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Cheltenham and Newbury. He then gained his first victory for Philip Hobbs when coming from well off the pace to lead at the last hurdle and win the County Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, with Copeland back in fifteenth. His trainer stepped him up to Grade I class, where he finished fourth in the
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Booster moved up to challenge two hurdles from home, quickened into a clear lead approaching the last, and stayed on strongly up the Cheltenham hill, coming home eleven lengths clear of the second, Westender. His rider, Richard Johnson, said of the
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He began the 2000/01 season with little success, being pulled up at
Chepstow at the beginning of November, before falling at Newbury later that month. He then improved to be placed in his next four races, including Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown and the Imperial Cup at Sandown. His season ended when
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Rooster
Booster reappeared in the 2001/02 season, in a Listed Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham, finishing fifth. He followed up that effort by finishing fifth and fourth in Handicap Hurdles at Sandown and Ascot. In his next two races, he finished second to the Martin Pipe-trained Copeland in valuable
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Wincanton in February 1999, where he finished seventh of eighteen runners. He had six more runs for Richard Mitchell, winning just one of those in the form, a maiden hurdle at Taunton. He was then switched to the yard of Philip Hobbs and made his debut for him in April 2000, finishing
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Booster was a gelding whose grey coat (inherited from his dam Came Cottage) and racing style made him easily recognisable. He was the only horse of any consequence produced by the unsuccessful racehorse Riverwise. He was originally trained by his owner Norman Richard Mitchell in
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Sacundai after Johnson dropped his whip on the run to the finish.
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described him as one of racing's "most cherished champions", while his regular jockey
Richard Johnson said, "He gave great pleasure not only to myself but to the owner and to everyone connected with him".
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Booster began the 2005/06 season with victory at Huntingdon and followed that up with a run in the Greatwood Hurdle, where he finished fourteenth.
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563:"Rooster Booster dies on gallops"
401:"Riverwise | Stud Record"
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423:"Orchard Maiden Hurdle"
18:Rooster Booster (horse)
169:County Handicap Hurdle
1095:2005 racehorse deaths
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305:Champion Hurdle Trial
194:Champion Hurdle Trial
688:1951 Hatton's Grace
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1045:Honeysuckle
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899:Collier Bay
886:Flakey Dove
795:Night Nurse
789:Night Nurse
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667:1946 Distel
658:1941 Seneca
616:1927 Blaris
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184:Agfa Hurdle
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953:Brave Inca
893:Alderbrook
874:Royal Gait
819:Sea Pigeon
813:Sea Pigeon
807:Monksfield
801:Monksfield
721:1962 Anzio
621:Brown Jack
363:References
220:Background
163:Major wins
977:Binocular
959:Sublimity
862:Kribensis
777:Lanzarote
210:racehorse
57:Grandsire
52:Riverwise
1038:Epatante
1007:Faugheen
923:Istabraq
917:Istabraq
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335:and the
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158:£687,541
155:Earnings
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971:Punjabi
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606:winners
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