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399:), Print, Umbelata, Sharp Romance and Polykratis. After being "driven along" by Eddery in the last quarter mile, Dowsing gained the advantage in the final strides and won by a head from Silver Fling with a gap of four lengths back to Caerwent in third place.
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368:. On 26 July Dowsing ran for the second time in the Stewards' Cup and carried top weight of 140 pounds. He finished third of the twenty-eight runners behind Rotherfield Greys and Glencroft.
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and won four of his fourteen races between 1986 and 1988. After failing to win in two starts as juvenile, Dowsing showed improved form is 1987 when he won three races including a valuable
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and finished fourth behind the lightly-weighted outsider
Madraco. The colt ran poorly in a Listed race at Newmarket and then finished fourth to Guest Performer in the
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October when he finished tenth of the twelve runners after struggling against his jockey's attempts to restrain him. In November he started second favourite for a
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he recorded his first important success when he won the
William Hill Golden Spurs Trophy Handicap. In late July he was assigned top weight of 136 pounds for the
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on his final appearance. In the following year he took time to reach his best form but again ended his season triumphantly as he recorded his biggest win in the
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Dowsing was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion. The best off his offspring was probably
Tedburrow, who won twenty-one races including the
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Cricket Ball. On 12 September, Dowsing was one of ten horses to contest the Group One Vernons Sprint Cup over six furlongs at
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Yearling Sale and was bought for $ 400,000 by the bloodstock agent James Delahooke on behalf of the Saudi prince
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Dowsing was a "tall, close-coupled, attractive" brown horse with a small white
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Dowsing began his second season by winning a minor race over six furlongs at
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762:"Vernons Sprint Cup result"
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261:Jeremy Tree
218:Irish River
121:Jeremy Tree
813:Categories
642:2013-05-05
636:Equineline
613:References
576:Polynesian
543:Raise You
503:Nile Lily
440:Never Bend
338:Pat Eddery
234:Stravinsky
222:Gold River
192:Background
135:Major wins
41:Never Bend
797:31 August
791:"Dowsing"
558:Sequence
448:Nasrullah
288:over six
253:Keeneland
183:Group One
130:14: 4-1-1
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411:and the
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591:My Babu
582:Geisha
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89:Colour
73:Foaled
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93:Brown
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