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  • #1607364
    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    Blackbeard runs in the Darly Prix Robert Papin over at Chantilly in a couple of hours.
    I hope Ioritz Mendizabal insurance is up to date.. :rose:

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    Blackbeard-schmackbeard – the entire 2yo scene is all about the 2023 2,000 Guineas winner Little Big Bear for me.

    Yes, I’ve taken 14/1 about a pumped-up son of No Nay Never who is probably at his career peak now and won’t stay a mile in a horsebox.

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    I took 33/1 about Epictetus after he won his maiden at Newmarket. Which means he will have a setback any day now and will not reappear until the autumn next year. ;-)

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    “How far the Beard??!!”

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    #1607389
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    Did anyone see if he got up to his pre-race pawing antics again?

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    Apparently he did. Racing Post reports “Blackbeard showed his usual theatrics ahead of the six-furlong contest and was the final runner coaxed into the stalls”.

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    I love this colt already – you gotta adore a talented basket case.

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    “He’s not difficult, he just has a certain way of going about things,” Mendizabal said.

    Love him, looking forward to his next performance!

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    Touch of the George Washington’s about him perhaps.

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    Seeing him hack up like that

    How good is Shartash?

    One to follow surely

    #1607662
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    The jockey was full of praise
    Think it’s his way of telling Aidan to go for the Prix Morny.

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    “The horse isn’t all that, don’t bother bringing him over here again.”

    Said no jockey never.

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    Reckon Richard Hughes would have said something along those lines when riding Toronado after his breeders cup effort

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    Ooh-arr!

    Sorry, just getting the thread back on topic.

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    Blackbeard NR today.

    Don’t know why – maybe the complete nutter was digging for gold/oil/whatever last night and ended up mining a tunnel out of his box and escaped.

    Last seen riding a purloined motorbike like Steve McQueen towards the border.

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    #1610179
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    I predicted he might be a non starter in the race thread.
    Was probably cover incase LBB stepped on a stone or such like
    He told captain Aidan he likes to set sail aboard the good ship coolmore to foreign destinations such as France where the soil is always that much heavier and easily to dig.

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    Blackbeard just enjoys sailing on the high seas and avoiding paying duty on all the contraband he brings back from the continent.

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