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Hi Des.
Let’s keep the bookies on their toes tomorrow…All at Royal Ascot:-
NO WINNERS DES
Should have gone to Newmarket3.50 .. DEFNIGHTLY
4.25 .. HIGH STANDING
5.00 .. TAQLEED **NAP**Reserve: 3.05 .. POET
Good luck all…
JacThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Racing would be a sadder place without Frankie and his flying dismounts and infectious love of the sport and I hope he goes on for a good few years yet.
Don’t forget that some years back he nearly lost his life in a fatal light aircraft crash at Newmarket and who can dislike a jockey for celebrating after a win, especially one who has given his all to the sport without a touch of scandal or sleaze like many of his counterparts.
Frankie Dettori is the reason a lot of people go racing and they remember his Magnificent 7 at Royal Ascot and which of the horses they backed on that day.
Even Sheik Mohammed was waving his arms about in the air after Rewildings fantastic win and I’ve never seen him look so happy, that has to be good for racing.
Every jockey is different in how they cope with the big race win, I particularly loved the way that Jamie Spencer threw his arms around Fame and Glory’s neck and hugged him today after he had won the Gold Cup.
JacThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...I’m really enjoying the BBC’s coverage this year, and have forgiven Willie Carson for advising we all put our house on So You Think and constantly calling Fame and Glory
Flaming Glory
, he did it so many times before the Gold Cup that Clare Balding & Rishi just raised a tired eyebrow to camera.
However, I would like to see more of the horses in the paddock as there is such a short space between races and the bell for jockeys to mount has gone off long before they start to show us the runners parading in the paddock.
Makes me smile just how many times Aiden O’Brien says ‘Listen’ when he is giving an interview.
We are listening Aiden, very very hard.
JacThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Isn’t the Queen looking for a new Racing Manager? Well if not,she should and pop down to Warren Place soon for a nice cuppa and a Rich Tea with her newest Knight to discuss some useful yearlings she may have obtained courtesy of Sheik Mohammed.
Watch this space the Knighthood is just the beginning, the Queen could be planning some changes in her 60th Jubilee Year and Sir Michael Stoute might be a tad worried this morning..
WELL DONE SIR HENRY and heres to the best Royal Ascot you have ever known and many more to come.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Hi Des…
Firstly congrats to SIR HENRY CECIL for his much deserved Knighthood… and about time too, can’t believe the Queen left it so long.
Thanks to El for helping me out last week when my mobile and iPod went flat and great nap from Bob Rolf to put him top of the leaderboard..well done Bob but don’t get too comfy
Over2u have a great time at Royal Ascot and back lots of winner s.
Now the tricky bit:-York 3.15 …….. Seal Rock
**LOST**
Sandown 3.30 ….. DINKUM DIAMOND (
(NAP)) **2nd**
York 4.25 …….. Swiss Spirit
Winner 4/6 Reserve: Sandown 1.55 …. Voodoo Prince
**LOST**
Good luck all…
Des..had to put my hols to Spain on hold this week as husband not too well, but will be watching all the action at Royal Ascot and will be having a go at EL’s compy..have a great time at Chester if you are going..JacThanks El…I’d have loved to have seen some of those Sagely Nods pre Cheltenham Gold Cup..sounds like some sort of Dan Brown Secret Society
lol..have a good day..JacThanks for the kind words Des and EL will let you know how he’s going on.x
Well done Over2u with your nap Law of the Range, what a great race she ran and also your reserve Entitled (entry in Bob’s Compy). Hope you had a few bob on, those bookies at Royal Ascot are going to be quaking in their boots..lol JacThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Galileo
Cape Cross
Kyllachy
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Thanks EL (Prestbury) for getting jonova and Star Als selections on here from my Question on Yahoo today, I was working and my iPod battery went down…well done with Eternal Heart your Nap..top tipping
Jac xThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...So many horses have lost their lives this week, heartbreaking for all concerned.
Here in Memorials at least we can pay respects for all the brave horses that have sadly passed on, whether on the racecourse, point to point or much loved pets. RIPThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Can’t see what all the fuss is about, Johnny Murtagh is
as good if not a better jockey than Kieran Fallon.
Fallon is a free agent and should be able to choose which horse he wishes to ride. He did give fair warning of his intentions, it’s not as if he jumped off at the last minute.
