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EQUUS INTERNATIONAL HORSERACING NEWS FROM BRITAIN 2014
Your adventure into the world of Global Horseracing
A warm welcome to Nicholas Godfrey (GB) (Racing Post)
A Warm Welcome to Stuart Riley today:
"NEW AWARD TO FIND WORLD'S BEST RIDER.
"Performance in top races decides champ. "
"Opportunity to reach audience on a global scale. "
"The introduction of a worldwide jockeys' ranking system should be commended and, while there are one or two flaws that will need ironing out, the potential is massive.
"It will be interesting to see how the rankings evolve over time. A weighting based on performance versus market expectations, a rolling yearly ranking system like golf and tennis, adding a zero or two to the scores to make it sound more impressive and a final end of season International Group 1 with the horses to be ridden by the top-ranked jockeys in market order all spring to mind as possible developments.
"The new championship may reward riding the best horses for the best people as opposed to the best possible ride, but it is a simple and quantifiable method of deciding the most successful jockey each year.
"Racing needs to do far more to put the spotlight on the jockeys. They are by far the most marketable individuals within the sport - young, brave and living a jetset lifestyle, which makes them easier to promote than the horses.
"Jockeys are the stars who can appeal to the wider sporting audience, and this now gives them a platform. "
PERSPECTIVE: GLOBAL HORSERACING ADVENTURE
Clive
Brittain, was the canny purchaser of Jupiter Island paying 10,000 guineas
saying later that he bought Jupiter Island because he thought he saw some of
the old horse [St Paddy] in him. Clive sold Jupiter Island to Felixstowe-based
owners Jack King and Stan Threadwell (who had ridden around 20 winners as an
apprentice with Charlie Pratt in Lambourn in earlier days), They were
Clive said ‘the type of owners of whom you would think “well, they deserve it”
. But Messrs Threadwell and King had to show some patience. Indeed
another friend encouraged Clive to get rid of the horse after his first and only
run as a two year old.
A warm welcome to Nicholas Godfrey (GB) (Racing Post)
A Warm Welcome to Stuart Riley today:
"NEW AWARD TO FIND WORLD'S BEST RIDER.
"Performance in top races decides champ. "
"Opportunity to reach audience on a global scale. "
"The introduction of a worldwide jockeys' ranking system should be commended and, while there are one or two flaws that will need ironing out, the potential is massive.
"It will be interesting to see how the rankings evolve over time. A weighting based on performance versus market expectations, a rolling yearly ranking system like golf and tennis, adding a zero or two to the scores to make it sound more impressive and a final end of season International Group 1 with the horses to be ridden by the top-ranked jockeys in market order all spring to mind as possible developments.
"The new championship may reward riding the best horses for the best people as opposed to the best possible ride, but it is a simple and quantifiable method of deciding the most successful jockey each year.
"Racing needs to do far more to put the spotlight on the jockeys. They are by far the most marketable individuals within the sport - young, brave and living a jetset lifestyle, which makes them easier to promote than the horses.
"Jockeys are the stars who can appeal to the wider sporting audience, and this now gives them a platform. "
PERSPECTIVE: GLOBAL HORSERACING ADVENTURE
On the Racing Road: The Ultimate Journey to the Racecourses of the World Hardcover –
3 Sep 2007
by Nicholas Godfrey (Author)
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"Ever been bored with
office life? Nicholas Godfrey was. That's why, armed with a rucksack and a
sense of adventure, he jettisoned the security of a senior job at the Racing
Post to travel the world chasing after racehorses in an amazing eight-month
journey. Godfrey went around the world three times in the end, covering around
80,000 miles across four continents in search of horse racing in all its
various shapes and sizes - from the world's most prestigious races held in the
most advanced racing nations to the sport's backwaters, where it barely exists
at all. Join the 'Bill Bryson of the Sport of Kings' in this humorous account
of going to the races in the four corners of the globe."
PERSPECTIVE: GLOBAL EQUUS A RACING RIGHT ADVENTURE
Clive Brittain Equus Zone Timeline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Brittain
The Life and Times of Jupiter Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Island_(horse)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Brittain
The Life and Times of Jupiter Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Island_(horse)
Chapter
Eleven
Page 129 to 143
Page 129 to 143
Jupiter
Island Wins In Japan
Jupiter Island Timeline
(23
February 1979–25 July 1998)
“It
is probably fortunate for the official handicapper‘s peace of mind that there
are more horses of Jupiter Island’s type around” . Timeform
1983
“Clive once said that, after Pebbles’ successes,
his greatest satisfaction was winning the Japan Cup with Juniper Island, the
first British-trained horse to take that rich prize.
