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Little Polveir

Little Polveir
Sire Cantab
Grandsire Cantaber
Dam Blue Speedwell
Damsire Escart
Sex Gelding
Foaled 1977
Country Great Britain
Colour Bay
Owner Mike Shone - 1989, Edward Harvey 1989 - 1999
Trainer Toby Balding 1989 - 1999
Major wins
Scottish Grand National (1987)
Grand National (1989)
Last updated on August 23, 2007

Little Polveir (1977 - 1999) was a race horse. He won the 1989 Grand National steeplechase ridden by Jimmy Frost, beating West Tip by seven lengths. The horse had previously finished ninth in 1986 and did not finish in 1987 and 1988 (where he fell at Valentine's Brook) while owned by Mike Shone, after which he was sold as a 12 yr-old for 15,000gns in February 1989.

The track Little Polveir by the Sheffield-based band Monkey Swallows the Universe is named after the horse. After the track was written, the band signed to Loose Records, which coincidentally is owned by Tom Bridgewater, the son-in-law of Toby Balding, Little Polveir's trainer.



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