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I wasn’t saying that Godolphin hyped the horse, I’m just saying that invariably, with money comes expectations, and when $9.7million is spent, there is both hype and expectation.
No Jackane – when $9.7 million is spent there is expectation but not necessarily hype. This horse hasn’t been hyped up IMO.
Well I seem to have read quite a lot of reports on Jalil in the past fortnight. A few RP articles, certainly he was in both the Daily Mail, Mirror & Express.
When $9.7million is spent on a horse, are you saying that not one person is going to get excited and start talking of possibilities? If he was not hyped at all, then why did he start at 4/6favourite? Ballydoyle aren’t exactly known for sending out winners on their first attempt, but even so, a lot of them start favourite – but not many odds-on. Despite them having a handful a season.
Hype is rapidly becoming one of the most over used words in racing. If a big stable fancies a runner, or has an unexposed horse it is a hyped horse etc etc. Jalil was not hyped nor are the vast majority of horses like this. Any those horses that are "hyped" is usually done so by the press more so than the yards in question.
Trainer states that Jalil is likely to run again this season.
At this stage, the relative abilities of the Godolphin 2 year olds are unknown.<br>6 have made it onto the track, a couple running more than once, yielding a total of 2 wins.<br>Truly Royal was impressive but the Noseda second fav. pulled its chance away.<br>Newcastle winner Chief Operator was turned over on my local polytrack at odds of 1/2 in midweek.<br>The jury is out!
When a horse is bought for that sort of money there is bound to be a lot of interest in it, hence the articles, etc. Also, given the yard he comes from and his pedigree it was no surprise to see him go off a warm order. Neither of those two things, the media interest or the sp, necessarily mean that it was ‘hyped’.
Aidan is right, ‘hype’ is a word that is bandied about all too lazily and readily.
The definition of hype in the dictionary here at Cormack Towers reads (among others)-
‘intensive or exagerrated publicity or sales promotion’
…so, I guess, Jack, that you could have a point if one could argue that the spate of recent articles and reports on Jalil represented ‘intensive publicity’.<br>
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