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'Special mare´ Flakey Dove dies aged 30

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Flakey Dove (2)

Flakey Dove (2): earned nearly £250,000 during her remarkable career

  PICTURE: Mark Cranham (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Bruce Jackson 9:00AM 13 FEB 2016 

FLAKEY DOVE, the remarkable mare who boasted the 1994 Champion Hurdle among 14 successes in a 44-race career, has died at the age of 30.

One of the greatest mares in jump racing history enjoyed her finest hour when carrying Mark Dwyer to a stirring defeat of Oh So Risky and Large Action ten years after the most famous of all jumps mares, Dawn Run, had won the same race.

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“She took us all to the big places and always ran with credit wherever we took her,” said trainer Richard Price on Friday.”We knew she was special after she won her bumper at Ludlow just six weeks after being broken in. She retired from breeding six years ago without producing anything to match.

“She couldn’t go on any longer and was put to sleep. It’s sad but we’re left with great memories.”

Flakey Dove was bred by Tom Price, the Leominster trainer’s father, and delivered enormous success for a small operation founded on her grandam Red Dove and mother Shadey Dove.

The popular performer earned nearly £250,000, with her first notable win coming under Dai Tegg in the mares’ novice hurdle series final at Newbury in 1991, while the following year she won at Aintree’s Grand National meeting. 

She was seventh to Granville Again in the 1993 Champion Hurdle but over a two-month period the following year reached dizzy heights. She posted a 20-length success under Richard Dunwoody in Haydock’s Champion Hurdle Trial before cruising to a seven-length victory in the Cleeve Hurdle – then a two-mile-five-furlong Grade 1 – only seven days later. 

After a fine third in the Tote Gold Trophy she returned to Newbury to win a now defunct Grade 2 by 20 lengths. Ten days later Flakey Dove was a Champion Hurdle heroine. And just 18 days after that she won her final race, a Flat conditions event at Haydock.

 

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