Our favourite horses (No 11)... Desert Orchid
Name: Desert Orchid, aka Dessie
Foaled: 11 April 1979
Nickname: "Dessie"
Sex: Gelding
Colour: Grey
Sire: Grey Mirage
Maternal grandsire: Double-U-Jay
Dam: Flower Child
Damsire: Brother
Owner: James Burridge, Midge Burridge, Richard Burridge, Simon Bullimore
Trainer: David Elsworth at Whitsbury Manor Racing Stables
Earnings: £654,066
Career Starts: 70
Placed: 1st (34) 2nd (11) 3rd (8)
Achievements
The only horse to win the King George VI four times.
Rated the 5th best National Hunt Racehorse of all time.
Well Known Riders
Colin Brown, Richard Linley, Simon Sherwood and Richard Dunwoody
Little known fact
Brian Rouse rode him in his only flat race
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