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Don’t be surprised to see Regal Encore improve significantly for Newbury’s big handicap in February and/or Cheltenham in March!
I’ve just taken a look, and you it was almost as though you’d written an introduction for me. Uncanny.
The very best of luck with the blog. I’ll keep reading!
I follow plenty of the stables, jockey’s, etc on Twitter which can be pretty revealing. Plus all the normal website sources. It often prompts me to look at races, horses, form, stables, etc and sometimes a tweet can be revealing. I tend to stumble across blogs rather than save them and read them religiously.
On the same subject I stumbled across a twitter account in the name of Pat Hiscox who is a spoof sports agent. It’s absolutely hilarious. If you use Twitter it’s well worth a look and a read through some old tweets. Looking at his connections I suspect someone in the racing world is behind it.
They need to look at the qualification rules for European horses. Saptapadi has only ever won a maiden and kept Australian Group and Listed winners out of the race whihc makes a mokers out of it as an international event.
My view is key European horses should only be able to secure entry with a first 2 finish in the Cox Plate and Caulfield Cup, and the ‘Cups’ races which are essentially Australia’s key staying races. There are plenty of races for a European horse to come over to Australia and qualify through as part of a sensible short campaign.
Americain and Dunedan both won the Geelong Cup as part of their build up to the main race, and there are several such races which could be used as qualifying events. It would also ensure added interest and attendance at other venues in the preceding weeks and months.
Terrible news. Heartfelt sympathy to Tim Corby’s family. What a tragic loss.
I’m fairly sure Tim was involved in the Katchit syndicate, one of whom post on here.
Grassy, you’re surely not still bitter from Christmas 78′ when your parents didn’t buy you the Baron Knight’s and Grumbleweeds albums and you got a lump of coal and a tangerine instead.
Stop letting it hold you back, it’s time to let go.
PS. If you’ve kept the coal get it valued it could be worth a fortune now.
I very rarely comment on threads like these, prefering to smile at the naievity prior to the increasingly ridiclous defence of an initial accusation.
Jeremy is absolutely right in what he is saying. I would further add that Hi Density would almost certainly have travelled over with the Gordon Elliott horses to share costs, and given the she travelled with them it’s not unreasonable to assume that she would have Carberry booked given he was already riding Elliott’s horses in other races.
In terms of the improvement they have presumably travelled her over looking for a weak race and fast ground, and with a top jockey on board you would expect some improvement and they simply got the result they’d hoped for. Going off at 13/2 in such a weak race hardly suggests they were confident though and she only beat an 85 rated horse!
As for the suggestion that Dennis O’Regan jumped off the favourite, what an absolute joke. The horse clearly jinked right of its own accord and, although O’Regan should perhaps have made a better job of staying on, there is no way it was a deliberate act.
These sorts of conspiracy theories are laughable at best and are the product of either over-active immaginations or simple sensationalism.
That’s an excellent piece of work Hugh. Can I suggest the stats become even more revealing when broken down by racecourse for the last two years. Although it would be very difficult to reproduce it in a manageable format on the ATR website.
No dilemma for me with this. In similar markets to those described the answer is to back e/w with a traditional bookmaker and lay back the win part on the exchanges. You may lose 10%ish on the win part of the bet by laying it off but in the process you have secured the best available place odds.
As with any betting strategy though it’s more important to understand what you’re good at and what you’re not and bet accordingly rather than because it seems like a good idea.
What surprises me about the keeness to sell Marodima is he’s bred to appreciate a step up in trip. Given his sires progeny have had more success over two and half and his damsire is certainly known for producing staying chasers there could be potential improvement to come. Also Paul Nicholls has proven pretty adept at stepping his sort up in trip to win nice races in open company. So my take on him would be that everything he has done over two miles so far is a bonus. His mark over hurdles is more than workable and again improvement would probably come for a step up in trip.
And as Alan also rightly says there are very few horses in training go through the ring at Cheltenham’s Brightwells Sale so there was probably a lack of the ‘right type’ of buyer which means there was little competition on the floor for him. He’ll more than likely fetch his reserve at Doncaster though I would have thought, but if I were interested I would probably offer DJ 70k direct before he went to the sale.
The fact that they are selling at all does make me wonder whether he isn’t altogether straightforward to train though.
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I also hold Mark Howard in high regard, but he’s got it completely wrong here. There are only four championships up for grabs every year, so why on earth would you expect the previous seasons novices to always be good enough to capture them? Some aren’t, some don’t progress, some meet with setbacks, and some divisions already have exceptional horses in them.
With regards to the three mile novice hurdle surely it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that when horses that won the previous renewal graduate into open company they will find it much tougher unless they are palpably better, or when they go novice chasing they will be meeting horses with equally as much potential who have graduated via a different route, or have more physical scope to improve. and those that finished behind may not be good enough anyway. Does he also forget the Ballymore Hurdle is also contested by similar types that may have a little more speed to go with their stamina.
Presumably if Kauto beats Denman he will also suggest Denman was ruined by the Sun Alliance Chase!
