Nice list there Auth,  however I'd prefer the excising of those with predominatly Kiwi form.


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1980....Abit Leica

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Abit Leica (NZ) 1980

Aust.Id.: 233985   chestnut gelding

A great list, Authorised, and showing how much more relatively successful mares have become over the last half-century or so.

Here's some more with pretty good records

Alice Hawthorn (1849)
Zoe (1850)
Barbelle (1865)
Petrea (1876)
Quiver (1891)
Pendant (1898)
Marvel Loch (1900)
Wilari (1908)
Traquette (1911)
Molly’s Robe (1915)
Waltzing Lily (1929)
Indian Summer (1958)
Ripa (1960)
Citius (1962)
Begonia Belle (1964)
Leica Show (1971)

Thanks pwa54, The more the merrier   

She had a chequered background, Authorised, and her origins are pretty obscure. "Best Victorian horse of the 1850s" meant she was best of a very ordinary lot!

Alice Hawthorne (Delapre - Dam, Polly McQueen, a half-bred Arab) (1849)

There are all sorts of stories about her origins and pre-racing days. One commonly accepted contemporary version is that a shepherd bought her dam, Polly McQueen, in foal with Alice Hawthorne, on to Andrew Chirnside’s property and when the shepherd died Chirnside took over the horses. Alice Hawthorne was broken in for stock-riding as a 3yo and was a pretty ordinary specimen. At the age of 5 she strayed and “went bush” for 15 months, found on a near-by property in poor condition where she had had a foal by a cart-horse. Her racing skills weren’t recognised until she was put up against a good mare of Chirnside’s, Miss Campbell (later Lady Charlotte). In true story-telling tradition, to her owner’s surprise, she whipped the other mare and was then set for her debut.

She was a Port Phillip champion, not up to the class of Sydneysider, Veno, in their celebrated Intercolonial Match of 1857, but in 1857 and 1858 she was the best Victorian horse. Jack Pollard in his Australian Horse Racing said that she was “the best Victorian horse of the 1850s”

I agree tim if only for the reason that I have had to rebuild the Index several times because of its size.  It only takes a false keystroke to corrupt it and I have had to perform all sorts of magic to get it back.  (Although keeping a back up = peace of mind)

If you are intending to continue with the Internationals (and I hope so) it maybe best to separate them from the Australasians into their own thread.

Would you prefer the Index to an International Index to be combined or divided by country or continent.   If combined I would recommend adding a breeding origin designation.  If divided by country or continent the Index would be on the one page.


My personal preference is to separate the Australasians from the Internationals, and to have separate Indexes (on the same page) for Europe, America and The Rest of the World. 

This could be done by launching a new thread, eg. Race Records of International Champion Racehorses and establishing an index in the opening post. I can easily move the International records to the new thread  OR the links from the International Index could simply point to the existing location of the records.   I would recommend moving the records to the new thread as it would make navigation easier.

All thoughts appreciated....

Why would anyone do this?

I suspect that anyone posting on this thread was born in Victoria and still lives in such splendid isolation.

Ecxellent suggestion, Tonto.

     

Glad for as many names as possible, I was topping out the 100 with far too many modern mares.

Tontonan

Like your idea for the international horses.

Mr Mair

As a Victorian I can think of a heap of places I would rather not be and your place, wherever it is, could well be near the top of the list.  As for this Melbourne v Sydney rivalry thingo, if that is what it is, I have been to Sydney enough to know I quite like some parts of it.

Cheers     

Very OK with it.

I must have a talk with you sometime on how to, or whether to, open up some of my voluminoue but incomplete (and likely to remain so) records of the 1940's to this thread or a parallel tread,

From about 2000to 2012 I built up an enormous amount of detail about racing in the 1940's. It was an interesting time: the death of proprietary racing, the closure of many tracks, the effect of the ome toue Mountainslwar years, the effect of the drought, the growth of the tote, the introduction of barrier stalls and the photo finish.  I looked at all of these trends but the bulk of the work was a detailed seasonal analyses of performance across a range of categories such as for each season the best two year olds, the best three year olds, the best sprinters, the best milers, etc, etc.  I did a lot of work, I lost a lot of it in a computer disaster and I came to a halt some years ago. However there is a lot of good, interesting stuff there and it would be a pity to let it go to waste.

At present I'm on the way back home to the Blue Mountains from Victoria where i have been at one of my grandson's 30th birthday celebration.  After I get back to Leura at the weekend I will have a closer look at what i have left and get some advice from you on what I might do with this stuff.

This driving me insane.  I finally get the table right, it posts perfectly  and everything that follows it is in HUGE font.   I would have thought any changes I made would only effect the content of the message box but apparently not.     

How weird is this ?  When I change the font size of the Hall of Fame heading it changes the font size of everything else on the page that follows it except the content of the table !   

Did you change the content of the table back to 10px ?    I just changed it back to 16px.

I think what happened is that I removed all the font tags from the html  and for some reason the rest of the page took its sizing from the last specified font size (which I used for the heading).  Everything goes back to normal when I removed that specified font size.

I don't mind if you edit the table but I am just trying to work out what is causing what....