Credit Call

Last updated October 29, 2025

Credit Call was an English racehorse who won 37 National Hunt steeplechases up to 1976. He was a gelding, originally owned by Chris Collins and trained by [William] Arthur Stephenson. Collins won 27 races before selling the horse to Ursula "Urkie" Newton. Collins rode most wins himself as an amateur jockey, but in the 1971 Horse and Hound Cup he was injured and Graham Macmillan rode.^[1] Newton's son Joey rode him to four wins in eight starts in 1975. In 1976 Urkie took over as trainer, and Joey had six more wins. The Credit Call Cup is awarded for the Novices' Hunters' Chase at Stratford, commemorating Credit Call's four victories in the Horse and Hound Cup.

Results of Credit Call^[2]
Race	Location	Wins	Years	Notes
Horse and Hound Cup	Stratford	4	1971, 1972, 1973, 1975
Fox Hunters' Chase	Aintree	3	1972, 1975, 1976
Foxhunter Chase	Cheltenham	1	1972	Second in 1976

References

"Racing Record Breaker". West Sussex Today. 27 February 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
"Grand National: The Fox Hunters Chase". Eclipse Magazine. 4 March 2015.
Oakley, Robin (2017-03-09). Sixty Years of Jump Racing: From Arkle to McCoy. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 130. ISBN 9781472935113 . Retrieved 2018-03-17.
Oaksey, John (2016-06-16). Mince Pie for Starters. Headline. ISBN 9781472241511 . Retrieved 16 March 2018.

Citations

↑ Oaksey 2016 p.183
↑ "Hunter Chasers & Point-to-Pointers by Weatherbys Chase". Issuu . pp. 38–40. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

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[Oaksey2016-1] Oaksey 2016 p.183

[2] "Hunter Chasers & Point-to-Pointers by Weatherbys Chase". Issuu . pp. 38–40. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

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