Comedy of Errors (horse)

Comedy of Errors
SireGoldhill
GrandsireLe Dieu d'Or
DamComedy Actress
DamsireKingsway
SexGelding
Foaled1967
CountryUnited Kingdom
ColourBrown
BreederElizabeth Sykes
OwnerHarold Plotnek and Ted Wheatley
TrainerFred Rimell
Record48:23-11-4
Major wins
Fighting Fifth Hurdle (1972, 1973, 1974)
Cheltenham Trial (1973, 1974)
Irish Sweeps Hurdle (1973, 1974)
Champion Hurdle (1973, 1975)
Welsh Champion Hurdle (1973)
Scottish Champion Hurdle (1975)
Templegate Hurdle (1976)
Awards
Timeform rating 178[1]

Comedy of Errors (1967–1990) was a champion British Thoroughbred National Hunt racehorse. He won the Champion Hurdle in 1973 and 1975, becoming one of only two horses to regain British hurdling's top prize. A huge, handsome horse of over 17 hands, "Comedy", as he was affectionately known, won 23 of 48 races. His trainer Fred Rimell considered him the best ever at Kinnersley stables, while his wife Mercy felt "he was a freak", considering his enormous build and tendency to jump to the right, as his jockey Bill Smith noted. Timeform rate him as the leading hurdler of the mid-1970s and among the top half-dozen hurdlers ever in Britain.[2]

  1. ^ "Timeform Top Horses of All Time | Greatest Racehorses". 3 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Comedy of Errors | Top Horses | Career Highlights". May 2020.