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Oh I remember Eminent so well llavim.
Went to see him in the pre-parade before his race and it was love at first first sight. Great big leggy colt who could run like the wind.
Same thing happened with Ghaiyyath and Shalaa both looked like a 3yo’s in the pre-parade before their maidens, things that you would not necessarily pick up watching racing on TV.Enjoy your return to Newmarket.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...We must have been stood near to each then Triptych, was also by the parade ring gazing in admiration at Eminent!
Can’t wait to get back on track.
Enjoy your outings too! 😁Thanks Jac!
He certainly is a stunner, with great presence.
Will be interested to see how his foals turn out on the racetrack. Just been scrolling through the Pencarrow stud pics of 2020 foals and his are a fine looking crop!I’ve just had a look through the Pencarrow foals llavim and as you say they are a fine looking crop. Many thanks for directing me there.
I particularly loved the Eminent/Terra Firma colt with the huge white face reminding me of my Avatar who is Kool Kompany.
It was also nice to see the progeny of US Navy Flag and Ifraaj.
Eminent is obviously having great success at stud and hopefully we may get a chance to see one or two of these in a few years time racing in the UK and Europe. JacThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Yes the Terra Firma colt is a real eyecatcher, also loved the North Of Sunset colt, beautiful photo of him with his dam. Fingers crossed we get to see some of them racing close to home in the future.
Well you don’t say, it’s a damn fine looking animal but it fails to get my blood rushing or my pulse into racing gear, just taps into my calculating mind that simple mathematical question; if with a few runs under its belt it’ll turn my algorithms into a bulging pocket or two ? Not that I am betting these days which makes makes me even more of a big white whale called Anomaly beached up in this serious Horsehead section .
Lordy Lordy Lordy, I suppose it’s like faith – some have it in buckets and fill up the churches with songs and little side bets they call prayers and some don’t and like Alfie wonder what the hell it’s all about. If God’s a horse lover I may be doomed, specially if the other guy loves a bit of each way.
Tell you what Tippi if in the year 85 85 you’re possibly not alive and up there with Him the great creator with his destiny form book turned to the Sales section, and looking down with a glow on the the Breeze ups in Tatts, spare a thought for the sinner stuck down in the furnace room, and send me down an all powerful ice bucket, a fluted glass, better make that two, and a bottle of Tattinger or two, oh and a rope and a graven image.
Lol Gamble…tell you what in the year 8585 I’m going to be busy with him up there looking after his heavenly stables because they’ll be full to bursting with great racehorses of the past.
I’m sure there will be a patch of green above the furnace (albeit burnt) where you can sit with your ice chilled Tattinger looking up at what might have been if your favourites hadn’t kept flip flopping letting the bookies empty out those once bulging pockets.
But don’t think about all that now, we’re on the verge of racing opening it’s doors again and…Heaven Can Wait..in fact what a great name that is for a racehorse Gamble.
JacThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Heaven Can Wait …seems to trip off the tongue Tippi and surely could have fitted into your namesake’s dialogue..(Tippi Hedren)
“Oh Daddy, there were hundreds of them… Just now, not fifteen minutes ago… at the school… the birds didn’t attack until the children were outside the school… crows, I think… Oh, I don’t know, Daddy, is there a difference between crows and blackbirds?… I think these were crows, hundreds of them… Yes, they attacked the children. Attacked them!
Daddy …
” Hold on Tippi it sounds like your experiencing Hell on Earth, but always remember what Mummy told you about heaven and that you just got to wait for it – so hang on in there girl.”
Tippi…
” Heaven can wait Daddy I’m gonna knock these freakin black feathered suckers right out of the sky”
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Yes and as for getting back on track. Your excitement Tippi is truly infectious.
Please can I have some of what you’re on Gamble?
Mr.Hitchcock could never wax as lyrical as you, The Birds rewritten by TRF’s very own man of mystery and imagination. But don’t ever change. I could feel the shivers running down my spine reading that.
Come in Number 6..
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Well Tippi as for ‘shivers down my backbone’ I can have that affect on the birds, but as I look in the mirror, sadly Gary Coopers High Noon chin has long gone, to be replaced by Heath Ledger’s midnight joker and
let’s frighten them to death.If there’s a vacancy in Davies’s club – I’m in.
Anyway keep up that enthusiasm encapsulated as it is in your special writing. You’re making me fall in love again with these beautiful four legged beasts. They are a surely a wonder to behold and all have different personalities, and I may throw my math out the window and join you, a wonder watcher in the paddock.
Gamble, do you have an alter ego as a novelist? Sometimes reading your entertaining posts it feels like i’ve fallen down a rabbit hole and surfaced in a Flann O’Brien novel.
Long may you continue!Have to agree about the viewing around the paddock
I remember seeing Gleneagles either at Newbury or Royal Ascot and he looked a million dollars
however on Champions Day a dollar would have been too much
and he ran like it too
He was my pick on form but the paddock view completely put me off him and I backed the winner Solow instead
you can of course win a race looking like crap but a bit like when trying to pull a bird it helps to be finely tuned..Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
Thank you Illavim for your kind comments – I really try to keep everything horse related but gamble drags me off into his little curiosity shop of of splash horrors. The only thing I have had in print was yonks ago and an indignant letter I wrote to the Post about overwatering just before the Wimbledon greyhound Derby which was concentrated more in the inside of the track, and carried out by a man with a hose – if you can believe. It seriously affected the hot favourite who just managed to splish splosh into third.
I am so busy these days Illavim, I try not to write at all in here, or anywhere, or if that fails, try to adopt the Hattie Jacques philosophy of life that once a week is enough for any man, and usually on a Sunday when I have more time to ponder.
The ghost of Tank and the reincarnated Davies wanted me locked up in the lounge, but gamble was not having any of it and he seems to undress himself where he wants.
Nice to chat 👍
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And sorry for the timing
Nathan and your post back there being lost in space.Here’s a little bit of yours…
“You can of course win a race
looking like crap but a bit like when trying to pull a bird it helps to be finely tuned.. “Gamble, always a pleasure to read your thoughts wherever they are 👍
Nathan, yes seeing the horses in the ring beforehand is the best, still remember back in 2005 when Champion stakes was still at Newmarket picking out David Junior, who duly romped home at about 20/1 !
Gamble your thoughtfulness for Nathan’s lost post hasn’t gone amiss and like llavim I have very happy memories of the Champion Stakes at Newmarket. The very last one in 2010 won by Twice Over was an unforgettable day because also on that day a certain machine by the name of Frankel won the Dewhurst Stakes and Henry Cecil was there to welcome them both home. The atmosphere was fantastic everyone had a smile on their faces and I hoped that this might result in the Champion Stakes remaining at Newmarket but sadly not to be.
and…dear Gamble if this Thread has managed to relight just a tiny bit of enthusiasm to get you back to the races and round the paddock then my job is done.
JacThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Just to remind you Nathan here’s Gleneagles looking very finely tuned after winning the Qipco 2000 Guineas.
I’ll never forget that day as I got in the wrong lift and ended up with Aiden O’Brien going up to his private box, did a quick reverse turn at the top and didn’t have the courage to ask him how Gleneagles would fair and yes he still had those sunglasses on even in the lift.
The pics not great quality as I zoomed in on the edit option and lost some focus. Not a great camera either, still haven’t upgraded but it does the job.Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...
Jac
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