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I’m shocked to see a former Ballydoyle BC winner run at odds of 200/1. Isn’t she any good for breeding?
Most likely, not.ERL, Victoria Road is a “he”.
I don’t know if any attempts were made to breed from him, but he’s a gelding now.
Victoria Road was brought for big money for the Cox Plate about 3 years back but has had issues and beem gelded . He ran 2nd couple starts back . Hes in at Gold Coast tomorrow , Zoology in same race who was second to Age of Kings in Jersey Stakes a few years back and Glory Daze who ran in Epsom Derby at one time .
Age of Kings is currently on Inglis Online sale as Wallers given up on him .Age of Kings auction closed off yesterday , went for 7k AUD , he could get a race in country .
Chief Little Rock another ex Ballydoyle in this weekend , had 5 trials but hasnt made it to races in OZ yet , gone well in trials so might go ok .Sorry Marlingford, I was with Lake Victoria. The one that won the 2024 BC Juvenile Fillies Turf.
It’s only mid-March, but the hype machine has already started:
Yawn.
Didn’t notice you had spotted this Glad I was 2minutes behind you just posted on the 2000 thread
He also mentions Montreal at 20/1 as outstanding EW value for the Derby. Tell Barry Hills something about EW betting, especially in a Derby.
Lovely horse Albert Einstein, the trouble with being “so far ahead at an early stage” would be he could be just that, a early maturing 2 year old. Aidan has had plenty of them. Charles Darwin was a bit gangly and awkward on debut but was a bull by Royal Ascot.
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He’s started early this season with the hyperbole.
If he was so far ahead as a two year old then it could end up being unfortunate that he missed the rest of his two year old season plus we also have the issue that Aidan struggles to get his top horses ready for the first classic of the season and they tend to need their first run of the season.
Give it a few more weeks and he’ll be saying he won’t be ready for Newmarket.
The more I know the less I understand.
“Aidan struggles to get his top horses ready for the first classic of the season”.
Only recently, with the high profile defeats of Auguste Rodin and City Of Troy. But he has trained 10 winners of the 2,000 Guineas, so he has got plenty of them ready before.
In Albert Einstein Aidan hasnt trained a horse as fast , in Mr Waterville he hasnt trained a horse that ended up so slow . He was just aweful Sunday .
Iam going to try get a price on Montreal in the Birdsville Cup 2029 .CAS – recently is the only evidence you can go by though – will he train the horse hard to be ready for Newmarket or will his hyperbole over the horse lull him into thinking that he only has to show up and his talent will be enough to overcome things, not sure what to make of the following comment:
“He’s going to go to the Guineas without ever coming off the bridle in training at home, because we want to make sure he relaxes. In terms of speed, I don’t think we’ve ever had a horse as quick.
Somebody with Aidan’s experience who knows 2 yr olds don’t all develop at the same speed/time, you would think also wouldn’t make a comment like this:
“When we started working him in the spring of his two-year-old career, we thought all the juveniles were no good and he was the only one we had. He was that much above everything else. He’s very big, very powerful, wide and strong.
His dam was a 5 and 6F horse but she herself was out of a 1m winning 2 yr old that finished 2nd in a 12f G3, so it is a little mixed on the pedigree side and a lot of the Wootton Basset’s that stayed longer trips got that stamina from the dam that themself stayed further than a mile.
He looks like a sprinter type so he will likely need it to be a dry spring to make the ground on race day as least testing as possible (I wonder whether Aidan will ‘suggest’ that Andrew Morris not water Newmarket’s Rowley Mile too much).
Mr Waterville , had hurdle trial this week , i expect to see him entered for a maiden hurdle on Thursday, last chance saloon surely .
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