Beldale Ball
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Beldale Ball was a brown
Thoroughbred
racehorse stallion
by Nashua
out of the mare San Cat (by Barbizon).
Trained by Colin Hayes
and owned by the Swettenham Stud Syndicate (Robert Sangster
) his best win came in the 1980 VRC
Melbourne Cup
.
Having an undistinguished racetrack career in England as a three-year old he was sent to Australia
and Colin Hayes to train.
Ridden by John Letts
and carrying the featherweight of just 49.5kg he took the lead at the half way mark of the race and was never headed.
His victory was the first Melbourne Cup win for trainer Colin Hayes.
Equine coat color
Horses exhibit a diverse array of coat colors and distinctive markings. A specialized vocabulary has evolved to describe them.While most horses remain the same color throughout life, a few, over the course of several years, will develop a different coat color from that with which they were born...
Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...
racehorse stallion
Stallion
A Stallion is a male horse.Stallion may also refer to:* Stallion , an American pop rock group* Stallion , a figure in the Gobot toyline* Stallion , a character in the console role-playing game series...
by Nashua
Nashua (horse)
Nashua was an American-born thoroughbred racehorse, perhaps best remembered for a 1955 match race against the horse that had defeated him in the Kentucky Derby.Nashua's sire was the good, but temperamental, European champion Nasrullah...
out of the mare San Cat (by Barbizon).
Trained by Colin Hayes
Colin Hayes
Colin Sidney Hayes was a champion trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Adelaide, Australia.During his career he trained 5,333 winners including 524 individual Group or Listed winners. He won 28 Adelaide and 13 Melbourne Trainers' Premierships.-Early days:Colin was born in Semaphore, South...
and owned by the Swettenham Stud Syndicate (Robert Sangster
Robert Sangster
Robert Edmund Sangster was a British businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder. He was British flat racing Champion Owner five times and his horses won many major races, including two Epsom Derbys, four Irish Derbys, two French Derbys, three Prix de l'Arc de Triomphes and a Melbourne...
) his best win came in the 1980 VRC
Victoria Racing Club
The Victoria Racing Club was founded in 1864. It was formed following the disbanding of the Victoria Turf Club and the Victoria Jockey Club. A legacy passed from the Victoria Turf Club was the annual “race that stops a nation”, the Melbourne Cup, which was first contested in 1861.From its...
Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup
The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...
.
Having an undistinguished racetrack career in England as a three-year old he was sent to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and Colin Hayes to train.
Ridden by John Letts
John Letts (jockey)
John Richard ‘Johnny’ Letts is a former Australian jockey whose career spanned almost 30 years, retiring from race riding in 1988....
and carrying the featherweight of just 49.5kg he took the lead at the half way mark of the race and was never headed.
His victory was the first Melbourne Cup win for trainer Colin Hayes.