Borderlescott

[Burrough Hill Lad]

http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/news … itute.html

What a tough little beggar this horse must be if he sustained this injury during yesterday’s race … one of my favourite horses and hope he recovers sufficiently to find his way back onto the racecourse next season.

[Cav]

So thats Age Of Aquarius, Tactic and Bordlescott all injured yesterday (that we know of). Would patchy watering have anything to do with this?

[Maxilon 5]

Film Score, Tuesday. Fatally injured. As you said earlier, they were kicking divots up the size of dinner plates that day. Dandino, who half of Newark backed, was seemingly doing the hokey cokey two out and looked unable to extract his hooves from the turf.

Someone needs to have a word with Buckley.

Best of luck, Borderlescott – for the second time today.

[Coggy]

Sad to hear about the injury
Lets hope he isnt in too much pain and makes a full recovery along with all the other injured ones

[gamble]

It was a strange snake-like procession
up the straight last night
led by the good wood witch doctor,
stomping in strange rags,
ahead of the gutter men and water moles,
spilling from overfilled buckets
as the football chant

Sea mus

Sea mus

broke the warm night air
to welcome the approaching the clerk.

[Venusian]

So thats Age Of Aquarius, Tactic and Bordlescott all injured yesterday (that we know of). Would patchy watering have anything to do with this?

I think that’s highly likely.

[Maxilon 5]

There were loads of horses that didn’t handle the ground this week. It was horrible to watch at times.

I backed a big outsider in the Golden Mile at a silly price and watched in horror as coming round the top bend, the poor beast resembled a long legged ice skater after five pints of Stella. He just couldn’t deal with whatever it was that Seamus The Water Nymph was trying to create.

If you needed good,safe, fast ground, you may as well have stayed at home. If you needed soft ground, it wasn’t that either. We’ve been racing on some bizarre horticultural hybrid which was, to be frank, dangerous to the animal and to the punter.

I’m an enthusiast for this sport, almost a zealot – and it takes a lot to make me change – but I’m feeling for the first time in years that I’m playing against loaded dice.

[dilysb]

One fatality plus the injuries. I found it disturbing to watch and FF-d throughout. Bordlescott an an all-time fav so hoping he will be O.K.

[Cav]

I think that’s highly likely.

Any reasons why? Clerk says the injuries all happened on different parts of the course and had no complaints from any connections. Thank you, Lydia for raising it with him. I thought it looked a bit strange, very loose on top, the type of ground that moves beneath horses, classic over-watered ground in appearance anyway.

[Maxilon 5]

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-ra … 49090/top/

To save anyone looking it up, Seamus is planning to put 10-12mm of water on the top bend tonight.

Astounding. Truly astounding. If that sea fret comes in from the Channel, and the heavens open, you’re going to need a three mile chaser to win the Nassau. It’ll be like the Somme up there.

I wish he was going instead of Fabricius. And he was a complete nork too.

[gamble]

Lordy Lordy the rains have come

Max, your stellar horse
brought a few wrinkles
to my head scratcher
and long may he
live on in the memory
as a dry reminder
to the water people.

I watched a film last night
called

open water

.
Two punters were left marooned in the
middle of the ocean wearing
heavy diving equipment
with just a flimsy form book each
to protect their profit
and loss accounts.
With that mutch water
I could guess the ending,
and when the shark got one of them
I turned over to watch another race.

[Maxilon 5]

as the football chant

Sea mus Sea mus

broke the warm night air
to welcome the approaching clerk.

Sea mus must be in his element with all that water this morning, Gambers. He must be out with the witch doctor and his hooded acolytes doing a conga up the home straight.

With that much water
I could guess the ending,
and when the shark got one of them
I turned over to watch another race.

I wish some tour boat would leave Sea mus behind, meowd. This idiot has ruined Glorious Goodwood

[gamble]

Awoken by the earthy pungent smell of pouring rain
Andrew Tulloch thought he had chosen the perfect getaway
until the monsoon washed in through his window
raising his wooden bed high enough
to give his nose a perfect chance
to partly clean up the peeling ceiling rose.

