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As this thread has been brought to the top….this comment in running appeared for the winner of the Hunt race at Andoversford a couple of weeks ago:
Led to 4, 2nd til led 10, drew clr 2 out, comf (evidently responded to girl groom’s instructions that it was going to have a Frenchman on it’s back and have it’s bottom smacked!)
Someone with a relevent Annual will have to look it up but there was some funny comments about my old horse Cranford when she ran appro 99-00, she was utterley useless blless her and looked more like a camel than a racehorse but she looked after me
Not an in-running comment but one from Mackenzie and Selby’s annual from 1997.
One day I bumped into East Anglian trainer Peter Jonason who offered me a share in a pointer he trained called Ballysheil Star (know as Patch).
I told him I’d buy a share in him as long as I could ride him out. Peter was very keen on this idea and the deal was done.
I blanched though when I read the pointing bible’s opinion on him when it was next published:
" Completed the course six times in a row, but the equivalent of bungee jumping without a rope".
From One Way Ticket 28th June at Lingfield
"with winner 2f, ridden halfway, put head in air and gave up" !Spookily, I was intending to revive this thread today before CH beat me to it, albeit in reference to a different horse. The actuality of No Complaint’s 6l win at Market Rasen yesterday doesn’t tell the whole story;
“chased clear leader, ridden from 8th, not fluent 9th, terrible mistake 11th and cheek pieces went wonky, driven ahead after 3 out, ran on gamely to outbattle rival, clear last, all out”
Great stuff.
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One day I bumped into East Anglian trainer Peter Jonason who offered me a share in a pointer he trained called Ballysheil Star (know as Patch).
Forgot to ask you, Adrian – is that Jonason as in rookie rider Tom, whom I’d presume is the son of Peter? He looked terrified on Land Rover Lad when we saw him at Higham in April, but he looks to have found his feet and scored a first win since then.
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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.
Christian runs Wildbach in a hurdle race at Worcester on Friday. Wildbach was last seen when finishing second in a lake race at Bad Harzburg, prompting these wonderful comments in running on the Racing Post website:
held up, 5th entering pond, swam slowly, ran on from 3 out, 3rd 2 out, stayed on from approaching 2 out to take 2nd last
Quite apt he’s running at Worcester really – if that river bursts its banks again, the experience might come in useful!!!
Darren – AngloGerman
Wildbach was last seen when finishing second in a lake race at Bad Harzburg
aka “one of those ridiculous races”, according to one ATR broadcaster yesterday.
He did it very nicely indeed yesterday, didn’t he, notwithstanding that of his main rivals Pips Assertive Way can’t win away from Stratford and Mycenean Prince can’t win anywhere.
Andrew King suggested in his Post write-up that connections might have been a bit cheesed off to have to go to 13,000gns to buy him back in afterwards. Whilst that would usually be fair comment, I suspect that Wildbach’s new owner John Spence, who loves a punt, might just have been behind some of the larger bets placed on the gelding before the off that saw him backed into evens from 6-4. Recycled money, then!
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