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To sleep perchance to dream …
Good to be alive indeed Sam,
and those sandwiches would be decisively variant :
salmon and cool cucumber
to set the scene for a mouth watering Queen Elizabeth
in sleepy September eaten under the shade of
the old Ascot Oak. Some thinly sliced medium rare roasted beef with a smear of piquant horseradish and salt ‘n milled black pepper for the gut wrenching glory of the Sussex – eaten high up on the hill. But for the most anticipatory race of all, the test that sorts the men from the puberty pretenders in the bushes its got to be the hottest salami married to the juiciest vine tomato and slam dunked hard into a gigantic submarine – This is a protest. This is as brutal as a naked Oliver as Commodus with a Mike Cattermole Maximus dressing enough to salivate the parched jaws of the starving lions as the tigers rattle their hors d’oevres chains and force the ancient Rome Jeremy Trees to tremble and sprinkle the arena with red blossom petals – as the pipers sound their horns.Let the games Begin !
flatcapgamble…Dream dream dream
There’s only one Hattie Jacques !! please please please materialise – and quick. He’s in desperate need of a nurse.
The results are in…
1st Frankel made all, clear halfway, unchallenged
2nd Brigadier Gerard chased leader, ran on well but no chance with easy winner
3rd Nijinsky tracked leaders, effort halfway, ran on well
4th Sea The Stars tracked leaders, stayed on well but never pace to challenge
5th El Gran Senor prominent, kept on same pace from halfway
dh 6th Dancing Brave always mid division
dh 6th Zafonic prominent early, never really able to challenge8th Camelot held up in last trio, moderate late headway
dh 9th Mark Of Esteem always in rear, tailed off
dh 9th Rock Of Gibraltar always in rear, tailed offThanks to everyone who took part.
You might be right but I thought it was 3.35. These horses are sometimes nervous emotional animals. The skies have darkened over the heath and the famous Rowley mi!e course is covered in a ghostly gloom and the horses seem to sense something has happened, as they fret and turn in their tracks. The crystal ball is polished and ready but the Jim JTS 2000 guineas
is postponed until tomorrow by order of the Clerk of the course after a big red hand forms in the sky to say STOP.flatcapgamble… I suspected it for a long time – he’s finally cracked.
“You might be right but I thought it was 3.35.”
I am right and it clearly says 3 o’clock in the opening post. Sorry!
Oh what I’d have given to have been there and seen that race..I think I would have probably changed my mind and gone for Frankel when I saw him in the paddock being a mad keen fan of himself.. but thanks for putting the race together and running it..
Ps..just heard Pinatubo was tuned in to your race Glad and is of the opinion that he wouldn’t have let Frankel go clear and have caught him at the bushes to power away 2f from home winning by 2 lengths…the stage is all yours Pinatubo we await your performance.
JacThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...“Ps..just heard Pinatubo was tuned in to your race Glad and is of the opinion that he wouldn’t have let Frankel go clear and have caught him at the bushes to power away 2f from home winning by 2 lengths…“
I’ll tell you what, Jac; if that is what Pinatubo really thinks he’d do, I’d like some of what he’s smoking!
I got the tricast up, if that is what it is called, I never do those fancy bets. Do I win anything?
Thanks Gladiateur very enjoyable.
“I got the tricast up, if that is what it is called, I never do those fancy bets. Do I win anything?”
Erm… a hearty round of applause. Oh hang on… we don’t have a clapping emoticon. A big cheer instead, then!
RTV showed all the Guineas since the early 1980s earlier today.
I still think we have under-rated Zafonic. I cannot have him in sixth! Watch his race again. He is hack cantering at the bushes.
Two who did not make the final 10 but deserve a mention are King’s Best (2000) and George Washington (2006).
King’s Best looked good when he came from a long way off the pace and swept aside Giant’s Causeway. Fallon really rated the performance in his autobiography.
George Washington was an enigmatic performer. It was never dull when he was around and he settled his Guineas with a brilliant turn of foot. I think he would have beaten Rock of Gibraltar in their decade.
“I still think we have under-rated Zafonic. I cannot have him in sixth! Watch his race again. He is hack cantering at the bushes.”
Seeing Dancing Brave and Zafonic each accrue only six points (each was rated third twice) in the voting shows just how strong a field this was.
I always thought that El Gran Senor was the best miler I had seen, prior to Frankel, as I started following racing in 1980; Zafonic’s Guineas performance was the best in between EGS and Frankel, in my opinion.
I only began following horse racing in late 2007 and 2008 Guineas was my first experience. The seemingly imperious New Approach had his colours lowered by Henrythenavigator, a classy miler.
For me since that time, of course Frankel would be unopposable, followed up by Sea The Stars who would have been given a race by Canford Cliffs, who was certainly one of the top milers to not win it. After his defeat in the 2000 he would only go on to be beaten once more in his career, against the mighty Frankel. Kingman wasn’t too shabby a runner up either.
Agree, Kings Best and gorgeous George would have been very worthy entrants in this race, as would Kingman, who is proving himself as a great sire too.
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Well done with your Tricast Chestnut.
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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...My mobile phone emojis seem to work on here Glad.
🌈🌈🙂🙃👍🐎Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...As the large clock hand reached the quarter, the big red hand above transmogrified Kafkaesqely into an even larger big red thumb as shafts of light burst through the gloom to awaken the Rowley pastures and bathe them in an ungodly sunlit hue. It was just like a remake of the Ten Commandments with a heavenly parting and a see through ball sitting in the director’s chair. The jockeys raised their chins to the Gods and re-tracked their mounts back to the start and that certain glory and gallows that awaited them and covered that special eight furlong sweat to immortality. The equine spirits of the past lined up like wise guys with all the knowledge of their past successes and failures etched between their ears and a strong desire to win and become champion of champions.
The race had been set up not by the BHA but by the equine spirits of yesteryear, most holy in nature, but a few mischievous🗿 but all with a wink from the Big man himself. Through the power of the ball I was the only unlikely onlooker to this mouth watering spectacle of deciding superiority over the ages, and dressed in only two articles of clothing – a bleach-destroyed dressing gown and a double magnification pair of poundstretchers.The phone rings…
” Khaled here – now you know I’ve got two in, now sort them out with a good stall position and I will gift you two things of my choosing from my riches in the vast Kingdom of Saud.”
Me.. I know who you are and what you’ve got, but how do I know I won’t get left with a veil dancing Eunuch and a burnt out oil well.” ?
Khaled …” I can set your armchair in a Palace ”
Me …” I’m not being funny here but your horses are smart enough anyway and let me be very frank – I’ve got a smart brain which works well with my new magical ball. Ring me back when and only when you can get me back in the presence of Betty Boop and a fresh faced Kathy Hepburn. I expect a call back in a few minutes – they’re lining up.
Click.
flatcapgamble…” I’ve gotta get outta of this place
If it’s the last thing I ever do ”
One unhappy animal.
is postponed until tomorrow by order of the Clerk of the course after a big red hand forms in the sky to say STOP.
Jac
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