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I When’s the next Hexham 4-miler?
Dunno what’s in the offing next year but the only other one has been at the meeting held on the Thursday of the Cheltenham Festival.
So perhaps you Cormack will join me and Graysonscolumn in a welcome diversion of eyes away from Prestbury
However it’s only a 0-110 so your boy is unlikely to qualify unless he goes backwards in the interim
Incidentally, didn’t today’s race used to be the 0-130ish Northumberland National?
How could you forget The Outlaw 5LD!
I got my timing confused, basically I started work earlier than I was meant to (having placed the bet at the start of the day) and I was really busy and the dog ate my homework and everything.
Still, it stopped some random Basildon betting shop peeps seeing me dancing around like a lunatic, so that’s something.
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So don't run, just like the others always do
Well, if it’s any consolation Pete, I was in a meeting discussing HDPE guillotines and vacuum belts at 2.40 pm.
Brilliant result for all concerned,well done.Hindsight shows
Outlaw Tom
was going to need this sort of test as he’s looked awfully one paced,one thing that did help was the fact he wasn’t giving bundles of weight away,he was in there with a fighting chance today and proved up to the task.Its common knowledge in the yard that Campbells the man,his time will come at this game as he’s a natural horseman.The Outlaw might be difficult to place in the future but he’s a winner today and has to be celebrated accordingly,i’m chuffed to bits for you all.
Dunno what’s in the offing next year but the only other one has been at the meeting held on the Thursday of the Cheltenham Festival.
So perhaps you Cormack will join me and Graysonscolumn in a welcome diversion of eyes away from Prestbury
Heh-heh, quite so! The Hexham 4-miler is certainly one of mine, your and Neil Watson’s favourite races on the planet, Drone. Haven’t been to that fixture for a couple of years now, but Spotlighting the big race itself this time around was the very next best thing.
However it’s only a 0-110 so your boy is unlikely to qualify unless he goes backwards in the interim
Absolutely correct, and maybe the hope could be instead that he can take in the Borders National around December-time instead. Granted a bit of dig, that long run-in will be conducive to a late, grinding effort back into contention even if the rest of the course itself may err a little too much on the sharp side.
Incidentally, didn’t today’s race used to be the 0-130ish Northumberland National?
It did, and sadly it’s rather had to bear the brunt of Hexham’s downgrading of some of its better contests. For all its faults re: quality of racing, prizemoney and propensity for unscheduled power failures, though, Hexham was at least an independent racecourse still in the black the last I heard, which is as much as I suspect them and others like them would hope for in the prevailing climate.
Oh, and of course before I forget – very well done to Outlaw Tom and his humans!
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
When I was a youngster my dream was being involved one way or another with a horse that could win a 4 mile chase. I can only claim a small interest, but I got there in the end! Took a fair few years mind…
By the way, Kingfisher, the term is ‘stays well’ not ‘awfully one paced’! That said, most stayers are one paced, it’s just that the winner is the one who can keep up that one pace for the longest.
Rob
Take him to Aintree for the Becher… go on… i dear you!
Seriously though very well done on the big win. Like yourself, Rob i have always dreamed of one day owning a horse capable of a marathon victory. Who knows, maybe one day i myself will experience the thrill of it all
quick note to say Outlaw Tom is fine after his race, not sure where to next as with that win on ground and trip he has opened some new options for us
I’m embarrassed to say I had to ask myself 2 or 3 times,isn’t that the horse that belongs to the lads on the forum? I shouted him home just in case. Glad it is, Well done!!! to all concerned.
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