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Where do you get ‘ran badly’ and ‘outclassed’ from – it was in front when it fell five out and trading at 2.1 on Betfair at the time.
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Classic false favourite – hope you weren’t taken in – you were warned. Ran badly, outclassed and fell.
Great one to lay and back against.
What a bizarre reading of how the race was panning out … pure bravado in the face of a successful lay presumably
Not saying he would definitely have stayed in front (I thought they went off too fast in front) but he had everything being niggled at prior to his fall and still looked to be travelling OK … If I didn’t know any better, Fryern, I’d be tempted to think that you haven’t actually watched the race
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Wonder why people don’t bother with racing. This is a perfect example.
I gamble but am incredibly aware of the tricks trainers use, hell Sir mark prescott admitted as much in his interviews at the York meeting.
If they weren’t doing anything wrong why not say we’re not running him in a toungue tie today cause he might win if with do that…oh wait!
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And I’m not saying I’m against it or angry although I may have come across like that. I just think they should do something or do nothing (Racing for change is the biigest load of crap ever), like with stewards who only change decisions in big races that joe public will be watching, it’s gutless and pathetic.
The horse ran a stinker and finished tailed off. This sort of thing could only happen in horse racing..
…or on a hurdling debut, which is what it was for the mare.
The advantages of receiving weight all round and sound bumper form at the course previously were wholly obliterated by a combination of her racing far too keenly, and by a physique not obviously suited to jumping flights of hurdles (she’s roughly the size of a gerbil).
No case to answer for anyone concerned. An absence since that debut may (only may) suggest a rethink regarding her hurdling career is underway; and as she’s both small and proven capable enough on Polytrack (she placed in a Lingfield bumper), I’d not be at all surprised to see present connections go the 1m-1m4f claimer route with her on the all-weather hereafter.
PS Splendid posts from Drone, Cav and AP, by the way.
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Fryern, sorry to sound a bit thick but I’m trying to work out whether or not to back Sarah’s Gift. Is it a super dooper good thing or down the tube sort of bet? Please advise.
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Raslan today finished a close second to Ben’s Folly in a competitive Market Rasen handicap, having sported both a visor and tongue strap and raced prominently throughout.
His mark? 137.
If history is anything to go by he’ll have two more runs this year
with
the aformentioned combination of aids and will return in 2011 to race in rear without them.
I’ll be interested to see how he is handled between now and next August.
If history is anything to go by he’ll have two more runs this year
with
the aformentioned combination of aids and will return in 2011 to race in rear without them.
Will you PLEASE stop repeating the lie that Raslan has been deliberately ridden with restraint when not winning. It’s been pointed out to you before that this isn’t the case (the only occasion he’s been in rear throughout was when propping at the start at Uttoxeter in May), but you plough on regardless with it.
I have the feeling Rory that somewhere along the line the horse will do something that Armchair Jockey will feel vindicates his blinkered (or should I say visored) stance.
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Other than when racing prominently at both Newton Abbot in June and Market Rasen in July, Raslan was either held up throughout or soon languishing in each of his first five outings this year.
At no point have I suggested otherwise.
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