Videos tagged with "1989"

Monksfield- The 1979 Champion Hurdle (Cheltenham) [00:58]
Monksfield (1972-1989) was an Irish-trained National Hunt racehorse who won the Champion Hurdle in 1978 and 1979. Monksfield was seven years old when jockey Dessie Hughes rode the horse to victory at the 1979 Cheltenham Champion Cup. Monksfield was trained by Des McDonogh and owned by Dr Michael Mangan.
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Monksfield- The 1978 Champion Hurdle (Cheltenham) [01:13]
Monksfield (1972-1989) was an Irish-trained National Hunt racehorse who won the Champion Hurdle in 1978 and 1979. Monksfield was six years old when jockey Tommy Kinane rode the horse to victory at the 1978 Cheltenham Champion Cup. Monksfield was trained by Des McDonogh and owned by Dr Michael Mangan.
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Horse Racing 1985 Henry 8th Nov Chase Sandown. Desert Orchid [03:35]
Back in the day when the great grey showed us he was a legend.
Tags: horse, racing, national, hunt, dessie, desert, orchid, horseracing, grey, gold, cup, sandown, cheltenham, whitbread, arkle, champion, hurdle, chase, irish, grand, tolworth, fairyhouse, ascot, 1989

1997 Preakness Stakes - Full Broadcast [01:08:08]
Silver Charm, who won the Kentucky Derby over Captain Bodgit by the length of his gray head, provided a smashing encore today when he won the 122d Preakness by the same head over Free House, with Captain Bodgit third by another head in a three-horse blanket finish. And he set the stage for the Belmont Stakes in three weeks, when he will be racing to become the first colt in 19 years to sweep the Triple Crown. The three rivals re-enacted their photo-finish performances of two weeks ago before 88594 spectators at Pimlico Race Course with a slight reshuffling of the order behind Silver Charm -- but with the same tingling drive to the wire -- in the closest Preakness in 65 years. The top three once more delivered a formful race, outrunning the leading outsider, Touch Gold, who did not appear in the Derby and who stumbled badly at the start of the Preakness. He closed to finish fourth, within 1 1/4 lengths of the three front-runners flying at the head of the field of 10. 'And we're going for the Triple Crown,'' shouted Bob Lewis, the California beer distributor who owns Silver Charm with his wife, Beverly. ''We need this badly in thoroughbred racing. May the best horse win at Belmont Park.'' Silver Charm is the first horse to have a chance at the Triple Crown in the Belmont since 1989, when Sunday Silence lost the Belmont to Easy Goer, whom he had outrun in the Derby and the Preakness. Bob Baffert, the white-haired, blithe spirit of racing who trains Silver Charm, has waited ...
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Desert Orchid - 1989 Victor Chandler Handicap Chase Ascot [00:52]
Desert Orchid gives 22lbs and a short-head beating to Panto Prince in the 1989 Victor Chandler Handicap Chase at Ascot
Tags: Desert Orchid, Dessie, Panto Prince, Victor Chandler, Ascot Racing Horse Racing 1989