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All this King’s Best talk is quite fun. He could end up going for the treble with Simon de Montfort tomorrow!
The best trial for the Derby is the Derrinstown Stud trail at Leop, previous winners include Galileo and High Chapperal. Which horse has won this race in the fastest time of the last 20 years? Answer Midas Touch, thats good enough for me, lump on.
I have pussy out of Jan Vermeer.
Now going
Jan Vermeer
Midas Touch2 Bets.
Something tells me Colm O Donoghue is going to shine at one of these big days and i think he will today
Let me be first to congratulate TAPK, who has been on about this horse for months now. Great win, At First Sight ran a cracker too.
Well done Workforce backers
ST NIC WAS AOB’s NUMBER ONE
obvious
rewilding placed so happy enough
If At First Sight had held on it would have been quite something.
It’s good to see the course record go. Now we don’t need excuses for next year about watering forever because the ground must be quick enough to have At First Sight falling what would now be 2 lengths short of the old record.
I am gutted, the horse with the best credentials sent to France, Jan Vermeer’s form is so inferior to Cape Blancos.
JohnJ
I think we should give ourselves a collective pat on the back. Most of the Ante Post posting nutters were on Workforce – moi, Fist, TAPK, Zarkava and Darren.
TPK’s first recorded bet/post was 1st April, but he was my end of year tip for the Derby on 31st December on the 2yo Summary thread.
Wallace agreed that Grimthorpe was being a bit of an idiot for ruling the horse out of the Derby a few months ago, but I haven’t checked the pounds and pence.
I don’t know more wire to wire runnings maybe should happen in European Classics.
Seamie Heff rode a simply outstanding race.
Workforce was a joke tho….in a different league to the rest
I think we should give ourselves a collective pat on the back.
Most of the Ante Post posting nutters were on Workforce – moi, Fist, TAPK, Zarkava and Darren.
TPK’s first recorded bet/post was 1st April, but he was my end of year tip for the Derby on 31st December on the 2yo Summary thread.
Me inall.
Value Is EverythingWe’ve seen a special horse today.
The stats it’s broken don’t just include the course record but also
1st horse beaten in a Dante to win the Derby
1st (since Sea Bird) Native Dancer line sire to win the Derby
1st time Sadlers Wells appears as broodmare sire in the Derby roster. That may herald a new era.
Congratulations to Mr Stoute on surely one of the best training performances in living memory. The Australian noseband did the trick and no doubt the Lingfield exercise was instrumental too but to bring the horse on that far in the few weeks since the Dante is brilliance.
Ryan Moore’s description of the ground – as good in the straight – I’ll take over the Clerk of the Course’s. Good to Firm all over? No. That may have a bearing in assessing just how good the time was.
I have to like Stoute’s modesty in assessing his chances – even if it did put me away a little. How refreshing compared to Ballydoyle’s misplaced bravado.
Year after year the market buys into the O’Brien hype but how long now since an Epsom Derby win for them?
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If anyone is throwing darts at a board it is Abdullah. I got the distinct impression that faced with Thommo’s microphone after Lingfield Cecil wanted to tell him that Bullet Train was most likely to be heading for Royal Ascot. The fact that they are both turning up at Epsom would seem to suggest that one doesn’t have a massively better chance than the other. The horse to take out of the Dante was the winner which should give O’Brien a pretty good line to the form.
Some bullseye, eh Stilvi?
Tremendously impressive, and almost certainly a worthy favourite for the Arc.
The rest were much of a muchness though, and the 100/1 2nd is almost certainly flattered. Given a soft lead for much of the way, he skipped clear before anything else was put in the race seriously, and looks cetain to be overbet for somthing like the Irish Derby.
Workforce 1st; the rest nowhere!Lets not go making knee jerk reactions about Cape Blanco or St Nicholas Abbey being O’Brien’s number one Jan Vermeer for whatever reason didn’t run to form today he is better than that.
Workforce was awesome today its impossible not to be impressed with that performance.
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