pete Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Great song but Steve was also into horse racing and owned the top 3 year old Cockney Rebel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Rebel_(horse) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesi Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Never heard of him, the band or the horse Pete, but I see that song was a No1 in the UK. Perhaps that was when I was having my 20-year sleep induced by the music of the last 2 decades 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 14 minutes ago, Hesi said: Never heard of him, the band or the horse Pete, but I see that song was a No1 in the UK. Perhaps that was when I was having my 20-year sleep induced by the music of the last 2 decades Song came out in 1975. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesi Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Suppose I should have figured that looking at the video. Still the reference to Katy Perry and Taylor Swift applies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 Very good horse but very ordinary sire. His racing career ended in bizarre fashion. Cockney Rebel, ridden by Olivier Peslier, was a 25-1 chance for the 2000 Guineas (G1) at Newmarket in 2007, but beat Vital Equine, his Champagne Stakes (G2) conqueror, by a length and a half. He proved that there was no fluke about the result when he followed up in the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) at The Curragh three weeks later, in similarly impressive style. He only the second horse in the previous 15 years (and the sixth in racing history) to win both the English and Irish 2000 Guineas Classics. The last horse to achieve the double Guineas feat was Rock of Gibraltar – who ran a slower time than Cockney Rebel in both races. A very sharp miler, Cockney Rebel clocked the second fastest time (1:36.1) since modern timings began in the Irish 2,000 Guineas. He beat winners of nine Group One races, including the locally trained champion Duke Of Marmalade, in this classic. His time in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket was also excellent, as he stopped the clocks in 1:35.2, the best time in the historic classic since 1995. This time was over two seconds faster than the time superstar Frankel recorded in the same event in 2012. Sadly, Cockney Rebel suffered a pelvic injury when beaten as the even money favourite in the St James's Palace Stakes at Ascot and this proved to be his final race. He had been reported to be working well ahead of his planned reappearance but suffered a bizarre injury on the gallops when a piece of paper blew across the field and hit his near fore on the tendon. The news that it would take three months to heal prompted his connections to retire him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesi Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Sounds bizarre, how does a piece of paper damage a tendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 5 minutes ago, Hesi said: Sounds bizarre, how does a piece of paper damage a tendon Yeah scratching my head about that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 Turns out he didn't actually own the horse. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/horseracing/11795956/phil-cunningham-cockney-rebel-2000-guineas/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 11 minutes ago, Hesi said: Sounds bizarre, how does a piece of paper damage a tendon More explanation. You can see I'm a bit bored today: "He was cantering this morning and a piece of paper flew across and his hind leg hit his near-fore on the tendon," Huffer said yesterday. "The vet scanned it and there is a slight injury that would take three months or so to heal. I called Phil Cunningham [his owner] and we have decided to retire him. He's the best horse I've ever had or ever will have. All we want to do now is what's best for him." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globederby19 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Well papercuts do hurt don't they.!!!! Remember the song well though. Speaking of Cockneys, my best mate when living in Sydney in my late teens was one, and used to crack me up at times. " Oi, i'm just slipping on my daisy roots, then im off round the johnny horner ,down the apple and pears, into a sherbet dab and down the dilly." Work that one out. lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesi Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 I went on a weeklong plastics technology course at Uxbridge University in West London quite a few years ago and got friendly with 2 cockney guys. Funniest people I ever met, a few pints of IPA and a curry each night, what a great time 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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