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Hello all,
Have become slightly detatched from P2P and HC form recently, just wondered if anyone has a handle on the above race?
It looks quite competitive (as you’d expect), and at the moment my pick would be Rydal Park. Can’t quite get Man From Highworth out of my head though – does anybody know if he goes well on firmish ground?
Would be very interested to see what was top rated on the Mackenzie and Harris ratings…
Any comments much appreciated – I know that there are a few P2P experts lurking on the forum!
Man From Highworth is top rated by some 5lbs but that appears to be mainly judged on his early season form. The ground will be fine but I’d be seriously concerned about his ability to get up the hill and I would want to be against him.
Rydal Park would be my pick too as he is arguably the most progressive in the field (although he is short enough now at around 2/1), while Dennis The Legend would be the best outsider as he still has bags of potential and the track is likely to play to his strengths. Denvale had a very good record on the track under Rules and is in fine form at the moment but he may just set the race up for something else. Whoever did the Racing Post Spotlight and put Back Nine in as 9/4 fav must be living in cloud cuckoo land!
Should be a good race.
Thanks for the comments HJ, think a small bet on Rydal Park for me.
PS, did I read on one of your other posts that you work for Weatherbys? Was there myself a couple of years ago, probably know each other…
Looks a really competitive race but will be watching and not betting in it.
Always love watching the Touareg final, A proper horse race and you can gurantee the owners and trainers will be jumping for joy unlike Aidan O’Brien after a Group 1 winner
Why oh why didnt the starter let them go, Still a very good race but a pity Man from Highworth made that error 3 out as he was going as good as any and it will be interesting to see if he goes handicapping under rules as he could pick up a race or two but may go for the H and H in a couple of weeks.
Received and understood HJ – hope all is going well up there and you’ve had a good season? Should be getting a bit quieter now, winding down towards Umberleigh…
Whoever did the Racing Post Spotlight and put Back Nine in as 9/4 fav must be living in cloud cuckoo land!
That raised an eyebrow here, too. In fairness to Dave Moon, however, he was pretty much always on the money tissue-wise when he was a Spotlight writer at the Sprotsnam, and the Touareg Final will have been some way outside of the comfort zone of a guy who’s primarily a Flat expert (he tipped six out of seven Wolverhampton races one evening) and from memory was not given a single hunter during his entire tenure at the other paper!
He does a quality Windsor Davies impersonation, too, but that’s almost certainly superfluous information.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)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.
Ooops,good old Fred Hutsby!
Mr Bertoli jumping quite nicely minus his jockey.
I earwigged a few of the jockeys on the way back in after the race. Fred Hutsby was having a chat with racecourse photographer / Big Green Annual creator John Beasley, the gist of which seemed to be that Nick Scholfied had his mount Dennis The Legend nudging the tape first time around, which put the starter in a bit of a should they go – shouldn’t they go dilemma.
Scholfied, meanwhile, told connections that Dennis The Legend was never travelling quite as well as he could, and was having to chivvy away at him throughout – that was certainly the impression I’d got from the stands, too.
The winner, Back Nine, was the subject of one of the most bizarre incidents I’ve ever heard of at a racecourse about 15 months ago, when the impact of him landing on the ground after jumping a fence at Larkhill caused a small round or shell buried just under the surface to explode! No harm was wrought to him or his competitors that day, but I was surprised the incident didn’t find its way into the annals of the Annual later that year.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)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.
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