Calgary Bay follows in Best Mate’s hoofprints

HENRIETTA Knight is sending Calgary Bay down the Best Mate route by running him in the Anglo Irish Bank Tolworth Hurdle at Sandown on Saturday.

Calgary Bay follows in Best Mate’s hoofprints
Wed, 02 Jan, 2008 - 00:00
Keith Hamer

Triple Gold Cup hero Best Mate was five years old, the same age as Calgary Bay is now, when finishing second to Monsignor in the Grade One contest at the Esher track in 2000.

He then went on to take second place in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival – a race which is also the objective for Calgary Bay.

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