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Chaser, on the other hand, connotes a sense of pursuit or following but doesn't necessarily imply the act of catching or killing. Dureing the race I was qatching in hope more than anything, as they were coming of the back straight I though this has a real chance. His final season proved to be 1985, when, as a 13-year-old, he triumphed under Diana in Stratford's John and Nigel Thorne Memorial, a race which in hindsight would have been the perfect farewell.

We got him home and gave him a week, but then asked my uncle, Peter Thorne, who was a vet, to take a look, and he said there was no hope.Few have better memories of the man and his famous horse than Gilman's daughter-in-law Libby Gilman, who married Frank's son Egerton.

The comprehensive guide to the Irish Hunter Chase schedule in recent years, including the full programme of races for the coming season. The following season, perhaps rusty for his season's debut as an eight-year-old and carrying the familiar weight of 12st 10lb, Spartan Missile missed out on his annual opening-day Sandown win before scoring at Warwick, but a suspensory ligament issue curtailed further action. There are 15 hunter chases and two point-to-point bumpers scheduled for this Spring up until the start of May.She adds: "He was a character, and he was staggeringly good at swimming, which we discovered after my father dug a trench on the farm, filled it with water from a brook and Spartan Missile would plough up and down. Saunders' role in the success will never be underestimated, and after he retired the horse failed to win in another two seasons of racing despite assistance from some of the best professional jockeys, yet Grittar's life revolved around his owner/breeder/trainer Frank Gilman, a man of many parts but with his heart in Britain's smallest county, Rutland.