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Preux Chevalier Group 3 October 22 GP
Harness & Greyhounds
JayJay
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Pleasing to see some pre- race promotion from GP for the Preux Chevalier race this week on their facebook and twitter pages, long overdue. They to have probably given up on the Chanel Stokes Racing department. Appropriate to post the demolition job he did on a very stout field in the 1985 NZ FFA at Addington. Absolute super star.
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Pinned back his ears and arched his neck.
Right at the very end of video.
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Ross, this won't dull the pain as we approach the 40th Anniversary of your bet but Pacific Idol was indeed eons away from being in the same room as Preux Chevalier. You did indeed back the best horse in the race by several lengths of the straight. Although the HRA records are far, far superior to anything that our blue blood cousins have (the thoroughbred data bases are lamentable), a fair bit was lost in the "translation" when old manually recorded stuff was converted to digital form. Fortunately, I have a a lot of the old year Books as back up, they are a terrific resource. As such Pacific Idols record on HRA (17 starts, 3 wins, 1 second and 4 thirds for $6263) is incorrect. It is in fact far worse than that. He started life as "Turbine NZ" by boom sire of the day Out To Win from a very unremarkable NZ family, not sure what Roy Annear saw in him but he was cleared to WA in the 7/10/1981. First start as a 3yo saw him heavily backed to record that win over Preux Chevalier at Pinjarra on January 30 1982. It was downhill after that.
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