Great Greys!

[Equine Investor]

Lovely Jubly
Bounding Away
Emancipation
Schillaci
Subzero

any more?




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[mr magic]

Surround, Ming Dynasty, Gunsynd, Raffindale, Silver Bounty, Taksan, Subzero, Grey Sapphire, Grey Receiver

[Privateer]

Grey Sapphire...brings back memories. I owned a handy young horse in the 70's and we took it to Camperdown in western Victoria one day for a 2 year old "country classic" type 1200m race. We thought our horse was a certainty. Unfortunately, Grey Sapphire was in the race.

We finished 2nd....8 lengths away!

[mr magic]

Grey Sapphire was from the same crop as Manikato, Karaman, The Judge, Hauberk etc.
He found it a bit hard to shine against that lot but later on in his career he won some really good races with big weights.

You don't see many grey trotters.

[OneBet]

Great (or very good) greys?

Plush, Savoir, Baghdad Note.

Savoir was unlucky to be running around at the same time as a brilliant grey mentioned above, Surround. But Savoir still managed to win a Thousand Guineas and a Wakeful Stakes in the Spring of 1976 amongst her victories.

Was Horlicks a grey?

[Equine Investor]

Horlicks sure was a grey and won a MacKinnon and Japan Cup!

17 Wins from 40 starts...quite handy.

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Was Bernborough a grey? I thought he was, but he was before my time.

Tulloch was a great grey - that is after you threw grey paint all over him!!!

[mr magic]

Just remembered a few others,
Martello Towers, Rom's Stiletto, John's Hope, Grey Affair, Black Onyx, Ugly Dave Grey.

[Sandgroper]

I think Bernborough was a bay.
Only 3 greys have won Melbourne Cup in past
30 years or so. Two have already been mentioned - Subzero 92 & Bagdad Note 70, the other was Silver Knight in 71.

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[Dude]

I have heard that grey horses make better wet track sprinters. Is there any truth in this ?

Dude

[becareful]

Don't think it qualifies as a great grey but there was a grey in the last harness race at Maryborough - "The Mongrel Grey" - finished 3rd.

Was "Paleface Adios" a grey? It was before my time but a friend of mine claims it was a grey.

[Sandgroper]

Alas the Temora Tornado was a chestnut.

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