Another question for the history boffs...

Has a horse blind in one eye ever won a group 1 race in South African horse racing?

Yes, there was a top horse trained by Terrance Millard by the
name of "Bluffing" who lost his eye in a transport accident.
Not sure if he lost it before or after the accident tho.

Belper rings a bell but that was in the UK it won many races but not sure about a group one

Penny Kimberly trained a one eyed horse, didn't win a grade 1 but won 7-9 races or something like that....

Mmm i think Military Muse had one eye from Millard stable.

There was a black Saf filly that raced with distinction several years ago who had only one eye, but I'm blowed if I can remember her name.

The dam of Swale, who won the Kentucky derby and Belmont, then up and died a week later, was born with one eye. I think she was a stakes winner but don't recall details.

kalahari Wrote:

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> Yes, there was a top horse trained by Terrance
> Millard by the
> name of "Bluffing" who lost his eye in a transport
> accident.
> Not sure if he lost it before or after the
> accident tho.

Bluffing lost his eyelid in the road accident that killed Right Preorgative and several other Millard runners, when they were returning to the Cape after the KZN winter season of 1990, I think it was. He continued to race with some kind of protective mesh or blinker device over the eye, as he could no longer blink, but I don't think he won a Gr1 race after that.

I can't think of a one-eyed horse that ever won a Gr1 race in SA, but I can't be sure that there wasn't one somehwhere along the line.

I was involved in a leased a filly that was blind in the left eye and in her first run was drawn outside down the straight at Turf.She came out and swerved to her blind spot and ran into the rail...........she ran 3 or 4 times and never won a maiden ,never mind a graded!!.....lol

did jallad not race with one eye???

David Payne had a good horse called Blue Quail that was blind in one eye

Tigershark Wrote:

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> Penny Kimberly trained a one eyed horse, didn't
> win a grade 1 but won 7-9 races or something like
> that....

Yankee Blue Dill???

Bluffing won the Greyville 1900 if i remember !