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158-159 would seem fair for the Tremenjous beast. You could say the rise was O’Leary taxation
Yes SWC will ride him. Couldn’t disagree more with your Sack of spuds comments – SWC has got A very good record over the Aintree spruce.
If connections behaviours changes your thoughts on a horse winning a race you’d be aswell ignore the flat game alone altogether and half the jumpers
Colin – It’s not all steroids and drugs like that which is 100% cheating. Purely guessing but I think some, very much like 99.9% of athletes, test the boundary line of enhancements to gain the edge.
In Fishman’s testimony he admits to administering BCAAs to horses. For anyone half interested in fitness BCAAs are supplements, commonly used and help promote muscle recovery/growth etc.
I was taking small scoops of Beta Alanine for example when I trained and ran the London Mara last year – A BCAA which reduces the lactate build-up in muscles. Very much a performance enhancing BCAA if used correctly but very much healthy and taken from everyday people to Eliod Kipchoge, the fastest runner to ever live.
Now I’ve no idea how BCAAs affect equine animals but I’d presume relatively along the same lines as humans if not more given the size of the beast. Are they banned? Again, no idea. But I’d hazard a guess at yes on raceday but very much not otherwise as with a lot of drugs in racing.
To counter this potential downplay I find it hard to believe that Dubai and such would seek external support to administer basic supplements like BCAA so more detailed drug abuse is likely to be taking place, but it’s worth exploring the possibility that it’s not such.
TLDR; Fishman may have been administering horses with legit Almino Acids and which most professional athletes would take, rather than steroids and such vile drugs however this isn’t clear as far as I know and not sure Dubai would require specialists to administer such supplements.
Fair play to the Nick Luck Daily podcast for at least shining some light on it. Found it funny how Tom & Rishi pussy footed around the subject since some of their larger invoices for the year will be for work in Dubai
My initial instinct is that the Dubai connection will be sweeped under the carpet (Queens pal etc) but we shall see with the FBI involved.
Between this and the bust in Ireland that linked Coolmore, my suspicion that all the big guys are at it is looking more plausible.
It’s quite frankly a ******* disgrace that the racing post hasn’t reported one iota over such a bombshell wiretap.
It’s usually just the chase track that has an issue as the hurdles track is normally fine since it’s watered all summer for the flat.
If he needs true soft ground he could be struggling come the Friday of Cheltenham. Normally good ground by then.
Pats Fancy 20/1.
His form this season has been bosted by both Gericault Roque & Imperial Alcazar and he looks a proper stayer.Stattler is much, much classier but his jumping wasn’t great yesterday and I’m still not sure he’ll stay. Wouldn’t be convinced RWF will run either.
They’ll have done well to have sorted that massive hole Ramillies has in him. Was stopping like he was shot in bumpers.
Couldn’t disagree anymore, very good at what they do Timeform.
Moehat, Sholokhov is far from a out of the blue sire – Don Cossack & Bob Olinger also his progeny. David Minton has been a first rate agent for 30+ years – He sourced Shishkin.
Sprinter was smashing up 170 rated horses on the bridle and had OR of 188 – he was the best 2 miler ever in his pomp it’s undeniable.
