Template:Did you know nominations/Pinza

Pinza
Created/expanded by Tigerboy1966 (talk). Nominated by PFHLai (talk) at 11:23, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
 * ... that when the Thoroughbred racehorse Pinza won the 1953 Derby Stakes, its jockey snapped a string of 27 failures and retired from horse-racing?


 * Symbol confirmed.svg 5x expansion, date and hook reference are fine. I found no evidence of close paraphrasing. I thought the hook a bit awkwardly expressed, mentioning as it does "snapping a string". What about:-


 * ALT1 ... that when the Thoroughbred racehorse Pinza won the 1953 Derby Stakes, it gave 25 times Champion Jockey, Gordon Richards, his first win after 27 previous starts in the race? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:30, 22 December 2011 (UTC)