“Juniper Island came back from a severe injury and
even to get him back for racing in that season was something special. To win
two on the trot and on ground he hated [it was very firm] in Tokyo was a
terrific performance and gave me a real sense of achievement. “
About
The Japan Cup
http://japanracing.jp/en/information/jai/japan-cup/
Japan Cup (G1) 2014
34th running
Sacred Sunday November 30
http://japanracing.jp/en/information/jai/japan-cup/schedule.html
http://japanracing.jp/en/information/jai/japan-cup/
Japan Cup (G1) 2014
34th running
Sacred Sunday November 30
http://japanracing.jp/en/information/jai/japan-cup/schedule.html
Jupiter
Island had special associations all the way for Clive. He was sired by the
Derby winner St Paddy, whom Clive had ridden regularly during his days with
Noel Murless, and was one of the consistently successful clutch of foals bred
by his popular owners, Henrietta and Robin, Lord and Lady Tavistock, from their
bargain-buy mare Mrs Moss. The Tavistocks, good friends of Clive and Maureen
had bought back Jupiter Island towards the end of his career to race in their
purple and white striped colours.
“Mrs
Moss, who was by the good miler Reform out of Golden Plate, won just once at
five furlongs from her four starts and how Lady Tavistock, the former Henrietta
Tiarks, now better known as the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, came to acquire
Jupiter Island’s dam was an intriguing story in itself. “I bought my first
filly foal in 1965 and my husband thought the whole thing was absolutely
nuts. He kept thinking, “If I give her absolutely no assistance and never
let her buy anything she’ll get tired of it” . Well, I didn’t. The National
Stud used to ballot their stallions and when Grundy went there, I put our name
in for the ballot and we drew a nomination to him. This was a little
embarrassing as we hadn’t got anything good enough to send to him and my
husband said, “You’d better go to the sales and buy something” . I was very
excited. I was actually allowed to go and buy something proper, but only
once. Anyway , Mrs Moss walked into the ring. I looked at her and my hand went
up. I promise you, it was absolutely involuntary. I was unconscious of
doing it. The hammer went down and she was mine for 2,000 guineas. Then I
panicked because I hadn’t looked at her in advance. I went outside and she had
a club foot. I went to Ray Fitzjohn, the vendor, and said “I’ve done something
really stupid, will you take her back ? He just looked at me and said. “You
bought her, you keep her”. So she did and 12 of Mrs Moss’s 13 foals, including
Jupiter Island were winners.
“Surprisingly,
considering that his half-sister Pushy (by Sharpen Up) had a few days earlier
added the Cornwallis Stakes to the Queen Mary Stakes she had won earlier,
Jupiter Island fetched £10,000 guineas as a yearling at the Houghton Sales. The
Duchess admits that, although she had him prepared for the sale by an expert,
Jupiter Island didn’t look the part. He had not cost a lot to produce – not
only had his mother cost only £2,000, but his father St Paddy , who was not
fashionable, was only £350 as a stallion that year- and, while Pushy was a
sprinter, Jupiter Island was going to be a stayer. On the other hand, by then
everything that Mrs Moss had had was a winner. I think Jupiter Island was Mrs
Moss’s fifth foal.
ST PADDY'S
A GLOBAL EQUUS RACING RIGHT
British Derby winner 1960
“The
trainer recalls that before buying him he had noticed that Juniper Island had
rather small feet, which would probably mean soft ground would not suit him. “
Clive
says: “I bought Jupiter Island for
10,000 guineas with one bid. Then Stan Threadwell and Jack King, the King of
Canvey Island (they had all the holiday camps), had the horse between them. He
ran at Wolverhampton (2yo 1981) and Willie Carson rode him. Willie came back
and said “This is one for the sales, Clive, one to get out of” I said, “I don’t
know, I think he could be a decent horse” “Oh no, he didn’t give me a good feel there, “
said Willie. Although I thought about what Willie had said, Wolverhampton was a
turf track then and the ground was soft and with those little pointed feet he
wasn’t going to run on ground like that again. It was too heavy for him. So
then we won a couple of races with him and he developed.
“In July 1984 Jupiter Island was five years
old.
Clive told the Sporting Life Weekender:
“We
gave Jupiter Island just one run as a two year old because I always felt that he
was like his sire St Paddy who won the Derby in 1960. Jupiter Island was only a
frame when I bought him as a yearling in 1980 he then developed slowly at three
(1982) and four (1983) to mature at five. (1984) I always thought he was capable
of winning a Group three, possibly a Group One when he reaches his peak and am
still of that opinion. I have thought about laying him out for the Arc.’
“The
St Paddy comparisons continued:
“St
Paddy tended to pull if he found his rider was a bit jittery. You (the rider) had
to be in charge, otherwise he would be. Jupiter Island is more relaxed but still
lets you know if he doesn’t like anything.
more later
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