Make A Stand (horse)
| Make A Stand | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Master Willie |
| Dam | Make A Signal |
| Damsire | Royal Gunner |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 21 March 1991 |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | R M West |
| Owner | Robert Barnett Henry Candy Kingstone Warren Partners Peter Deal (from September 1995) |
| Trainer |
Henry Candy Martin Pipe |
| Record | 30: 12-3-1 |
| Earnings | £290,026 |
| Major wins | |
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William Hill Handicap Hurdle (1996) Kennel Gate Novices' Hurdle (1996) Lanzarote Hurdle (1997) Tote Gold Trophy (1997) Champion Hurdle (1997) |
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Make A Stand is a retired British Thoroughbred racehorse. In a career which lasted from 1993 to 2000, he ran thirty times, both on the flat and over hurdles, and won twelve races. His greatest success came in the 1996–1997 National Hunt season when he won nine races, including the 1997 Champion Hurdle.
Make A Stand, a chestnut with a broad white blaze, was bred by R M West in 1991. His sire was the Derby runner-up Master Willie Originally sent into training with Henry Candy in Oxfordshire, his best performances came after he was bought out of a claimer in 1995 and joined the stable of Martin Pipe.
Making his debut in 1993, Make A Stand raced on the flat for three seasons. His only wins in twelve starts came in a maiden race at Newmarket in 1993 and a low-grade claiming event at Leicester two years later. Bought for £8,000 he was transferred to the Nicholashayne stable of Martin Pipe in September 1995.
His career as a jumper began with a remote ninth in a Novices' Hurdle at Exeter in October, although the fact that he was sent off 15/8 second favourite suggested than he had shown some potential. He was not seen on the course again for almost six months.
Beginning in May 1996, Make A Stand put together a sequence which saw him racing fifteen times in ten months, winning ten races and improving by fifty pounds on the way to the Championship. He took the lead from the start and generally stayed there. He began with a hat-trick of wins in the space of twenty-four days, by an aggregate margin of thirty-six lengths. Because the wins took place after 1 May, his novice status for the following season was not affected. Returning to the flat in the summer of 1996, he recorded a win and two places from four starts.
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