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I’d imagine all 3, moehat. With the purchasing of Coolmore-sired yearlings the most common.
Give it up Willy. If you can’t even get the name of the top horses right you should hang up your box.
Brilliant ride. Just shows you that the very top jockeys usually avoid trouble.
Whereas for some of them, that race was infuriating to watch.
That’s because some BBC bigwig, somewhere, in some far-flung office, on some far-flung planet thinks the likes of Russell Howard are funny, Pomp
Hello guys,
I can’t say I’ve ever had a bet on virtual racing in the shops and have only had brief dalliances with the online games, but in a similar field I’m a big fan of a PC game called Starters Orders 4 (£20). If you like anything like Football Manager, and you like racing, it’s a must-have.
I’m writing a little piece about it so will post it on here soon. Check it out.Just to let you know, Bill Pressey is keen to do a Q&A in the near future so I’m looking at maybe 2 weeks. after Peter Michael and Mike Cattermole.
I agree Rumoush is far from a miler (just watch the Feilden back) and if anything she’s more likely to show a higher level of performance over 12f than 8. She’ll over excel in between the both though.
I’m still hoping Pollenator puts herself back in the picture and goes to Epsom. Taking my pocket out of the equation I feel she’d be more suited to the Diane though. We’ll see next week – she has a penalty to shoulder.
I can’t have Timepiece. Really attractive filly but something just doesn’t click with her. Can’t put my finger on it. Maybe she was just run into the ground at Lingfield. Doesn’t bode well for Epsom if that is the case.
I’m also hoping A Balding lets Pipette take her chance (providing it rains). 1 mile was an absolute minimum. A very relaxed filly, I can see her staying well and getting into the frame in what sadly looks a soft year.
..In USA horses are often stuck in the barn most of the week and have only the one work out. They get far more injuries.
Mr Pressey has quoted that some horses in America can get as little as 9mins of training per day owing to the limited facilities – i.e. trainers having to be off the track by 10am.
He also expressed the opinion that Australia is one of the top countries for utilising technology and that the US is one of the worst.Let us know when you’ve done that, I’d very much like to read it.
The aforementioned Mr Pressey talks about how just timing a gallop may very well look good on the stopwatch, and to the eye, but just as much emphasis should be paid to how quickly that horse’s bpm returns to what is usual for that individual. Also how even a 10% variation on the horse’s day-to-day bpm can be an indicator of illness.
Quite comical.
This Bill Pressey is really refreshing in the way he describes such basic things as monitoring heartbeats per minute and what irregularities in that may tell us about the horses ability to perform to the best of its ability. He even says "I am not a horseman, I am an equine exercise physiologist" and his passion for the subject is evident. I only wish there were more of his stuff available via search engines but as of yet it’s scant.
He did link to an interesting pdf from a book by ex-trainer Bill O’Gorman regarding training programmes for horses:http://www.racinghorsesbook.com/reference_tables.htm
Maybe slightly out-dated but worth having a glance at.
I totally agree. It’s staggeringly still very much unknown to the wider racing public (I’m sure because trainers like to ‘keep their cards close to their chest’)….the subject of priming horses for races isn’t something that I want to know to give me a punting edge, I’d just like to know more from a sporting point of view, to help understand training methods and so on.
The article that I read that inspired this post was Bill Pressey’s feature in the Autumn 2009 edition of European Trainer magazine. They are selling all their back copies for £2 from their website and are worth a look.
