Little Polveir

Little Polveir (1977–1999) was a race horse. He won the 1989 Grand National steeplechase ridden by Jimmy Frost, beating West Tip by seven lengths. The horse had previously finished ninth in 1986 and did not finish in 1987 and 1988 (where he fell at one after Valentine's Brook) while owned by Mike Shone, after which he was sold as a 12-year-old for 15,000gns in February 1989.[1]

Little Polveir
SireCantab
GrandsireCantaber
DamBlue Speedwell
DamsireEscart
SexGelding
Foaled1977
CountryGreat Britain
ColourBay
OwnerMike Shone –1989, Edward Harvey 1989–1999
TrainerToby Balding 1989–1999
Major wins
Scottish Grand National (1987)
Grand National (1989)
Last updated on August 23, 2007

The track "Little Polveir"[2] by the Sheffield-based band Monkey Swallows the Universe is named after the horse. After the track was written, the band signed to Loose Records, which coincidentally is owned by Tom Bridgewater, the son-in-law of Toby Balding, Little Polveir's trainer. Little Polveir died in 1999.[3]

Grand National record

•1986 - 9th

•1987 - unseated rider (fence 15)

•1988 - unseated rider (fence 26)

•1989 - 1st

References
  1. Brown, Sophie (4 April 2003). "National dream ends too soon". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  2. "Little Polveir". Monkey Swallows the Universe. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  3. Goff, Tom (13 February 1999). "Dual National hero Little Polveir dies". Racing Post. Retrieved 13 March 2018.


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