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It’s "Botti" day in the Dailys as the racing scribes profile the young  Italian Newmarket trainer who has supplemented his talented filly Sesmen for the Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile at Ascot.
http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/ … 645619.ece
Chris Cook in the Guardian doesn’t quite sing out of the same  hymn book as Greg Wood in regard to the Fonthill Rd controversy:
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing … 21,00.html<br>
(Edited by zilzal at 1:47 pm on Sep. 21, 2006)
Hey Giggingstown man, Have you noticed or do you have a leg in ONE COOL COOKIE in Listowel today its owned by Giggingstown House Stud and trained by Charlie Swan! Well it must have a good chance as the ground is heavy and all its best form is on that very going. You have been notified!!!
Seven Fates
<br>See what happened to Dettori’s Magnicicent Seven of 1996 at the bottom of today’s Greg Wood piece in the Guardian:
"The ground never mattered to him, even though he’s such a good mover," Aidan O’Brien said this week. "He’s so powerful, he always worked through bad ground as well as he did on good."
<br>This doesn’t convince the Independent’s Chris McGrath who sides with Proclamation in the QE11 ( BTW I’m voting for George if not betting on him. The Goodwood race was surely more of a mock-exam than  a serious target. Today’s conditons may even help him to settle better)
Some of the big winners and losers following the Magnificent Seven are also chronicled in the Indo.
http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/ … 705625.ece
<br>For those curious about the domestic atmosphere in Casa Dettori can read Sue Mott’s  lengthy interview in the Telegraph:
George Washington – A  Kentucky Swan Song ?
Sue Montgomery reports on presumbably George’s penultimate outing in Sunday’s Independent:
http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/ … 722394.ece<br>
(Edited by zilzal at 12:14 pm on Sep. 24, 2006)
In the Guardian Greg Wood offers the  Ascot Stipendiary Steward’s thinking on the Team Tactics controversy of Saturday:
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing … 76,00.html
<br>Chris McGrath in the Indo offers Dettori anything but sympathy:
Julian Muscat speculates on Sunday’s Arc in his On the Level column in the Times:
Alan Lee on Robert Winston and the HRA charges
Apart from the Times piece on Robert Winston as mentioned by BC above, Chris McGrath conducts another lengthy interview with Aidan O’Brien in the Indo
http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/ … 761614.ece
Ron Cox has the latest on the Arc in the Guardian:
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing … 83,00.html
while Surprise, Surprise ! Yeats is back on a Down Under agenda according to Dave Yeats in the Mirror
Nothing particularly grabbing in todays pages.  Paris Turf report with much regret that  that there will be less than ten runners for the first time in exactly sixty years, thereby scuttling some of their more  favourite exotic parimutuel bets.
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(Edited by zilzal at 1:08 pm on Sep. 28, 2006)
Ron Cox assesses the Arc in today’s Guardian:
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing … 37,00.html
Zeturf currently report the ground as good and 3.2 on the penotrometer:
Definite rain tomorrow and showers on Sunday according to Weather.Com
Hotspur nails his colours to Rail Link in the Telegraph:
Sarah Hughes on Fallon from The Observer
Donn McClean on Dettori’s outburst after QII
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2383022,00.html
I had a bit of a health-scare in early  October and had to discontinue this almost daily thread.  Today’s piece though on the new SP system by Lydia Hislop in the Times  may be of  particular interest.
<br>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,379-2453684,00.html
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Zilzal
Sorry to hear about your recent illness, I had missed you, and the informed insights that you regularly kept us in touch with.<br>Hope it is all very temporary and you soon return to complete health – and increasing wealth, – very soon.<br>Best of luck for the future.<br>RH
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