Roman Hackle

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Roman Hackle
SireYutoi
GrandsireSantoi
DamWanoya
DamsireWavelet's Pride
Sex
Broadway Novices' Chase (1939)
Cheltenham Gold Cup
(1940)

Roman Hackle (foaled 1933) was a British

National Hunt
racing in Britain was suspended in September 1942 but he went on to win races in Ireland.

Background

Roman Hackle was a "giant, raw-boned"

National Hunt stallion My Prince and the Belmont Stakes winner Amberoid.[4]

During his racing career Roman Hackle was trained by Owen Anthony who had been a successful amateur jockey before taking up training: he had won the 1922 Grand National with Music Hall and trained Thrown In to win the Gold Cup in 1927.[2]

Racing career

Roman Hackle showed great promise early in his racing career, winning several

Broadway Novices' Chase, coming from an apparently impossible position at the last fence to defeat Up Sabre.[5]

The outbreak of the

100/1.[2] In his next start Roman Hackle finished third in the Lancashire Chase at Manchester Racecourse.[6]

Roman Hackle showed inconsistent form in the early part of the 1940/41 National Hunt season[7] but appeared to have returned to something like his best when winning at Plumpton Racecourse in early March. He was started favourite to repeat his 1940 victory in the Cheltenham Gold Cup but ran poorly and finished unplaced behind Poet Prince.[6] Roman Hackle returned for a third attempt at the Gold Cup in 1942 but fell in a race won by Medoc II.[6]

National Hunt racing was suspended in September 1942

Prince Regent.[2]

Assessment and honours

In their book, A Century of Champions, based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Roman Hackle a "poor" Gold Cup winner.[8] Roman Hackle's name is commemorated in Roman Hackle Avenue, a residential street in Cheltenham.[9]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Roman Hackle (GB), bay gelding, 1933[1]
Sire
Yutoi (IRE)
1917 		Santoi (GB)
1897 		Queen's Birthday Hagioscope
Matilda
Merry Wife Merry Hampton
Connie
She (GB)
1909 		Cyllene Bona Vista
Arcadia
Witty Girl
St Simon
Bettywise
Dam
Wanoya (IRE)
1914 		Wavelet's Pride (GB)
1897 		Fernandez Sterling
Isola Bella
Wavelet Paul Jones
Wanda
Nonoya (GB)
1902 		Buccaneer Privateer
Primula
Salvaich St Simon
Muirninn (Family: 8-c)[4]
  • Roman Hackle was inbred 4 × 4 to St Simon, meaning that this stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree.

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References

  1. ^ a b "Roman Hackle pedigree". Pedigree Online. 2016-03-19. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-84018-381-0
    .
  3. ISBN 978-1-873626-15-3
    .
  4. ^ a b "Woodbine - Family 8-c". Thoroughbred Bloodlines. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
  5. Glasgow Herald
    .
  6. ^
    ISBN 9781848760349
    .
  7. ^ "Sport in Britain: Grand National abandoned". Auckland Star. 5 April 1941.
  8. ISBN 9781901570151
    .
  9. ^ "Roman Hackle Avenue". Cheltenham Borough Council. Archived from the original on 2016-04-10.
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