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The majority of Channon’s big-race winners were sent out from West Ilsley Stables, which he bought from the Queen in 1999 but had been forced to put up for sale last year after being refused planning permission. Doped” is a great read and one of those rare things, a book about racing that is really hard to put down. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2001 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel while being interviewed at his West Ilsley racing stables near Newbury. [34] Football honours [ edit ] Frank Archer: A must read! The Tin Man, a semi-fictional story based around the amazing Fred Archer, his life and times! Excellent.

As far as I’m concerned, we’re going to be having a full season here at West Ilsley and then whatever happens after that we’ll have to see.” But this is no extended bout of maudlin introspection, simply an attempt to put into words what it's like living one step behind a public superhero – "Embracing Failure in the Shadow of Success" as the subtitle goes. All the owners have been sensational standing by dad and me and I'm blessed to have all their continued support to make training a success. It is evident reading each post-race report that Henderson was becoming more and more nervous every time Sprinter Sacre ran. After a trip to Punchestown in April 2013 that enchanted the Irish racing public, the trainer's worst fears were realised when a hitherto-unseen vulnerability appeared on his return to action in December 2013, as the horse was pulled up by Barry Geraghty at Kempton suffering from atrial fibrillation - a heart problem. Called up to make his debut for the England national team by Alf Ramsey in October 1972, Channon played well enough in a 1–1 draw with Yugoslavia at Wembley to be selected for the squads for two subsequent qualifying matches for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, although he was not eventually in the team for either. [1] However, he won his second cap in a famous 5–0 hammering of Scotland at Hampden Park in February 1973, scoring his first goal in the process. [14]We don’t have a massive team to run on the all-weather and he’s not certain to run in that race, but we really do have a nice team of two-year-olds and a team for the turf which we’ll be building up for April.” This is a racing book with a real difference. It’s a close-up of our sometimes crazy, insular world as seen through the eyes of social anthropologist, Dr Kate Fox. As a football-obsessed kid, I was the complete anorak. It was what I’d grown up with, all I knew and all I cared about. I spent a year with Graham Motion in the States and another with John O'Shea in Australia. And time with Clive Brittain.

Five years after starting, Channon trained his first Group 1 winner when Piccolo captured the Nunthorpe Stakes, and he has since enjoyed success at the top level domestically with the likes of Seazun, Tobougg, Zafeen, Majestic Roi and Music Show. Royal Power provided Channon with his first Classic winner in the 2006 German 2,000 Guineas and Samitar landed the Irish 1,000 Guineas in 2012, while over jumps he trained Mister Whitaker to win at the 2018 Cheltenham Festival. The plan is to start with around 60. Certain Lad is a very decent older horse and there will be the Lincoln and Cambridgeshire winners Johan and Majestic as well as some very nice three-year-olds like Rathgar, Moush and today's runner Caernarfon.Moore, Glenn (15 November 2014). "Scotland vs England: Five classic matches". The Independent . Retrieved 13 June 2023. Channon lasted barely a month at Newcastle before joining Bristol Rovers. [7] His impressive career seemingly on the decline, he failed to score in nine games for Bristol Rovers before a sudden departure again, this time to Norwich City where, at the age of 34, he found some of his old touch. [8] He played 88 games over three seasons, scoring 16 goals, and suffered a mixed end to his Norwich career in 1985 when the club won the League Cup — Channon's second and final domestic honour — with a 1–0 win over Sunderland at Wembley, but were then relegated (with Sunderland) at the end of the same season. [9] [10] Channon joined Portsmouth and Finn Harps (where he played in one League of Ireland Cup game), [11] before retiring from the game in 1986. [12] [13] International career [ edit ] Channon: Ball got Pompey promoted on shoestring budget". The News (Portsmouth). 25 April 2017 . Retrieved 12 June 2023. If you’re still playing top flight football and making things happen while commentators like Barry Davies, Gerald Sinstadt and John Motson are describing you as a ‘veteran’ or ‘an old warhorse’ you’re clearly very good. Remarkable almost. And he was. It's been a great way of life for over 30 years and I can't thank everyone that has helped us enough. I couldn't have got there without them.

Youmzain was a very good older horse who, according to French rules, should have been awarded his first Arc in the race won by Dylan Thomas," said Channon.The ups and downs of an unparalleled career are documented by Brough Scott in Sprinter Sacre: The Impossible Dream, using a wide range of material featured in the Racing Post since he made a winning debut in an Ascot bumper in February 2010. Following the horse's recent retirement, there can surely be no more timely souvenir of a lustrous career. Youmzain (near) just misses out to Dylan Thomas in the 2007 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe Credit: Mark Cranham