Call Equiname
| Call Equiname | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Belfort |
| Grandsire | Tyrant |
| Dam | Cherry Season |
| Damsire | Silly Season |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 28 May 1990 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Grey |
| Breeder | Mrs L Steele |
| Owner | Karen McLintock Paul Barber et al |
| Trainer | Don Eddy Paul Nicholls |
| Record | 21: 11-3-2 |
| Earnings | £176,866 |
| Major wins | |
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Kennel Gate Novices' Hurdle (1995) Victor Chandler Chase (1999) Queen Mother Champion Chase (1999) |
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Call Equiname (foaled 28 May 1990) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse who competed under National Hunt rules. In a racing career frequently interrupted by injury he raced twenty-one times in eight seasons, winning eleven races. Despite an undistinguished pedigree, he showed promise in his early career, winning the Kennel Gate Novices' Hurdle in 1995. He reached his peak in the spring of 1999 when he won the Victor Chandler Chase and the Queen Mother Champion Chase. He was retired from racing in January 2001.
Call Equiname was a grey gelding bred in the United Kingdom by Mrs L Steele. He was by far the most notable horse sired by Belfort, a moderate racehorse and an obscure breeding stallion. Call Equinames dam, Cherry Season, won one minor race from fifteen starts in 1982 and 1983.
As a yearling, Call Equiname was sent to the Doncaster bloodstock sale in September 1991 and bought for 1,500 guineas by Don Eddy acting on behalf of Karen McLintock. Although it was originally intended to use the horse for dressage, he was trained for racing by Eddy at his stable at Black Heddon, Northumberland. According to the Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing, Equiname was a company set up to allow advertisers to name a horse without actually buying one and Call Equiname was intended to act as their "mobile advertisement".
Throughout his racing career, Call Equiname's efforts were compromised by a series of injury problems: the Racing Post described him as having "legs like glass and a heart of oak".
Call Equiname made his racecourse debut in a National Hunt Flat race at Musselburgh Racecourse on 7 January 1994. Starting at odds of 5/1 in a fourteen-runner field he accelerated clear of his opponents in the last three furlongs to win by fifteen lengths from Benbeath. After finishing second when favourite for a similar event at Doncaster Racecourse three weeks later he ended his first season in a National Hunt flat race at Ayr Racecourse in April. Starting the 7/4 favourite, he led from the start and won by six lengths from Sparky Gayle.
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