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I’ve had a keen eye on a real prospect in
Keenans Future
for a while now. I picked him out during the Becher entries, when he was a very forgotten horse. He ran a corker to come second, but i was very disappointed that he wasn’t given a National entry. He hasn’t even run since that effort in November, so i’m just waiting on any updates…
I’m also following a good lucking horse called
Forest Pennant
. He won the Long Distance Hurdle at Aintree a couple of years ago beating a Grand National and a Welsh National winner in
Don’t Push It
and
Dream Alliance
. As well as beating home some very talented horses in
Hennessy
,
According To Pete
and
Auroras Encore
among others.
I can see some real Grand National claims in both these horses and i look forward to seeing their efforts throughout the season…
Here’s one for you a horse trained by Willie Musson called Bob Stock. I "think" it will win over seven or a mile when its busy and probably at Lingfield which I know is almost a swear word to some of you on here but I have watched it run a few times and I think its being set up for a touch.
I’m also now following Lady Carkes Midnight Chase. I reckon he could be something good over the bigger trips.
I’m waiting for an unraced 4yo gelding called Emerging Artist to appear for Mark Johnston (entered to run at Haydock on Wednesday).
A real promising 4yo, Hidden Trail, won the maiden special weight hurdle at Philadelphia Park on Friday. He’s one to keep an eye on for the novice stakes later this year. Did horribly in all of his flat races, but he seems to have taken to the jumps it. He’s very well-bred, from the first crop of Empire Maker out of the stakes-placed Gone West mare Trekking.
The other day, I mentioned a French 4-year old owned by the Aga Khan, called Dalghar who is a half brother by Anamaa to Dayjur and Dalakani.
Yesterday he won a Group 3, breaking the track record on a sunny windless day. He’s come right down to 12/1 now for the Queen Anne.
Here is a translation of what the author of an article in Paris-Turf had to say on the subject.
Dalghar covered the 1400 metres in 1′ 17.4", a time which quite simply constitutes the record for the distance, held since 1999 by Gosden’s Russian Revival, in 1′ 17.9". It came very close to the absolute record for the distance…. But most astonishing were the sectional times, as Dalghar took 9.7 seconds(!) for the last 200 metres. "Alors…, (mon pauvre vieux" [my addendum})?" A genuine feat? Or did the stop-watch have a ‘maddie’?
"We wanted to wait, but Christophe was forced to take up the lead", said Royer-Dupre. He won because he was truly on a different level from the others today. He has an engagement at Ascot over a mile on 15 June in the Queen Anne Stakes. We’re going to have a good think about it."
Tony Martin has a horse called Meadow’s Thyne which has been running recently. Apparently he has had a lot of problems including a wind operation, but watching his third last race, which he won, had me in stitches. Not only was he held up in a big field, he ran on the wide outside for virtually the whole of the race, before he came to win it. The jockey must have had immense confidence in his superiority. In his next race he was only placed, but in his last race, he missed a nine-length, second place by a neck, having made up more than 30 lengths since the fourth last. It’s difficult to escape the conclusion that he is being aimed at a biggish race.
In his last race, a heritage handicap, Godolphin’s Black Snowflake came 6 3/4 lengths third of 16 to Balducci, but to see daylight had had to veer right across the track at the very time the rest had begun to go full pelt, so how much ground he’d lost… well, I think he might well have have won and won well. He’s as low as 20s with Paddy Power for the Royal Hunt Cup, but is still available at 70s on Betfair.
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