Flakey Dove
| Flakey Dove | |
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| Sire | Oats |
| Grandsire | Northfields |
| Dam | Shadey Dove |
| Damsire | Deadly Nightshade |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 10 April 1986 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | J. T. Price |
| Owner | J. T. Price |
| Trainer | Richard Price |
| Record | 44:14-10-6 |
| Earnings | £247,879 |
| Major wins | |
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Regency Hurdle (1993) Staffordshire Hurdle (1993) Champion Hurdle Trial (1994) Cleeve Hurdle (1994) Berkshire Hurdle (1994) Champion Hurdle (1994) |
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Flakey Dove (10 April 1986 – 13 February 2016) was a British racehorse best known for her win in the 1994 Champion Hurdle. In a career which lasted from January 1990 until January 1995 she ran forty-four times and won fourteen races. Although she won two races on the flat, Flakey Dove was a specialist hurdler who competed mainly in National Hunt races. She ran in some races restricted to mares in the early part of her racing career, but was mainly campaigned against geldings and entire horses in open competition.
In 1994, her best year, she became the third mare to win the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham Racecourse. Her other important wins included the Cleeve Hurdle and the Champion Hurdle Trial. The Racing Post rated her one of the ten best jumping mares of the 20th century.
Unlike the majority of modern racehorses, Flakey Dove was not a Thoroughbred.
Flakey Dove was a bay mare with a small white star, bred and owned by the Price family of Herefordshire. Shortly after the Second World War, Tom Price paid £25 for a broken down point-to-point mare of uncertain parentage named Cottage Lass. She became a successful broodmare, becoming the ancestor of three generations of racehorses, all of whom included the word "Dove" in their names. As Cottage Lass's pedigree could not be traced to any of the Foundation mares recorded in the General Stud Book, her descendant could not be registered as Thoroughbreds. Tom Price's grandson, Richard, who ran a 400 acre livestock farm near Leominster, trained Cottage Lass's great-granddaughter Flakey Dove threoughout her racing career. Flakey Dove was sired by the Oats, a successful National Hunt stallion whose other progeny included the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Master Oats.
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