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43 days & 357 races into the new season. After today the table stands as follows;
1st Skelton 55 points
2nd Murphy 40
3rd Bowen 34
4th Henderson 33
5th Owen 28
6th Snowden 25
7th King 23
8th Lacey 23
9th= Nicholls 22
9th= O’Brien 22
11th Mulholland 21
12th Greatrex 19
13th Evan Williams 18
14th Hanmer 15
15th Candlish 15
16th Honeyball 15
17th Corbett 13
18th Tizzard 13
19th Moore & Moore 13
20th Lavelle 12143 different winning trainers
303 races into the season with 841 points up for grabs and the table stands as follows;
1st Skelton 52 points (0-3-1-7-6)
2nd Murphy 34 points (0-0-0-8-5)
3rd Henderson 30 points (0-0-4-4-1)
4th Owen 25 points (0-0-0-7-2)
5th Nicholls 22 points (0-1-1-3-2)
6th Snowden 22 points (0-0-1-4-3)
7th Bowen 21 points (0-0-2-3-2)
8th Lacey 20 points (0-0-0-4-4)
9th O’Brien 19 points (0-1-1-2-2)
10th Greatrex 19 points (0-0-0-5-2)
128 different winning trainers of which 68 have only had the one winner.
The 2nd option would pretty much guarantee Mullins winning the trainers title on prize money as Skelton uses the Summer jumps season to get a head-start.
Skelton has already picked up 139K in the first month of the new season and there has only been one Class 1 race during that period.
257 races into the new season and the table stands as follows as Skelton didn’t have a single winner in the last 7 days
1st Skelton 47 points (Class 1 x 0. Class 2 x 3. Class 3 x 1. Class 4 x 6. Class 5 x 5)
2nd Murphy 34 points (0-0-0-8-5)
3rd Henderson 30 points (0-0-4-4-1)
4th Snowden 22 points (0-0-1-4-3)
5th Bowen 21 points (0-0-2-3-2)
6th Nicholls 20 points (0-1-1-3-1)
7th Owen 20 points (0-0-0-6-1)
8th O’Brien 17 points (0-1-1-2-1)
9th Lacey 15 points (0-0-0-3-3)
10th King 14 points (0-1-0-3-0)
117 different winning trainers.
191 races into the new season and the table stands at
Skelton 47 points (15 wins)
Murphy 25 points (10 wins)
Henderson 24 points (7 wins)
Nicholls 15 points (5 wins)
Bowen 14 points (5 wins)
King 14 points (4 wins)First Irish trained winner last week. And 95 winning trainers so far.
The jockey awarded the race hits his horse twice with the whip, drops it and then proceeds to hit his horse 12 times on the neck with the palm of his hand.
Perhaps someone can explain to me how hitting the horse with whip & hand 14 times wins you the race?!!
117 races into the new season. 47 Class 5 races. 55 Class 4. 10 Class 3. 4 Class 2. 1 Class 1. 69 different winning trainers.
Top of the table
Skelton 31 points
Henderson 14 points
Murphy 12 points
Bowen 11 points
King 11 pointsI would counter by saying you don’t see many horses barely blowing after 4 miles and looking as though he was ready to go another few miles after the line. I’ve raced watched for over 45 years and you don’t see many horses demolish a large field over that distance without breaking sweat and taking the long way round to boot. It wasn’t that he won, but the ease that he won by that pricked my attention.
The form booked showed tried twice over hurdles at 3 miles (suggesting he didn’t stay) and over fences had only been campaigned over 17 or 20 furlongs. Why did they step down in trip after his hurdle runs if they thought he was a long distance staying chaser in the making?
What I would say is it was a mighty big bushel that light was hiding behind when he he rocked up on Saturday.
Hearing a reference to F1 on the Nick Luck Daily gave the game away. Don’t try and copy a sport that bores many witless. What next 54 lap horse races and a starting grid?!
Perhaps it’s because horse racing in some other jurisdictions across the World has become so bland & boring they think this would somehow make it more interesting?
Wasn’t he the Danka man when they started putting the God awful logo’s on jockey silks something that thankfully hasn’t worked its way to Ireland or France.
Funny not a single word in the stewards report telling the same story as Danny Mullins.
‘Ride of the season’? It was definitely something of the season.
I thought you were being ironic by the fact he was a knackered 2nd last in the Albert Bartlett beaten over 43 lengths.
Don’t think that’s screaming let’s run him over 4 miles and win as though he only joined in 2 furlongs from home.
I think I would have liked to have heard from the jockey too. Exactly why was he kept away from every other runner taking the longer route round almost taking the paint off the standside rail & giving ground to all? I noticed in a later race some did the same but I suspect not for the same reason Mullins did.
This horse had barely shown an ounce of form this season and then wins with such ease that Mullins didn’t even move on him and looked at the big screen more than once. The horse was still galloping on after the line after nearly 4 miles!
I know some will claim it’s that magician again Willie Mullins but to me something felt very off about the whole thing. And someone clearly knew looking at the price drop.
Perhaps someone could explain where in the form book that performance was lurking?
I do hope the handicapper takes a dim view more than the stewards seemed to.
I love the use of the word ‘apparent’ improvement.
Horse owned by the O’Leary’s who are not getting much joy with their horses trained by Elliott at the moment.
So no harm showing how it should be done with a horse who up until yesterday was still a maiden over fences and never once looked like winning over fences.
Reported in the Racing Post;
Trainer said, regarding the apparent improvement in form, that jumping at a slower pace over the extended distance seemed to contribute to the apparent improvement, which was noted.
Opened at 16-1 (was bigger than that the night before). Went off at 15-2 joint favourite.
They knew this horse was going to win before he walked onto the horse box. Went the long way round to ensure there was not a chance of being interfered with or brought down.
Form this season. Weakened into 8th over 20 furlongs. Then 11th of 12 finishers. Followed by 9th of 12 beaten 52 lengths. 10th of 11 finishers at the DRF. Pulled up at the Cheltenham Festival.
So had run against 70 horses this season and beaten 8 other finishers home before yesterday.
Then wins with his head in his chest with Mullins not even moving a muscle and probably not wanting it to look embarrassingly easy.
Nothing to see here guys.
Whilst State Man had the run of the race and his stable companion kept Golden Ace off the rail for much of the race meaning she had to run further than the winner she still stayed on to some effect and was closing after the last. Another half furlong might have been interesting.
When you think Golden Ace came into this race rated just 152. That means State Man only ran to a rating of 164 today.
