A LIFE AFTER RACING:.CARIBOO GOLD never went to Plumpton in his long and varied racing career, but these days he goes round the East Sussex East Sussex, county (1991 pop. 670,600), 693 sq mi (1,795 sq km), extreme SE England. It comprises seven administrative districts: Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, Hove, Lewes, Rother, and Wealden. The county, the seat of which is Lewes, borders the English Channel. track more times than the clerk of the course. The former stalwart of Kim Bailey's yard is now in the care of Moppy Peate, Plumpton's marketing manager, and has a big test awaiting him when he and Peate compete in the Thoroughbred and Retired Racehorse racehorse refers usually to thoroughbred but may also include standardbred, trotter. Association Open Hunter Class at the Heathfield Agricultural Show An Agricultural Show is a public event showcasing the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with the occupations of agriculture and animal husbandry. The largest of these comprise a Livestock show on Saturday. Peate says: "Hopefully I can show him off to his best advantage - he's such a good-looking horse. "He did a couple of small show hunter classes last year, finishing second and fifth, but this is the first time he's been at this sort of level." Cariboo Gold started his career on the Flat with John Gosden before joining Bailey and maturing into a decent staying handicap chaser; apart from his Cheltenham Festival effort he also finished fourth in a Whitbread Gold Cup. Then owned by Philip Nelson and his wife, he was lent to Peate on his retirement and spent a year with her brother Ed in Newmarket, leading the yearlings and the breeze-up horses and showing a rare turn of foot in the process. "He's very strong and we picked up speeding fines on many a morning," says Peate. "It was all very expensive in the pub afterwards, that's for sure! "When I moved to Plumpton he came with me and is stabled in a livery yard opposite the racecourse - the Nelsons still drop in to see him a few times every year. "I ride him out around the inside of the track at six every morning before work - he's still a sharp ride even though he's settled down a bit since last year. "On the Downs, a juggernaut can whistle past and he's fine, but if he spots a very scary gorse gorse: see furze. gorse Any of several related plants of the genera Ulex and Genista. Common gorse (U. europaeus) is a spiny, yellow-flowered leguminous shrub native to Europe and naturalized in the Middle Atlantic states and on Vancouver Island. bush he can whip round, drop his shoulder and unseat me." This equine Barry John is benevolence BENEVOLENCE, duty. The doing a kind action to another, from mere good will, without any legal obligation. It is a moral duty only, and it cannot be enforced by law. A good wan is benevolent to the poor, but no law can compel him to be so. BENEVOLENCE, English law. and obedience itself, however, when he's not `on duty', as Peate says: "He's the kindest horse imaginable. He doesn't mind children clambering all over him, and if I tell him to follow me to the feed room, he follows and stands there quietly." STEVE DENNIS CARIBOO GOLD Age 15 b g Slew o'Gold - Selket's Treasure (Gleaming) Race record (Flat) 4 runs, 0 wins, 4 places; (jumps) 34 runs, 8 wins, 13 places Best performance Runner-up to In Truth in the 1998 Fulke Walwyn/Kim Muir Chase at Cheltenham Now At livery in Plumpton CAPTION(S): Cariboo Gold and Moppy Peate: "He's such a good-looking horse" |
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