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Absolute junk conjured up by the press I’m afarid
Unless he wins doing handstands on Saturday which is highly unlikely he will go for the Ryanair.
I suppose my pet hatewillwin again but I am sticking to my guns and backing Sizing Europe plusan EW bet on Muirhead who I think is about ready to pop upata big price.
300 winner is like 1 a day for over 8 years……..amazing……..it would be fitting if he does it tomorrow on Rate of Knotts trained by Jonjo and owned by JP.
Won as he likes back in Decemeber and must go close.
Good luck to him….never been a harder working jockey.
Initially the plan was to run him in the Gold Cup then he had that awful fall.
I had a bet on him myslef at 50/1 ew
After Ayr is he comes out of it ok they plan to run him at Kelso so I guess there will be no Gold Cup this year
Let’s face it – barring a fall, Master Minded is a certainty.
…so long as he makes it to the 2m start at Cheltenham on the day in question in the first place! With the best will in the world, and the best care available to horses, there is still no element of certainty that they will remain healthy and sound.
I think Barring a fall sort of says he would have to be at the course already
Of course he could be talking about fallling off the end of a cliff if he escapes from his box and gallops all the way to Dover Thing is you are perfectly correct, he could step out his box at the course and stand on a stone, drop his jockey and bolt or a million other things.
As far as I can make out H is also correct, if he jumps as he can he wins
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I don’t doubt for a minute you are correct about the yards form. If he felt they weren’t right he may well have decided he didn’t wan’t to risk him.
Could be the horse has something else wrong with him but with most of these high profile horses when something is ado it leaks out (ED last year)However, how they do it I don’t kow but the Pipe yard is probably the quitest yard in the country on that score..very little seems to filter out….get more out of a sober free mason than you would out of them
Total guess work on my part Friggo
Oh come on Colin give me a breakmate I have never mentioned a sum of money on here and my successful punts were all documneted.
What do you want from me? should I not say when I fancy a horse or am having a large bet. I love digging them out and slamming the bookies and I wish everyone had backed Zarkava, had Binocular and Kauto at a huge prices and had taken the 6/4 about MM when it was available. If my success causes animosity, well blow me mate nothing I can do about it
You should know as well as me if you say you backed a horse after the fact hear you are jumped upon from a great height.
Anyway forget that shyte I am more interested in this magazine you write in you foxy old devil
Is it on line? I really would love to read it. Read a Jeremy Grayson blog today by mistake which I found very interesting.
I really envy you, having the ability to write for someone so please go a head.
Well as the second part of what you have just said is almost identical to what I said 8 months ago, or so and it’s hard to disagree. I was so positive I was right.
However I crossed that bridge when I thought Tidal Bay would find him out and I was totally wrong. Now we have another young pretender in Big Zeb and no doubt others will follow if he kicks him into touch….I just wonder how many years we will have to wait to realise these horses aren’t bad horses.
I still say Tidal Bay will prove to be a top class animal in his own right. I also think his performance over 2 miles in the Arkle was very very good and he did the job at Aintree.
He’s so far ahead of everything thishorse they are betting on what price he will start…what distance he’ll win by…what will be second, whatwill his rating be at the end of the season…everthing points to him being special.
Finally with the greatest respect Ian it takes a lot to get Ruby Walsh as excited as he was the other day..guy was doing handstands and singing "I’m my maws big tufty wean"
Didn’t Fists suggest that the horse incurred an injury at Ascot and hadn’t recovered when running in the Gold Cup?
Colin
I think I said that was a possible answer to why he ran so badly. I said if he was feeling a bit of pain at Ascot it could have affected his confidence. Things like that which can affect a horse’s confidence don’t show up.and they can’.t talk. Hardly PN’s fault if it was the case
It was also well after the Gold Cup not before.
Anyway what on earth has that got to do with the man’s ability to get a horse to the race course?
"With PN’s record of keeping them right……………….."
How does that statement tie in with your remarks about his handling of Kauto Star in the lead-up to last year’s Gold Cup, Fists?
Colin
This place is becoming a joke
Now it’s Colin waiting in the wings to pounce
Nice to see you are still around even if you have nothing constructive to sayPerhaps I should say his record of getting them there in one piece like Two Gold Cups for Kauto Star and 3 King George chases. or running the first three inthe Gold Cuplast season.
As Michael Dickinson once said it’s hard enough getting them there in one piece let alone winning with them.
But then I think you know exactly what I meant.
