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runs at 3.15 beverly, this horse has been around ages nearly 90starts great servent to connections, wonder can he still do himself justice at his age now?
just had a look at prize money won by him, at this stage a nice big field should be waiting for him now………….
Ridiculous for a horse to kept in flat racing until the age of 11. Shame, that many races he deserves to be spending his days in a huge field. Owes nothing i think you will agree.
Ridiculous for a horse to kept in flat racing until the age of 11.
We’ve done the whole too-old-to-race thing to death with regard to jumps horses at least twice of late, so I will endeavour not to cover too much old ground.
Suffice it to say, for as long as the Flat code keeps throwing up the likes of Redoubtable, Sharp Hat and Dancing Mystery, who have all won – never mind just run – in the last few years when older than The Tatling is now (irrespective of at what level), I’m wary of talking about the right age to retire a horse from the level in such black and white terms.
If it’s evident after his first two or three runs this summer that he is hating the game now, and the a*rse falls out of his rating by a couple of stone accordingly, then by all means connections ought to begin to consider it. Finishing right out the back on his seasonal reappearance, at the same time as a great many of his stablemates are as well (Milton Bradley’s stats were one winner from 94 since the start of May prior to today’s action), isn’t quite compelling enough evidence for me just yet.
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"His trainer has become something of a laughing stock."
Ouch, that’s a bit harsh, David.
Beginning to show his years would be kinder.
The last three times I have spoken to him after a race he has blamed his jockey!!!
Colin
You are right Colin, there is nothing at all funny about how he campaigned North Fleet. This son of Bertolini, a modest sprinter on the Flat completely lost his way, and the the trainer’s answer was to send him hurdling. Rather than try and describe what happened, I’ve copied and pasted the Timeform Perspective entry on that outing.
NORTH FLEET, a one-time modest sprinter, had no place in this field and met with a sad end, causing mayhem when attempting to refuse at the first 2 flights (unseated before second) and then sustaining fatal injuries whilst loose.
If my memory serves me right, that race was on a Sunday, a day when all runners continue to get appearance money, at Hereford which, barring Chepstow where Bradley trains, would just about be the nearest track Bradley’s training establishment.
Why has Bradley’s stable gone into freefall? Being out in Germany I can read the RP online but cant keep up with everything. Has the stable had a virus. Only four or five years ago the man was the Dandy Nicholls of the south with the likes of The Tatling, Whistler, Corridor Creeper and Currency, these just of the top of my head, so undoubtedly many others, winning many races.
Surely a good trainer doesn’t become a laughing stock virtualy overnight.
It makes me think of that poem; rage, rage against the dying of the light…..I guess both horse and trainer are not getting any younger and their glory days are well and truly behind them, but one of them isn’t ready to admit to it.
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