[Blackheath]

It may be unusual but this is a message from one of the opposition on Tuesday.

I keep up a blog about veteran sprinter Blackheath. You can find it here
http://www.pinpoint1.f2s.com/html/black … _2007.html

Elsewhere on the website is a similar blog about Pinpoint, and hopefully there will be about sprinter Something. I don’t know whether these are of any interest. Anyway I was wondering whether anyone here knows of similar blogs or message board threads which follow the fortunes of racehorses?

All the best on Tuesday
Mike

[Blackheath]

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Your example race was actually run on 19th April 2002 at Newbury, not 4th May.

Kyllachy obviously ran a race with Group class written all over it. Which is why he went off 2/1 favourite for the Palace House Stakes in his next race. The collateral form rating I gave him at the time would only be equalled or exceeded at 5 furlongs once or twice in an average year. No experienced handicapper rating the race could have been anything other than impressed. The time, 0.30 fast on good/firm ground was excellent but less important than the performance at the weights.

Trace Clip went on to run excellent races off higher marks, at least three of which were equal to or better than his Newbury performance. I put him up 2 lbs at the time. It was his misfortune to go from an excellent trainer to someone who cannot train sprinters for toffees at the end of the season. Which explains why he did not win again.

Red Millenium won a listed race at 3YO and her performance at Newbury was probably on a par with that and also her Goodwood Group 3 run. Later in the season she was retired, so again she had little opportunity to win.

Your representation of these horses and what Kyllachy beat on the day is a complete distortion of the facts. he beat a highly competitive field of handicappers rated 90-107 by 1 3/4 lengths, 2 lengths and 1 1/4 lengths on fast ground, giving weight to most of them.

Yes I did back Kyllachy in the Palace House at 4/1 with Blue Square. Time played only a minor part in the decision. Collateral form said he had a big chance.

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