1972 Animal Births - 1972 Racehorse Births, Golden Cygnet, Ruffian, Wajima, Grundy, L'Enjoleur, Green Dancer, Master Derby, Ubre Blanca (Paperback)

Chapters: 1972 Racehorse Births, Golden Cygnet, Ruffian, Wajima, Grundy, L'enjoleur, Green Dancer, Master Derby, Ubre Blanca, Balmerino, Avatar, Foolish Pleasure, Momigi, Monksfield, Ivanjica, Taotao, Gold and Black, Magic Lore. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Golden Cygnet was a racehorse who many racing professionals believed was going to be the next superstar of National Hunt racing after his performance at Cheltenham in March 1978. Described by Irish trainer Vincent O'Brien as "the best hurdler I've ever seen," he suffered a fatal injury in the Scottish Champion Hurdle. His hurdling career had lasted less than five months. Golden Cygnet, a bay gelding, was born on the 21st June 1972 which made him a very late foal in bloodstock terms (on the 1st January 1973 he was officially the same age - 1 year old - as those born 5 months before him). He was from the first crop of his sire Deep Run - who would prove to be the best National Hunt sire of his era - and his dam (mother) was the Golden Vision mare, Golden Cygneture. He turned out to be the only foal of his dam who never set foot on a racecourse. His grand-dam was My Cygneture who never ran either and only had two foals apart from Golden Cygneture, both of whom were colts with one of them being a minor winner. Golden Cygnet was sent to Goffs November Sales as an unbroken 3-year-old in 1975 where he was bought by trainer, Edward O'Grady for the sum of 980 guineas. Golden Cygnet began his racing career as a 4-year-old in a flat maiden over 2 miles at Leopardstown on the June bank holiday Monday. He was backed in to 3/1 from 7's. Although he won the race, he was disqualified for causing interference inside the final furlong and placed second. His next run was in a bumper at Roscommon where he ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1787856