The owner rightly feels let down, but let the horse do the talking..Kieran could have made the worse decision of his career.Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out... **NO WINNERS TODAY DES** Hey Des..you’re making an early start this week..looking forward to a great weekends racing and would particularly like to see a grey horse win the Derby this year. Who knows
Good luck in Cormacks Epsom compy…see you later. JacEpsom 2.10 ….. ON THE DARK SIDE
Epsom 3.15 ….. MASAMAH ((NAP))
Musselburgh 3.40 ….. DOCTOR PARKESReserve:
Epsom 4.00 ….. NATIVE KHANBacking both Native Khan and Ocean War (ew) got a feeling a grey is going to win tomorrow.
Good luck to all..Jac
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...SOBEA STAR…Chestnut Filly by Soviet Star – trained by Pam Sly
Sadly broke down and fatally injured in the 8.40 at Ripon tonight.
RIP sweet girl, you gave your all tonight for the sport that we love and some call cruel, but we know that you were loved and never ill treated, hopes and dreams were with you tonight but they were not to be.Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...They are running on UK courses, in UK races for UK racegoers, they should be named in English. If they are going to be campaigned at Meydan or Abu Dhabi then call them something in Arabic.
It’s a disgrace, these Arabs come over here and buy our horses and take our prize money and can’t even give them proper English names. Send ’em back to their own country if they want to choose names in their own language I say. Lets hope ‘Er Majesty, gawd bless her, wins the Derby with a good old English horse this year.
That good old English horse was gifted to ‘Er Maj’ by Sheik Mohammed who a few years back was ill advised and sold the Dam of Derby Winner Nashwan (Height of Fashion) to Sheik Hamdam for £1,000,000.
Now I think the Sheik (Mohammed), by way of a thank you, has gifted The Queen with a possible Derby winner who’s dam sire is none other than Bustino the Sire of Height of Fashion.Funny old world
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...I love the Arab names and trying to figure out what they might mean in English.
The Arab naming of two fillies a couple of years back caused some confusion when the fillies Habaayib and Hibaayeb were running, one trained by Ed Dunlop and the other by Clive Brittain.My only real gripe is with owners, obviously with more money than sense, giving beautiful thoroughbreds stupid names.
There can’t be a worse name for a filly than the 2yo as yet unraced trained by Richard Hannon (see Steve Taplin’s 2yo book) that has been named MANMANMANMAN now I’m looking forward to Richard Hoyles calling that one home.
Gaelic names are sometimes just as hard to prounonce such as
SAOIRSE ABU – Freedom Forever
FINSCEAL BEO – Living LegendTEOFILO (an Italian boy’s name meaning Friend of God)
HALICARNASSUS – An ancient Greek City
but they have all have meaning as do the Arab horses, the quirky names can seem fun at the time, but beautiful thoroughbreds deserve much better..Jac
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...What a ride he gave NANTON today in the Zetland at Redcar. You would have thought he would have needed wings to get through the wall of horses in front of him, but Danny Tudhope was as cool as a cucumber waiting for the right moment to thread Nanton to the outside to come with a blistering run to pip the battling Prince of Johann and Desert Romance.
Nanton is such a battler and Jim Goldie well deserved this win for keeping the old boy in such good nick all these years.
Well done to old favourite NANTON up and comping Daniel Tudhope and respected trainer Jim Goldie, what a great race and what a great price 25-1Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Hope you got my email.
Off to Newmarket tomorrow and it looks a tricky card. One week before the Derby..all the best horses are staying at home this weekend…here’s hoping3.05 Haydock ….. CRYSTAL CAPPELLA ((Nap))
3.25 Newmarket … L’Ami Louis
4.35 Newmarket … Rio GrandeReserve : 5.10 Newmarket … Guisho
Good luck all…Jac
xNO COMPY WINNERS DES
…
but had 2 at HQ Democretes and Veiled in the last (well Fallon wouldn’t stay that long for nothing would he now.. Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...It would have to be LOCHSONG for me but let’s not forget the amazing grey sprinter
PARIS HOUSE, trained by Jack Berry, who in 1993 won both the Palace House Stakes (Lochsong 3rd)and the Temple Stakes (Lochsong 4th) before going down to Lochsong by just a head in the King George and then 2nd to ‘herself’ again this time in the Nunthorpe.Never quite the class of Lochsong and Dayjur, Paris House was always exciting to watch, an out and out sprinter.
He only ran unplaced 4 times in his 21 race career..JacThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...
Jac
Winner 4/6 
