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[MRSRAYMO]

Oh my goodness – what fantastic scores Gladiateur and Landafar achieved today!
You certainly both deserve first and second places respectively on the podium!
WELL DONE BOTH OF YOU
Finally, congratulations to Jac, with a brilliant score in the seventies today which at any other time would have probably made you top scorer of the day!

No luck for any of the Wellingtons played today, but the rest of you still have a chance – including the top three!

Day 3 tomorrow – so onwards and upwards (hopefully!)

[Red Rum 77]

Yesterday was a case of nearly. Nearly made Map of Stars my nap and if I knew Definitely was going to be such a huge price would have made it my Wellington. Anyway on today’s selections.

2.30 Alta Regina

3.05 Limestone (Nap)

3.40 Godspeed/ Snellen.

4.20 Minnie Hauk

5.00 Scoville

5.35 Cheshire Dancer

6.10 One Number

Making La Botte in the 5.00 my Wellington.

You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.

[robnorth]

Missed it earlier but I note that Royal Heritage finished third having only made his debut at Hamilton last Thursday when he won what looked a decent maiden with a fair bit in hand. We’ve been lucky to see some decent early season 2 year olds in Scotland this year.

[Cork All Star]

He was a fine chaser and was a decent hurdler as well. If he had been trained by anyone else, he would probably have lined up in the Champion Hurdle in 2014 but it looked like Mullins didn’t want to run him against Hurricane Fly.

He was unfortunate to run into Sprinter Sacre when the script seemed to be written for the great comeback but he made for a great sight when jumping spectacularly and making all the running in the Ryanair the following year.

Condolences to his connections.

[BigG]

It just shows how out of touch politicians are with youth. Don’t get me wrong,
I’d rather that kids didn’t have access to the internet and it’s horrific
underbelly. But have they forgotten when they were 14 or 15 years old ?. If I
had been told, at that age, that some old guy in a grey suit was telling me
I couldn’t have access to the internet, or anything, the first thing I would
have done would be to give them two fingers and do exactly the opposite as
dictated to. At 14 or 15, kids at that age are miles ahead of the old fogies
at Westminster with their internet skills. Keir Starmer has just made a rod
for his own back, and he doesn’t even see it coming

[BigG]

I had made a list of swaps for today Jac, but the racing was well started before
I remembered to change my stable. I did change it but I have the feeling that the
40 minutes before a race starts may catch me out quite a bit. I’ll have to wait
and see how careful they are with their checking. I messed up the 1st month, I didn’t
use my swaps so I’m playing catch up. I’ve got the Royal Ascot Godolphins marked out
so we’ll see how well that goes. Good Luck all at Ascot on Tuesday

[BigG]

I put this in the Royal Ascot Thread, but I didn’t want any Meydans
to miss it. So here it is……

So the one I was on about was Two Tribes. I think he’s very much at home
at Ascot and won the Moet and Chandon International Handicap here about this
time last year (albeit that was over 7f). In October last year he had another
run here. Problem was he was drawn out in the car park (stall 18) and was at
the tail of the field for most of the race. Over the last couple of furlongs
he made serious headway to be a running on 5th at the end. The 1st 3 home
were all single figure stalls. Hopefully he won’t find himself with a mountain
to climb from a bad draw but he’s very well worth a punt at the current 25s.

Two Tribes, 25/1 various bookies.

[BigG]

My apologies Bobby for starting a new thread in the Big Races forum for the
Wokingham. I don’t know why it didn’t dawn on me that it obviously would
be in the Royal Ascot Thread. Sorry for the extra work I gave you, I’ll
need to double or triple check every time I add a new thread

So the one I was on about was Two Tribes. I think he’s very much at home
at Ascot and won the Moet and Chandon International Handicap here about this
time last year (albeit that was over 7f). In October last year he had another
run here. Problem was he was drawn out in the car park (stall 18) and was at
the tail of the field for most of the race. Over the last couple of furlongs
he made serious headway to be a running on 5th at the end. The 1st 3 home
were all single figure stalls. Hopefully he won’t find himself with a mountain
to climb from a bad draw but he’s very well worth a punt at the current 25s.

Two Tribes, 25/1 various bookies.

[raymo61]

Rules

You select 1 horse in each race over the course of the meeting
In one race per day you can select 2 horses
You may chose 1 nap per day (please make clear)
NAP selections score double for WIN ONLY
You can pick a next best (NB) as a reserve for your Nap in case of being a non runner
If Nap is a N/R and your NB is a non runner the reserve of your Nap will become the Nap.
(no reserve no nap)

Entries have to be in before first race of each day, if for whatever reason you are late
post your entries still for later races which will be accepted but you will get hit with
10% point deduction for that day Strictly no Edits after the off time of 1st race, all
points on that day will be deducted You may included as many reserves as you like but
cannot add any after the time of the first race

SELECTIONS

Post selections on this thread

SCORING

In all races of up to 4 runners – only the winner scores
In all races of 5, 6 or 7 runners – the first two score
In all races of 8 to 15 runners – the first three score
In all races of 16 to 21 runners – the first four score
In all races of 22 or more runners – the first five score

*please note these places are for both handicap and no handicap

POINTS SCORING (SP’s)

