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Tuesday – super day ith 4 winners in a £1 lucky
Wednesday – The winner of the bumper helped make it profitable.
Thursday – Worst day with a couple of places
Friday – Gold cup winner helped but still made a loss
Overall about a 20% profit on stakes made, which is better than average but as usual thought the racing was super.
Back to work tomorrow
Saw Back in Focus win at Listowel back in September by about 360 lengths. Ruby got him jumping from the front that day and a similar jumping performance must put him close again.
I could be wrong but if dodging bullets or champagne fever wins this race, i’ll run up cleeve hill naked. can’t believe so many are tipping them up
Champagne Fever for me although I won’t hold you to this as it’s bloody cold out there
I just have to back The Fly although the past few days Zarkandar has been eating away the brain cells so by 3:20 will probably have a saver on him. Which means Rock on Ruby or Grandouet will probably win
The price of some of his runners are reflected due to the amazing success he has had this season, over 100 winners ahead of the next trainer. You can’t expect every odds on fav. to win or he probably would be 150 winners ahead although some of his so-called second string also beat the short priced horse. Nicholls and Henderson also have losers like this in England even when in top form.
This point is obviously correct.
Jumps racing has only been around for a couple of hundred years. Were it to continue for a even just a few tens of thousands of years (a mere blip in human development terms) then the idea that greatest horse of ‘all time’ has appeared in the first 0.5% or whatever of racing’s history is extremely unlikely.
Statistically speaking, Arkle is an absolute certainty to be surpassed.
Mike
But the Racing game has already changed in that short space of time, with the top class races now at level weights instead of handicaps. Whos to say in another 50 years time there won’t be another rule change to make comparisons of different generations of horses even more difficult.
I knew nothing about Belgian racing until now
About as blatant as the game of pool I lost to my 6 year old nephew the other day Although I missed the racing yesterday afternoon (Sprinter Sacre et al), I was horrified to learn on a later programme, a Winterwatch special, about the ’63 winter and there was no racing for about 2 months from Boxing Day onwards. One bookies resorted to racing mice in his shop. Wonder what the H&S guys would think of that nowadays. How would we cope if this winter was repeated
£1113 from a 50p lucky 15 at Hexham in 2007. Graham Lee had 3 of the winners. Just about a year later, John Smiths Cup day at York I had the first 4 winners which would have paid over £7,000 for a 50p lucky, but silly me split the bet up between the 2 or 3 televised meetings on C4 so ended up wining about £400.
A mate this year after losing for most of the week at the Listowel Festival won approximately £1,400 on a combination T/C, F/C, EW bet costing about £15 on the Cartoon Horseracing
It depends on the attitude of the horse a lot like human beings. I know if I was whipped I would tell the jockey where to go. The same thing applies except horses can’t talk
Sorry possibly Hayley Turner excepted
It depends on the attitude of the horse a lot like human beings. I know if I was whipped I would tell the jockey where to go. The same thing applies except horses can’t talk
Even the RSPCA says the GN should not be banned, just made safer. Although this may be for publicity reasons as much as anything
Not so sure about Synchronised. I didn’t think he should run but surely Jonjo must have tried him over the GN fences at home and been happy enough to run him. I think any doubts and he would have pulled the plug. You don’t take risks like that with a Gold Cup winner
Is Neptune Collonges going to run?
I could see him running into a place if he does.
Dont you mean plodding?
Aye he plodded to 2 Punchestown Gold Cups, a Gold Cup 3rd behind Denman and Kauto and recently to within a head of Giles Cross giving a stone away
Well done on Neptune plodding to another win
Big shock on Synchronised. I thought it was a mistake running him but surely can’t blame Jonjo for this unfortunate accident
