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Night Nurse (horse)

Night Nurse
SireFalcon
GrandsireMilesian
DamFlorence Nightingale
DamsireAbove Suspicion
SexGelding
Foaled1971[1]
CountryIreland
ColourBay
BreederEleanor Samuelson
OwnerReg Spencer
TrainerPeter Easterby
Record35 wins, 3 flat, 19 hurdles, 13 chases
Earnings£174,507
Major wins
Fighting Fifth Hurdle (1975)
Irish Sweeps Hurdle (1975)
Champion Hurdle (1976, 1977)
Scottish Champion Hurdle (1976)
Welsh Champion Hurdle (1976, 1977)
Templegate Hurdle (dead heat)(1977)
William Hill Hurdle
Free Handicap Hurdle
Sean Graham Trophy Chase (1979)
Black & White Whisky Gold Cup Chase (1979)
Mandarin Handicap Chase (1982)
Pennine Chase (1982)
Red Alligator Chase (1980)
London & Northern Group Chmp. Nov. Chase (1979)
Awards
Timeform rating: 182 (hurdle)
(highest ever given for a hurdler)
Last updated on 19 December 2009

Night Nurse (26 May 1971 – 1998) was an Irish-bred English-trained National Hunt racehorse. Night Nurse garnered 35 wins, winning a total of £174,507 viz. He won 3 races on the flat at 3 and 4-years old and placed 3 times; he also won 32 National Hunt races, 19 wins over hurdles and 13 wins in steeplechases from 64 starts.[2] He was awarded the highest Timeform rating ever given to a hurdler and has been acclaimed amongst the greatest ever hurdlers.[3]

Background

Night Nurse was a bay gelding bred at the Cloghran Stud in Ireland by Eleanor Samuelson, the daughter of Dick Dawson. He was sired by Falcon out of Samuelson's mare Florence Nightingale. At the Newmarket Houghton sale in 1972 Night Nurse was sold for 1,300 guineas to the trainer Peter Easterby.[4] During his racing career he was owned by Reg Spencer and trained by Easterby at his stables at Habton Grange near Malton, North Yorkshire. Night Nurse was ridden in many of his early races by the Irishman Paddy Broderick, who used a long-rein style.

Racing career

Flat racing

Night Nurse failed to win in six races as a two-year-old in 1973 and won once, in a maiden race at Ripon Racecourse, from six attempts in the following year.[5] He won two of his three races in 1975 and finished second in his only flat race of 1976.[6]

Hurdle racing

He won 10 consecutive hurdle races from 1975–76 which included an undefeated season where he won the Welsh, English and Scottish Champion hurdles.

Night Nurse's second victory in the Champion Hurdle is widely regarded as the highest-quality race ever run over hurdles. His Peter Easterby-trained stablemate Sea Pigeon, a future dual winner, was fourth, with the great Monksfield beaten by two lengths into second. A last-flight mistake contributed to the runner-up's defeat, and the pair's rematch at Aintree shortly after in the Templegate Hurdle is still talked about. It was jump racing's most famous ever dead-heat.[7]

Steeplechasing

Night Nurse was successfully switched to chasing and was several times fancied to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup, but the closest he came was second to Little Owl in 1981. [8]

Assessment

Timeform rated Night Nurse at 182, the highest rating ever awarded to a hurdler.[9]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Night Nurse (IRE), bay gelding 1971[1]
Sire
Falcon (GB)
1964 		Milesian (IRE)
1953 		My Babu Djebel
Perfume
Oatflake Coup de Lyon
Avena
Pretty Swift (GB)
1959 		Petition Fair Trial
Art Paper
Fragilite Prince Bio
Fanchonnette
Dam
Florence Nightingale (GB)
1962 		Above Suspicion (GB)
1956 		Court Martial Fair Trial
Instantaneous
Above Board Straight Deal
Feola
Panacea (FR)
1947 		Galene Blue Skies
Static
Toute Vite Vatout
Hurry Off (Family: 3-e)
  • Night Nurse was inbred 4 × 4 to Fair Trial, meaning that this stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree.

References

  1. ^ a b "Night Nurse pedigree". equineline.com.
  2. ^ http://www.goffs-ireland.com/salesdata/63/pdf/150.pdf [dead link‍]
  3. ^ Dennis, Steve (21 August 2017). "Steve Dennis picks ten racing legends who were trained in Yorkshire". Racing Post. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Night Nurse's breeder dies at age of 75". Racing Post. 2 September 1998. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  5. ^ Timeform staff (1975). Racehorses of 1974. Timeform.
  6. ^ Timeform staff (1977). Racehorses of 1976. Timeform. ISBN 0-900599-22-7.
  7. ^ O'Connor, Brian (13 March 2017). "Forty years since Champion Hurdle rated finest ever run". Irish Times. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  8. ^ "Racing: Night Nurse put down at the age of 28". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  9. ^ "Horse Racing Features | Tips and Betting Advice".

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