It's 28 years to the day since one of the most remarkable moments in Norfolk's horse racing history.
Sprowston Boy – joint owned by Norwich coal merchant Kenny Blanch – won at Royal Ascot. Ridden by Gay Kelleway, it was the first and only time a female jockey has won at Royal Ascot.
Kenny Blanch, who died aged 87 in 2011, bought Sprowston Boy as a yearling with lifelong friend, insurance salesman Geoff Whiting, for £4,500.
Together, they named the gelding after the street in which they were born, Sprowston Road.
The horse, which was retired in 1997, won 13 races and a total of more than £100,000 in prize money – on the flat and over hurdles and fences.
They had bought the horse, a son of Dominion by Cavalier's Blush from the Newmarket yard of Paul Kelleway - Gay's father.
Initially, Sprowston Boy – or Sprowie – ran over five furlong dashes but he graduated to three-mile plus chases.
For the third-generation coal merchant, who was still at work in the family's coalyard into his mid 80s, owning this racehorse was a real highlight and talking point.
Sprowston Boy's two biggest victories caused the bookmakers, especially in Norwich, real pain. He won the Queen Alexandra Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 19 1987.
The 12-1 winner finished eight lengths clear of Henry Cecil's odds-on entry and picked up £25,000 in prize money. A time when a copy of the Evening News cost 17p.
Later that year, Sprowston Boy added another top prize, the Listed Imperial Cup at Sandown and beat one of the Queen's horses.
But it was on home ground that Sprowston Boy was so popular. He won three times at Fakenham including his final victory in the Prince of Wales Cup in May 1996.
It was his last appearance at the Norfolk course before his retirement and he made up about 20 lengths to get up to win as the crowd almost raised the roof of the grandstand.
He was retired for 12 years, spending three of his last years at Dick Allen's stables at Felmingham. But the 27-year-old gelding died in 2010.
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