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The Mersey Novices' Hurdle is a Grade One National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Aintree , Merseyside, over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and during its running there are eleven hurdles to be jumped.
Sickle's bloodline legacy came through his son Unbreakable who sired the 1945 Preakness Stakes winner and the 1947 American Champion Sprint Horse, Polynesian. Polynesian in turn sired the US Racing Hall of Fame inductee Native Dancer who was rated No.7 in the Blood-Horse Magazine List of the Top 100 US Racehorses of the 20th Century.
Old Billy (also called Billy or Ol' Billy) was the longest-living horse on record. Old Billy was verified to be 62 at his death. [1] Born in Woolston, Cheshire, England in 1760, [2] Billy adventured and became a barge horse that pulled barges up and down canals. Old Billy was said to look like a big cob/shire horse, and was brown with a white ...
Barton was a light-coated chestnut horse with a white blaze [1] bred in Somerset by the Conkwell Grange Stud. During his racing career he stood over seventeen hands high making him an unusually large Thoroughbred: he was described as having a "narrow frame" and a long neck. [2]
Campbell moved on from the Mersey sound to the newly evolving psychedelic scene, renaming the band to The 23rd Turnoff. The name was taken from the motorway sign indicating the nearby M6 exit. [2] Here he found his Liverpool roots placed him at a disadvantage, with the scene establishing itself in London. [3]
It ran from a northern terminus in Levenshulme, southwards along Stockport Road and Wellington Road North, to a southern terminus by the George Hotel on Mersey Square, close to the River Mersey. It was a double track standard gauge 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm ) line, with horse-drawn trams, and was about 2.25 miles (3.62 km) long.
His dam was the imported British mare Mersey, whose sire was Knowsley. Carbine was inbred to Brown Bess in the third and fourth generations. [2] He was a half-brother to the stakes winning stallion Carnage who won the Victoria Derby, Champagne Stakes, Spring Stakes, and Essendon Stakes. When fully mature, Carbine stood about 16 hands 1 inch in ...
“Mairzy Doats” is a novelty song written and composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston.It contains lyrics that make no sense as written, but are near homophones of meaningful phrases.