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Modern games 4/1
Re invested some of my Lockinge winnings, was expecting him to be 11/4-3/1 post race so happy to take 4s with bet365
Tougher for him in the Queen Anne though it’s possible he might have improved. The 2nd and 3rd he’s beaten in the Lockinge outsiders. Inspiral and Erevann etc looks a stern test.
Erevann is interesting indeed but has never run on anything better than good to soft
Will always be happy to take inspiral on she was very up and down last season
Can see erevann improving past her
Modern Games sets the standard in the division so 4s was very fair imo
Happy to concede being biased after backing him in the breeders cup turf and Lockinge
4s gone now into 10/3, didn’t think it would last long
Pretty ground dependent isn’t he? (Modern Games) He’s not terrible on good-soft or worse but we saw on Champions Day hes beatable on it. Even if its dry around Royal Ascot which isn’t a given the COC is going to be starting day 1 with a fair bit of H20 down to see the course through the five days.
They might water to keep firm out of the going on day 1 I suppose but last years Queen anne was run on good to firm as it was the year before. So even that would be unlikely.
Watering to have good to soft in the going in the middle of June on the flat would be a disgrace and surely won’t happen.
It would take unseasonably bad weather to get any soft in the going. Good old global warming should see that is a small chance.
I’d have much bigger ground concerns for Erevann than Modern Games personally.
Erevann beaten in the prix d’ispahan
Wasn’t the finest ride iv ever seen but I’d be doubtful he will even run here now
May very well all depend on what Inspiral turns up – hopefully, she’s in the same kind of form she showed first time out in last year’s Coronation Stakes and not the lack lustre first time out effort Nashwa gave yesterday.
She will need to be at her very best to beat modern games
Judging by her coronation run last year, admittedly against some very modest fillies, first time up may be the time to catch her
She was very in and out after
Admirably tough horse though Modern Games is, to me he made rather heavy weather of beating Chindit (a solid G2 horses) in just an ok Lockinge renewal and with there only being a 1lb difference in their OR and him having to conceed the WFA allowance, I think he is the one who will have to run a career best to beat her if she is on song.
She has only had 8 career starts compared to his 15 and therefore she could still be open to more improvement going from 3 to 4 (especially now being a mare) whilst I think with all of his many overseas sorjourns he might already be the finished article improvement wise.
That being said, of the two, he is much more likely to be depended upon to run to form whereas she has underperformed markedly in two of her last three races.
That’s the conundrum for punters LD73. Modern Games is solid and will likely run his race if the Appleby horses are running to form by then. Inspiral is capable of the very good to not so good. Emily Upjohn looked ace for the yard from 3 to 4 on debut which gives Inspiral supporters hope.
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Said no one ever.
What is the fuss about Inspiral?
She’s won a couple of the weakest Group 1s I’ve ever seen.
And the one she trailed home in sixth in wasn’t exactly outstanding either.
Modern Games, in front of her there, is at least progressive, fit, in form, and a worthy favourite for me.
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The coronation she won was a terrible race for the grade
And the prix jaques le marois hasn’t worked out great either, yes erevann won on Arc day but the revenant was an unlucky loser having to go round the field whilst erevann got a dream run
Modern games very much the horse to beat in my admittedly biased opinion
Modern Games would have been Godolphin’s 3rd choice miler last season would it be fair to say? I think its generally accepted the French 2000 Guineas is the easier one to win of the three. Native Trail might be a bet for me if he comes here as the 2nd string he was always a better horse than Modern Games its just a question of his soundness now.
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