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Talking horses - closely related to Mr Ed?

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Talking horses can be best friends to punters and trainers. Not many people believe some horses can actually talk, yet this relatively unknown fact, can often help the poor punter and trainer no end. 

Do your own study into these intellectual (higher IQ?) equine athletes and you'll soon discover that they are indeed pretty smart animals. 

And I can now reveal the latest. 

Monbet. 

Co-trainer Greg Hope is quoted in this weeks Informant (30 Aug 2018 pg 20);

"He'll tell us when he's ready to race." 

So there you are. 

When the magnificent Monbet steps back out on to the racetrack, reportedly in a few weeks, although it is not known if Monbet has had words already to Mr Hope, we will all know, that the champ has spoken. 

Please, if any other race cafers hear, or hear of, any other horses that can talk, do share. Knowledge is power. 

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Rusty iam a galloping man but ventured over for a look at the Harness side . Now this business of the talking horse. I can forsee many problems for the gallops trainers and in some respect a few harness trainers. This is the imports we now see in Australia..Now if I come into some coin somehow and see a decent French stayer , lightly raced in the provinces , with plenty of upside , i put in a bid , get it ,ship it out. If the horse is like Monbet I would clearly need a trainer fluent in French.  Or would I be up for interpretor fees as well as the other costs. Could stables use old French,  German or other retired imports to help translation,  I see Sweden has some good trotters .

Maybe it's only the harness game horses talk  as I read in racing post uk two days ago the trainer of that old warhorse Gordon Lord Byron said he would have to keep close eye on him to see if should be retired.  He made a point in the article that the horse CANNOT speak. Is this just thoroughbreds in general lacking education or is Mr Hogan the trainer been neglectful in Gordon's formative years. 

I am really looking forward to Trackside's post race interview  with Monbet. He will get the kids back to racing, can he sing ?

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11 minutes ago, Kotare_Hunter said:

Horses can be bilingual Red Rum. I am not sure about Greg's horse but Wilbur's horse certainly was at the very least bilingual.

 

 

 

That horse has had some proper pre training KH , the educational aspects were not overlooked ,a very  good  one for Rusty's research project I would suggest.

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Good point Red Rum re those import horses. I'm more of a harness man than a gallops man, but I do recall the odd Japanese raider for the Melbourne Cup and didn't they even run the quinella a few years back? I bet ya those two were bilingual. Smart horses indeed. 

Now Lyell Creek, or Creek the Freak was the best trotter ever to come out of NZ. 50 Plus wins. Went to North America and Europe to race their best. He obviously wasn't bilingual. Just couldn't quite race at his best in Sweden for some reason. Now we know why. 

 

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On 9/2/2018 at 10:12 PM, Kotare_Hunter said:

Horses can be bilingual Red Rum. I am not sure about Greg's horse but Wilbur's horse certainly was at the very least bilingual.

 

 

 

Funniest post I have seen for a while.

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On 9/3/2018 at 9:32 PM, Rusty said:

Good point Red Rum re those import horses. I'm more of a harness man than a gallops man, but I do recall the odd Japanese raider for the Melbourne Cup and didn't they even run the quinella a few years back? I bet ya those two were bilingual. Smart horses indeed. 

Now Lyell Creek, or Creek the Freak was the best trotter ever to come out of NZ. 50 Plus wins. Went to North America and Europe to race their best. He obviously wasn't bilingual. Just couldn't quite race at his best in Sweden for some reason. Now we know why. 

 

Rusty, iam a fan of Charlie Appleby based at Newmarket , a top international trainer. It appears when he educates his yearly intake of Darley bred youngsters and expensively purchased youngsters lessons in speech are an important part of the training process. Quorta a son of Dubawi headed over to the Curragh and won the group 1 National Stakes overnight NZ time.Mr Appleby is reported in the Racing Post when asked about future plans to have stated " he's an exciting horse, but he'll tell us where he's at". So there you go Rusty throughbreds when in the right learning environment can talk as well as a standardbreds. I hope the research is going well.

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On 9/17/2018 at 11:13 AM, Red Rum said:

So there you go Rusty throughbreds when in the right learning environment can talk as well as a standardbreds. I hope the research is going well.

Thanks RR it's going ok. Undeniably there are no barriers to talking horses within different breeds. It does usually take some specialist training however.

Based on my research thus far, it is clearly evident that the thoroughbreds more often have at least bilingual skills moreso than their standardbred counterparts. 

Now the dishlickers are useless. Never heard of, nor would I ever care for a talking greyhound. That lot should all be banned, no greyhound racing at all, don't even get me started. The only talking dog I ever cared for was Scooby Doo. 

I specialize in the harness code, but have a rough enough knowledge of the gallops. But I must agree with you that Mr Appleby is definitely a top international trainer. Any one that can train different languages into a horse is certainly a remarkable talent indeed. 

One thing that I have noticed however is that in the harness game, there is bugger all talking from the horses at the moment. No trainer has come out via the media lately and said "he'll tell us when he is ready..." Not sure why this is. Perhaps the latest events that have transpired (police raids etc), have put the wind up a lot of standardbreds. I was hovering about the stables area a few weeks ago and the horses were all very quiet. Then as I was climbing up the grandstand stairs at Addington, I realised why..... 

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