Two Sundays have passed since a six-year-old mare named Profound Beauty won a listed race in Ireland called the Saval Beg Stakes. Most racing fans haven’t heard of 2,800-meter race, but followers the Melbourne Cup know it very, very well. That might be because the only two horses from Europe ever to win the world’s most prestigious two-miler – Vintage Crop in 1993 and Media Puzzle in 2002 – both won the Saval Beg.
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September 30, 2009 – 12:00 am
Director Simon Wincer and the hero of The Cup, two-time Melboune Cup winner Damien Oliver.
TOWN MOOR is no ordinary racecourse. To label it as such is like calling the Tour de France “a strenuous country ride” or Buckingham Palace “the home of a London family”. Town Moor is to thoroughbred racing what the barren plains of Marathon are to long distance runners: heroic, historic, defining.
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Also tagged Carl Nafzger, Dermot Weld, Doncaster, Edward VII, English St. Leger, Ireland, Media Puzzle, Melbourne Cup, Michael Kinane, Nick Zito, Town Moor
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This is a particularly gratifying note and a great way to break from the gate on this project. It comes from a great friend of mine and colleague from Rice University, the one and only Eric Alwan, whom I sent an advance copy of the manuscript.
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