Fantastic
markfinn, Mouse Roberts an old favourite, a great bio...thank you.
A great jockey met him at Doncaster nice guy - it being Arc day lets remember it not being his day in Paris and he was blamed -
Bred by John L. Moore, Mtoto was a bay horse with a white
blaze. He was sired by the 1967 British Horse of the Year
Busted out of the French mare Amazer.
Racing career
He recovered so well from the foot problems which dogged his early career that when he went to stud, he did so as the winner of the
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and double winner of both the
Eclipse Stakes and
Prince of Wales's Stakes. He very nearly added the
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe to this list too. Mtoto got off to a slow start on the track. By the end of his three-year-old campaign, he had won only once, and that was a small maiden race at
Haydock Park. His first important success came as a four-year-old in the
Brigadier Gerard Stakes at
Sandown Park. In his final year, 1988, he ended a previously unbeaten season with an unlucky, fast closing neck second to
Tony Bin in the Arc. Jockey Michael Roberts was blamed by many for poor positioning in this final race, Mtoto rounding the home turn into a short straight behind a wall of horses, in one of the largest Arc fields ever assembled.
Frank Boyle - do you a have particular interest in Jock's
