Captain Cuttle of the Godolphin Arabian sire line. Apart from Captain Cuttle, Hurry On sired the winners of seven Classics including the Derby winners Coronach and Call Boy. His most influential son was the Ascot Gold Cup winner Precipitation, who sired four classic winners. Captain Cuttle was named after the character in Dickens' novel "Dombey and Son". Like his sire, Captain Cuttle was trained throughout his career by Fred Darling at Beckhampton in Wiltshire, and was ridden in his most important races by the leading British jockey of the era Steve Donoghue. The colt was particularly devoted to his trainer, following him
Rob Dickins and one of the founders of the "NME" and started the first ever British Record Charts at the paper in November 1952. Brother Barry Dickins is an agent/promoter and in his teens (mid 1960s) was the agent for The Who, Jimi Hendrix and The Nice. He formed his own Agency/Promotion company, ITB with business partner Rod McSween and is the concert promoter for Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul Simon and Diana Ross, amongst many others as well as running the agency. Barry's son Jonathan Dickins worked with Rob at both Warners and Instant Karma before forming his own management company,