Yep, first decent all-aged race of the season - hope we will see that explosive turn of foot from Siskin again
Great race, and thanks SD for giving me a few exciting seconds when I thought he was coming to pinch it lol Not sure what was wrong with Vatican City, stopped like he'd been shot, hope he's ok
Had to chuckle at this typo in one of tomorrow's races. I wonder if that will be corrected by tomorrow
Whatever you think about Jim Crowley (and he has a few detractors) that was a hell of a ride on a damn good racehorse. Goodwood is Goodwood, however, and sure enough it had to be done the hard way. What a turn of foot Mohaather showed. Outsider San Donato made a promising run but suddenly hit the proverbial brick wall! Great race!
If I had backed it with Crowley on, it wouldn't have won. Always gets mine beat, one way or another. Bit like Frank Spencer in that respect
Well done Mohaather backers, unfortunately I put my bets on last night before all of today's write ups. I backed Kameko and feel annoyed by that run given by Murphy (pocket talk of course). Nothing seemed to work in his favour and not saying he would have won but if he got the gaps would have been a lot closer. Mind you Mohaather did it very well too having to go right around the outside. That's racing.
"I feel Mohaather will pick them all off in the closing stages today and he's a confident pick for me at 3/1." Shout!
18:00 Thirsk - Bond's Boy e/w (Modest e/w in this interesting race. Bit unlucky LTO. Has a good chance to reach the frame.)
That was my biggest bet of the season (50p to some punters no doubt) and my heart sank when I saw the horse get shuffled back to last place. I didn't think it was a good ride by Jim Crowley and the horse got him out of trouble, other than the reverse. Siskin ran well but the older horses were stronger. Wichita was the disappointment and that didn't look like the Guineas and St James Palace form he had in the book. Vatican City has been badly placed by O'Brien. The colt came in needing to find a lot in a hurry and was pushed to the Irish Guineas and then on a suicide mission at Epsom in the Derby. This was a bad choice of a race for a horse needing to find his feet again in calmer waters. Kameko got into trouble and once he did find a gap he wasn't long in finding more bother. Watching the race back I thought Murphy had a chance to come between Circus Maximus and Vatican City but perhaps the jockey was wise to the situation, because Vatican City soon moved closer to his stablemate to close the door. Once Kameko's jockey had selected the rail option he was always going to need some luck and it never happened for him. It was a poor ride, simply because the horse never got a chance to show what might have happened. If anything, Mohaather has come from a worse position and the way the older horse picked up Kameko would have needed to have motored to beat that kick. That's the problem dropping from 12F to 8F because any interference is hard to overcome. With a 10F race you have that leeway to come out and round and still get there but in a tough mile race it is game over. Interesting where the go next with Kameko, I would still have liked to see what he might have done if he was closer to the pace in the Derby. Even if he had weakened badly, at least they would have given him a chance and as it was only ever going to be the one shot at the trip, they might as well have at least had a proper go at it, rather than sitting with the plebs and letting Serpentine bend them over the barrel for a Jolly Rogering. Would Pinatubo have won it today? Wichita's run says no, Kameko's run says maybe but overall I doubt he would beat Mohaather, who would probably have won a couple of lengths at least if he had had a clear run.
Hey, this is a bit sad. Three people like this post praising the selection write up, yet zero likes for the actual write up. Come on guys I am dying on 699 likes here and my life's ambition was to get to 700 Update, make that 4 people. I had to like it too for irony.
