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- Publisher: Highdown (2004)
- ASIN: B00166M1JA
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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It is unusual for the public to take a flat racehorse to heart quite in the same way that they do national hunt horses, but here is one who got to all of us. Better each year that he raced he had his finest hour at the age of 10 when narrowly denied the Stayers Triple Crown but winning the Goodwood Cup and the Doncaster Cup.
For a long time the most significant thing about Persian Punch was that he failed to win a Group 1 contest despite raising the roof at Royal Ascot in the attempt. But he surpassed that and rose to be hailed as the most popular flat horse in training and 'The People's Champion'. Even those clear headed hard hearted lovers of statistics Tony Morriss and John Randall paid tributes to him. Words cannot capture his enormous presence, his will to win, or the great love which the racing public had for him. In his first book Lee Mottershead does his best to portray larger than life Punch, and does not disappoint.
Sadly Punch was to die just before this book was ready to be published and it served as a fine tribute to him.
Punch was the horse we all wanted to own. Hailed by the Racing Post as, 'the bravest of them all' he was great fun. People went racing just to see him as they had Brown Jack the famous stayer of the 1930's. His last win, his third in the Jockey Club Cup at Newmarket was one of those days that everyone remembers. Beaten until a rivals whip hit him across the face he got back up, snatching victory form the jaws of defeat and even those who had not backed him cheered when the result of the photo was called.
Although he never secured that Group 1 he was all that was good about racing and when he died a little bit of racing died with him. Those of us who knew him will never forget him.
If you missed his times, get this book and find the videos.
Read more about him and his statue at Newmarket Racecourse on his tribute website www.persianpunch.co.uk
For a long time the most significant thing about Persian Punch was that he failed to win a Group 1 contest despite raising the roof at Royal Ascot in the attempt. But he surpassed that and rose to be hailed as the most popular flat horse in training and 'The People's Champion'. Even those clear headed hard hearted lovers of statistics Tony Morriss and John Randall paid tributes to him. Words cannot capture his enormous presence, his will to win, or the great love which the racing public had for him. In his first book Lee Mottershead does his best to portray larger than life Punch, and does not disappoint.
Sadly Punch was to die just before this book was ready to be published and it served as a fine tribute to him.
Punch was the horse we all wanted to own. Hailed by the Racing Post as, 'the bravest of them all' he was great fun. People went racing just to see him as they had Brown Jack the famous stayer of the 1930's. His last win, his third in the Jockey Club Cup at Newmarket was one of those days that everyone remembers. Beaten until a rivals whip hit him across the face he got back up, snatching victory form the jaws of defeat and even those who had not backed him cheered when the result of the photo was called.
Although he never secured that Group 1 he was all that was good about racing and when he died a little bit of racing died with him. Those of us who knew him will never forget him.
If you missed his times, get this book and find the videos.
Read more about him and his statue at Newmarket Racecourse on his tribute website www.persianpunch.co.uk
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