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1.45 Golden Doyen
2.25 Lough Derg Spirit
3.00 Charbel
3.40 Relentless Dreamer
4.00 Supasundae (nap), Different Gravey
5.15 Drop Out Joe
18.45 Master of FinanceYep- as being annoying at the time, if you want to watch a certain horse’s jumping and way of going for future reference it’s useless.
Thanks VtC, I looked at him last night but discounted him as stable not in form, but told myself I’d back him if their horses ran well in the earlier races.
Thought Straidnahanna jumped decently just distance too short for him and ground perhaps a touch good. Might back him in the big one next year.
Glad to get a winner as my picks have been poor so far. But am learning…Ultragold has given me a little bank for my new hobby
Tizzard’s luck has changed so I’ve put some speculative E/W shekels on Ultragold for my silly impulse bet of the day at 80-1
Agree the weather makes it tough, the year Ballabriggs won they looked like they’d had a hard race. Don’t worry I’m sure ITV will talk earnestly every 2 minutes about buckets of water on their visits to the stables and winners enclosure.
So much for my pick. He lost about 8 lengths at the start, fought like mad (again), carried his head far too high, and I think possibly got his tongue over the bit on the run in though was falling out the back of the telly so I couldn’t really see.
Has a bit of talent and somehow managed to hurdle quite well over most of them despite having his head in the sky. Might have been third, if he hadn’t been such a bloody minded nutter. AP McCoy said he thought a big field would suit better as more cover and was right.
I foresee a summer spent dressage schooling.
Well done Voleur, good win. I thought Lizzie Kelly made good use of the horse, a well judged ride.
I’ve a lot of ground to make up!
1.40 Hawk High, Sky Khan
2.20 River Wylde
2.50 Marinero
3.25 Josses Hill (nap)
4.05 Straidnahanna
4.40 Beyond Conceit
5.15 Loud and ClearWell done everyone who had winners and longer priced placed horses, I only managed a paltry 3rd from a 3/1 shot…must try harder!! But enjoying my first go at one of these comps
1.45 Frodon
2.20 Flying Tiger
2.50 Silviniaco Conti
3.25 The New One
4.05 Pacha du Polder
4.40 Yorkist (nap), Alisier d’Irlande
5.15 Mountain PathThanks Nathan.
There also isn’t any requirement to publish any conformation altering surgery or any other problems in the public domain is there? Unless it is talked about to the racing press, you can be trimming back soft palates and having the horse racing a few weeks later with nobody any the wiser….so the get of a stallion prone to throwing offspring with DDSP etc can be winning all round them and the stallion gets to spread his conformationally unsound genes a bit further. Ditto bleeders…some connections volunteer the info and it is sometimes in the form as an explanation for a fade/PU but a lot must go unremarked or just rumoured. So if you are looking to buy a related horse, you don’t know whether “disputed lead to second last, faded, heavily eased” on the form of its half brother meant just an unfit horse or a bleeder.
I thought it was harder to keep big horses sound in both wind and limb. Thistlecrack looks like a proper big staying chaser and is standing in a box. Party Politics won the Grand National breathing through a tracheostomy.
Although swings and roundabouts- perhaps poor Vautour’s leg would not have broken in the field if it had been a bigger thicker boned leg, or perhaps it was just bad luck.
I take your point about the inbreeding. Rough blooded mares to retain genetic diversity is no bad thing. Where will their daddies come from though, if standing unfashionable national hunt sires with small books becomes financially non viable?
