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Please stop knocking the Derby, be proud of it. It is still THE greatest flat race of them all.
Granted sometimes the form doesn’t work out and you get a poor renewal but its still the most eagerly anticipated race where you just wait for a potential superstar three year old to emerge to take on the older horses and all the big middle distance prizes. It kicks off the whole summer really and it kicks off history and greatness.
There is nothing like Derby Day. Every British racing fan should shout it from the rooftops and show pride in it the same way the Aussies do with the Melbourne Cup (which incidently isn’t ever going to be won by a Nijinsky or a Sea Bird).
Nice post, Flash.
Each Gr1 race has its good years and bad years, but Derby day has its place in English history and that should never be forgotten.
"I’d rather have an Arc winner" – stating the obvious or what?!
The Arc is an all-aged championship – of course it’s going to have, on average, a better horse winning it.
The continual crabbing of The Derby on this forum is becoming rather tedious…
Give me the Cheltenham Gold Cup any day of the week!!
At least you don’t have to wear a poxy hat for that….:angry: (and that’s with no mention of the dinner plate sized bit of laminate plastic one has to wear around one’s neck either…. )
itd be nice if he did retire after a derby win, id rather see a ledgend go out in a blaze of glory then fade into obscurity.<br>He’s got talent but Gs recent bad run must be getting him down.
Sorry Maxilon, but thats complete cobblers.
:biggrin: Oh. Ok then!!:cool:
Flash. Hear hear; good post.<br>
(Edited by Maxilon 5 at 10:11 pm on May 22, 2007)
He’s not gonna be retiring yet..
I’m not crabbing it, i’m just saying there are better races that carry more weight in this form students eyes..
And i’m probably going to provoke a reaction here, but the only reason the derby is still more important than the guineas is because the win prize fund is nearly four times as much… :biggrin: ;)
Quote: from Shadow Leader on 9:10 pm on May 22, 2007[br]Give me the Cheltenham Gold Cup any day of the week!!
At least you don’t have to wear a poxy hat for that….:angry:  (and that’s with no mention of the dinner plate sized bit of laminate plastic one has to wear around one’s neck either…. )<br>
But you could always don your silly tweed suit and poxy tweed hat, and look equally ridiculous as the toffs at ascot or epsom.
the derby is the race, it is the wimbledon, world cup, olympics of horseracing
everyone will have their preferences in racing but the derby is the most important horse race of the year in the world
(oh and i can’t see him giving up that job just to play with pizzas and telly programmes)
a mares race at cheltenham indeed – slow old breeding stock lumbering around and falling over fences with the occasional fit-up – whatever next, give me all weather racing any day over that rubbish ;)
(Edited by sberry at 2:25 pm on May 23, 2007)
Quote: from sberry on 2:24 pm on May 23, 2007[br] the derby is the most important horse race of the year in the world<br>(Edited by sberry at 2:25 pm on May 23, 2007)<br>
Now I know you’re taking the p**s<br>….or live in a very small world :biggrin:
(Edited by Mounty at 6:26 pm on May 23, 2007)
<br> :old:
Starkey and Rousie<br> Greville the brave and brian the job jockey<br> to those who knew them.<br> Rouse had an annoying habit of chewing<br> in front of camera to hide his nerves.<br> Starkey had a strange eye that carreared about<br> and interviewers would raise the microphone to hide it.<br> <br> Now both these jockeys never smiled<br> or rarely.<br> Dettori differently can’t hide his teeth<br> and is a winner of distinction.<br> He used to practice on a rocking horse.<br> He’ll go on as long as he enjoys it<br> it’s a money thing too.<br> He’ll never commentate.
"The question now is whether Frankie Dettori will keep the ride. Rewilding’s win was the Italian’s first for Al Zarooni in Britain. Ahmed Ajtebi usually partners the Al Zarooni runners. Crisford would only say: ‘Sheik Mohammed will decide.’
Dettori added: ‘He could not have done it easier and was only half extended’."
Quote from the Daily Mail.I’d have been thinking Ajtebi, but I’m dissuaded by Dettori having rode him in the Cocked Hat. Whether Godolphin, and Zarooni, have more than one runner will affect it. It would be peculiar if Dettori rode Zarooni’s and Ajtebi rode Suroor’s. Ajtebi has ridden two winners from 7 rides at Epsom, so he does have some experience of the course.
With AA riding ‘Cutlass’ for SbS tomoz – it looks like riding arrangements between the two stables are flexible!
Who’d have thought that Frankie would be riding those two over in France as opposed to the one in Ireland?!
As always it’s a guessing game…
I’d be surprised if either would want to be on anything other than the import?!
Well…it looks like Frankie was right to ride the ‘Kite’ toady!
After this weekends events a more pertinent question might now be who will CP Lemaire ride should ‘Siyouni’ turn up for the St Jame’s???
I briefly spoke to Ahmed the other night and asked him and all I got was a coy ‘We’ll see’
Read into that what you will but it wasn’t a ‘It’s Frankies decision’. Think Ahmed has the ride set up.
Frankie for Chabal probably?
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