Ardross and Lester Piggott

[tigerarmyrule]

The maestro doing it without fuss or bother.

[napzzz28]

Very boring way of calling the race

[grincher2006]

Ardross the best stayer I have ever seen. consistently officially rated over 130 over a long flat career.

[444malefic]

weee! Go Ardross! I know one of his sons very well, Sunlit Boy, he is a super horse but with out the ambition to succed in racing/chasing!

[marcusallcock]

Another fine horse no-one ever seems to  mention is ALLEGED.Who I think only ever lost 1 race in his career(Dunfermlines St leger)

[brendanweldon]

yes Alleged was a great horse, 2 arcs he won

[tigerboy1966]

Such a dominant horse. He was laughing at them in the last furlong. He also came within a whisker of winning the Arc later that year over a distance half a mile too short for him.

[Pactrolus]

Majestic performance. The great horse could have gone round again. At 4-9 fav he won as he should, but not forget though Little Wolf went on to win 2 Ascot Gold Cups - he wasn't in the same class as Ardross.

[marcusallcock]

theres a big difference between an ascot gold cup and a york gold cup.both little wolf and capstan were out and out stayers whereas ardross had more speed than the two of them put together and york is a tight track which suits the speed horse.lester was great at not giving a horse as hard a race as it needed.look at all nijinsky's races always just doing enough.great horseman

[MEECHIO]

I beg to differ Pactrolus, Little Wolf won the Ascot Gold Cup on only one occasion, in 1983.

[Pactrolus]

You are correct. Perhaps Ardross wasn't as good as I remember!

[colley2k7]

god the racecourse looks dif. i walk my dog there every day and its miles better dint miss a meeting in 2007

[quick46]

Amazin how it's altered innit?