Daily Racing Thread Saturday 29th. June 2019

Backed the wrong donkey but still some place money

 

The Afghan skipper has just remembered he backed Pakistan

 

That’s as bad a ride I’ve ever seen in the plate from Luke Morris on the second. Shocking ride bumping along like a ten year old learning to ride.

 

Nice little run out. Why the skipper felt his military medium was needed in the last over I've no idea.

 

Dearie me those O'brien horses

 

Shocking result in the Irish Derby. It just shows what a pile of ****e this year's Epsom race was.

I had two winners and a second today. Summer Romance and Invincible Army landed the early bets at 7/4 and 9/4 respectively, while New Graduate met Matterhorn on a going day and was 2nd. French Racing still to come but it was a good day overall.

Siskin kept up his unbeaten record by beating Monarch Of Egypt but coming in it seemed that it was odd that the O'Brien had to miss Royal Ascot with a setback but was deemed ready to roll just a week later. Punters were not buying that story and bookmakers could not give Monarch Of Egypt away, going from tight second favourite out to 7/2 joint second favourite told the story and although the son of American Pharaoh was clear of the others Siskin had him comfortably beaten. Siskin is generally 12/1 and 14/1 for the 2000 Guineas but I'll be surprised if he turns out to be that type of colt.

 

8.00 Adlibitum 8-1 unexposed and in form Roger Fells only horse out today.

 

I can't understand the moaning about the Irish Derby. Surely we've all seen the script before, it was obvious that one of the 'other' O'Brien horses would win. It's like watching Fast And Furious 8 and thinking wow what an original film

 

the curragh is a conveyor belt now, hard to make up any ground at all never mind the distance they spotted the front 2

 

Oh well, two winners in France and four out of five winning on the day, and the other one was second. I'll take that on a busy Saturday. Hurricane Ivor went off 8/11 and was hopeless in 7th place. Maven just held on while Suphala just got up late. Suphala is a tiny looking filly and I am not sure how much racing she will take but I got my money back from previous defeats today.

 

I can happily report that I was joyously twirling mine around my head as Who Dares Wins passed the post.

And what wonderful scenes in the winners enclosure afterwards (almost on a par with Lieutenant Henderson and Princess Camilla frolicking on the ‘victory plinth’ after Altior’s success in the ‘Champion Chase’) as Mr Ponsonby led his people in jubilant celebration.

I just hope that he texted everyone, saturday morn, with the message to ‘lump on’. Oh Mr Ponsonby for a few moments at the weekend you restored the Great in Great Britain.

Meanwhile, I can happily report that it is now a case of Mr Ponsonby…the forum’s favourite owner. And that’s official.

I’ve long stated that ‘who dares wins’ is the motto of the Ponsonby family and would now like to see it also the motto of the forum in honour of the great man and the horse himself. Moderators please make the necessary adjustments…

 

I must say that I can not agree with this remark more. The way that he unbalanced the horse in the final half furlong as it tired and he wobbled all over the place in the old saddle was a most undignified sight and cost the horse dear.

In my opinion Who Dares Wins won because of 5 reasons (i) the brilliant brain and wonderful planning of Mr Ponsonby, (ii) the great training he was given by Alan King, (iii) the guts of the horse, (iv) a determined ‘drive’ by old boy Tom Marquand but most importantly of all (v) because of Luke Morris’ inadequacies on the runner-up. And that is, the polar opposite, of me talking through my pocket, by the way, as I was on the winner!

Several on here do, for want of a better expression, tend to ‘blow a gasket’ when I diss jockeys but that Morris ride was terrible, people. In fact it was so bad I’d compare it to McCoy’s 3 Champion Hurdle stuff ups in the period 2009-14.