Royal Ascot Superior Sire Competition

[Gerald]

Anybody know the prizemoney for Danehill Dancer and Dansili?

thehorsesmouth has to join a few others of us on the sidelines, as you will always be bested by Mr Wilson.

[Anonymous]

Good luck guys, I am well and truely ousted with loads of Oasis Dream progeny out.

[albrookes]

Good luck to everyone still left in. As Cormcack says, we’ll definitely be doing this again.

Many thanks to Gerald too for helping out. He’s ensured this thread is very up-to-date regarding who has who running for them, prize money levels etc. Thank you again.

I intend to up-date the figures regularly throughout the day (pc permitting) so we should have an exciting climax. Be sure to tune in here if you’re still in the running.

Before start of play today

:

Leading Kevcal – £588,334
2nd eddie case – £561,029
3rd Mr.W and thehorsesmouth – £556,589
5th Justin and Nathan Hughes – £538,358
7th aji and JJMSports – £466,781
9th The Young Fella – £460,386
10th Stilvi – £458,024
11th Cormack15 and Gerald – £439,793
13th trapper john – £285,518
14th Burrough Hill Lad – £273,600
15th roosterbooster – £272,312
16th Yeats – £246,884
Last albrookes – £219,993

I’m relying on Showcasing and/or Main Aim to dig me out of a hole. How the tables have turned eh, eddie?!

[cormack15]

First blood to the Dansili followers –

Mr W and thehorsesmouth plus Stilvi

[albrookes]

After 3.05

Mr W and the horsesmouth – £634,264
Kevcal – £595,047
eddie case – £567,741
Justin and Nathan Hughes – £545,070

[albrookes]

It’s as we stand after the Golden Jubilee despite Rock Of Gibraltar’s 2nd.

[Gerald]

Haven’t been keeping the figures today, but isn’t it over then, as Giant’s causeway only gets £31k for winning the 5.00, and Oasis Dream only gets £71k correction: £81k for the Wokingham exacta?

[albrookes]

After 4.25 (2 races remain)

Mr W and thehorsesmouth – £634,264

Mr.W leads by virtue of Danehill Dancer’s £219,897 to Dansili’s £187,854.5

Kevcal – £595,047
eddie case – £567,741
Nathan Hughes and Justin – £563,730

Gerald is quite correct. Sadly for Kevcal, his Giant’s Causeway would only help him acrue another £31k should Becausewecan win the 5.00. Therefore he can’t catch the leaders. Likewise eddie case’s Dubawi holds no more entries.

Therefore unofficially it is near certain that the prize is going to Mr W.

[albrookes]

Imposing’s 2nd in the 5.00 just adds more point to Danehill Dancer’s tally, and therefore I can confirm the prize goes to

MR.WILSON

….well done, and a worthy winner of such a good prize.

His selection of 1)Galileo 2)Danehill Dancer 3)Dansili fractionally edges him past

thehorsesmouth

‘s selection of 1)Galileo 2)Dansili 3)Danehill Dancer

I hope everyone has enjoyed the comp and hopefully we can do another one soon.

I shall post the formalities after the last but suffice to say, I claim the booby prize!

[cormack15]

Well done Mr W – PM me your details and I’ll get the prize off to you, I think you’ll like it.

Thanks to Adam and to Gerald for their updates.

Great competition – let’s do this again next year!

[The Young Fella]

Congratulations Mr Wilson! A great performance from your team.

This has been a very entertaining competition too, really unique to follow.

[thehorsesmouth]

Well done Mr.W, Lillie Langtry won it for you!

[albrookes]

Cheers guys. Thehorsesmouth very gracious in defeat. Couldn’t have been any closer.

Full stallion details:

Danehill Dancer – £229,227
Galileo – £227,677
Dansili – £187,854.5
Anabaa – £148,650
Giant’s Causeway – £148,637.5
Rock Of Gibraltar – £144,134
Tagula – £141,925
Dubawi – £121,332
Oasis Dream – £117,321
Desert Style – £53,800
Cape Cross – £31,749
King’s Best – £2,330
Danetime – £0
Halling – £0

Entrants finishing positions:

Mr Wilson (winner) – £644,759
Thehorsesmouth – £644,759
Kevcal – £605,542
eddie case – £578,236
Justin and Nathan Hughes – £574,225
Stilvi – £536,864
aji and JJMSports – £488,653
The Young Fella – £486,923
Cormack 15 and Gerald – £466,330
trapper john – £453,321
Burrough Hill Lad – £281,477
roosterbooster – £272,312
Yeats – £259,426
albrookes – £238,653

Cheers to everyone who entered. I claim the wooden spoon with the respect it deserves.

Thanks again to Coolmore for their sponsorship of this competition and it is fitting that 2 of their stallions were in the winning entry.

Congratulations Mr.W

[thehorsesmouth]

Some consolation that I my three were the top three, and the only way I would have won is if I had Danehill Dancer as no.1, which I was never contemplating ahead of Galileo. The comp gave an interest in every race during the week, great idea. Any chance of a copy Mr.W

[Anonymous]

Thanks to TRF for being able to put together a well run competition and a unique prize which is why there isn’t another website out there that caters for the racing fan like this. I don’t think I’ve been in any competition like it were and I think everyone will agree it’s quite a unique experience having your colours nailed to the mask from day one were horses or races you wouldn’t dream of backing in come out and edge you closer in the table giving you more interest in the meeting than just from a betting angle.

I choose Galileo probably the reason everyone done through the sheer number of runners he had in every race which just made him a potent threat of accumulating large money and I thought everything was blown after the Ascot Gold Cup were Galileo looked sure to reign supreme.

The Danehill Dancer choice was mainly influenced by my liking for Samuel Morse in the Coventry and I didn’t think he would have a serious chance with his progeny at picking up a main race but he was the best stallion out there that could lead me with runners up until the last day but was seriously considering Anabaa instead for a most likely £141k on the board early. When Friday came the news was all about Aidan O’Brien and his form then Lille Langtry popped up for a massive £154,000 which was remarkable because I was a Jacqueline Quest fan and I felt like a winner even thought I didn’t have penny on! Although the stars looked written that day when Memory won at 16-1 in the first.

The Dansili choice was picked for the fact one of my favourite fillies in training Strawberrydaiquiri was running and looked sure to pick up an easy 70k but there was no easy about it! And to be fair it was closer than I’d have ever imagined, I was lucky enough to see Dandino on Derby day and thought he was really progressive but couldn’t have imagined him winning Thursday in truth and I thought Balducci would have been more likely to score the cash for Dansili but how wrong could I be!

I think I’ve got lucky in some races and when for longevity throughout the 5 days but this is probably the only prize that I’ve won in my life let alone one that means something and it won’t be stuck away in a box somewhere you can rest assured.

Thanks once again and I hope TRF can put on another show like this next year.

[albrookes]

Cheers Mr.W – a worthy winner. Hope the prize reaches you asap – David tells me it’s fantastic (I haven’t seen it myself).

Thanks go to Alice Fitzgerald of Primus/Coolmore for kindly donating this prize to us.

You never know – maybe Glorious Goodwood could be the next one?

[trapper john]

what a good competition many thanks to albrookes and gerald it gave me a good interest all week well done mr wilson

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