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Had a quick look at the careers of those horses who ran in the equivalent race on good or G/F ground during the period 1997-2006 (random 10 year period). The majority went on to careers spanning a fair few years and 15+ races – of those who didn’t, most were either mares or had demonstrated that they were very slow. Hard to argue that running these horses in this race on good ground did them any harm.
One of my favourite football weekends this week – Scottish Cup first round. The pyramid in Scotland is still very much a work in progress and a lot of teams there haven’t yet found their true level, so a few years ago you could turn a profit at this stage in the tournament by just backing the team in the lower division. Things are slowly settling and the betting markets are wising up, but there are a few games where the odds look out of line (odds from https://mcbookie.com/sport/football).
Albion Rovers v Auchinleck Talbot, home win 21/10. Talbot are to Scottish football what Yeovil Town used to be to English non-league football, but this season haven’t been the most consistent, and with home advantage Rovers look a decent price to me.
Berwick Rangers v Cupar Hearts, away win (no odds available, would take 4/1). Cupar qualified by winning the Amateur Cup and are decent. Berwick started the season brightly but have lost the plot, and look vulnerable to an upset.
Burntisland Shipyard v Irvine Meadow, home win 33/10. Meadow are a big name in Scottish non-league football but are in a bad way. Shippy are one of the smaller sides in the tournament, but are in good form and look to have a decent chance of winning this.
East Stirlingshire v Lochee United, away win 13/8. Shire are bottom of the Lowland League – Lochee, a big fish in a small pond at present, will be top half of the Highland League in a couple of years.
(edit – well that could have turned out better)
Late to the party here but enjoyed catching up. Used to follow Abingdon Town in the old Hellenic/Isthmian leagues and so a vague working knowledge of Oxon/Northants football. Brackley were absolutely useless for a while in the late 1980s-early 1990s, shipping hundreds of goals a season. Obviously something has changed there now! Delighted to see the cormorants at Oxford City making a slow start to the season. Long may it continue.
I have rather lost interest since moving to the south west. I did experiment with sniffing gas for a while, but never really took to it.
Also no Tory seats left in Oxfordshire, which would have been utterly unthinkable as recently as ten years ago.
What is Asterion Forlonge doing amongst the entries? Surely he won’t make it as far as the second?
The Edward Courage Cup, run at this weekend’s Warwick meeting, has traditionally been a 2 mile handicap chase open to all, consistently attracting 4-6 runners. This year it has been converted to a novice handicap and has attracted a field of 2. Perhaps not the best piece of race planning.
I always like a horse proven over the course in these races, and as far as I can tell only Torn and Frayed has actually won at Cheltenham, though both Fakir d’Oudairies and Fugitif have come pretty close in competitive races.
re jumping advertising hoardings at Craon.
Was this intended by the race organisers or not? In France, sometimes it can be difficult to tell.
“Surfacing” as in bringing an unknown detail to light, in the manner of a whale or perhaps a U-boat.
Is it really necessary to fire the people making these remarks into the sun? Some of them seem to be reasonably decent people outside work, which suggests to me it is the nature of work that is the problem.
The Fellow in 1994 had a good go, getting as far as the second Canal Turn, but not sure any horse has actually done it – perhaps Spartan Missile or Jay Trump, though not sure if they completed in the same year.
Had the Gold Cup been established a few years earlier, Troytown would probably have won all three.
Mullins seems to have pretty firm ideas about which way the wind is blowing in this race. All his entries are aged 7 or 8, except the 11 year old Carefully Selected who’s effectively a second season novice anyway.
If Aintree is the plan with many of his horses, though, why are they double-entered at Fairyhouse the week before? The week after I could understand, in case something goes awry, but the week before suggests he’s unsure about the target, which isn’t necessarily a good sign. Or is he just making multiple entries to confuse Elliott?
