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"Schooling in public" would infer there was little intention by connections to win the race.
However, the gelding was third, beaten only a head and a short head having tried to wrench Paul Mulrennan’s arms out of their sockets for a goodly portion of the race.
Conclusion: having watched the race through a couple of times, I think there was an extremely good chance that, fully wound up or not, he would have collected had his early over-expenditure of effort not cost him a vital increment of late speed at the very end.
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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.
I fully understand when a trainer says he not sure about the trip or the ground but to say a horse is not fully fit is fodder to those who say racing bent.
Well those people clearly didn’t see that:
a) the horse was well backed
and b) as Jeremy says, Eton Rifles would most likely have held off The Osteopath had it not been for him going far too freely in the early stages. In any case, he was in a trio that pulled 7l clear.Those wishing to have a pop at dishonesty in racing would, if anything, be better employed musing as to just who was backing the horse if connections were of the opionion that he was only 85% fit.
Yes, we are rather blunt, aren’t we. It must be all that mining work.
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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.
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