Norway's Classics
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 8:00 pm
I can't spell Norwei...Norwieg...Norweg...anyway...ugh...
Does anybody have the COMPLETE histories of Norway's classic races (Derby, Oaks, 1000 Guineas, 2000 Guineas, St. Leger)? I have tried & failed twice to get that info from a contact at the Norwe...er...Norway's Jockey Club, but as I don't speak the language, I can't seem to get info prior to the year 2000. Help!
I have already found Sweden's Derby winners (all posted at bloodlines.net, with considerable assistance from others), but any other full list of Scandinavian classic winners would be fabulous (I do have all of Denmark's classics in an Excel spreadsheet, but that's also slow going, as pedigrees are obscure at times). I'm a racing history/pedigree geekess, so the more work I can pile on myself to do while pretending to actually do my paying job is great.
I'm currently working on getting Turkey's classics posted at bloodlines.net, but Scandinavia's and Belgium's (and Holland's, for that matter) classics are two obsessions of mine and if I ever got all the lists all those winners, I'd be over the moon. All those names...all those obscure, impossible to find pedigrees! <swoons> Turkey's Gazi Derby is coming along nicely, by the way - I'm up to 1978...and it was first run in 1927! Wee!
Any assistance would be great.
~Miesque
Does anybody have the COMPLETE histories of Norway's classic races (Derby, Oaks, 1000 Guineas, 2000 Guineas, St. Leger)? I have tried & failed twice to get that info from a contact at the Norwe...er...Norway's Jockey Club, but as I don't speak the language, I can't seem to get info prior to the year 2000. Help!
I have already found Sweden's Derby winners (all posted at bloodlines.net, with considerable assistance from others), but any other full list of Scandinavian classic winners would be fabulous (I do have all of Denmark's classics in an Excel spreadsheet, but that's also slow going, as pedigrees are obscure at times). I'm a racing history/pedigree geekess, so the more work I can pile on myself to do while pretending to actually do my paying job is great.
I'm currently working on getting Turkey's classics posted at bloodlines.net, but Scandinavia's and Belgium's (and Holland's, for that matter) classics are two obsessions of mine and if I ever got all the lists all those winners, I'd be over the moon. All those names...all those obscure, impossible to find pedigrees! <swoons> Turkey's Gazi Derby is coming along nicely, by the way - I'm up to 1978...and it was first run in 1927! Wee!
Any assistance would be great.
~Miesque