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Are all the gallops still open everywhere? Is anyone missing out on training sessions?
It’s hardly an exhaustive poll, but they made mention on ATR’s Southwell coverage this afternoon of some trainers with runners at the course who’d not been able to get some gallops exercise into their horses for several weeks now. Roy Bowring was certainly one quoted.
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A report in the Daily Telegraph says that Ferdy Murphy worked a number of horses, including Kalahari king if I remember right, on the sands at Saltburn this week.
Reminiscent of hard winters past when horses were regularly worked on the sand. Caughoo the 1947 National winner. is a particularly famous example
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No problem for any of the trainers here
GC, I wish I’d have known that before Xpres Maite ran the other day.
And also, the runners who stay overnight in the stables behind. Argentine, Brazilian Brush, Harlech Castle and the two Swinburn horses all stayed overnight before their runs. That information – and the missing gallops – is something worth knowing.
A report in the Daily Telegraph says that Ferdy Murphy worked a number of horses, including Kalahari king if I remember right, on the sands at Saltburn this week.
Fine if your yard is close to the sea, but trainers in Oxfordshire or Gloucestershire or Berkshire don’t have that opportunity. There the a-w gallops are deep frozen by now and covered in about a foot of snow. So all that the trainers can do is canter the horses in the snow each morning. That keeps them ticking over and is OK provided the snow is dry and powdery, but if the temperature rises and the snow becomes wet then it’s too dangerous and the horses will be confined to indoor work.
Newmarket all-weather gallops are fine and the walk ways well gritted although Michael Bell did take his string down the High Street – heading for the Bury Side – on Friday morning.
Aye, Adrian, had to guffaw at Mr Bell’s suggestion that one of his horses was so relaxed about working on the high street that she all but popped into WH Smith for a scratchard.
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Came across this
Paul Nicholls, Alan King and Nigel Twiston-Davies reported on Monday that they have been able to keep their strings exercising during the cold snap.
and this
One trainer beaten by the elements is Tom Cooper, who has conceded defeat in his efforts to get Forpadydeplasterer ready for Ascot’s Victor Chandler Chase on Saturday week.
Came across this
Paul Nicholls, Alan King and Nigel Twiston-Davies reported on Monday that they have been able to keep their strings exercising during the cold snap.
Quite. But the vast majority of NH trainers across the country will have had no problem in exercising their strings. However very, very few will have been able to gallop them, which is what really matters. A rare exception is Mrs. Wadham who is based at Newmarket where the a/w gallop has been kept open. Punters with that knowledge will have reaped the benefits at Southwell today.
Paul Nicholls is so desperate to get a gallop into his stable stars that he’s proposing to run Celestian Halo and Twist Magic in a/w bumpers at Kempton on Saturday.
Punters with that knowledge will have reaped the benefits at Southwell today.
Yeh right,
drift from 20’s to 33’s. Of course loads of knowledgeable punters were on it.
Most knowledgeable punters I know wouldn’t back one of those if Mrs Wadham herself told you that it was going to win.
Most knowledgeable punters I know wouldn’t back one of those if Mrs Wadham herself told you that it was going to win.
There’s nothing knowledgeable about ignoring obvious pointers. Lucy Wadham took three horses to Southwell, all cheap purchases and having their first visit to the racecourse. The first runner came 2nd at 25-1 and very nearly beat the Henderson hotpot which cost five times as much. The second runner also ran very creditably, coming third at 11-1. Having seen the way these horses performed, wouldn’t punters at the course conclude that her horses might well be fitter than the opposition and that her third runner should be backed e/w? Apparently not.
That’s not being shrewd, it’s not being clever, it’s just recognising clues which should have been staring them in the face.
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