Aidan’s bull

[Expect To Win]

The horse was gone when in Australia, it was due to be retired at the end of last season when up comes someone with a shedload of dosh.
Brilliant bit of business by Bart, Dato and Tunku.

He must have been some horse at his peak.

[Anonymous]

The horse was gone when in Australia, it was due to be retired at the end of last season when up comes someone with a shedload of dosh.
Brilliant bit of business by Bart, Dato and Tunku.

He must have been some horse at his peak.

So the horse was gone hey? Was due to be retired hey? :):) Yeah Right! Not!

[Presto]

He couldn’t resist saying they’re going to run Fame and Glory in the Arc for the benefit of the breeders. I’d want 10/1 that he even runs.

I think it’s pretty likely that he’d run there even though his races this year suggest that he might have lost some speed. But nobody was hurt more by interference in last year’s Arc (Sarafina included) than Fame and Glory but he still finished 5th beaten five.

[Gingertipster]

Doubt whether it will make any difference where Fame And Glory goes in the Autumn. Beaten when hampered, I’ve backed him in the last two Arc’s and he’s disappointed.

Apart from as a two year old when not having a long campaign (debut in October) F&G has struggled to keep his form in to the Autumn. Can understand why they are contemplating a mid-season break.

Value Is Everything

[Himself]

I think Fame and Glory will run in the Arc.

However, he does not possess the necessary turn of foot to win this great race.

Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning

[Nickc]

I’d be interested to know whether the BBC sought out Aidan O’Brien after the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, or whether Ballydoyle’s connections sought out the BBC so that he could make his excuses. In the Racing Post, Alastair Down wrote that A O’B had grabbed his arm in order to emphasise the point that So You Think had gone into the race undercooked. O’Brien told him, "I’m not making excuses, but…"

I know that Ballydoyle/Coolmore have to talk up their racehorses and stallions. But this is really unsporting behaviour (though the norm from this quarter), and very disrespectful to the winning connections.

[clivexx]

I simply dont believe this horse wasnt completely ready for the race in which he was due to make his mark. Not only that, it is a race which all the convicts will be watching. Ascot is somewhat higher profile overseeas than the Juddmonte or Irish champion or whatever. He had to be ready

[Anonymous]

I simply dont believe this horse wasnt completely ready for the race in which he was due to make his mark. Not only that, it is a race which all the convicts will be watching. Ascot is somewhat higher profile overseeas than the Juddmonte or Irish champion or whatever. He had to be ready

All the convicts:):):)

Please sir dont send me where the sunshines,i dont want to see all those whitsunday islands around the great barrier reef,please i dont want to be able to ski and sunbake within 2 hours travel time. You are inhumane!!! :):)

[Anonymous]

The trainer’s reported remarks seem to me to be just more evidence that talking to coonections in the immediate aftermath of a big race is a waste of time for all concerned. It just pushes the trainer into a corner to come up with something, anything, when a period of silence might be best all round.

Wise words,

AP

, in a thread not notable for them. What we saw was a thrilling race in which one of the two good horses fighting it out had to lose. There’s no shame in that.

This was another case of the media building up a "superstar" only to knock it (and connections) down when – inevitably – the cards don’t fall favourably. It’s not as if

So You Think

had been unbeaten up until Wednesday!

When

Frankel

finally gets his colours lowered, as nearly all horses do, there will be the same nonsensical ballyhoo. We have the worst media in the world, with hype, hysteria and emotive garbage (usually) ruling the roost, and it seems to infect its readers with the same diseases. This was another case in point; and to blame the

trainer

for the hype – who after all has to believe in his horse, at whatever level he’s running – is simply stupid.

[CanfordCliffs]

Of more concern than some overrated import should be AOB’s current strike rate in Ireland. Wild Wind has just become his 39th consecutive loser.

43 now but should get a winner at DownRoyal today.

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