I wasn’t quite honest last week as I praised Arkle, arguably the greatest steeplechaser of all time…or to be more exact I was being disloyal. Disloyal to my childhood hero Mill House, who was the magnificent winner of the 1963 Cheltenham Gold Cup, and destined to be the King of steeplechasing for many years. So in 1964, when Mill House was hot favourite to win his second Gold Cup I could only watch in shock as Arkle swept into the lead to record the first of his three triumphs in this…
ContinueAdded by William Micklem on April 24, 2009 at 9:00am — 7 Comments
There is no doubt about it...we need to put our top equestrian brains together and come up with a new design for the horse's head with six main aims:
THE DESIGN BRIEF
1 We need to desensitise the area around the poll.
2 Make the top jaw narrower or the bottom jaw wider so they are both the same width.
3 Move the exit point for the motor and sensory nerves that is just under the cavesson noseband.
4 Fuse and strengthen the delicate ends of the bones at the…
Added by William Micklem on April 3, 2009 at 11:00am — 25 Comments
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