Lear Fan versus Rainbow Quest

[tikey1978]

..... iam collecting rainbow quests and currently have 3 fillys ... all of which have fantastic tempraments , BIG fan !

[Beyondthegold10]

I have Lear Fan's son, Lear Note, A big guy 17:2 hand He's my best friend........ We have come a long way together. He always gets alot of attention when we go out !

[RawrManRawrrr]

Rainbow quest is my horses (ess of norway) grandfather. Proud moment :')

[martinh103]

R.i.p Greville .

[sexykatieful]

omg lear fan is amazing! so beautiful! lol i have one of his granduaghters named deer fan she is the best and has her grand dads looks! teehee lol

[mabbrey]

lear fan shoudl have won everything!!!!

[brucklay227]

Thanks Marcus for jogging my memory of Jeremy Tree. A real Englishman and a damned decent trainer. He trained many high classed horses at Beckhampton for top notch owners in those days from great sprinters to crack solid stayers. Those were the days when racing was for racing; now the bookies call every tune and so the industry is spinning on its heels trying to find out where it all went wrong. If it works why try to fix it?

[ComteLafon]

Roger Charlton was his assistant and has carried on in very much the same proper fashion. If a little more PR-consciously!

[quick46]

Because the idiots in charge of the sport know nothing of it's history & only actually 'like' the sport because there's a nice car/salary to go with their positions. They have no idea other than to dumb down the sport more & more. They actually think the BBC coverage is a step in the right direction these days, which is laughable. It's the only sport where the coverage treats the followers like imbeciles & thinks interviewing drunks is pertinent to the coverage.

[naashead]

finished school that yeay - great racing memories - dont forget the bobsline / noddys ryde cheltenham showdown too

[Pactrolus]

This was a wonderful time for British racing. And fair play to Graham Goode he seemed to know what superb animals these two were before they went on to the greater glory of their later careers. No one would have thought El Gran Senor could outclass them in the 2000 Guineas. But, he did. How that horse got beat in the Derby is almost a big a disgrace as Dancing Braves defeat.

[marcus18365]

Well I looked after Quest for Fame, son of Rainbow Quest. Won the 1990 Derby. I worked at the stables from 1981 to 1992 for Jeremy tree , Roger Charlton

[davidgalaxyaffair]

I was always a great fan of Steve Cauthen and always followed him. A fantastic race.

This battle with Greville Starkey reminds me of Alphabatim and Gold N Ivory when Steve won on the latter, a big outsider in the Royal Lodge overcoming the Guy Harwood favourite.

Great racing and commentary. Thanks for posting.

[brucklay227]

These two wonderful horses went on to do very well at stud siring many stakes winners. Can anyone post Lear fan's impressive two year old races in the Fitzroy House Stakes at Newmarket and the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster?

[december2364]

That's right,He did win those races as a 2-Y-O and was 3rd behind El Gran Senor and Chief Singer in the Guineas, but I'm sure he won a big race in France where he beat Palace Music as a 3-Y-O. A good animal from a vintage time on the flat.

[brucklay227]

You're right he won the Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deaville in August and ridden by Pat eddery (Starkey was banned at the time)and this race stamped approval to hold title Championship miler in a fantastic year of racing talent. I cannot recall a vintage year quite like that year.

[december2364]

Thanks for that brucklay.

[brucklay227]

These two wonderful horses went on to do very well at stud siring many stakes winners. Can anyone post Lear fan's impressive two year races in the Fitzroy House Stakes at Newmarket and the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster

[39italians]

ahh 1984,easily the best flat season regards to top class horses,both these two were put in there place by el gran senor,also add chief singer,pebbles,katies,teenoso,­habibti,commited

commanche run,sadlers wells,secreto etc.

[55whitedove]

very good point 39italians, what a year that was!!

[samynonthegreen]

Tremendous race

[terryhulley]

lear fan,so under estimated.

[Andy1077]

didnt know rainbow quest had passed away !

two cracker horses though(lear fan the other )

[sachahuista]

Who's the commentator here, please?

[RobinCarmody]

Commentator on the early stages I think is John Penney, on the second half of the race it's Graham Goode.

[willibaldcornfed]

I'm not sure about that. It sounds like Raleigh Gilbert at the start.

[rockybudgeboa]

RIP Dear Rainbow Quest