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Do milers work out over 2 mile hurdle races these days 25 years ago pre Martin Pipe but nowadays they are run at a fast clip throughout and milers struggle to get home.
The Falmouth and Sun Chariot year after year always make a strong bid for the worst Group 1 of the year. Twice Over won a fairly average Group 1 yesterday.
What happened to the coverage of Sunday and the Cumberland Lodge?
I remember coming home from school to watch that race on the Thursday, with the QEII on the Saturday when the meeting was the ‘Festival of Racing’ Milligram v Miesque……., and the Eddery v Cauthen Title race.
Aah memories, is it really the same sport now?
Yes I am pretty sure that was the year the meeting kicked of with an official race between Channel 4 & BBC commentary teams with the most overweight ever been seen on a British racetrack. Gimmicks going on back then too.
Not Milligram that stays in the memory, it was the Royal Lodge, real crackerjack of a race that year.
It’s clever but in the end where is the glory in what Mark Prescott has been doing all these years. Put his big race victories alongside Clive Brittain’s and ask who is the better trainer of the thoroughbread racehorse?
I would say he’s the best 2m chaser never to win the Champion Chase.
Really! I would say Desert Orchid after thinking back to his prodigous weight carrying performances in Tingle Creek when it was a handicap and Victor Chandler when it was a handicap.
When looking to arb always make the back before the lay and try whenever possible to arb on the same exchange, that way the commision won’t kill you, it’ll only half kill you.
Thick headed decision introducing charges in the mist of the deepest econonic downturn in living memory. Think of all the utterly word class websites that are free then turn to the pretty substandard RacingPost.com which charges.
These decisions only hasten the shrinking of the sport and the amount bet on it, cottage industry here we come
About 15 lays a day is my average, sometimes as many as 30 and the occasional win place. (NEVER AN OUTRIGHT WIN BET ON HORSE RACING FOR ME) Win small, win often is my strategy and it’s working so far.
I find that the higher the number of bets I place the less damage will be done by a piece of outrageous luck or a freak result.
Did it trump Spittin Mick Easterby performance at last years Dante meeting on Channel 4.
Michael Jarvis gets (deservedly) a lot of praise from all sides in horse racing for being a master trainer and Saeed Bin Suroor gets the opposite. What happened to Marienbard after he left Michael Jarvis for Saeed Bin Suroor?
No Kim Tinkler wasn’t on board it would have been Graeme McCourt
Nigel Tinkler used to be a superb trainer of hurdlers in the late eighties, no idea what’s happened to him since then.
In the past Reg Akehurst, Spittin’ Mick Easterby, even today he’s one to be weary of, don’t laugh but Nigel Tinkler has in the past been very good, Daviid Wintle, the late Alec Stewart was very very good say between 1986-1990 Braashee, Daarkom, Waajib all bring back memories, sweet memories.
What would Peter Bromley have thought of it all?
Five Live is the best radio station around imo but the way they deal with horse racing is lamentable. Not that long ago they still read out all the results which took up a lot of time. In the future I can see them dipping into the Derby as the leader approaches the 1 furlong marker.
More people blinded by Gosden’s authoratative posh voice equating to talking sense.
Listening to him speak you would think he was the world’s leading authority on all things racing, when the reality is that he is a competent trainer who has done moderately with some of the finest bloodstock money can buy.
That’s rubbish, when Sheikh Mohammed brought him back from the US he was not getting the best bred yearlings they were still going to Cecil. Stoute, Fabre and Cumani. Then Godolphin came along and that operation got the best
John Gosden imo is currently the best british flat trainer operating, ahead of Stoute.
The Racing Post gets it in the neck a lot these days (justifiably) but the coverage of the passing of this giant of the sport was exemplary, couldn’t fault it.
I’m a geordie and Newcastle are my club but in a way I am content to see newcastle relegated, in life sometimes it’s better for you in the long term if in the short term you get what you deserve and Newcastle got what they deserved. Mike Ashely is definitely getting what he deserves.
For me those 10f races for 2 year olds at the tail end of the season that are fequently run on on atrocious ground are much more detrimental to a horses welfare.
6 furlongs in may or 10 furlongs in october and more likely to be fast in may and heavy in october.
If in my next life if I come back as a horse I want it to be as an early 2 year old.
