The reason I had asked if there were any hard luck stories was my mate had called his mate for the result. And his mate (who had backed tartan bearer) believed he was robbed by coolmore team tactics. I thought I’d get a general consensus.
My mate (who also fancied tartan bearer) was trying to say that Frozen Fire had no form in the book to suggest that he could win. When you look at what was between Tartan Bearer and Frozen Fire in the dante, if you were willing to forgive Frozen Fire for a below par run in the derby, he had every chance today at 16 times the price of TB.
Interestingly enough, I felt that Johnny Murtagh and Alessandro Volta had robbed me in the Lingfield Derby Trial when he pushed the better travelling King Of Rome (who would have been my best bet this season if winning that day) extremely wide off the turn. Perhaps it is something to do with the horse.
Interestingly IMO also, how many times now has murtagh called the wrong horse for coolmore, Halfwaytoheaven, Moonstone and now Frozen Fire.
Enough people talk about coolmore team tactics but dont think they really play that way. I generally believe that when O’brien puts out multiple horses he has less chance of winnning, he usually does better when he only runs a strongly fancied one.