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Amateur jockey Lorna Brooke has died in hospital following a fall at Taunton earlier this month.

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25 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

I nearly posted this interview from two weeks ago, thinking how well he looked.

Life, eh.

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Aww.  Probably the first "famous" person I met, as a small girl. 

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He signed my programme at Newmarket about 12 years ago and joked about the bookies pen I gave him to sign.

"What's this I know  I'm not very big but that's ridiculous"

Great loss to the sport. RIP  Smokin' Joe.

 

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Trainer Lynn Siddall has died aged 67. Apparently a heart attack as a result of an existing heart condition. She was a Jockey in the early days of lady riders.

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Keep meaning to read "The Sure Thing", the book about his other infamous betting coup (in 2010). This gives me an excuse to buy it.

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2 hours ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

Legendary trainer and punter Barney Curley. Screwed the bookies in a infamous coup which involved amongst other things blocking the race courses only telephone line

 

 

https://www.racingpost.com/news/barney-curley-legendary-punter-and-former-trainer-dies-at-the-age-of-81/487501

Also famous for this legendary interview with Deathlist alumnus the late John McCririck 

 

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On 23/02/2021 at 21:47, arghton said:

However there are many Breeder's Cup Juvenile winners born in the 1980s and early 1990s with no mentioned death date, out of which most have probably already died. (Tasso, winner 1985, Arazi, winner 1991, Gilded Time, winner 1992, Brocco, winner 1993)

https://www.racingpost.com/news/you-were-a-superstar-breeders-cup-legend-arazi-dies-at-age-of-32/498553

Breeder's cup juvenile 1991 winner Arazi dead at the age of 32.

 

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9 hours ago, arghton said:

https://www.racingpost.com/news/you-were-a-superstar-breeders-cup-legend-arazi-dies-at-age-of-32/498553

Breeder's cup juvenile 1991 winner Arazi dead at the age of 32.

 

32 is a pretty good age for a horse. Not many famous racehorses live longer. I can only think of Hallo Dandy (33) and Spanish Steps (34) off the top of my head though there must be others. 

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1 hour ago, Deathrace said:

32 is a pretty good age for a horse. Not many famous racehorses live longer. I can only think of Hallo Dandy (33) and Spanish Steps (34) off the top of my head though there must be others. 

Out of the currently living older racehorses, the fact that Alphabet Soup (got to 30 in March) is still living suprises me the most. Winner of the 1996 Breeder's Cup Classic (3 million  earnings) And also a cancer survivor!

 

Zippy Chippy, known for losing 100 races is also alive and got to 30 in April.

 

Years = "horse age" chart:

10 = 35 1/2

20 = 60

25 = ~72

30 = 85 1/2 (31 = 88, 32 = 90 1/2, 33 = 93, 34 = 95 1/2, 35 = 98, 36 = 100 1/2, 37 = 103)

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Brod Munro Wilson, aged 76. Famous amateur jockey of the late 1970s and early 1980s who rode in the 1981 Aldaniti Grand National and whose unique riding style was described as resembling a man trying to fold a deckchair in a gale https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.racingpost.com/news/like-a-man-folding-a-deckchair-amateur-legend-brod-munro-wilson-dies-at-76/503439/amp

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Random find by going through the DDP names, Clive Brittain looking rough in this video from a month ago:

 

His wife died last year.

Note the hand in the background.

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8 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Random find by going through the DDP names, Clive Brittain looking rough in this video from a month ago:

 

His wife died last year.

Note the hand in the background.

You want to suggest he is a puppet?

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Very odd.  All I can think is that his wheelchair's on a slope and she's making sure it doesn't roll down.  But why not do the interview somewhere flatter?

Looks like he'd had a recent fall.

 

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Death Notice for Sir Peter Gibbings (married to the daughter of the 2nd Viscount Lambert): http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252793/gibbings-sir-peter-walter

 

Interestingly, The Sun covered how, due to Sir Peter's illness, the family refused to run their horse Song For Someone in the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, but that he was recovering back in April allowing the horse to run in the Aintree Hurdle: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/horseracing/14562385/song-for-someone-owner-sir-peter-gibbings-tom-symonds-aintree/

 

Unfortunately, his recovery seems to have been short-lived (no pun intended).

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On 03/07/2021 at 02:24, arghton said:

Out of the currently living older racehorses, the fact that Alphabet Soup (got to 30 in March) is still living suprises me the most. Winner of the 1996 Breeder's Cup Classic (3 million  earnings) And also a cancer survivor!

https://www.secretariat.com/askin-haskin/10/30/2021/happy-anniversary-alphabet-soup/

Interesting article on Alphabet Soup.

He was retired from breeding at the age of 24 and was sent to Michael Blowen at Old Friends Equine Retirement Farm. A couple of years later he developed several melanomas that grew to the size of softballs, and the Stronachs sent Blowen $10,000 to have them treated. Blowen said Alphabet Soup received one treatment a week for four straight weeks and then one treatment a month for four straight months.”

As Waldridge had hoped, the tumors did go away, “He’s better now than he was six years ago, Blowen said.

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On 29/07/2020 at 14:35, gcreptile said:

British international rider Barry Marshall diagnosed with liver cancer and with "not much left to do":

https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/barry-marshall-british-rider-and-judge-diagnosed-with-terminal-cancer-720861


Leonie Marshall, International Dressage rider and founder of the Bradbourne Riding and Training Centre in Sevenoaks, has died at the age of 86. She died on November 10 after a short spell in hospital, just ten months after the death of her late husband Barry Marshall. She had been driving her pony, Amber, on the day she was taken to hospital.

 

I guess there was no Amber alert. :P

 

And yes I’m still pissed off about no DDP obit for Barry.

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