FORMER jockey Mick Mallyon remembers Bendigo’s Caulfield Cup winner Bunratty Castle as a tenacious horse with a vicious nature.
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Mallyon rode Bunratty Castle to victory in the 1968 Caulfield Cup.
Bunratty Castle was trained at Bendigo by the late Kevin Wynne.
“He was an imported horse and magnificent looking,” Mallyon recalled on radio station SEN 1116’s This is your racing life program on Saturday.
“He was a real vicious type of thing.
“I remember one day at Caulfield when he lashed out and kicked one of the boys at the barrier, but that was the type of horse he was... he had one of those natures.
“But he’d give you a bit of tenacity in the race.”
At odds of 12/1, Bunratty Castle won the 1968 Caulfield Cup by three lengths from Future (33/1), with Arctic Coast (14/1) a further half-length back in third.
Following Bunratty Castle’s victory, the back page headline of the Bendigo Advertiser on Monday, October 21, read: “Bunratty Castle’s all-the-way win in Caulfield Cup”.
The race report said of the win: “Bunratty Castle’s all-the-way win in Saturday’s Caulfield Cup was a triumph for Bendigo trainer Kevin Wynne, and the architect of victory was the inspired riding in part of Mick Mallyon.”
For winning the 1968 Caulfield Cup, Bunratty Castle won $26,000 in prize money.
Wynne and Bunratty Castle were last year among the inaugural “Legends of Bendigo” honoured by the Bendigo Jockey Club.