Racing today comes from York, Sandown, Market Rasen, Goodwood, Chepstow, Aintree, Navan and Wexford. Well I've had a hard day on the road, so have not gone back over yesterday's results. But from what I've read, we got a few home, naps included. Looks like another good day for the Daily Thread. With the success we seem to attain on a daily basis, I have no doubt that we'll hit them again this arvo. I have not had the chance to take a good look at the form today, so I fell back on Grandad's well worn advice, "horses for courses my boy." So I ended up in the hunt, a place I thought I'd been able to sidestep. A horse who was well beaten when second here, inherited a win when the leader fell. He still won by 20L, so he had some on the rest. He gets to carry a postage stamp, with 24 pounds from the top weight and favourite. In the 20:15 Loch Dhu gets the nod from me. All naps and comments welcome. YORK. 15:50 Arcticality. Jumpers. 16:55 Above All. Utter. SANDOWN. 14:50 Indian Shuffle. EW Nass. 17:05 Swaninstockwell. EW. Filon. MARKET RASEN. GOODWOOD. 18:15 Stagecoach Danman. Woolly. CHEPSTOW. AINTREE. 19:40 Cotillion. Oddy the Magnificent. 20:15 Loch Dhu. cyc. NAVAN. WEXFORD.
It's all about quantity not quality by the looks of things to do, which is often the case when a big festival is just round the corner but one I like is 3:50 York - Arcticality Champion jock on board and should follow up the success of a couple of weeks back. I'll be taking the 15/8 currently on offer. Good Luck to All today.
2.50 Indian Shuffle - 10/1 EW He is in form and he likes to go with the pace, add in his low draw and form off this mark in the not too distant past and I can't work out why he is as big as 10/1.
I really do like the chances of COTILLION in the 7.40 at Aintree tonight and he gets the NAP vote. Good luck to all dabblers today
Cyc good day to you mate, hope you are well. I was reading yesterday that connections plan to send Black Caviar to Royal Ascot in 2012 - very good news !!!!
Selections 4 today 2.40 York Gala Casino Star E/W Price Taken 12/1 Good course record and some formlines suggest he should go close. 3.15 York Dark Ranger E/W Price Taken 10/1 Unexposed at the trip, could be an improver and appears to be very well handicapped, and holds 5 or 6 of these through some form lines. 4.25 York Ancient Cross E/W Price Taken 14/1 Course and conditions suit. Could be value as he won a similar race over C&D 2 starts ago (albeit off 6lbs lower). Did OK last start in a much better race than this one. 4.35 Sandown Shavansky E/W Price Taken 12/1 C&D Winner and on a winnable mark. Vulnerable to any improver but should place at least. 6.20 Navan Speed Dream E/W Price Taken 16/1 Massive Price for what could be a well handicapped horse- although has a near 300 day absence to overcome. Beat Queenie Keen on it's last run, who won impressively in a very competitive handicap at the Curragh last week.
Oddy, Black Caviar's trainer Peter Moody has said the the mare should return in October for the G2 Schillaci Stakes over 1000m. If she wins the Schillaci, she'll equal Phar Lap as the only other horse to win 14 metropolitan wins on the trot. After that race, she'll then probably have 2 more runs, with the G1 Patinack Farm Classic 1200 as the last race. From there they hope to take her to Hong Kong. Then Ascot next year.
Yesterday's non-runner was my best effort for a while redface, so today will try: 5.05 Sandown - Swaninstockwell e/w Best of luck to all!
Marvellous stuff Cyc. On the subject of multiple winning mares, I am going to the race meeting at my local track here in Berlin, Hoppegarten, on Sunday and the first race on the card is named in honour of the most successful horse in the history of horse racing - the Hungarian mare Kincsem. On June 21st 1876 she made her debut at Hoppegarten in the "First Criterium" race over 1000m and won by 4 lengths. From that winning debut she went on to record an incredible total of 54 race victories throughout Europe over the next 3 years and retired unbeaten. Surely a record that will never be bettered.
Morning all first NAP of the day for sometime Stagecoach Danman- Goodwood @ 6:15- currently 9-4 not massive but good enough! lol
I remember the name Oddy. I think I looked her up some time ago. I'll have to do it again. A true champion. It make you wonder about these 3 year olds who string 8 or 10 wins together, get rated among the greatest of all then go to stud. Bit of a joke really. I started a tirade against the Rating Houses a month or so back, but it's sits on the back burner. If I do say so myself, It isn't too bad. I'll post a few lines. .......................................................................................................................................................................... In the midst of a ground sucking, claustrophobic fog, atop the only plateau on the fetid and treeless, well worn battle ground, sits an ever brooding monolith, an unholy Citadel of lies and deceit. Shrouded in the mist of self conceit, by it’s very nature, it’s a bitter law unto itself. It brooks no hint of obstruction. It wantonly casts forth from it’s towering ramparts, regular edicts that must be accepted without question. The laws of it’s retched lands, long debated behind the security of much reviled walls, have of course been framed from within the cesspit, largely to provide succour to the every day needs it’s own bile filled intestines.
Cyclonic: Dear God! I for one owe such a lot to Timeform and Raceform in particular. Strangely, I worked quite hard in my working career and had little time to keep up with my cherished hobby/sport, namely horseracing. When I got time to go to the track when on leave, I was really grateful to Timeform and Raceform publications to get me up to date. Timeform, in particular, gave me a lot of winners. If you really read-up on the two aforementioned publications on the morning of the races you could just about guarantee a decent run from the ones you, the reader, ended up choosing. Timeform never ever asked a customer to pick the top-rated willy-nilly, but to take into consideration all the factors which I don't have to spell out to the learned people on here. Cyclonic, your knowledge and eloquence on all things horseracing are unquestioned, but I have always felt you were most unfair towards the UK's top form/rating publications. They have some damn good people working for them I can tell you! The founder of Timeform, Phil Bull, was without question a genius in the truest sense of the word. He did so much to bring an understanding of the sport to the ordinary racegoer. Here endeth the lesson......
Cyc: P.S. Have you ever seen or read a Timeform Annual? This publication has been going since around 1950 and is an impressive book which quite obviously takes tremendous effort to produce, even once a year. I'll be happy to pluck one out of my small library and send it to you if you're interested. It won't be too old an edition! Not necessary to return it.......
