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A few points here
Tuanku the drifting favourite, upheld the established form. Probably pulled a little too much for his own good but was just outpointed close home. The SP of 11/10 suggests there was no shortage of backers, drifet or not.
Starluck had decent flat from in Ireland which entitled him to be favourite or near favourite for this race. He had 20lbs in hand on flat form. Take off a bit for inexperience over hurdles he still didn’t need to be over special to win this. Impression I got was that he was little green, will improve next time and wouldn’t object to a step up in distance even now. Good bit of placement by his trainer who would otherwise have been looking at more competitive races in Ireland.
Golden Bishop, jumping a bit novicey, went well enough to the home bend but then folded and understandably wasn’t thrashed to finish a couple of places nearer. He faded so quickly that I wonder if there wasn’t a breathing problem. The other possibility might be that he just didn’t fancy the scrap when it got a bit tight on the run to the last.
The remainder looked pretty ordinary once the pace picked up.
Alan Fleming is an ex-Irish trainer. I don’t know how long he’s been at it, but the victory of Strike An Ark in a 12f Galway contest in August 2007 was his first ever, according to the man himself, and it was his only score in 65 tries – Flat and Jumps – in the last five seasons of his Irish tenure (or however long it went on for).
He appears to have decamped to Beare Green, Surrey. Isn’t or wasn’t that Ray York’s neck of the woods?
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Alan Fleming is an ex-Irish trainer. I don’t know how long he’s been at it, but the victory of Strike An Ark in a 12f Galway contest in August 2007 was his first ever, according to the man himself, and it was his only score in 65 tries – Flat and Jumps – in the last five seasons of his Irish tenure (or however long it went on for).
He appears to have decamped to Beare Green, Surrey. Isn’t or wasn’t that Ray York’s neck of the woods?
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It’s close to Ray ~ it is in fact Albert Ennis’s old yard, or more accurately Andrew Wates’. Fleming held a licence for less than three years on the Curragh.
In that case ignore my comment about races in Ireland. The list of runners I saw had him as A Fleming(IRE)!
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I’m 99% certain that Fleming has never been a bloodstock agent, and unless I’m mistaken, he’s the same Alan Fleming who rode for a few years in point to points and over jumps in Ireland. He would have been attached to Oliver McKiernan’s yard which is why he’s listed as buying back Out In Front at the sales as that horse was consigned by McKiernan.
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