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Not often a classified race features here but I believe KENTO can follow up his recent course and distance success from a good draw, better than last time, where he seems to hold all the cards.
good luck to allOnce again I have to point out how the economy and the stockmarket are two entirely different things.
It’s also a strange and historic fact that during periods of rising unemployment the stockmarket rises strongly.
good luck to allSlightly disappointed with yesterdays selection but in all fairness it was a bit of a long shot.
Today’s selection being put forward for your consideration has a real live chance in the final race of the day.Returning from a six month layoff SPORTS COACH in finishing second recorded near his career high RPR when winning two novice events as a juvenile.Alongside this the gelding registered his best numbers to date.Although he runs into his conqueror from last time with that last run now under his belt and a 3lb pull for being beaten half a length I do believe things are very much in his favour to return to the winners enclosure.
good luck to allvalue31
What’s ‘alleged’ as you put it about the things this government has perpetrated on the public?
Reeves again blames others for the economy despite the latest released figures show ZERO growth for January which is before anything happened in Iran.
good luck to all*laughs*
Oh the pompous self righteous left will lay the blame for things at anyone else’s door except their own.
Under the present administration
Starmer, his wife and several other high ranking Labour MP’s (Ministers) accepted gifts from a Labour peer who was afterwards granted special access to Downing St.
Then there’s anti- corruption Minister Tulip Siddiq who was caught up in a family corruption scandal in Bangladesh, where she has been sentenced in absentia.
Housing Minister Angela Rayner and her failing to pay her property taxes.
Minister for the homeless Rushanara Ali evicting tenants so she could relist the property with a £700 rent increase.
Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigning after it was revealed had been convicted of fraud for misleading police.
Josh Simmons is the latest to bite the dust.It’s emerged he had commissioned a ‘dirty dossier’ with which to smear journalists who had investigated the finances of Labour Together.
And of course the latest scandal over Mandelson and other things not mentioned here.
ALL in less than TWO years!
good luck to allThe only race I’ve invested on in recent years at the Festival has been the Triumph which opens the final day.Why this race you may ask yourself?
In my long association with horse racing I’ve come across many ways of assessing horses and their performances and as in this case a interesting way to view a particular race.It may be of no surprise to learn I’m putting forward a Willie Mullins horse for your consideration by the name of KAI LUNG e/w who’s currently around 25/1 generally.The geldings only appearance over hurdles came at Naas toward the end of January on heavy ground.Most notable was he beat Tuesdays Juvenile Handicap hurdle winner Saratoga into third.Although I’m concerned about the way the selection pulled on his debut for the stable he’s also in the right hands to progress and looking for at least a placed effort.
good luck to allI know I’m a little behind but think this needs airing.
From Dan Hodges column (published Feb 15)
Let us focus on something that’s been submerged. Namely the fundamentals of probity, rectitude and integrity that we have been told – principally by Sir Kier himself – represent the new guard-rails of our national governance.
a bit later…
Now set those words against three specific things we witnessed over the past week. The first was the ongoing attempt by Sir Kier to insulate himself from the crisis over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as Washington ambassador when – by Starmer’s own admission – he was fully aware Mandelson had maintained a relationship with the world’s most famous paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The second was his decision to belatedly remove the Labour whip from Matthew Doyle, his former communications director, after appointing him to the House of Lords. Even though Starmer had again been aware Doyle had maintained a friendship with a man charged with possessing indecent images of children – a charge that was later proven.
The third was the news he had summarily ousted his Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald, and replaced him with Home Office Permanent Secretary Antonia Romeo. Even though Romeo is the subject of serious allegations of bullying and misuse of taxpayers money from her time at the Foreign Office, and multiple Civil Service sources claimed those allegations have not been properly investigated.
So, as I say, what are the rules?
When Starrmer was elected, they appeared clear. Probity in public office had been grotesquely perverted under Boris Johnson, he charged. So restoring the highest standards of honesty, humility and transparency represented his driving mission….
… Then last week, all thhat suddenly changed. Even highlighting these issues had in itself suddenly become a dereliction of public duty.
Starmer’s allies began berating the media for focusing on Mandelson rather than the Government’s policy agenda.
On Wednesday I was chided by a minister for my own part in focusing on Westminster intrigue rather than the Government’s achievements. So this appears to be the new rule. Or the Starmer Rule, if you like. Under the Tories breaches of standards in public office went to the heart of their mismanagement of the nation. But under him, thhey are of secondary importance. Not to be confused with the serious business of establishing breakfast clubs and preventing teenagers from accessing TikTok…..
… During the Labour leadership election he piously demanded: ‘Hear me out! I had 8,000 staff for five years as the Director of Public Prosecutions …. when they made mistakes. I carried the can. I never turn on my staff and you should never turn on your staff’
(about Johnson) …It’s no good the PM flailing around trying to blame others. It’s time he took responsibility for his own failures’ he railed repeatedly. Yet in the past week, this rule too has been inverted. He has turned on – and turfed out – every one of his most senior officials…… As another senior government official told me: ‘I struggle to think of a PM more willing to throw under the bus those who have been loyal to him’
So this is the other new Starmer Rule. The buck should have stopped with Boris Johnson. But there is no need for it to even pause for breath when it’s in the vicinity of himself.
later about Antonia Romeo ….. The new Starmer Rule? Due process not longer matters. Parachute her into the most senior job in te Civil Service regardless.
