Let's ditch the Long Walk - the Baracouda Hurdle is a better fit
Here's a quiz question I'm guessing will catch out a number of you. Who or what is the Thyestes Chase, the three-mile-one-furlong slog staged at Gowran Park, named after?
Seeing as I'm in a rather benevolent mood I'll give you three options. Is it: a) Named after a staying chaser from the 1960s who won a clutch of races at Gowran; b) A town in County Kilkenny; or c) A smart two-year-old who was trained in Wiltshire in the 1930s?
The answer is c), and how a two-year-old, who was retired after winning the National Stakes and Rous Stakes, ended up being commemorated in a staying chase requires further explanation.
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