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  • #1492825
    Avatar photoTriptych
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    That’s interesting Krypton thanks I’ll look more closely, must admit I didn’t look much at the finishers and the stats were against the 1 draw according to the ITV Team, Chapman excluded.

    Not Frankie’s best day and shame that English King jinked at the start to spoil his chances even more, but I’ll look forward to seeing him next time now. :good:

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    #1492830
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    The time of the race was pretty good. Love would have to have worked harder to get past Serpentine yesterday compared to the fillies. It could be that the winner is just a good horse. Time will tell. But agree English King is one to note after missing the break. Wouldn’t say he’s necessarily a Leger winner in waiting as the winner was talked about as more of a stayer pre-race so could improve again upped to 14f. I think on a more conventional track with that experience behind him EK could still be very good over 12f. Mogul is another one to check out next time if you believe AOB that he needed 2 runs to get fit. Little between him and EK at the finish.

    #1492832
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    Having watched the race a few times it can only be said that the front three jockeys were alive to what was happening. It wasn’t till past the 4f pole that Dettori starts pushing and Moore sat motionless till the three pole. How Murphy thought he was going to pick up serpentine who must have been 15 lengths clear beats me. I think the fact that Kameko was a doubtful stayer meant he was never going to pull the pack towards the winner. Impossible to say out of ek, mogul and re who will turn out best. Not Seamie at his best. Had he pushed along re earlier I suspect he could well have been second. Time will tell. Hopefully we see a rerun soon and no doubt very few will get the winner😁

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    It is also worth noting that English King got very warm before the race, down his neck and he sweated badly between his legs. His jink certainly did not help but I still think Dettori was much too far back. He should have been placed at least.

    Serpentine may well be the best but is he that good? He only managed to finish fifth in a maiden on 12th June, yet just over three weeks later he wins the Derby by five and a half lengths! Even allowing for an unusual year, that simply does not seem credible to me. And if Coolmore knew he was that good, Moore would have been on him.

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    It is well worth a look at the sectional times on the Racing Post site. They confirm Serpentine won the race with the pace he injected into the race between the 5f and 3f poles when he was freewheeling downhill. They let him get too far clear.

    The fastest horse in the final 3f was English King, 2 seconds quicker than Serpentine. However, he simply had too much ground to make up.

    Was English King poorly positioned? Or was he just too slow to get into the race when it mattered and just bought easy lengths late in the race? Given how strongly he finished, they have to go to Doncaster.

    The evidence shows the other jockeys failed to cover Emmet McNamara’s race winning move in the middle of the race. Simon Holt called it right in commentary when he said Serpentine was 12 lengths clear and not stopping.

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    Comes down to interpretation of trends but it was a listed/grp3 derby quality and we should’ve treated it as such.

    The winner was staring us in the face actually when you consider the first 5 in the market were breaking solid trends and stats to win

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    All the chasing pack were way too far back. The fact that they couldn’t get past the second or third shows this. That or they weren’t good enough. No way English king beats Santiago or serpentine in the Leger. He’s a group 2 horse at best I’d say. Time will tell if the winner is a very good horse or not.

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    100% agree Krypton.

    While I would probably rather just see what English King can do over 12f, I disagree that there’s “no way”. I’d side with the chasing pack were way too far back.

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    #1492859
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    Well done Emmet, rode the race perfectly to suit his horse. Some of the other jockeys could learn a thing or two from him.
    Interesting info from sectionals, and good interviews with connections on Luck on Sunday.

    #1492862
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    Well done winners.

    As others have already mentioned, Serpentine definitely wasnt a pacemaker as he won in the same fashion lto and which is why his odds were only 25/1.

    I agree it was a rather disappointing race but as the classic saying goes “you can only beat what’s in front of you” and for Serpentine that was the winning post!

    Time will tell how good the form is.

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    Cork, i seen the writeup on the sectionals, was there not only a .12 sec difference between mogul and EK? i dont like that stat on the last 3f it favours the pack too much and forgets the winner, he wasnt all out in the end, that was clear for me, he still couldnt get placed, the two infront of him did not give him that much rope

    Not to mention EK and everyone else were fully at it 3f – 3 1/2f out,

    The move he made on the bend was unmatched, they all tried to do it but no one picked up like him, if he was closer to the pack and did it for me he would only have went further away.

    Thought it was both a great performance from the horse and a perfect ride to use that speed round the downhill bend

    Wouldnt have backed him pre-race but im sure given the dim view of the outcome youll get a nice price on him against the same field next time and ill be backing him.

    #1492870
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    This Derby was like a WTF cross between the 1986 Derby and Frankel’s 2000 Guineas. I think most of yesterday’s jockeys came down with Starkeyonavirus.

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    I do not really have a dim view, I think he is a good horse who got an excellent ride. I believe there were a lot of similarly good horses in the race who got moderate tactical rides.

    Serpentine may well beat them again but he will not beat them in the same manner. They will never give him that much rope again.

    It is amusing that on the sectional, Serpentine ran the slowest final 3 furlongs in the entire field. It did not matter – he won the race earlier.

    He is good but he is not a superstar. The only one on display yesterday ran an hour and a quarter earlier!

    #1492886
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    The sectionals epsom posted where also innacurate apparantly so theres that too

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    I’ll leave the full sectional debrief to the maestro Simon Rowlands on Monday on ATR because he’s far more qualified than me to interpret the data but what I can see just looking at the basic numbers is that no matter what you think about the Derby, the winner from a pure time perspective would have finished around 2.5L behind Love in the Oaks, she’d be entitled to 3lbs in weight which is worth another 2L at the trip as well. That said Love from a sectional perspective has run much closer to the par for Epsom than Serpentine who is flat out at the finish, his closing 3F the slowest in the Derby and not only that slower than Love, Ennistymon, Frankly Darling and Queen Daenerys in the Oaks. So with that in mind, considering how inefficiently he’s run his race, his time isn’t bad at all and he must be a decent horse at least. That isn’t to say I think he’d have won the Derby regardless of how it was run, but the point is who are we to say he wouldn’t have won the race if it had been run different, the point is it wasn’t and the jockey took full advantage of the circumstances. It is wholly unsatisfactory as an outcome because it leaves us none the wiser as to where we stand with these 3 year old middle distance colts in terms of their ability relative to one another let alone to their elders.

    #1492972
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    The track was favouring front runners most of the day, the first 3 in the derby were the first 3 about 7f out. Summer romance was front running, the handicap winner was very prominent also. Serpentine maybe the best horse in the race still though because the rest of the field is crap at 12f. 8-10f races this year are very interesting some really good horses, but that was very poor in quality and utterly forgettable as a race. Don’t agree with the EK comment about the start whoever said that. He jinked slightly to the left, so what? Still finished 5th. It was a completely different test for him. lingfield was super fast ground and they went off super quick. His RPR best after 4 runs is 113. That is listed quality and he may very well be only as a good as that. Mogul is we still carrying a little bit in fairness but he’s still well short of top quality

    #1492980
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    Given how this race was run, i think you’re jumping the gun here big time. Sea The Stars wouldn’t have caught Serpentine if ridden like EK, Mogul or any of the others Frenchy. That is a fact.

    https://www.attheraces.com/blogs/sectional-spotlight/05-July-2020/breaking-down-the-derby-and-oaks

    Simon Rowland’s summary FWIW.

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