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Golden Horn has won on Gd/Sft and I don’t think the soft going will hinder his chances that much. Frankie has said that the horse never finishes tired. I think Golden Horn will still win. Just hope that Mr Gosden runs him.
Golden Horn out.
no surprise really is it, if a shame for the race.
Annoyed that I didn’t take 8-1 Snow Sky antepost- does any have any idea what I might get back if he wins- backed him at 8-1 a couple of days ago, I presume they’ll be at least a 70 percent reduction with Golden Horn, Flintshire and The Corsican out.
Lsst night was going to do a forecast with Madame Chiang and Dylan Mouth. Didn’t do it so feeling a bit sick now.
As I said yesterday it is that horrible sticky, tacky soft ground. Gosden has done the right thing. GH would have struggled badly imo.
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Gosden said that soft ground would have been OK but that in parts the stick was going in 12 inches and that it is “horrible, holding, sticky” ground.
Not much of a race now and I hope Snow Sky wins it to give something like a touch of class to proceedings. No disrespect and fair play to Clever Cookie backers but I think him winning it would drag the race down further than it already seems to be as a spectacle these days.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Agree with your comments Jonibake, by race time rather than genuine soft ground, it will be that dead tacky energy sapping ground that will put a premium on stamina & blunt any horse with a turn of foot.
Gosden doing the best for the horse as you can imagine the storm of comments he would get berating him if he ran GH and he gets beaten by a mud lark – you could quite easily see him finishing a tried 4th or 5th with the jockey stating ‘he hated the ground & couldn’t quicken in it’.
Personally, think his reputation would be greatly enhanced (moreso than a King George win) by going to the Juddmonte for not only a generation clash (Free Eagle & The Grey Gatsby et al) but also potentially butting heads with the 2000g winner Gleneagles & the dark horse Time Test. More likely to get good ground as well, although I don’t think soft ground over 10F would hold as much fear to connections as 12F on soft ground.
Just hope everybody turns up as it could be the race of the season.
An exciting finish but a desperately poor quality renewal.
Snow Sky ran a stinker, I don’t think he ever really settled and on that evidence he’d struggle in a Melbourne Cup.
The only other memorable thing is the ridiculous price Clever Cookie was. The ground meant that he picked off some of the more fancied ones, as we had expected it might, but 4/1 for a horse raised to this class was something that started as shrewd speculation at 50/1, before moving to be a popular outsider at big odds, and finally descending into hysterical farce. He never looked likely to get involved but on the plus side he has been tentatively put in as third favourite for…………..next year’s Boat Race behind Oxford and Cambridge. The way he was rowed along today was good practice for The Thames
Michael Stoute must be deeply distressed to have watched his Hardwicke winner finish behind the Waverly Steamer today. Hardwicke? I reckon his “Wick” will be fairly flaccid this evening.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
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