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Well done Glad, botchy and Landafar.
I lost action and PU after the 2nd furlong due to crazy week at work and missed almost all of the racing from Thursday on apart from a couple of the later races yesterday, but I did get to see Ombudsman win
so that was the highlight for me.4.33 Down Royal New Zealand*nap
5.35 Ascot Amadeus Mozart
5.43 Down Royal Daddy Long LegsRes
4.2O Ascot Andab4.2O Ascot Andab
4.33 Down Royal New Zealand*nap
5.35 Ascot Amadeus Mozart
5.43 Down Royal Daddy Long LegsChris Cook in the Racing Post:
“For a jockey, trying to employ team tactics in a race is a bit like being a trainer trying to get a horse down to a good handicap rating: it’s mostly a question of manners. If you have good manners, you can get away with quite a bit in racing.
If you make the effort, on behalf of everyone else, of disguising your intentions, then your work will be admired. If, on the other hand, you let it be obvious what you’re doing, you’ll put officials in the position of having to discipline you, and that’s just embarrassing for everyone. ”
On the Flat, I mean. Compared with colts (with a few exceptions in specific circumstances). Nobody is afraid of getting a gelding beaten in either code, except NJH obviously.
“If he had a superstar like Enable, a more staying type, i’m pretty sure he or she would be aimed more at the 12f races.”
More likely to aim a she at 12f than a he. Nobody is afraid of getting a mare beaten.
Considering he was practically breaking his neck early on gawking round to see where Gstaad was it’s not a surprise. Nul points for subtlety.
Day 2
More Champagne (Victorious)
Limestone + Wareeth )Port of Spain)
Blue Bolt (Snellen)
Ombudsman*nap (Almaqam)
Holloway Boy (Classic)
Betty Clover (Sand Gazelle)
Our Boy Bailey (Green Sovereign)Ah sad news. Just went back to watch that Ryanair – it’s one of my favourite races. Ruby Walsh said he got carted that day. The horse jumps the first few fences reasonably sensibly but you can see him crossing his jaw, fighting to go faster and once he sees daylight that’s it, he’s off. The phrase “jumping for fun” comes to mind and he doesn’t even pop the last, he gives that full revs as well.
Opera Ballo (Zeus Olympios)
Mrair (The Scallionator)
Night Raider (Asfoora)
Puerto Rico (Gstaad)
Tim Toe*nap (Kizlyar)
Enfjaar + Gaucher NB (Persica)
Sing Us A Song (Daiquiri Bay)Have a lovely and lucrative week, Flatheads
*edited at 11.55 to change my nap
1435 Downpatrick Mount Shenshan
1442 Sandown Lady Youmzain
1500 York Al Qareem *nap
1615 York Ten ClaretsJamie Osborne might like to have a little think about the culture that results in female jockeys getting abuse that has an added dimension to the abuse male jockeys get. Male jockeys get “I hope you die” , females get “I hope you get raped and die”.
For example – part of a Marcus Armytage piece in the Telegraph a few months ago:
“In 2022, female jockey Saffie Osborne – who is still only 23 – was threatened on Twitter with a message saying: ‘“U stupid f—ing whore, U need raping and beating to death U slut, die you little b—h.”
so that was the highlight for me.