Andrew’s friday night pre -2002
first six fence grand national watering
still makes top ten in the watering follys
annual.
Seamus is highly envious
and wants to leave a high enough water mark
to get in this year.

Yes Max it’s almost like one of your mad movies

[Maxilon 5]

Gambers, is it the second Mad Max film where my cousin lives in a world without enough water? ROFLMAO.

How ironic! Old Sea mus the Marine Boy wouldn’t last an hour there.

Still, there’s only a few of us complaining – and Gerard Butler was overjoyed after confirmed mudlark Elliptical’s romp in the nightcap – so I’ll retreat under my mushroom and await more BHA compost.

[gamble]

My memory, max, of the mad films is not that acute
One was based on a shortage of oil but each film celebrates
the value of the rusty iron pot and reminds us we all lived
quite happily in caves without the need for false beards.

I suppose the clerks have a dilemma – they want the " good "
horses, they don’t want accidents and presumably they want
the ground to run fair.
Their last dilemma is the one little enough researched and the hardest to verify.

At Goodwood Mike Cattbackthemoles said
" we have genuinely good ground, and every horse goes on good ground."
They certainly do but is this treated ground genunely good and will some not will be pulling handcarts while others will be feeling the force of pegasus in their hooves as they speed the artificial waste.

Drone has done some good research involving watering at the back of his house. I feel he could be the man to write the appropriate letters about

fairground

– on one condition – he gives up his long term obsession with rooted vegetables, which is casting serious doubt on the authenticity of his experiments.

[conundrum]

Gamble wrote….he gives up his long term obsession with rooted vegetables

Opted for organic this year, little realising that ORGANic is just a euphemism for nature’s little creatures holding harpsichord parties whilst savouring the delights of strawberries with side salad accompaniments.
Even the snails and slugs delighted in my mini-traps of real ale where they were seen to be enjoying the fun and frivolities of skinny-dipping sessions.
My brassica have been decimated by whitefly, caterpillars and various other creepy crawlies, all praising the merits of the Heir to the Throne for his tireless campaigning…"Long Live Charlie" is the chorus ringing in my ears as I slink away from my once horticultural heaven.
Watering is the least of my problems Gamble.

[Drone]

While it’s true that my gardening year is geared towards the production and consumption of tough old parsnips and leathery potatoes; and it’s they who reward the effort of cultivation, I do still enjoy the summer pleasures afforded by the evanescent colourful half-hardy flowers who grow, bloom and spread their seed far too quickly unless dead-headed.

Kenundrum, it is these you should grow as companions to the hardy old sticks; they are alternative hosts for the pests and diseases that would otherwise fester on the monocultural swathe of the seedless

As for artificial irrigation, it starts no earlier than June – if Zeus has his feet up – and ends in September whether he’s reclining or not. The lawn at the front of my house receives only the capricious Olympian distillate, and thrives

‘Cultivate the soil not the plant’ is a maxim handed down by generations of horny-handed sons-of-the-soil. Shay Musn’t be either: a clean-nailed son-of-dubious-doctrine

My experiments with the occasional heavy drenching have proven succesful and produces long lushess roots and lucious top growth, hence are authentic. Whether the success could be replicated on the boring old green sward I couldn’t be sure but would venture a tentative yes

Having now watched a bit of the week’s sod-hurling at Inglorious Goodwood, I’d at least be confident that ‘my way’ would have been less bad than ‘Shay’s way’

For those wishing to search the numerous watering archives of TRF, I’d suggest digging out posts from Robert99 who knows a thing or two about turf husbandry, though perhaps not parsnips

There’s summer cabbages and raspberries to nibble on this afternoon, after which I will be joining Max on his grand tour.

Hope it doesn’t rain

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