All our yesterdays.Byline: GEORGE ENNOR September 26, 1978 lWilf Lyde, who started training in 1932 and had accumulated more than 600 winners when he retired in 1966, dies at the age of 84. His best winners included Guineas runner-up Quorum (sire of Red Rum), Come To Daddy (Cesarewitch) and DTJ DTJ Double Talkin' Jive (Guns N' Roses song) DTJ Downey, Thorpe and James (Boulder, CO architects) (Victoria Cup). lIt is too heavy for the stalls to be used at Hamilton, though there was no problem yesterday and the ground is officially soft on both occasions. All the races are started by flag. September 26, 1993 lPat Eddery chooses to ride Wemyss Bight bight, broad bend or curve in a coastline, forming a large open bay. The New York bight, for example, is the curve in the coast described by the southern shore of Long Island and the eastern shore of New Jersey. The term bight may also refer to the bay so formed. (Andre Fabre) in preference to the same owner's Armiger (Henry Cecil) in the Arc. lBarrie Wright is to sue the Jockey Club for loss of earnings. He claims that the rides he had to miss during the two years when he was denied a licence on medical grounds would have netted him a substantial amount. He was declared fit last November. lPlacerville (Henry Cecil), who fractured a cannonbone after winning the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, is sold to stand at the Poonawalla Stud in India. lPrize-money for the Cheltenham Gold Cup The Cheltenham Gold Cup is a Grade 1 National Hunt horse race in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above horses. It is run over a distance of 3 miles 2½ furlongs (5,331 metres) on the New Course at Cheltenham Racecourse during the Cheltenham Festival in March. next year will top pounds 200,000. |
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