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Quote Sport Unquote

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Horse Racing

 

The trial began in Lake Charles, Luisiana of a jockey accused of hiding his horse in dense fog to win a race at Evangeline Downs.

 

In one stride he was bounding smoothly along; in the next, his hind legs stiffened and refused to function. He fell flat on his belly and when he stood up he could hardly move ... The dream was over and the race was lost.

Dick Francis on Devon Lock and the 1956 Grand National

 

Horses have always run women pretty close when it comes to making fools of men, and Desert Orchid made a lot of us, including regular jockey Colin Brown, follow our turkey and Christmas pudding with a helping of humble pie when he annihilated his rivals in yesterdays King George VI Chase at Kempton Park.

John Karter

 

The Americans used to say that a calvary officer would ride a horse until it dropped dead and then an Apache would come along and get it to go another 20 miles. That’s how it was with Lester(Piggott).

Jimmy Lindley

 

Why should I smile? They’d be throwing things at me if I lost.

Lester Piggott

 

Eating will now be an entirely new ball game. I might have to buy a new pair of trousers.

Lester Piggott, on his retirement

 

They’ve nicked our race. What do we gain by handing over Epsom to oil-rich Arabs and international gadabouts who have as much true spirit as the average Chelsea thug.

Sun newspaper on Kahyasi winning the Derby, an American born horse, owned by an Ismali prince, trained by an Italian and ridden by an Irishman. Forgetting to mention that the paper is owned by a naturalised American born in Australia

 

Northern Dancer was a feisty, gutsy, complex character, who always knew he was number one. He hated it when mares were brought to be mated with other stallions on the farm. He thought they should all be for him and went berserk.

Charles Taylor.