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Cavelino Rampante,
Can you add Gullible Gordon and Tataniano on the list for me please.
Sorry Mr Wilson the list is a Nicholls free zone, see the opening post on this thread for whats allowed. Only "dross" trainers need apply
Besides the list is big enough as it is. Thks.Not sure where else to post this, though I’m sure people will be interested. Just come across this in my email inbox from the RP.
Kauto, Denman, Big Buck’s, Master Minded, Celestial Halo, Pride Of Dulcote… beat those five!
Apart from there being 6 instead of 5, I think it is significant that
Pride Of Dulcote
has been listed with the others by Nicholls.
My two ran at Carlisle today with notable lack of success.
Turbo Island – jumped rather sketchily and was cooked from the bottom of the hill. May well have needed the race and not every novice is going to handle a jumps debut in heavy going. He’ll step up on this.
Camden George – Jumped a bit better today though was finding the opposition too tough from four out. He’ll be better off in handicaps and his form figures are going nicely the ‘wrong way’ as far as future prices are concerned!
Rob
Turbo Island – jumped rather sketchily and was cooked from the bottom of the hill. May well have needed the race and not every novice is going to handle a jumps debut in heavy going. He’ll step up on this.
That’s a certainty! Possibly more so than even the likes of Charlie Longsdon, Henry Daly, etc., James Ewart appears to be trenchant in the belief that the jumps season starts in October, finishes in May, and you don’t run horses outside of that range.
He also seems adamant that one brings them along as carefully as necessary within that period.
This is the fifth season that he has held a license. In that time, he has never sent out a runner between June and September, and before today, the overall record for every runner he’d ever sent out in the October and Novembers of those years amounted to just two winners from 47 all told.
Whilst Turbo Island did win on debut last season, that debut came in February, when most or every horse in the yard, whether already with the benefit of an outing or two or not, was as wound up as he would have liked them to be.
For me the time to watch James is going to be from December 1st, 00:00 hours. And with decent ammunition such as Turbo Island and Sa Suffit at his disposal, I’d then be very hopeful of a profitable time following him from then on.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Not a great weekend for the list horses, 0 from 5 although Mission Control ran a great race in the novice hurdle at Huntingdon yesterday, beaten narrowly while conceding 16lbs to the winner in testing ground.
All 3 of Imperial Calls horses have won so far and we have 9 first time out winners, still waiting for a decent priced one.
The extremely talented and unexposed Bouggler goes at Kempton in a handicap hurdle this afternoon. 25/1 for the World Hurdle, might be a bit shorter this evening.
Unfortunately Royal Scoundrel won`t run this season now. ( still win a GC one day though )Can we put in replacements CR?
John Morris who writes Jumping Prospects sounded very excited about Sa Suffit this year; think it’s his main horse to follow for the season.
moehat
I expressed the opinion last season that I confidently expect Sa Suffit to be highest rated Scottish steeplechaser of 2009-10.
Although Turbo Island didn’t jump all that well at Carlisle, James Ewart’s horses come to the track very well schooled and are consistently better jumpers than the majority of their opponents.
Incicdentally further to graysonscolumn’s point about Ewart’s lack of runners from June to September, it’s sufficient comment to say he has only had 6 runners in 5 seasons at ‘our summer course’ Perth.
Rob
No problem putting a replacement in Roddy.
Bouggler was another one on a fitness mission today, still reckon he’ll be very smart.
What rating, Rob?
I would hope 145+. He rates 137 currently and as a 6-year-old there must surely be a bit more to come.
I think the current highest rated is Standin Obligation on 140.
Endless Power had reached 141 last season and threaatened to go a good deal higher before his sad demise.
Rob
I asked because Merigo could go up to 140-142 after winning a race, and then after winning the GN he’d be 150-152.
I’d be only too happy to see a Scottiah horse rate that highly.
One point to make though is that Raymond Anderson Green tends to favour aiming at the SCottish National. The going was wrong this year for Merigo but I reckon that would still be the target and the stable would hope for soft ground.
Rob
I heard that said somewhere as well too, Rob, possibly in one of the
Post
‘s recent stable tours. Isn’t it something to do with how the horse tends to jump his fences – thought to be a touch too deliberate for Aintree – as much as anything else?
I’d just like to see Merigo break "The curse of the Eider" in whatever race he can – take out Comply Or Die, and no other winner of that race in the last 15 years or more ever won again.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Besides the list is big enough as it is. Thks.
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