Master Minded (foaled April 14, 2003) is a French bred National Hunt racehorse bred by Marie Christine Gabeur presently trained in Great Britain by Paul Nicholls.
He started his National Hunt career in France. He was initially trained by Guillaume Macaire. He started his career with 8 runs at Auteuil from 4 October 2006 as a three year old to 27 May 2007. He had 3 wins, a fourth, pulling up once, two falls and possible his best run when he finish...
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Master Minded (foaled April 14, 2003) is a French bred National Hunt racehorse bred by Marie Christine Gabeur presently trained in Great Britain by Paul Nicholls.
He started his National Hunt career in France. He was initially trained by Guillaume Macaire. He started his career with 8 runs at Auteuil from 4 October 2006 as a three year old to 27 May 2007. He had 3 wins, a fourth, pulling up once, two falls and possible his best run when he finished runner-up in the 2007 Prix Ferdinand Dufaure. Prior to this run he had shown plenty of class and Clive Smith (owner of Kauto Star) was impressed with what he had seen and had bought him and Ruby Walsh had his first ride on the horse in that race.
In 2007 he joined the powerful Ditcheat stable of Paul Nicholls to begin chasing. He was not a novice following his win in France so was thrown in at the deep end against seasoned campaigners. Nicholls found an easy opening for him at Exeter Racecourse in a 4 runner graduation Chase where Sam...
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