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Wayward Lad
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SEX - Gelding FOALED - 1975 COLOUR - Brown SIRE - Royal Highway DAM - Loughanmore COUNTRY - Great Britain BREEDER - OWNER - Mrs J Mould TRAINER - Michael Dickinson JOCKEYS - Robert Earnshaw RACE RECORD - 55: 28 - ? - ? EARNINGS - £218,732 |
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What Do I Know About Wayward Lad
Wayward Lad was one of the "Dickinson five" (Michael Dickinson trained all the horses which took the first five places at the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup). But there was far more than that to Wayward Lad's career, which ended in early 1987.
By 1987 he had won 28 of his 55 races on 16 different tracks and his final success, at the 1987 Grand National meeting, brought his career earnings to £218,732 at the time a sum beaten only by Dawn Run.
His best wins came in that Liverpool race (now the Totesport Bowl) twice, the King George VI Chase, which he won for a third time in 1985, the Charlie Hall Chase and the Edward Hanmer Chase.
Sadly a row between his owners resulted in him having to go to Doncaster sales where Tony Dickinson (Michael's father) bought him for 42,000 Guineas and sent him to retirement with his son, who had begun a new career training in the USA.