Quixall Crossett (5 April 1985 – 2006) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. Competing in minor National Hunt events he failed to demonstrate the slightest trace of any racing ability in 103 starts. His chronic lack of success saw him acquire something of a cult following comparable to Zippy Chippy in the United States and Haru Urara in Japan. Background Quixall Crossett was a bay gelding with no white markings bred by the husband and wife team of Ted and Joy Caine. Ted Caine also trained the horse at his High Crossett farm in North Yorkshire throughout his racing career. He was named after the footballer Albert Quixall. Caine later explained that training the horse for a racing career helped him cope with death of his son Malcolm in a farming accident. The horse originally raced in Caine's ownership but from 1993 he carried the colours of Caine's daughter Karen Woodhead. Quixall Crossett was sired by Beverley Boy, a moderately successful racehorse who won several handicap races over long distances. Quixall Crossett's dam Grange Classic was a female-line descendant of the British broodmare Harpy (foaled 1921) making her a distant relative of Bobbyjo, Cigar and Gio Ponti. Racing career Quixall Crossett began his racing career on 21 February 1990 when he finished eighteenth of the nineteen runners in a National Hunt Flat race at Catterick Racecourse. He soon graduated to hurdles and then to chases but showed no aptitude for either type of obstacle and usually came home towards the rear at odds of 50/1 or greater. In the spring of 1996 he showed marginal improvement when he ran second in a race on the amateur point-to-point circuit and then took third place in a hunter chase at Newcastle Racecourse on 16 March. Later that year he finished third on two other occasions before reaching a new career high when he ran second at odds of 150/1 in a minor steeplechase at Kelso Racecourse in October. The gelding ran another 20 races over the next seven months to no avail before finishing third in minor events at Uttoxeter and Market Rasen in May 1997. After another long run of unplaced efforts he produced what was arguably his finest performance in the Catterton Novices' Chase at Wetherby Racecourse on 25 May 1998. Starting the 33/1 outsider of the five-runner field he led for most of the way and kept on well after