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Dr Eggman is my early bet here at 40-1. I’m sure that there’ll be significant improvement from debut, and although The Ballymore could also be an option, I decided to put my money down, and see how it goes.
Again I’m not having an early bet here, but I quite liked Amir Kabir last time, so I’ll watch out for him. He’s 50/1 just now
Had a go on Kalanisi Star @50s. Won the Gowran bumper won by Yorkhill, Bob Ollinger and Journey With Me by 16 lengths on heavy. The second won next time out and was 3rd in a bumper at the Punchestown festival, ahead of James’s Gate. Same sire as Blazing Khal, out of a Zaffaran mare, so hopefully he can stay.
Very interesting pick that couteau, do you know if he’s going here and not to the Ballymore?
Ah fair enough mate thought maybe you’d read a stable tour or something where they said this was the target, I love the shout though seems a very big price for one that won a respected bumper in the manner that he did!
Alas no, mate. I actually had to request him to be added to the AB betting, so my endorsement might not be something to hang your hat on. I’ve googled searched for updates and also on Twitter but I guess because he’s a relatively small trainer there won’t be any stable tours etc.
I’ll email the trainer for us and ask lol, most likely wont get a response but no harm in trying
hmm seems he’s an elusive one, can’t find an email address for him and cant find him on twitter or facebook either lol no good!
Ben- found a phone number for him.
https://m.facebook.com/IrishRacingJobs/posts/2807235032866062
Cheers Glad but I don’t have the balls to call him/his assistant and ask them directly, can you imagine “hello mr irish fix it job trainer do you mind telling me your Cheltenham plans so I can have a bet?” He’d probably tell me the wrong race just to wind me up
You phone him up and pretend to be interested in a job, ask him if you’ll be lucky enough to ride (insert names of some of his other horses here), then joke that you suppose that the ride on Kalanisi Star is taken. Then you go from there.
D’uh.
Not going to lie glad that’s a tremendous idea, if you send me a gram of charlie I’ll call him up within 30 seconds of my first line
Was going to say I’d need to put on an Irish accent as well I think so he thinks I’m one of the lads
Ha, love the detective work. Ben what’s your David Jennings impression like? McKiernan certainly keeps a low profile but he has trained a Befair Bowl winner many moons ago with Follow the Plan. I’ve actually backed another of his, Meet and Greet, for the NH Chase (again requested that to be added to the betting). Third behind The Nice Guy and Minella Cocooner at Punchestown but not really bred for chasing so not really that hopeful of that one.
This takes me back to circa 1984 when I was a student at Warwick university.
A fellow student Point-to-point jockey and his family had got interested in form book anorak me sourcing a horse for them to go Pointing and I was trying to get a handle on market rates for horses in training.
I saw Oregon Trail, then a 4yo hurdler, for sale in a classified ad for “£30,000-£40,000” and phoned up to see if they were open to offers simply to get an idea.
I ended up talking to Jim Old the trainer who was clearly desperate to keep the horse in the yard and was literally begging me not to send it elsewhere when I was just a young 21yo bloke who hadn’t even made an offer, I was just asking a question.
I didn’t know whether to be more embarrassed for him or myself – on balance him, definitely him: “I’ve got every faith in the horse!” he cried out, sounding close to tears.
I’d never said he hadn’t. “I’m sure you have,” was all I could think of to say in reply, hugely and inappropriately patronising though it must have sounded.
I decided then that, while I loved racing, the people in racing really weren’t for me.
38 years later I still feel uncomfortable writing about it.
Think Oregon Trail later won the Arkle btw.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Ha, that is a cracking story. Did you have any inkling that he’d turn out to be a good’un?
He’d done a good speed figure for the grade of races he’d been running in and I once thought he might be a Triumph Hurdle horse.
But I remember watching him later win the Arkle at something like 16/1 after I’d long since abandoned him and thinking: “I thought he might be a good horse once, but I didn’t see THAT coming!”
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