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Barry Squair - Love You Lucy |
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Gay3
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Posted: 14 Jun 2020 at 7:21pm |
Wins the G2 Dane Ripper with his 1st ever runner in a group race as he's never had one good enough 'till yesterday & was still riding work 7weeks ago at aged 79 What a legend & with a stable of 3 horses
I heard him on RSN this morning, apparently he tipped her to all & sundry in a Thursday Bris. radio interview! Battered Barry loves Lucy after Dane Ripper triumphLove You Lucy ended Barry Squair’s trackwork riding career when she gashed his hand and dislocated his shoulder but the mare paid him back in spades when she upset the big names in the Group II Dane Ripper Stakes. Squair, 79, has been chasing his racing dreams for more than six decades firstly as the leading rider on the Darling Downs and then since turning his hand to training three decades ago. He had never saddled up a horse in a Group race before so it was a career highlight when feisty mare Love You Lucy, who also won the Listed Silk Stocking on the Gold Coast in January, stormed home to score at $41 in the Dane Ripper (1400m). Squair turns 80 in October and his wife Valerie has now banned him from riding trackwork after four-year-old Love You Lucy was a bad girl and dumped him earlier in the year. “I dislocated my shoulder and my wife said no more riding,” Squair chuckled after winning the Dane Ripper. He was in the bad books with his wife earlier in the year after the trackwork accident and might be again after hanging up on her during the live interview after Love You Lucy's boilover win. Glen Colless, who was riding Love You Lucy as Mark Du Plessis had chosen to ride more fancied contender Outback Barbie, came from well back in the field and dived up on the inside to get past fellow roughie River Racer ($26) and Winter Bride ($5 fav) in the Eagle Farm straight. “I said don’t let her go early, ride her quiet,” Squair said. “Then I said see if you can get her to outside, but he has come up the inside.” Love You Lucy was the last leg of a monster quaddie which paid $230,865 on the NSW tote. In Good Time ($61 in the Ascot
Handicap), Vanna Girl ($2.10 fav in The Roses) and Gaulois ($9.50 in
the Eagle Farm Mile) were the winners in the previous three legs of the
Eagle Farm quaddie. |
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Wisdom has been chasing me but I've always outrun it!
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max manewer
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Gonna say, he was riding about 60 years ago, had to be a fossil.
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acacia alba
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I took his tip. Have not had a bet since lock down. So lashed out. 10 EW. Thank You Lucy So whats wrong with a fossil ?? |
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animals before people.
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max manewer
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Nothing, AA
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VOYAGER
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This was a Prince Of Penzance price!
Not sure how she started at $41.00 because her Silk Stocking win was good, and she ran well last start. Surely she keeps racing now and aims at the Eyeliner and Glasshouse if they are still on! |
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Remember, it might take intelligence to be smart , but it takes experience to be wise
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early4lunch
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I remember Barry from when I was a child in Toowoomba.He has definitely waited for his turn.thesethings are what I enjoy most in racing and I hope there are more good things abead for Mr and Mrs. Squair.
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Carioca
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I remember him too early4lunch and it makes me feel a little oldhe is what I would call the salt of the earth types, great call.
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