Incidentally I didn’t say anything about PN before the Gold Cup I was too busy saying he was a certainty to beat Denman
I think the answer lies in the Tingle Creek Ian when
Moscow Flyer beat Azertyuiop and Well Chief and all three ran great races and looked at the top of their form. They were all flatto the borads that day with an equal chance of winning.Here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q … type=&aq=f
Some though regard Azertyuiop as being unlucky that day peronally I think he could have finished closer but I doubt if he could have passed Moscow Flyer.
While MF was the best around those 2 were not a million miles behind him. I for one backed Azertyuiop to beat him in the QMCC and still think he would won that day had MF not UR rider, which is debateable.
But here within lies the answer…touch of the Harry Potters there
How do you think Ruby Walsh who rode Azertyuiop many many times would rate him against Master Minded.
This man has done it all and rode the best yet he has used the word "Incredible" to decribe only one horse: Master Minded
I think if you’d backed him at 6/4 and have been paid out, no harm in trying to go for the ultimate satisfaction of now laying him on betfair. Whilst it has to be hoped that the horse turns up safe and well at Cheltenham, there is always the possibility in this fragile game of that not happening.
I think that’s what I’d be doing…
If only they’d done this on Saturday just before the off in Snap Tie’s race! But then again, they probably looked at the official going as opposed the Racing Post’s version of the ground! Grrr…
With PN’s record of keeping them right I would be keeping the cash.
Would that be like betting at 1/50 anyway and with very very little chance of success.
Incidentally you may find any bookie is willing to settle early at a price. Hills have approached me in the past.
As a matter of interest, as I have an axe to grind here, what price would any of you guys consider to be fair if your bookie wanted to settle now?
I think if PN said he was going to run him over 2m4f again Ruby would take him into a horse box and kick the living daylights out of him
That’s the funny thing about champions "A" they do things like that and it’s not that they are brilliant it’s that others aren’t up to scratch.
I was just watching 2 videos of second fav for the QMCC Big Zeb.
I can see why they want to take on MM as he looks to have improved a lot from last season when he beat Thyne Again by 4 lengths.
If you watch is last race he beats Thyne Again by the same distance as before but there is a huge contrast between the two races.
In the first he is all out from a long way out to get to them but in the second he is absolutely hack cantering two out but looks like he blows up approaching the last ( something the commentator says he was entitled to do being his first run of the season). He still runs on and wind though and Thyne Again is still beaten 4 lengths back in third.
He looks a right horse with a big future and on that performace he would probably be all the rage in a normal year but such is the confidence behind Master Minded no one is giving the horse a second thought.
As you say he made Tidal bay look very ordinary which we know he is not.
I doubt if there is any horse other who could make Big Zeb look ordinary but if Master Minded can destroy him like he did VPU last year surely people will give credit where credit is due.I’m also in agreement with Equi.
I like the fact you can watch a replay easily without knowing the result if you have been out working or whatever. Which is as good as watching it live
Unlike Channel4 racing they don’t have results up right next to where you enter the replays.
Should all be free anyway as they are all sponsored I believe
Andrew,
Re: your question on the ground, you can judge for yourself by going to the Racing Post site and looking up the results for the two days in question (13/3/07 and 11/3/08 respectively). It is possible to get all the times for a card up on one screen for convenience.
Where’s Osana btw?, he might just be a horse who peaked too early last year.
Nothing official, but given the engagements he’s missed and the way some Pipe runners were going late last year, I’d hazard a guess that he’s been ill.
Could be the case Friggo but The Pipes are the shrewdest trainers on the planet and I think Andrew has hit the nail right on the head.
I doubt if they knew they had a CH horse on their hand searly last season.
When you compare what Alan King was doing early doors with Katchit to what David Pipe was doing it tells a tale.
That gives good reason to think Osana’s performance was affected by having been too fit a bit too early.
Another factor we should take into consideration is the high winds at the time of the race which don’t do front runners any favours.
Many posters have reservations about Binocular getting up the hill and surely if any horse is going to take the sting out of his tail it will be this one.
If he turns up 100% and fresh, something the Pipes are geniuses at, he surely must be a huge danger to all. I don’t know if he can beat Binocular but he could easlily reverse form with Katchit.
There are so many if’s and buts about this race that any one of 6 could win it. Sure I think Binocular will win but no way on earth will I be surprised if he is beaten and Osana is the one to do it.
Great race in prospect despite many horses looking like they are out of form…as the guy on the telly used to say "It’ll be alright on the night"
Of course he could be talking about fallling off the end of a cliff if he escapes from his box and gallops all the way to Dover 
