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To me this looks a wide open race!!
And like Mickey it wouldn’t surprise me if a we had a big price winner of this!
If I had to pick one now it would be TARNAWA at about 50/1. Ran behind PD without getting the best of runs and looks like a staying filly but not sure she will turn up for this giving the Aga Khan’s past experiences in the Oaks!
It is unusual that the Oaks is being run in May
I can’t imagine this has happened very often and I do wonder if it will make a difference as far as horses being ready for this so early in their careers
Interesting split screen of the 2 Chester races.Both had the same weight and same distance an hour apart.
Mehdaayih – well-backed for the Oaks today after being advised by @HughRacing on https://t.co/8svHqMHXCX. Read the rationale here, including time comparisons with Chester Vase winner and Derby favourite Sir Dragonet: https://t.co/lk1UQzICOA pic.twitter.com/6sY521yZgc
— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) May 14, 2019
Now done a couple of outsiders, Annapurna 10/1 and Manuela De Vega 16/1.
Value Is EverythingStill think Maqsad is the one here. Look at the way she travelled through that pretty polly.
Frankellina will run. Good for my book as I’m very green on her at 30.0.
Laid all of my Pink Dogwood bets as she’s shortened dramatically as I expected a month ago when using her to form my book. Laid Meydaayih now after taking some 5/1 a while back. Left her as a saver bet though because of that form with Maqsad.
So it’s an army of two for me for the big one and then a saver on the jolly. Good luck all. I’ll be there.
Maqsad and Frankellina for the 2019 Oaks
Interesting Frankie has went with the 2nd Gosden horse. Will we see a flip-flop in the market even with Hugh Taylor putting Meydaayih up?
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Hindsight is 20/20 so make the most of it!Both jockeys are simply retaining they’re rides, aren’t they ?
I’m on Anapurna anyway, based on breeding and that Lingfield performance was still pretty green; liked how she changed legs up the straight
Lavender’s Blue at 16/1 for me. She won her maiden over 1m well at Newmarket,
going away at the finish. She was just pipped at the death over 10f at Newbury in the
Fillies Trial Stakes, but didn’t look like she was running out of steam. I fancy that
12f will be her trip and it’s a bonus having Silvestre De Sousa jocked up. Definitely
open to improvement after just 2 races, I think she a very decent chance.That’s how I read it too Mark. Havlin was on Med’ at Chester and Detori on Ana’ at Lingfield.
Although if he did have the choice am not surprised Detori has gone for Anapurna. Went a bit in snatches early on at Lingfield and – given dam Dash To The Top was a bit of a thinker – hope Anapurna races prominently or at least on the outer. Getting surrounded would worry me a little. However, her career is less than 6 months old, can progress further and in the last two furlongs – in the end – won her trial just as impressively as stable companion Mehdaayih.I backed the Cheshire Oaks winner in her trial and backed the second too – Manuala De Vega. Latter filly didn’t have the best of runs there, imo also important to remember she was giving 3 lbs to the winner and only beaten 4 1/2 lengths… and is a better loooking individual than the winner (arguably more scope for improvement). Ralph Beckett is in good form and has already won the oaks twice. Had she got a trouble free passage and they been level weights at Chester – and therefore the winning distance been around a length… Would the betting make them so far apart? I don’t think so.
Value Is EverythingDoesn’t have the worst record with horses at that distance- RP have it 5 runs 2 wins; small sample OFC.
Maqsad was impressive but not sure on the form myself- Shambolic wouldn’t be looking upto much, for all she beat her doing handstands.
If Frankie was deadset that Mehdaayih was the one he thought would win the Oaks, he’d be on her IMO. I read something Hugh Taylor put up in relation to the 2nd rides Havlin gets, and don’t get me wrong he does well out of it, but on the big day Frankie likes to bask in the spotlight. On this occasion they are probably trickier to separate and maybe that’s why they’ve stuck to their previous riding situation, who knows.
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Hindsight is 20/20 so make the most of it!I like how Frankie took it up on Anapurna at Lingfield, which is a tactic used to great effect at Epsom
If he gets a prominent position by TC then I think they’ll take some stopping
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