WE WERE ALL MAD ABOUT THE BOY!
Daily Record|March 11, 2025
TALK turns to an exclusive club when three-time Champion Hurdle and Cheltenham Gold Cup winners come under discussion.
WE WERE ALL MAD ABOUT THE BOY!

But for the Queen Mother Champion Chase - Energumene's application goes before the committee on Wednesday - that club has one member, and one member only.

Badsworth Boy, who reigned between 1983 and 1985, was trained in the powerbase of National Hunt racing in the early 1980s not in Co Carlow or the south west of England, but the Dickinson family base of Tony, Monica and their son, Michael, in Harewood, West Yorkshire.

Third in the 1979 Triumph Hurdle, Badsworth Boy barely tweaked his jumping technique for fences, when his aim to spend the minimum time in the air risked spending too much time on the floor.

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