Keighley says: "I bought him privately from his breeder, a lady in Sussex called Marion Baker. Interestingly, despite owning See More Business – who also won two King George VI Chases at Kempton – and also the double Foxhunter Chase winner Fantus, not to mention high-quality pointers/chasers, Keighley, a former engineer who is now retired and living near Poole in Dorset, says: "Rushing Wild was the star, the best horse I owned."įoaled in 1986 out of the mare Lady Em II, Rushing Wild would prove easily the best progeny sired by stallion Rushmere (by Derby winner Blakeney). Like Rushing Wild, See More Business commenced racing from the Dorset stable of Richard Barber and carried the colours of John Keighley for much of his career. ![]() ![]() None have done so this century, Santini came closest when second in March this year, and the most recent to win the race having opened his career in British point-to-points was See More Business, 21 years ago. Had his life not been cut short he might well have joined the list of ex-British pointers who won the Gold Cup, Cheltenham's pinnacle of steeplechasing. Yet his importance as a symbol of the best of point-to-pointing and hunter chasing and his place as the first significant horse to emerge from the stable which would become the most powerful in Britain, setting records and trends along the way, meant Rushing Wild ( seen above under Justin Farthing) carried impact beyond those brief appearances. He ran just three times in hunters' chases, winning two and falling in one, and it can be argued that such a brief association should render him ineligible from a place among the all-time greats of the sport. ![]() A runaway Cheltenham Foxhunter Chase winner who went on to finish second in a Gold Cup sums up the brilliant Rushing Wild.
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