)
British Turf Chase Racing
(big fences four to five foot and up) (over several differant distances)
(big fences four to five foot and up) (over several differant distances)
Tom
Segal unearths a value bet for the big festival event.
(p 16-19)
EQUUS ZONE
Two of Tim Fosters Horses at Exercise the Ridgeway Berkshire
The wide open downland turf running along the Ridgeway
THE INDIPENDENT
Obituary: Tim Forster
ONE OF THE GREATEST BRITISH HORSEMEN
TURF JUMP PIONEER
ERA OF TIM FOSTER. FRENCHIE AND DAVID NICHOLSON. FRED WINTER. STAN MELLOR .
TOBY BALDING. NICKY HENDERSON'S DAD
FULKE WALWYN: A Pictorial Tribute
True horsemen who have worked tirelessly against all adversity to achieve the standard of turf jump racing we will enjoy over the 2013 Cheltenham Festival in 21 days time.
TURF JUMP PIONEER
ERA OF TIM FOSTER. FRENCHIE AND DAVID NICHOLSON. FRED WINTER. STAN MELLOR .
TOBY BALDING. NICKY HENDERSON'S DAD
FULKE WALWYN: A Pictorial Tribute
True horsemen who have worked tirelessly against all adversity to achieve the standard of turf jump racing we will enjoy over the 2013 Cheltenham Festival in 21 days time.
Thursday
22 April 1999
IF HIS renowned pessimism had somehow rubbed off on his
horses, it is highly unlikely that the trainer Tim Forster would have won the
lowliest selling hurdle, let alone three Grand Nationals.
Forster's
affectionate but gloomy outlook was probably best summed up by his instructions
to the American amateur Charlie Fenwick, rider of Ben
Nevis in the 1980 National. "Keep remounting," Forster
told him. Fenwick didn't have to remount once and instead, in gruelling
conditions, steered the 40-1 shot home to give Forster his second National win.
Forster's huge affection for
steeplechasing came at the expense of hurdles and Flat racing, both of which he
came close to loathing. He often joked that were he ever to become an MP, one
of the first things he would do would be to outlaw them.
With a family closely involved in
racing, an Eton education and service with the
11th Hussars (he was widely known as "The Captain"), Forster was a
near identikit of many people's idea of a stereotypical trainer. For all his
traditional background and appearance, though,
Forster's training techniques were deceptively modern, especially towards the end of his career when he adopted with some success the interval training approach inspired by Martin Pipe. Interval training involves working horses over short distances more than once, rather than giving them a single, sprawling gallop. Forster increasingly grew to believe that horses, like cattle, thrived on routine rather than variation in their training.
Forster's training techniques were deceptively modern, especially towards the end of his career when he adopted with some success the interval training approach inspired by Martin Pipe. Interval training involves working horses over short distances more than once, rather than giving them a single, sprawling gallop. Forster increasingly grew to believe that horses, like cattle, thrived on routine rather than variation in their training.
After spells assisting Geoffrey
Brooke and Derrick Candy, Forster first took out a licence to train in 1962 and
it was just a year later that he sent out his first winner at the prestigious
Cheltenham Festival, the prolific hunter chaser Baulking Green. By that point
he had already moved from his original base at Kingston Lisle, in Oxfordshire,
to Letcombe Bassett near Lambourn in Berkshire .
His first National winner, Well To
Do, was willed to him by the gelding's late owner Heather Sumner, who said
Forster was to choose one of the horses she owned. He chose well, as proved
when Well To Do, in receipt of significant weight from the 1970 National winner
Gay Trip, won the race in 1972.
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