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Anyone going?
(As well as Seabird, who I think may be already).
It’s looking about 75 – 25 for me now, odds having improved with my car sailing through its MOT a few minutes ago. Typical me that I’ve driven past the course enough this year en route to Bonvilston, Laleston and Ystradowen point-to-points and a music festy in Margam, but I’ve never yet been inside on raceday. Time to put that right (and reduce the number of jumps tracks still to visit thereafter to five), I think!
Drop me a line as per usual if you fancy saying hello at the track.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Should be a good day at Chepstow, the start of the jumps.
Ach, that old bone of contention! I’d counter that the "start of the jumps" is the day after Betfred Day, and that we’re already three months into another exciting season – but then I concede I’ll never sell the virtues of even the higher quality summer jumps races to everyone…
Vive la difference. Or somefink.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Change of plan, I’m afraid, GC.
I am informed, by she who must be obeyed, that we have a wedding reception to go to.
I am there on the 27th. instead, I hope!!!!
Colin
Ah Jeremy, we shall be in the same country, but alas at different racecourses so no QC fan club reunion this time!
Think you’ll like Chepstow, can’t hold a candle to Bangor, Cartmel & Rasen but what course can??? Enjoy.start of the proper racing on Saturday for us – Bangor!! any tips welcome but will probably back Nigel Twiston Davies all afternoon!
start of the proper racing on Saturday for us – Bangor!! any tips welcome but will probably back Nigel Twiston Davies all afternoon!
Not a bad idea at all.
He has his string in awesome form at the moment.
Was good at Market Rasen when i was there the other Saturday too.
Ah Jeremy, we shall be in the same country, but alas at different racecourses so no QC fan club reunion this time!
Indeed not! I was at that corresponding Bangor meeting last year, Ruth, following up some potential leads for work post-Sportsman (which went t*ts up only two days earlier – I don’t hang around, me) and observing – if memory serves – a Twiston-Davies treble. Ergo the points made by kauto_star et al in this thread also!
Think you’ll like Chepstow, can’t hold a candle to Bangor, Cartmel & Rasen but what course can??? Enjoy.
Nowhere else on Earth can, of course!
I’ll let you know how I get on.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I’d recommend that you have an interest on Broadheath in the Mercedes Benz chase, but you’ll need to be quick. I say quick, but really arriving after 1986 would be disastrous.
I’d recommend that you have an interest on Broadheath in the Mercedes Benz chase, but you’ll need to be quick. I say quick, but really arriving after 1986 would be disastrous.
Nice one, Centurion!
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
start of the proper racing on Saturday for us – Bangor!! any tips welcome but will probably back Nigel Twiston Davies all afternoon!
Not a bad idea at all.
He has his string in awesome form at the moment.
Was good at Market Rasen when i was there the other Saturday too.
Absolutely, kauto_star – it could conceivably have been a four-timer that day had his ex-pointer not been more interested in fighting his jockey than getting on with it in the bumper.
You’ll probably have heard his interview with Mike Vince after Prestbury Knight’s win, in which NTD was very frank about how he has to clean up at this time of year before all the sexier, more expensive, more vaunted bloodstock (which he simply cannot afford) is sent into battle and shows his string a clean pair of heels.
He racked up a very impressive 21 winners last October alone, and I’d imagine he has set himself a broadly similar target for the same month this time around.
A little bit of a generalisation, perhaps, but I’d regard the time to give anything of NTD’s a second look as being the period up to and including Charlie Hall Chase day – the big event of which, of course, he’s landed recently enough with Ollie Magern. That that animal didn’t really ascend to greater heights after that win is pretty much indicative of how Nigel’s string’s fortunes falter from November onwards.
Of all his runners today, the one I’d be most interested in is Mr Ironman, intended as a chasing prospect when with Guesty but removed from him by owner Jim White over the winter after a few rotten performances in novices’ / maiden hurdles.
I strongly suspect that the gelding will prove better than the crummy mark from which he starts his chasing / handicapping career today, and Towcester’s would hardly be the most prepossessing of fences with which to confront a chasing debutant (bar the ditch at the foot of the hill).
None of which has diddly to do with Chepstow, and I’d have been buzzed by Nicholas Parsons for deviation long before now, but never mind.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Of all his runners today, the one I’d be most interested in is Mr Ironman, intended as a chasing prospect when with Guesty but removed from him by owner Jim White over the winter after a few rotten performances in novices’ / maiden hurdles.
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Looks to have a good chance.
That looks a very wide open race though. Carroll´s O´Tully didn’t really impress me when ran the other day, so may be a favourite to take on.
Aye, I’d definitely be looking to take on Carrolls O’Tully, and I was really surprised he realised a five-figure sum at the sales this summer given his overall profile.
Maybe the thinking was that as a previous inmate of Luke Dace (who’s barely been able to buy a winner in the last four years after a bright start to his training career), the gelding possesses a wealth of potential hitherto untapped by a struggling yard. Nothing much about his new career with Richard Ford has managed to convince me of that so far, though, for all that he is on an attractive mark.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Aye, I’d definitely be looking to take on Carrolls O’Tully, and I was really surprised he realised a five-figure sum at the sales this summer given his overall profile.
Maybe the thinking was that as a previous inmate of Luke Dace (who’s barely been able to buy a winner in the last four years after a bright start to his training career), the gelding possesses a wealth of potential hitherto untapped by a struggling yard. Nothing much about his new career with Richard Ford has managed to convince me of that so far, though, for all that he is on an attractive mark.
gc
Has just fell.
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