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Afficionados of the notably poor (be they horses or races) really ought to have a look at the bumper which closes tomorrow’s jumps card at Lingfield.
Polytrack bumpers there are usually reasonably well patronised, but this one has cut up to four runners, of which three have all registered one duck-egg each (in two instances VERY heavy defeats), and the unraced creature is out of a mare winless outside of Flat claiming company. Further, the three trainers represented have a combined record of 0-39 in bumpers over the last five years.
If anyone else has seen a worse bumper (on paper at least) so far this season, I’ll be surprised! How I wish our paper had survived long enough for me to have had some fun writing on this one!
(PS useless triv: one of the horses is trained by Kahlil Burke and ridden by Bernie Wharfe – both men spent brief tenures as stable jockey to Ted Caine during 2001…. can I zip up my anorak again now, please?)
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 5:45 pm on Nov. 7, 2006)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Perhaps I should of entered the horse that lives in the field next to us then.:biggrin:
Do you think its so poor because its on the all weather? Surely one of the trainers would have seen it as a winning opportunity for one of their horses?
Polytrack bumpers are a complete waste of time. Were I a trainer I’d never run a jumps bred horse in one. With Lingfield getting lots of Ascot’s fixtures over the last 2 years we’ve had quite a few of them of late and they attracted flat bred sorts that were cheap throw outsfrom the better yards. So many runners seemed to run to a figure in these events and then get completely arsed when they go a real pace over jumps.
Infact, in Racing’s Room 101, I suggest that polytrack bumpers should be first consigned.
They seem a little incongruous in the racing programme, for sure, and I’ve no idea why Lingfield doesn’t rip the hurdles out of the ground and run the bumpers through the wings of those obstacles on the turf course – can’t remember Southwell ever having finished a turf jumps card with a Fibresand bumper.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I notice Paul Johnson hasn’t minced his words on said race today;
Looks potentially one of the worst bumpers ever staged and a good excuse for an early dart to beat the traffic. ASHFORD COMMON LAD arguably possesses the closest appoximation to form but that’s using the word form about as loosely as possible and Young Gary won’t have to be Festival material to make a winning debut, that’s for sure.[PJ]
gc<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from graysonscolumn on 9:05 am on Nov. 8, 2006[br]They seem a little incongruous in the racing programme, for sure, and I’ve no idea why Lingfield doesn’t rip the hurdles out of the ground and run the bumpers through the wings of those obstacles on the turf course – can’t remember Southwell ever having finished a turf jumps card with a Fibresand bumper.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)
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Reasoning likely to be given by the course is that they are saving the ground. This was the excuse given in racecards to the many members who complained about the introduction of the mixed turf/AW flat meetings.<br>In fairness it does get very soft here.<br>I agree with everything posted about the irrelevance of polytrack bumpers run over less than 2 miles.<br>
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