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Paul Nicholls’ Ibis Du Rheu was dropped 2lbs to a mark of 131 for his effort in the Taunton handicap mentioned above. I am satisfied that this rests consistently with my comment that he “Cut little ice” in the race, rather than having shown any improvement on his effort behind Peace And Co.
It’s early days and we should all be patient. I am sure most people are grateful for the hard work that goes into what is a free service. I am sure you will manage to sort out most of what is getting bad feedback.
I’m not the best with new ways of doing things and haven’t worked out quoting posts and some of the other options yet. Perhaps a brief tutorial might help for the more common options people will be using?
My main worry is why I changed from stevecaution to sweetjebus. I got the password email fine but don’t know what happened to old steve?
Anyway, it was expected there would be difficulties but I am posting away, which is the main thing and it’s much appreciated that the site is firing away, albeit perhaps not on all cylinders yet. Thank you lads.
I’m pretty unforgiving with horses Tommy. I won’t follow them hoping that one day they are actually going to be trying. I suppose he could be in with a shout off bottom weight but he’s not shown much signs of looking like winning one, although that could well be the “under the radar” strategy.
I was briefly interested in Blue Hell when I saw the Attheraces price guide showing him at 14/1 but quickly lost interest when I saw the non-fantasy price of 5/1 on Oddschecker. He had run a couple of decent thirds in races that threw up 18 future winners between them, before weakening into 5th after travelling promisingly in his first run since May last year and he looks feasibly handicapped in what is an easier looking contest than some he has run in.
I thought Princely Conn might go off favourite for the race based on his third to Nichols Canyon in The Royal Bond, where the ill fated Allez Colombiers broke down but it seems Blue Hell is quite strong in the betting with just one firm going 5/1 and only 7/2 on Betfair.
It’s a boring selection but the 5yo Blue Hell meets a lot of my requirements for the race and would have been a nailing each-way at the 14/1 ATR Mickey Mouse betting guide. Good luck with the Scorpion but I reckon he’s got a Hell of a task on his hands.
I haven’t been taken by the way Sir Scorpion has gone on from the race. He’s been pretty disappointing and at 14/1 makes no appeal to me.
There could always be a sting in the tail though (wink type icon thingy)
Hi, stevecaution here posting under my temporary default name sweetjebus.
I don’t get involved in the Bumper most years, largely due, I think, to a scenario a few years back when I walked up to the counter with ticket that read Florida Pearl £40 win, only to be stopped by one of my mates who had “information” that the Jim Old horse was “The business”
Fifteen minutes and one amended betting slip later, my mate was nursing a sore pair of plums and I was ruing an error that cost a tasty few quid.
This year I’ve cast an eye over a few and narrowed it down to three Pylonthepressure, Bordini and Moon Racer.
Pylonthepressure won a god awful affair first time before looking good next time out. I know The Blues Brother is bullish about his speed figure but for me the distance of 2m 3f doesn’t tie in with the usual type for the bumper. I am looking for a bit of class at the festival trip to show the pace I expect may be needed.
Bordini seems the favoured of the Mullins army of entries and is favourite at about 8/1 in most lists. I have checked out his races and he has won in higher company than most. I was struck that he’s not very big and has a low head carriage as he lobs along in front. He made slightly harder work before drawing away than I had expected from the way he had travelled in the race and I just wonder if something might outspeed him up the hill at Cheltenham. He seems solid enough though not physically impressive.
Moon Racer caused a boil over when winning at 50/1 on his debut. He was a cheap purchase at 5 grand and seemed largely unconsidered. He set off right at the back of the field that day, seemingly ridden with confidence, although sometimes with claimers you are not sure if it is confidence or inexperience that is at work. He started to make eye catching headway from the back as the race progressed and as they reached the business end of the race he was more or less level with the leaders. I thought for a moment that his run may peter out after making as much headway as he had but he responded to his jockey’s urgins to come away from his field in taking style, with little to indicate that the SP of 50/1 was a fluke in a race worth almost 60 grand.
Moon Racer’s win was a class apart from some of the awful pro-am bumpers where some of the runners are coming in beaten nearly 200 lengths and the style of his win caught a few eyes, as he went to the sales in Cheltenham and was bought for 225,000 to go to David Pipe, not a bad earner on the original 5000. He has since run at Cheltenham in October, where, for me, he seemed a good enough bet at 11/4 Fav, in a class 4 bumper and he won easily by 12 lengths.
The 2nd horse in the Fairyhouse bumper has been a little disappointing but the 3rd horse, who was favourite on the day, Turcagua, won at Navan in December and the 4th horse, Tycoon Prince, won 3 small field bumpers on the trot afterwards.
The only negative I can see is that Moon Racer hasn’t run since October but he had six months between his first and second races, so that shouldn’t really be a worry. If I were planning a gamble on the day, I’d probably have campaigned the horse similarly. For me he has potted a decent prize, won over the Course and Distance, is unexposed and faces a lot of horses who have promise, but in small affairs so far.
I can’t see how he’ll be bigger than the 6/1 Bordini is in places now on the day, and have backed him at 12/1, with no reason evident to me as to why he’s not favourite for this over the Mullins pocket warrior.
Moon Racer 12/1 Ladbrokes (Happy Easter)
I have noticed that links to images that I previously posted no longer bring the image up but just a generic google search results page, based on the first word of the horse’s name.
As Joe says, the posters are the most important thing on the site but it’s not going to be much comfort if the changes make the site difficult or unappealing for the users.
In my opinion the criticism is mostly constructive and not just being picky for the sake of it.
I needed a password reset and requested it under my username stevecaution but the recovery email is for this old name that I was never able to use before and have never posted under. Is there any way of getting this sorted?
Yours in faith sweetjebus aka stevecaution
I am not sure yet but I have a feeling I am no longer stevecaution. I expect that I am now sweetjebus, which is probably appropriate given the problems but I don’t know for sure because the site no longer tells me who I am and is still prompting me to login.
I can only echo the previous gripes here regarding the new look and the teething problems. It’s early days but it’s not a great start that I needed a password reset and am probably going to see a username that I tried to set up with before using stevecaution and after having had several other names fail to register.
If you can get some of the basics sorted out it might be more user friendly but for now it seems a lot more work than it used to be and it has to be a big thumbs down. Sorry but that’s my feeling for now.
