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 Watts Gallery-Artists' Village in November 2013 and 'The Dawn of Photography', also at Watts in October 2016 Most recently gave lecture on The History of Rock'n'Roll from 1603 - 1963 at LMU, New College of the Humanities (2015), the BRIT School (2016), Cambridge University and Berklee's campus in Valencia (2016) The Dickins entry into the entertainment industry probably started with Rob's Grandfather, Percy Dickins, who had a knife throwing act (The Redskin Gang) in Fossett's Circus & Wild West Show in the early 20th Century where he was known as Pedro. Rob's father, Percy Dickins, was a musician (saxophone, piano)