….Which when it comes to the crunch, the rules governing the Starmer premiership are as duplicitous and hypocritical and mendacious and self-serving as they always were.
good luck to allDunstall Park’s big day of the year today and putting forward for your consideration the Ed Dunlop trained gelding SUPERPOSITION who registered near career high numbers when returning from nearly four months off the track.Althouugh the stable hasn’t had a recent winner the horses have been running well with Billy Loughnane booked to take the ride, who’s in good form at present and has a decent record at the course.
This evening over at Chelmsford I believe the filly DESDEMONA can follow up her recent success after some near misses with useful apprentice Ryan Kavanagh aboard.
good luck to alladded March 8
In all honesty I cannot say what happened to Superposition or give you any reason why, however Desdemona rescued the day with her success at Chelmsford.Just a thought but perhaps Initial Blue doesn’t act quite as well on tapeta as polytrack?
Must admit to being slightly surprised that racing is still going ahead at Meydan but must make the most of the opportunities that are offered.Believe Buick may have miscalculated today in choosing Masai Moon over EMPEROR’S STAR e/w who in my eyes put up a terrific performance recording good numbers on return from a lengthy absence.
good luck to allI know most on the left here don’t consider this to be a significant event but Mandelson’s betrayal shows how rotten to the core Blair and his cronies are and by extension Starmer’s government has become by introducing New Labour men into the heart of the present government.
from Dan Hodges (published Feb 8)
But what is not open for debate is the extent Russian intelligence had their hooks embedded into one of the PM’s closest political confidants. Or that this fact had been common knowledge for years throughout the British, US, and European security services.
‘I didn’t know’ has been the PM’s increasingly forlorn refrain since the Mandelson scandal broke. But how can he possibly not have know?
I suspect the answer relates to a conversation I had last week with a senior Whitehall security source. Reflecting anger within the Civil Service machine at Starmer’s attempts to blame vetting failures for the ongoing crisis, he pointed to the PM’s decision to despatch Morgan McSweeney – his chief of staff and a close personal friend of Mandelson’s – to question the prospective ambassador about his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
“If Starmer really wanted the full story, why didn’t he send an independent experienced member of the Propiety and Ethics Team to interview Mandelson? Why specifically choose one of Mandelson’s best mates?” he queried.
When Keir Starmer claims he didn’t know the full extent Mandelson had compromised – via both his links with Epstein and his connections to Russian security service assets – he’s dissembling. In reality he knew or suspected everything. But Starmer’s priority wasn’t the truth. It was ensuring the truth could be managed and manipulated in a way that enabled Mandelson’s appointment to proceed.
good luck to allAlthough a ‘market mover’ may indicate a selection receiving particular attention from punters what it doesn’t tell you is how much money it’s taken to reduce the price.
You may only be talking a few thousand to bring a horse down from say 10 or 12/1 to 8/1 with others attracting the same or more cash and their price might go from 7/2— 3/1.
So to my mind it’s all relative and simply one needs to use your own judgement and experience.
good luck to allapologies about yesterday’s selection I did expect a lot more.
FAR TOO FIZZY e/w … I think you can throw out his last run over 5f and trapped wide throughout.
Drawn better and over a more suitable trip looking for something more like his penultimate run today and at least a place.
good luck to allAlthough one win from eighteen starts isn’t the greatest recommendation I’m less worried about that stat than the selection being slow from the gates.Last time out CAYMAN TAI raced in the rear and was given far too much ground to make up when entering the straight.However there is a bright spot too in that this striking grey has also put up his best performance on the a/w at this track,also one of his best overall,but I wouldn’t blame anyone if they decide to sit this horse out.
good luck to allA guest on one of the programmes covering last nights by-election worked for an analytical company and said that on the general election results Gorton and Denton was Labours 39th safest seat.
Today a lot of Labour MP’s must be fearful of their future prospects.
good luck to allBeen away from here for a few weeks so have missed all the fun.
However just let me say one thing, although somewhat belatedly.
Who appointed Mandelson? ……. Starmer did! ….. and as usual everybody and anybody else is to blame for the decision.
good luck to allTransferred from Hong Kong last Sept and not cutting much ice until recently putting forward for your consideration ATOMIC FORCE e/w at Chelmsford this evening.Following an absence this gelding ran in the Portland at Doncaster under a welter burden of 9-11 and not surprisingly didn’t shine.His next three runs were on the tapeta at Wolverhampton (2) and Southwell before posting good numbers when successful in his latest race at Lingfield, a surface which I believe suited him better than tapeta.The small rise in the weights is less of a worry than his draw so playing him aa a each way prospect would be the thing to do.
good luck to all
