Prob a stupid (and lazy) Question

[Weezy]

But are Tankers Town and Toy Town related?

 

[MissDeMeena]

don't think they know how Toytown is breed.. so would say not!

 

[Weezy]

OK cool thank you - just wondered if the "Town" suffix was a breed thing!

 

[MissDeMeena]

Even then they wouldn't be the same, because it's "Tankers Town" and "Toytown" toytown all one word!!

 

[susan_w]

I heard that Zara spotted Toytown at a Pony Club rally (or show). Don't think that they paid much for him - lucky or what?

 

[Bossanova]

Meryl winter produced him as a baby, she was sucessful at novice level on him

 

[TGM]

I read in one of the national papers that he was bought for only £400 - surely that can't be true

 

[Bossanova]

Probably not true, no!!

 

[Ludi-doodi]

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don't think they know how Toytown is breed.. so would say not!

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I saw that on a BE website I think, they know the mare's breeding but father was "unknown"

 

[jackpalfreyman]

Toytown was found in an ad in the horse and hound, i have sit met the lady who produced him, very nice lady too, and had some cracking horses!!

 

[eventrider23]

From what I remember, they paid around £4000 for Toytown. Was probably a typo in the newspaper. Could you imagine what a bargain that would have been at £400??

 

[Ferdinase514]

I read too that he was previously doing PC and was "spotted" by the Phillips'.

 

[H-J]

Still a bargain at £4000!

 

[eventrider23]

Yes definately a bargain. Most of the BIG horses seem to have been bargains that were written of or very cheap. To name a few:

Oaklee Groover - ridden by Rebel Morrow for Australia at Athens. Bought for $300 as a failed racehorse on way to knackers yard.

Poggio - bronze at WEG and bought for $2500 as a five year old when he was being used as a pack horse in the mountains, having already had a failed racing career.

Limestone Rise - I believe was given to Pully Jackson a few years ago as he had failed several vettings and so owners were writing him off. Has now completed Badminton and Burghley god knows how many times.

Drunken Disorderly - owner decided a few years ago that he was no longer 'bothered' with the eventing business and so just signed horse's papers over to Tanya and Gillian Kyle. The horse then went on to Athens in 2004, Blenheim and won the Eventers Grand Prix and the British Open Indoor XC this year.

I am sure that there are many others but it does seem that these top horses have mostly started out as the 'bargains' that no one thought would succeed.

 

[seabiscuit]

There seem to be two or three different stories flying around about exactly where Toytown came from! H&H ad...pony club rally...or simply that Meryl phoned up Mark saying I have a good horse come and look at it!

I seriously doubt that Toytown would have been a cheap buy for the Phillips. Meryl had had several very good placings at Novice and Pre Nov with him and he had consistant clear rounds. He was also jumping 1m 40 tracks at home when the Phillips went to try him out. So dont see how that would be a £4k horse!

 

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the version i heard was that Meryl contacted Mark and said that she had a good horse for him to look at, he did, liked him and the rest is history!!!!!
I heard that he was 'cheap' but didn't actually hear a price......... i would imagine that they meant cheap considering what he has gone on to do but not neccesarilly a cheap horse - if that makes sense..........so simmilar price to all the others at that age jumping those tracks (so not really that cheap) but in hindsight cheap as the others that fetched that price didn't go on to win the european and world titles!!!

 

[ElleJS]

One rumour was that Toytown's sire is Voltaire. I guess DNA is the only way able to find that out.

 

[Sooty]

Well I have read some scandalous things about Voltaire, but that takes the biscuit...

 

[Irish_horse]

PMSL @ sooty!!!

 

[ElleJS]

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Well I have read some scandalous things about Voltaire, but that takes the biscuit...

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He's a pretty amazing stallion? seminal stallion of the 20th century i would have thought?

 

[Patchwork]

I heard that Mark taught/watched (can't remember which) Meryl on him, liked him and said to her that if she ever wanted to sell...

 

[PapaFrita]

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Well I have read some scandalous things about Voltaire, but that takes the biscuit...

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He's a pretty amazing stallion? seminal stallion of the 20th century i would have thought?

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I think Sooty was actually making a joke about a HHOer whose user name is Voltaire

 

[Munchie]

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He's a pretty amazing stallion?

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Oh yeah! One hell of a stallion