Posts tagged Timmy Murphy
Ghizao wins Andover Novices’ Chase
Dec 29th
Ghizao stamped himself as the leading two-mile novice chaser seen in Britain so far this season when he won the Bathwick Tyres Supports Heros Andover Novices’ Chase at Newbury. A 6lb penalty, for winning a Grade Two race at Cheltenham last month, meant that, on form, Paul Nicholls’ horse would be closely matched with Captain [...]
Ghizao wins Independent Newspaper Novices’ Chase
Nov 14th
Despite having won the race for times in the last 10 years – and seven times overall – the markets ignored the Paul Nicholls runner in the first race at Cheltenham. Not anymore after Ghizao won the Grade Two Independent Newspaper Novices’ Chase, with Timmy Murphy becoming the latest jockey to profit from the misfortune [...]
Murphy rises above statistics
Jan 22nd
It was Benjamin Disraeli who first coined the phrase about “lies, damned lies, and statistics,” and when Timmy Murphy passed the post first on Wizard Of Edge at Taunton yesterday the statisticians will have made a note. It would be to the effect that it was Murphy’s 1,000th jumps winner in Britain, which leaves him [...]
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