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If you have not seen it, I recommend checking out the replay of this handicap. I think the winner was ever so slightly well in at the weights!
I believe the money was down but it had better have been. The handicapper would be justified raising him a stone and a half!
I always wonder what the best excuse to the stewards on the sudden improvement is Cork All Star ! lol
Years ago Paddy Mullins was brilliant at it.
Imagine the choices the trainer has that the stewards would swallow.
I find the topic intriguing to be honest.
What do you think is best one ? and that goes to the forum !
Bleeding Nathan Hughes will have the best one.
Lets have fun with this one.
The winner gets 12 pints of stout on me in Dublin.
Colosus
Just tell them that the horse had a sleep over at David O’Meara’s..😂
Blackbeard to conquer the World
maybe a good one would be that we found that the horses had ulcers and we cured that and he is a different horse now.
Have the certs off a friendly vet !
Keep them coming guys
Colosus
Just had a look back through the winner’s form. His figures were 08-0 before today’s race. The three runs he needed to get his mark.
To be fair, he had been in some maidens won by good horses. He was 8th in a heavy ground maiden at Gowran Park won by Arthur’s Kingdom, beaten out of sight (I know, I was there!).
He did not run again as a 2 year old and reappeared in the Leopardstown maiden won by Tiger Moth with Dawn Patrol in second place. He was 12th, beaten about 8 lengths.
To be fair, that last run was probably a decent effort in a hot race. He was rated 68.
I just watched the replay again and it is almost comical the way he quickened to the front. He looks like a horse who could win off 98, never mind 68!
Ok, maybe I am exaggerating a bit but only a bit. Murtagh and the horse’s owners must not have been able to believe their luck. He is one of the easiest handicap winners I have seen in ages. The Irish handicapper will have nightmares watching that back!
It might be a good idea to make a note of the other horses beaten in that Tiger Moth maiden.
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If that was Tony Martin, John “Shark” Hanlon, Johnny Feane, Aido McGuinness and other gambling stables they would be hauled in by the stewards and grilled.
His work has really stepped forward in the last few weeks. Shane was very happy with him after his run here and when you look at the form it was one of the best maidens run this year. J P Murtagh, trainer
On that note the senior handicapper will be up all night looking at that maiden
Colosus
Thanks for bringing this one up Cork All Star. Lol, Red Kelly ???
should have been called Ned Kelly after that one. Comes close
to daylight robbery
“I took the horse to a sheep that had managed to train a tortoise to run”
flatcapgamble…Losus, the only way you’d get him to Dublin would be in a private Lear Jet with a pilot named Lucky – Vintage Dom on tap – hmmm yes, and with a young ex-Bond flight attendant to serve it up cold but slightly shaken, who was able to pull the wool at the same time.
Tortoise… Can I come ?
I can see and smell quite well, but can’t hear much – luckily.. .. .. .. ..Soaring Monarch was two places behind Red Kelly in that Tiger Moth race…
Won @ 50/1 next time out.
It was an above average maiden dominated by four Ballydoyle horses destined for greater things with big race entries at Ascot, the Curragh Epsom and beyond.Plenty of good horses running as also rans. Handicapper is on a hiding to nothing but 68 turned out to be generous. Other horses have run unplaced since.
You might want to put some of the others in your tracker.
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