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Well he did that very easily indeed.
Well, from what i saw anyway, dont know if it was just my television, but when they got the 3 furlong marker, the camera went funny, blank screens, camera got too close, etc…
Well done to New Approach.
Very impressive indeed, no need for the pacemaker,
No doubt that he’s an above-average Derby winner, and pretty tough too, when you consider he’s been on the go since April.
I haven’t had a bet but I have to say that this New Approach pony nonsense is beginning to get on my wick- everything else is at the start, we’re already 2 minutes late and he’s ambling past the 6 fulong marker. Should one horse be allowed to delay every race he contests?
As long as there are stupid parades..yes.
Stunning performance all the same from a very consistent top class horse. He is a very good horse and in an ideal world….national hunt
we would see him and Zarkava against each other on several occasions.Still, as flat racing goes, a good season.
SHL
Fantastic performance, arguably his best, but it’s time the powers that be got a bit tougher about horses delaying the start- if you want a pony you should be obliged to go down early and be at the post before off time.
What a training performance from Bolger… to have New Approach and Intense Focus in this sort of form at the end of the tough seasons they have had.
Stunning. New Approach finally proved how good he is.
I am so sorry (along with everyone else) that we will never see a New Approach/Zarkava showdown.
Am I alone in thinking that the mighty filly would not have beaten NA today?
Well done New Approach, not a great field, but he stamped his authority all over them.
Deserves a lot of credit for his achievements.
Zip
Was that the best European performance of the season?
Has to be up there.
I was so wrong about him today.
Mark
Value Is EverythingAbsolutely not!!! But is he a good horse? You can bet your backside he is. Settled well today and won better than expected.
Unfortuntely it was not a good renewal by any stretch of the imagination.
His retirement I found very surprising as he would have been a top notch 4yo IMO
I believe he set a course record,so if you are a time freak it has to rank as the best performance of the season.
Tremendous perfomance in record time. Not his fault that the opposition is not strong with all this obsessesion with the Breeders Cup.
dfinitely a good quality Derby Winner and a tremendous job by Jim Bolger. A singular man who believes there are two ways to do things. His way and the wrong way. Good Trainer of men too, Aiden O’Brien and Tony McCoy haven’t done too badly working with him have they.
I believe he set a course record,so if you are a time freak it has to rank as the best performance of the season.
That fact that there were at times gale force tailwinds on the straight course might have had something to do with the fast time.
"blowing at times" does not have anything to do with the time.Were they blowing when the record was set?Surely blowing going down would cancel the effect of blowing on the way back.The horses would be tired when they got to the start.
Upton Gray did a proper pace makers job in cooking the rest of the field ( he looks the type who might make a nice seven furlong group horse next year), all New Approach had too do was sit off him then hit the afterburners . One hell of a performance.
Given the thrashing he gave Ravens Pass in the spring its shame that he iasnt running in the BC classic, I would loved too have seen him take on Curlin ( along with Big Brown had he not been injured).
I still think his Epsom performance was his best. The fact he never settled, never came round Tattenham Corner and still managed to win still amazes me.
Would have loved to have seen him run in the Arc as I always thought he was the only danger to the filly.
Sadly she’s gone and now him. Seems everyone just want to get the guaranteed money in ASAP and stuff keeping them in training.
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