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I can’t complain. Just on the basis of Mordin’s rave reviews and explanations,  I’ve won £325 for £15 on Detroit City, and another £75 for 30 at Aintree.
Star de Mohaison at Cheltenham, again at 33s, wasn’t bad either. That was £99 gained for £3. Another was War of Attrition: £175 for £15 at Cheltenham.
You don’t abdicate your own judgement, but you’d better sit up and take notice when he raves.
I have Detroit City at 26s and 14s for the CH, but he doesn’t owe me an awful lot.
But the brilliant AP bets I’ve had on the horses he’s raved about (with explanations) are too numerous to cite; the losses, relatively negligible.
I must live in a different universe from some of you guys as regards my esteem for Mordin.
(Edited by Grimes at 8:31 pm on Oct. 17, 2006)<br>
(Edited by Grimes at 8:31 pm on Oct. 17, 2006)
Hurdlers have a good record in the Ces, and if you read Dick Mordin’s write-ups about Detroit City, you’ll learn that his Cheltenham performance and the one before that were truly exceptional. They also showed marked improvement, I believe, which seemed likely to be expressed on the flat, without his h’cap mark reflecting it initially, on the basis of his hurdling.
He’d been trained by Noseda on the flat earlier, and was promisingly bred. But it was the hurdling times he returned for his age that were sensational.
I should have added that the horses performance might not have been a matter of inexperience of horse and rider in relation to the track. It’s just that it’s always something that strikes me as likely to be significant.
I know Eaves is a very good jockey, but if I ran such a horse in the US, I’d put up a top American jockey.
I don’t understand why very wise and clever trainers don’t do it. It must be such a new scene for the horse, not to speak of the journey and new accommodation, etc, then the track and its atmosphere.
Heck, it would be a little bewildering to most if not all our jockeys, wouldn’t it? The tracks, the way the races are run, the start, the middle and the finish?
Surely, an American jockey, as well, as having a particular familiaritywith the track and they way they race there, would have a certain instinctive confidence because of it. And presumably, to some extent, it would be conveyed to the horse.
(Edited by Grimes at 7:47 pm on Oct. 15, 2006)
Thanks for the info. It’s in my Favourites now.
I tried to get ythe live Keeneland race with Vague, too, but am still waiting for e-mailed reg. no.
Whatever the case, "the value bet" in my more considered opion is not to bet on the race at all!
I hope you’re right, Aidan. He’s been a real champion over 12.
But I hope Maraahel wins, more!
(Edited by Grimes at 9:41 pm on Oct. 13, 2006)
I’m going for HRE here. The time of the race Teofilo beat him in was slow. The time HRE won his last race in was very fast and he won it "very easily".
I think the going may have a bearing, but if it suits HRE, he seems the value bet to me.
My blood’s boiling again. The race caller seemed to be calling Gifted Gamble in the lead at the finish, but it was Dhaular Dhar!
I’ve got money on Detroit City in the Champion Hurdle and My Way de Solzen for the WSH.
I believe I remember mention of Cyrlight and another Franch superstar chaser possibly running in the Gold Cup.
I think he smashed the track record at an all-weather track a while back. Must have a look.
Yes, a couple of years ago, he broke the track record for 6 furlongs at Lingfield, which had stood for 9 years. Nick Mordin enthused about it but rated it a Group 3 time. And there was a suspicion that he needed 7f!
(Edited by Grimes at 10:59 pm on Oct. 1, 2006)
"Poor call, the horse was three lengths clear before he seemed to latch on." Cormack.
It happens again and again, and not just with McGrath.  And it is utterly baffling, because we are sometimes talking about a few lengths, as you say.
And what makes it all the more surreal is that they are geniuses at identifying the colours and the horses in running. Or maybe it’s the other race callers.
I sometimes honestly feel as if I’d – well, in fact, I realise I actually had been watching a different race from the one called – and it annoys the heck out of me!
Rishi is a very personable young man, but he’s really an all-purpose infotainment journalist. He could just as easily interview polo players or synchronised swimmers.
His questions (Steve cited two stunners) are formulaic, like ticking boxes, but that is the quintessence of tabloid journalism.
Instead of asking how Pasquier and Fabre felt about winning their first and umpteenth Arc, respectively, it would have been more human and natural, to put it in a normal conversational kind of way, such as: "Wow! Not a bad feeling, eh? A young jock of your age winning blah blah.
Or to Fabre, "I don’t imagine you’re as crazy about records as we journalists are about pointing them out, but when you first started training, did you have any kind of idea that you would win as many Arcs as you already have. Not to speak of everything else. Well, I know you’re a modest man, but… ". Would that have been so difficult?
(Edited by Grimes at 10:46 pm on Oct. 1, 2006)
That figures. I doubt if Fallon often fails to get his pozzie or close to it, particularly in a big race.
Why is it the chic and soignee French women involved in sports give us such a buzz, often hilariously? I’ve just seen a swish-looking outrider, done up to the nines, and a stable girl (presumably) wearing a beret and with longish curly hair framing her moosh. I think she even wore a chic scarf. She didn’t seem dressed as if she’d just come form the stable.
Then a couple of Olympic Games ago, there was a French women’s rowing coach holding the hull of their boat, and when I heard it was the French, something told me this could be fun. And sure enough, she’d painted her finger-nails! Then one of the rowers had a sleeked-back hairstyle like a flamenco dancer. Sport or no sport, their priority seems to be a much more ancient war than any sport can represent!
(Edited by Grimes at 4:11 pm on Oct. 1, 2006)
