Winston Churchill's Racehorses - Collens, Rupert
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Churchill loved horses, army, hunters and polo ponies. This book investigates his less appreciated but highly successful ownership of racehorses from 1949 when his first runner, Colonist II, won at Salisbury in September, until his last in October 1964 at Newmarket when Honeycomb was unplaced. Churchill died three months later. Although Churchill only owned 40 horses, they competed in 394 flat and 30 National Hunt races, of which they won 70 on the flat and 8 over jumps. Considering how relatively few horses ran in his colours, he had a remarkably high percentage of good or well above average…mehr

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Churchill loved horses, army, hunters and polo ponies. This book investigates his less appreciated but highly successful ownership of racehorses from 1949 when his first runner, Colonist II, won at Salisbury in September, until his last in October 1964 at Newmarket when Honeycomb was unplaced. Churchill died three months later. Although Churchill only owned 40 horses, they competed in 394 flat and 30 National Hunt races, of which they won 70 on the flat and 8 over jumps. Considering how relatively few horses ran in his colours, he had a remarkably high percentage of good or well above average ones, notably Colonist II, High Hat, Vienna, Dark Issue, Welsh Abbot, Tudor Monarch on the flat and the good hurdler Sun Hat. The book devotes separate chapters to each of these horses and includes details of all his horses' 424 starts and lists the 78 winners in chronological order.
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RUPERT COLLENS is a pen name for a very well-known racing character, Sir Rupert Mackeson Bart. Now well past his 80th birthday, many regard him as a racing national treasure like his deceased friends Sir Peter O'Sullevan and Lester Piggott. Aged fifteen, he was riding fast work for local point to point trainers in his native Kent in the mid-1950s. Not allowed to ride in public until aged eighteen by his parents, he rode point to point winners in the UK and Ireland, and flat race winners in Belgium and Germany. For the past forty years he has been a familiar sight on racecourses selling racing books, many written or ghosted by himself, and prints. In fact, he has traded on forty-four of the current racecourses in the UK, and numerous in Ireland and France.