PATRICK LUNN

RG the best guide on course bookie those days was tommy morgan, when everybody has 2-1 and him 11-10 you can be sure the horse will come home lonely! When you mention Som Singh you bring back memories for he is the first bookie I had a bet with

mikesack Wrote:

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> Champion Racehorse and Horse of the year 1987 was
> Model Man. Some of his victories were:
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> Schweppes Challenge GP1 by 6 lengths.
> Barclays National R300,000 GR1 by 5 lengths.
> The Mainstay 1800 GR1
> The J&B Met GR1
> Champion Stakes WFA GR1
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> Also ran 2nd in Durban July to Bush Telegraph.
> Runner up to Main Man in Mainstay 1800 beaten
> shortest of short heads.


Model Man was awesome!!

I can see that 600m's to finish so clearly in my head... was a fantastic tussle... I think Robbie Sham was on one of them (Main Man??)

Runner up to Main Man in Mainstay 1800 beaten
> shortest of short heads.

Main Man was ridden by The Guv Jeff LLoyd and was receiving more than 7kg from Model Man.

Was there for the run against Main Man (Jean Hemming), was one of the best races I have ever seen, neck and neck down the straight, marvellous

Tommy Morgan was a legend, together with his stetson he was the most fearful of the bookies, always restricting the odds!!!

I think he was Chairman of the Bookies Assoc.one time?

WOW guys thanks,Thought most people had forgotten me!!!!!!
Nice to see no bad posts yet(tu) all good:D
Yes Model Man was an amazing horse was very unsound but had alot of heart>.and was amazing to work with like all good horses are,
Having trained many group 1 's but to mention a few Model man wining the met when he was airlifted down
The Barclays in jhb when it was rained out on the sat and raced on the wed everybody said he couldnt win cause he was up the for to long and the Match Race with Northern Princess.I remember them like yesterday
But we still around 36yrs later with my small string of 30 horses......

Patrick

And hopefully for another 36 years Pat (tu)

Yes Patrick, many fond memories. I forgot to mention the daughter of Northern Guest named Northern Princess who I think won the Germiston November H'cap for you and then the match race with Senor Santa when Muis rode.(tu)

Patrick Lunn Wrote:

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> WOW guys thanks,Thought most people had forgotten
> me!!!!!!
> Nice to see no bad posts yet(tu) all good:D
> Yes Model Man was an amazing horse was very
> unsound but had alot of heart>.and was amazing to
> work with like all good horses are,
> Having trained many group 1 's but to mention a
> few Model man wining the met when he was airlifted
> down
> The Barclays in jhb when it was rained out on the
> sat and raced on the wed everybody said he couldnt
> win cause he was up the for to long and the Match
> Race with Northern Princess.I remember them like
> yesterday
> But we still around 36yrs later with my small
> string of 30 horses......
>
> Patrick


Yip Gregbucks hasn't found this post yet:D

Well Done to the Lunn Stables ( Patrick and Lloyd)

I have fond memories of this stable in particular. Why?
Cos it is because of this stable that I had started taking horse racing seriously (1981).

I happened to be associated with a gentleman who was very close to Patrick's brother Tony (A.J). This friend of mine was the "bag man" for Tony (so I was told). He would carry the suitcase with bundles of money to punt.
We have heard many stories recently about people being the PA king etc,etc . Tony was the original PA king.
Taking a PA straight line 1000 or 2000 times and perms of R36.00 or R72.00 for R 5000.00 in the 1980's was a big deal.

The Lunn's stable knew how to line up a horse. They were a fearless punting stable with a small string but loyal owners. They had an incredible strike rate. I remember the match race with Northern Princess vs Senor Santa.
Senor Santa was short in the betting at around 4/10 and NP was 4/1. Gavin Howes rode SS and I think Michael Roberts was on NP. All the talk was about riding tactics.
The Lunn's stable and Roberts bragged on race day about how they had intended to win the race by going to the front. These rumours played right into the hands of Howes who tore away to the front with Senor Santa while Roberts sat patiently on Northern Princess. The rest is history.

Famous jocks viz, Dougie Whyte and B. Marcus rode winners for the stable. I seem to remember that the best strike rate was achieved with Lawrence O' Donoghue.

Most of their horses that the stable had achieved success with, has already been mentioned in this thread.
I loved one of the lesser known horses which I think was called Speak No Evil owners by my late friend Mr Eadie.
Oh! Who can forget another owner "van der Westhuizen" ( affectionately known as Kid Colt). How many of you still remember those picture story magazines - Kid Colt and Apache etc . Well, Mr van der Westhuizen was Kid Colt.
Years later he later had a horse named Kid Colt ( I think with Tony Rivaland).

Those were the good ole days.

agra some of your facts above are incorrect but will let patrick correct you