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£2.47 @ 22.19 Bushman[/color:3j55m9gg] placed 3.51am 3 Sept 09
£5.55 @ 180 Bencoolen [/color:3j55m9gg]placed 1.01am 2 Sept 09
£4 @ 80.6 Docofthebay [/color:3j55m9gg] placed 12.59am 2 Sept 09 & 18.56 3 Sept 09
£1.63 @ 120 European Dream [/color:3j55m9gg] placed 3.52am 3 Sept 09
£5 @ 120 Smokey Oakey[/color:3j55m9gg] placed 17.51 18 Sept 09Bencoolen
– trying to get my City & Suburban money back. Crap trainer.
Docofthebay
– trying to get my Royal Hunt Cup money back.
European Dream
– this is a wasted bet. I was thinking of his Scottish County Hurdle victory, and translating that form back onto the Flat. However, that victory was really him translating his Flat form to the Jumps
. Anyway, here is something interesting from a couple of years ago: –23Jun07 Redcar (8Sft ,RPR102)
. . . and I’ll train him for the Cambridgeshire. He’s not the best of travellers, so I may send him down to Newmarket three weeks before the race and he can stay with my brother Rae. – Richard GuestSmokey Oakey
– Tompkins mentions in the Stable Tour section of the attheraces website that the horse will be aimed at the Cambs.
Bushman
– probably placed the bet as a pre-emptive saver after reading this arcticle:-
Bushman still on target for Cambridgeshire tilt
By Racingpost.com staff12.23PM 2 SEP 2009
BUSHMAN, a 14-1 chance withthe sponsors, has been allotted 9st2lb for the Totesport.com Cambridgeshire, as the weights for the £160,000 contest were revealed on Wednesday.
The David Simcock-trained son of Maria’s Mon landed a conditions race over a mile at Newmarket last month with Queen Anne Stakes runner-up Cesare back in third.
Simcock confirmed that the Cambridgeshire, run on October 3, was still the plan for his five-year-old, he said: "The plan is to go to Newmarket.
"It is a race we have had in mind for quite a while now. He will probably have one run beforehand and that might well be on Saturday in the Superior Mile at Haydock.
"He was unraced as a two- and three-year-old so is quite lightly-raced for his age. He slightly lost his way the end of last year and the beginning of this season but I’m really happy with him now and he is training very well."
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Done my brains today on Tryst as I thought he would be sharp enough to win. However this is the big one and he’s run a cracking trial, so hopefully he will go for it.
Would imagine the handicapper will put him up a few pounds and he should get in but where SMS concerned who knows how he is thinking.
Done my brains today on Tryst as I thought he would be sharp enough to win. However this is the big one and he’s run a cracking trial, so hopefully he will go for it.
Would imagine the handicapper will put him up a few pounds and he should get in but where SMS concerned who knows how he is thinking.
He’ll struggle to get in, I would have thought. Greylami ran an even better trial in the same race on Friday and the Cambridgeshire would certainly play to his strengths but he’s in the same position as Tryst so far as getting in is concerned.
Not a very good race for 5 year olds. Is 9f a specialist distance? If so, am interested in Wannabe King and possibly Supaseus, althought the latter has seemed to have lost his way somewhat.
"We were tempted to run him again but didn’t want to have him run a blinder and put the chance of winning a big prize at risk. He had an injury and it has taken a while to get him back. He fell over in the aeroplane on the way out to Dubai and that’s why he ran so badly there – the vets didn’t find it until after his run."We just hope we can get him back to his best. He is unreliable, but if anyone is looking at having a punt on him, he cannot be discounted on his best form. Realistically, he hasn’t run up to his best since his injury, but he showed promise last time out and we are doing everything we can to get him back to that level."
01/10/2009 18:03
I’ve read somewhere that someone tipped Supaseus the other day and his price has halved. I’ve also read that you need a 10f horse for this race. Have had my ew’s on Wannabe King and Supaseus [along with my old bet on Nanton]. Don’t want to get carried away like I did with the Ayr Gold Cup
.Oh dear; Wannabe King seems to be drifting quite badly with WH; wonder if there’s a problem….
With my original pick disappointing in good company I think I will look elsewhere and go with the favourite Sirvino, who’s win at York worked out really well with 2nd placing in Group company twice after the John Smiths Cu, most recently at Ascot coming 3rd behind Mawatheeq and Campanologist.
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Obviously pleased Tryst gets in or will be if the beggar turns up
Vey interesting Article on Supaseus and at 25/1 I might just have a small interst on him too.
I used to love this race as a kid and it was easier to pick the winner then. All you did was pick a name you liked and they would scoosh up. Of course it’s all study form and watching videos now and you can’t find the winner for love or money.
So I turned the clock back stared at the card and there it was
"Wannabe King"
who instantly reminded me of Gord (TAPK) it’s a wonder he hasn’t put his house on him
Darn it, marb; I was looking at Almiqdaad last night, and was toying with the idea of having a bet on him today [having said I wasn’t going to have any more bets]. Given that the jockey is riding out of his skin [think it’s him, not his brother] and could probably pick the horse up and carry him and still win, I’m sorely tempted.
Judging by the prevailing conditions you probably need a horse stepping up in trip rather than dropping back. If this doesn’t come too quckly after Ascot the obvious improver is Applause. I would be surprised if she went off bigger than 14/1.
I’ve taken two against the field in this – one pretty obvious but AP at a larger price and one stepping up massively in trip.
Swop
– started fav for this last year and wasn’t given a classic prep run last time out at Newbury, getting boxed in behind a wall of horses and finishing close up in fifth. Took some 25’s and 16’s a week or so ago.
Credit Swap
– been staying on well over 1m, always seeming to see out the trip well and should be ahead of the handicapper despite various rises in the weights throughout the year. 33/1 with 6 places with Skybet looks a cracking bet.
May have an ew on Bencoolen tomorrow; did well over 10f a year ago…could sneak into a place at a huge price. Not much value in Almigdaad now having missed the 14/1.
Oh dear, I fear I’m leading you astray. (I know from 40 year’s experience that I’m not a winning punter.)
I’m thinking of turning over a new leaf and only backing short-priced horses. Did okay today. But then I suppose those were different types of races.
Remember, that 10f race at Newbury is one of the trend races for the Cambs (not that I’ve studied them).
Only study the races to make them more interesting to watch; then have a bet because it’s daft studying them and not having one..or two…or three….and then only have a bet if I’m going into our surgery where they have a bookies withing spitting distance…[although do sometimes convince myself that I need to go to said workplace for some obscure reason!] and then still only have @ 25 pence ew! Get the feeling that tomorrows race is not a race for outsiders, though.
Yeah – Class!
Pipedreamer is now competing in Group 1s. (But people can’t agree about the right distance – as you say, a specialist distance/race.)
I’m a romantic dreamer – Bencoolen is still on the upgrade, and Roger Charlton couldn’t get the best out of him. ( Wouldn’t mind if Doc or Ham won though.)
The shortlist I have are
Sirvino
Applause
Brief EncounterApplause looks one who looks capable of being a really good horse and may step up next season onto bigger things, whether he can deal with older horses is another question, and Brief Encounter has been running against some top notch horses so I will have e/w small stakes on these two and can be part of CFC’s and CTC’s.
. Anyway, here is something interesting from a couple of years ago: –
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