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Turf talk: Persian Punch's final furlong was the most fitting, the home straight at Ascot
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NO RELATIONSHIP lasts forever. Ask Tony McCoy and Martin Pipe. Ask
Mick Kinane and Aidan O'Brien. Above all, ask Martin Dwyer.
Because you can't ask his partner, Persian Punch. He was such a
smart horse he might have answered when he was alive, but he
definitely can't now.
Relationships between human beings, and between humans and horses,
are often easily sundered. Such edifices come and go like sandcastles
on a tidal beach. You build them up, invest time, emotion and effort
in them, then you watch them slurry away, usually in a disintegrating
miasma of confusion. And sometimes everything ...
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100 FAVOURITE HORSES: Persian Punch; `In both races he looked beaten, but he just would not have it. Down goes his head, out stretches his neck and he just gallops on`.(Sports)
; ...announcement was audible. Number two was Persian Punch, who had once again come from what...North Pole in the post-race excitement. Persian Punch is the people's horse - far and away...memory they went home with was that of Persian Punch and another last-gasp win. There seems...
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The top ten; Persian Punch; `In both races he looked beaten, but he just would not have it. Down goes his head, out stretches his neck and he just gallops on`; George Ennor on the evergreen stayer whose determination and zest for battle has won hearts by the thousands.(Sports)
; ...announcement was audible. Number two was Persian Punch, who had once again come from what...North Pole in the post-race excitement. Persian Punch is the people's horse - far and away...memory they went home with was that of Persian Punch and another last- gasp win. There seems...
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Persian Punch plans to lead from the front
; ...loitering in the Melbourne Cup -- if Persian Punch gets his way, warns trainer David Elsworth. Persian Punch is renowned for his relentless, front-runni...he was not necessarily expecting Persian Punch to go straight to the front. He said...
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Persian Punch: `In both races he looked beaten, but he just would not have it'.(Sports)
; ...announcement was audible. Number two was Persian Punch, who had once again come from what...North Pole in the post-race excitement. Persian Punch is the people's horse - far and away...memory they went home with was that of Persian Punch in the Jockey Club Cup and another...
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Persian Punch: Persian Punch return ends in tragedy as he collapses and dies in Sagaro.(Sports)
; ...return, not a tragic farewell, for Persian Punch at Ascot yesterday. His death following...Dwyer in front of the stands where Persian Punch was lying prostrate, having collapsed...of all time by Racing Post readers, Persian Punch was bidding to win at Ascot for the...
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'With Goodwood whipped up into nothing short of frenzy, Persian Punch clawed on to his lead for the final agonising strides, tens of thousands willing him home, willing the winning post to come in time. It did'.(Sports)
; ...racehorses have touched the public like Persian Punch. Here, in the week before Glorious...never-to-be-forgotten horse WHAT was arguably Persian Punch's finest hour came 12 months ago, when...in the direction of the green gates, Persian Punch went in without the assistance of ...
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Persian Punch - what the professionals say: `How best to market racing? Hope he maintains form and runs for another seven years!'.(Sports)
; ...display courage like Giant's Causeway, so Persian Punch is right up there as one of my favourites...racegoers would have gone away remembering Persian Punch beating Cover Up, two ageing old plodders...day. Cash Asmussen, who twice rode Persian Punch I remember when I rode him I had ...
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Persian Punch: Tributes.(Sports)
; Ray Cochrane, three-time winning rider of Persian Punch It's a real tragedy. Persian Punch was a lion of a horse and an absolute gentleman...you. Richard Hughes, twice a winner on Persian Punch He was a very brave horse and he probably...
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Bouquet of the week: Persian Punch such a pleasure for his trainer and public alike.(Sports)
; ...Johnston THE bouquet this week goes to Persian Punch. What a star he is. Clearly, if the...the action to really understand what Persian Punch has achieved. We trainers and owners...something special. I was delighted to hear Persian Punch's owner, Jeff Smith, say that he had...
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Racing: Spencer faces ban after Boreas spoils Persian Punch party ST LEGER MEETING Luca Cumani's stayer denies Flat racing's most popular veteran another success but victory comes at a price for the jockey
; ...denying Flat racing's greatest trouper, Persian Punch, a 10th Group victory. He ought to...bit disappointed that he had to beat Persian Punch to do it," the trainer said. "He didn...be beaten and I feel sorry for him. Persian Punch is the most popular horse in training...
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