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'Ultimate horse' The Tin Man retired after suffering career-ending leg injury

'Ultimate horse' The Tin Man retired after suffering career-ending leg injury

The Tin Man and Tom Queally after winning the Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot in 2017 Popular sprinter and three-time Group 1 winner The Tin Man has been retired after breaking down on the Newmarket gallops on Saturday morning. The nine-year-old, a star for the James Fanshawe stable over six seasons, sustained a fractured cannonbone during a routine…
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The Tin Man: the veteran who has taken his owners on the yellow brick road

The Tin Man: the veteran who has taken his owners on the yellow brick road

More has made it all the merrier for the multiple members of the Fred Archer Racing syndicate, who have shared the sort of ride an owner could spend millions on without coming close to thanks to their redoubtable old-stager The Tin Man. Saturday's run in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes marked the sixth year in succession he has competed for Group 1…
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The rise and untimely fall of Fred ‘the Tin Man’ Archer

The rise and untimely fall of Fred ‘the Tin Man’ Archer

Emma Hayward and William Archer welcomed their second son, Fred Archer into the world on the 11 January 1857. Born in Cheltenham, it was not surprising that he grew up to become a jockey; his father, older brother and later, younger brother, were all jockeys. It could be said that horse racing was in his blood from the moment he entered the…
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