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HALL OF FAME

EVERY HORSE IS SPECIAL TO ITS SHAREHOLDERS

BUT SOME ARE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN OTHERS!

Oscara Dara

Son of leading national hunt sire Oscar, Oscara Dara was BG Racing’s first horse and was named by one of the shareholders (the name means Oscar the Second) in gaelic.  Oscara appeared on the racecourse in December 2010 when he won a “bumper” (national hunt flat race) by ten lengths.  He was transferred to the yard of top jumps trainer Nicky Henderson the following season and he won his debut for that yard by 20 lengths in a hurdle at Sandown.

After placing at the Aintree Festival in his next race, he was sent over to Ireland where he won at the end of season Punchestown Festival.

Having had one try in a novice chase the following season, he reverted to hurdles to win the valuable Lanzarote Handicap Hurdle at Kempton and later that season finished 6th in the Stayers Hurdle at Cheltenham.  Sadly it was a career plagued by injuries and although he returned two seasons later to win a chase at Worcester, he was injured again and was found a nice home where he still provides his new owners with loads of fun riding around local bridleways and fields.

The Way You Dance

Bought as a replacement for Oscara Dara, TWYD, as he was affectionately known, emulated his predecessor by winning on his BG Racing debut in a flat race at Wolverhampton that was supposed to be a “warm up” for a season of hurdling!

He won two hurdles later that summer and after several more good runs won a fourth race on November 2017 at Fakenham.

Two more wins followed back on the all-weather the following summer before his enthusiasm for racing waned and he was eventually retired from racing.

He was found a nice home and is still seen enjoying himself on Epsom Downs on a regular basis.

Fr Humphrey

Humphrey was an experienced steeplechaser who joined BG Racing on a lease in the summer of 2019 and, after a couple of ordinary runs, we decided to try him in a hurdle to see whether fitting him with a tongue tie would help his breathing.  Apparently it did, as despite treating every hurdle as a fence and clearing them with feet to spare, he battled gamely up the Fontwell hill to win.  He followed that up with a win at Huntingdon and was put away to contest the final of a veterans chase series in March 2020.  Unfortunately days before that race, the coronavirus pandemic caused the suspension of racing and when Humphrey was back in action later in the summer, age was starting to become a factor. After several more good runs, he was sent back to his owner in Ireland where he is enjoying a well-earned retirement.