"I was given no opportunity," she recalled, "and the worst horses to ride".
With fondness we remember the Turf's worst horses: Amrullah, a serial runner-up, who ran 74 times without winning but surrendered that record to Quixall Crossett, who reached 103 outings without passing the post in front and was described by the Racing Post as "a seriously slow maiden in danger of becoming a folk hero".
Bookmaker Ladbrokes has been hit by the worst Cheltenham horse racing festival in living memory, which left the betting industry nursing collective losses of more than £60m.
Redd Foxx would have been more circumspect than the owners and breeders who came up with the names that landed on their list of the worst-named horses you could think of.
Herewith, the 500 or so worst-named horses of the last decade, all of which have had at least one start on a bona fide North American thoroughbred racetrack in the last 10 years.
Spectators gasped and expected the worst when the horse ridden by Karim Florent Laghouag somersaulted over a fence and fell on top of him at a prestigious equestrian competition last September in France.
In the worst case, when horses fall into the wrong hands, Gilchrist says, "The thoroughbred is born to commit suicide".
The bet is placed on the 9th race, which usually brings out the worst lot of horses of the afternoon, and you pick three to finish in the order you name.
And the hardest time is the middle of the night, when the station administrators are away and the policemen get drunk.In Kursky station, the children nickname the worst of them "Horse-head".
During the early months of rehabilitation, limited by what he could do on his feet, Orozco turned the pommel horse from his worst event to one of his best.
