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Big-time loser in nervous nineties
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MAKE it 99 straight defeats for Quixall Crossett, the world's all- time losing racehorse.
The 16-year-old gelding, so famous that he has his own website, failed to finish a three-mile (4800m) jumps race at the Scottish course of Kelso.
Trained in north England by pig farmer Ted Caine, Quixall Crossett was a 200-1 shot in a field of nine in the Isle of Skye Novices' Chase, won by 2-9 favourite Lord Of The Sky.
Trailing the field for most of the way, Quixall Crossett was well behind when his rider decided to pull him up.
Quixall Crossett's losing streak began in…
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Big-time loser in nervous nineties
MAKE it 99 straight defeats for Quixall Crossett, the world's all- time losing racehorse. The 16-year-old gelding, so famous that he has his own website, failed to finish a three-mile (4800m... |
 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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'Better now than he has ever been' TONY McCOY WEEK.(Sports)
...to be 'the nervous nineties' (two thousand...hundred and nineties, that is...McCoy guided a big, slow, handsome...During that time, he had...before one final big push at the...first-time-blinkered...reluctant loser. McCoy drove... |
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The Orange County Register, Calif., Jonathan Lansner Column.
...this town. This time around, the veteran...free debt. The Big Orange Index...skittish. The Big O's gauge of...decline. These nervous wallets are a...1993, when The Big O fell almost...plunged in the early Nineties, homebuying was...as a slight job loser in the county... |
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