1/2 or shorter – 1st: 2 pts – 2nd: 1 pt – 3rd: 1 pt – 4th: 0 pts

8/15 to 10/11 – 1st: 4 pts – 2nd: 2 pts – 3rd: 1 pt – 4th: 1 pt

Evens to 2/1 – 1st: 8 pts – 2nd: 4 pts – 3rd: 3 pts – 4th: 2 pt

85/40 to 4/1 – 1st: 14 pts – 2nd: 6 pts – 3rd: 4 pts – 4th: 3 pts – 5th: 1 pt

9/2 to 15/2 – 1st: 17 pts – 2nd: 8 pts – 3rd: 6 pts – 4th: 4 pts – 5th: 2 pts

8/1 to 11/1- 1st: 22 pts – 2nd: 10 pts – 3rd: 8 pts – 4th: 6 pts – 5th: 3 pts

12/1 to 20/1- 1st: 27 pts – 2nd: 14 pts – 3rd: 10 pts – 4th: 8 pts – 5th: 4 pts

21/1 to 25/1 – 1st: 32 pts – 2nd: 16 pts – 3rd: 12 pts – 4th: 10 pts – 5th: 5 pts

26/1 to 32/1 – 1st: 40 pts – 2nd: 18 pts – 3rd: 14 pts – 4th: 12 pts – 5th: 6 pts

33/1 & 50/1 – 1st: 50 pts – 2nd: 20 pts – 3rd: 16 pts – 4th: 14 pts – 5th: 7 pts

66/1 and 80/1 1st 65pts – 2nd: 30 pts – 3rd: 18pts – 4th: 16pts – 5th: 9pts

100/1 and above 1st 80 pts – 2nd 36 pts – 3rd 24pts – 4th 22pts – 5th 14 pts

**IN THE EVENT OF A DEAD HEAT FULL POINTS WILL AWARDED TO BOTH (OR MORE) HORSES**

MISTAKES

Please check your own scores, whilst every attempt is made to get scores 100% accurate
mistakes do take place from time to time, please bring to my attention as soon as possible
any differences between my scoring and your own. Thanks

WINNER

will be the person with the highest score over the two days combined. In the event of a tie
the winner will be the person between the tied competitors with the highest score for day 1.
If still tied highest scoring NAP. In the case of disputes my decision is final

[mickeyjp]

The weather forecast is a forecast not what is definetely going to happen. Utter madness to water when raining. If it does have even short sharp showers we could end up with the ground loose on top. We can see this happening so why cant the cofc see it. Epsom a washout due to incompetence. If its good to firm its good to firm. Will suit some horses and not suit others. No wonder the aussies are strict with british runners. We are phasing out good to firm horses. Is it no wonder we cant produce sprinters.

[pilgarlic]

I caught up on an old Beat The Chasers the other day. To no great surprise the combined team of Labett, Hegerty,Ennis and Wallace were nonplussed when asked in which sport is Charlie Appleby a leading figure. Eventually rugby was put forward.

Made me wonder if any trainers would be known to anyone who doesn’t follow racing closely.

[He Didnt Like Ground]

I’m a Labour man , they’ve made many mistakes in the 2 years however they have got waiting times down and there has some shoots of growth before Trump did what Trump does , if Starmer goes tomorrow his biggest achievement was saying no to involvement in Iran , he couldn’t say no to his backbenchers but he could to Trump …

Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026

[Gladiateur]

I’m so irrelevant that you replied to me. 😂

I suspect that you have never asked any questions, which is what has made you the way you are.

[Astralcharmer]

Are these non-runner decisions being made by some faceless individual at Stockley Park?

Once all the horses are in the stalls there shouldn’t be any non-runners.

At least today’s incident could be argued that the horse was a non-runner as he didn’t leave the stalls and nor did the jockey.

The BHA have really opened a Pandora’s Box on this issue.

[graysonscolumn]

Released exactly 30 years ago today, following three trailer singles the year before.

Punky, progressive, poppy, beautiful, noisy and psychedelic, either by turns or sometimes all at once. Inventive, wide-eyed, restless, and the closest anyone has ever got to representing ADHD in music form.

Either ignored outright or absolutely slaughtered on initial release by a trade press still hopelessly in thrall to Britpop, but emphatically, glowingly reappraised in more enlightened times subsequently.

Almost 89 minutes long, and I know every last tick and movement of it.

Still in my top three all-time albums. I don’t see it leaving any time soon.

Happy birthday, Sing To God, you tower of mad beauty, you.

gc

Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

[Nathan Hughes]

“The main problem is what I already wrote in the Derby thread:
If the starter declares him a NR straight away and the announcement is made within seconds after the start then it is somehow okay. But not minutes after the race has ended.”

I agree with that Ruby… But it could still cause an issue if the jockey doesn’t pull up straight away and even then he/she may not be happy

I think being left a couple of lengths a drift from the start isn’t ideal but not a case for calling a N/R unless the horse is pulled up and found injured on examination

Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026

[vikingflagship]

What I found even more annoying was when they had to announce the findings of stewards reports, over the winners presentation. Surely they could communicate in some way and say wait the presentation going ahead. It just made it look disorganised

Vf x