Shove ha'penny Shove ha'penny Shove ha'penny (or shove halfpenny), also known in ancestral form as shoffe-grote ['shove-groat' in Modern English], slype groat ['slip groat'], and slide-thrift, is a pub game in the shuffleboard family, played predominantly in the United Kingdom. Two players or teams compete against one another using coins or discs on a tabletop board. Shove ha'penny is played on a small, rectangular, smooth board usually made of wood or stone. A number of parallel lines or grooves run horizontally across this board, separated by about one-and-a-half coin diameters. The spaces between the lines (usually nine) are called the "beds". Five
Mrs Penny when owned by her breeder Daniel Wildenstein and was exported to the United States when pregnant with the filly who would become Mrs Penny. Tananarive later produced Cadeaux d'Amie, the dam of the 1000 Guineas winner Hatoof. As a yearling, Mr Penny was sent to the Saratoga sales and bought for $40,000 by the American lawyer Eric Kronfeld. She was sent to race in Europe where she was trained by Ian Balding at Kingsclere. Like many Balding-trained horses she usually raced in a sheepskin noseband. Mrs Penny finished second in her first two races over the minimum distance of five