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Peter Naughton,enough said!
Just great to see those red & yellow check coulours dominating the race though.
One of the rare high points of the flat season so far has been the resurgence of Mel’s fortunes.It might be an informative trial if it wasn’t rendered a lottery every year by a clerk of the course hellbent on seeing the low draws win. How on earth is a clerk of the course allowed to pubilcly state, as Sally iggulden did tonight, that she was hoping that a low draw would win again?
I see the fav was quite literally sunk before the off tonight, with the jolly drawn in 14 disappearing from view before the race, presumably drowned in the swampland created by the far rail.
Maybe Alan Potts can split the sprint races into two (those that raced by the far rail and those that came up the middle) and tell us how disadvantageous a high draw was again on Hillary Needler night.
Or indeed why no competent racing journalist will challenge such practices.
The random watering of this countries courses to suit the clerks (trainers of ‘big name horses’ often) is wholly unacceptable as well as such attempts to negate biases and create whole new ones!
Hence currently having a two year old in training called Steel Stockholder.
Didn’t stop training but as stated in the interview took a bit of a back seat and just had a string of about 20 horses for a few years.
Most of which were moderate and/or home breds from the likes of Grey Desire amongst others.Started to build things back up in the last couple of years buying a lot of cheap yearlings (as he did when relatively successful in the past) and is now reaping the rewards.
Am I missing something here? Henry Candy was interviewed after Corryborough won and seemed to suggest the far rail ground was dry, and he only decided to run his sprinter 45 minuted before the race when he decided the strip of ground up the middle of the course was soft enough to suit his horse. This suggests the far side was not a swampland, in fact quite the opposite.
You’re missing the fact that Henry Candy is a very confused man if he thinks that his horse will run faster on slower ground! If you’re reporting him accurately then I don’t think his opinions on this subject are worth very much.
If Candy did say that, isn’t it akin to saying it doesn’t matter if you take me horse wide in a 6f race because he stays 7f.
Candy is quoted as saying as much in todays Post, presumably he wouldn’t have run it if the ground had been faster all over but after going all the way to Beverley was prepared to let him run on the slower ground thinking of his future and hoping his class would get him through, if he got beat a minor conditions race then so be it.
I remember Cathy Gannon being interviewed last year when she stated she deliberately sought the softest ground in a race because her charge loved it.Just seen the actual interview. He said that the ground by the far rail was fast and cut up.
If you look at the way races were run at Beverley yesterday, there’s little doubt that the ground by the far rail was racing much slower. The four horses closest to it in the running of the Hillary needler filled the last four places and it was a similar story with the other races.
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