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Daily Racing Thread Saturday 25th January 2014: Daily Thread

Discussion in 'Horse Racing' started by TopClass, Jan 24, 2014.

  1. Reebok

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    What a battling win for Red Sherlock - well done if you had him <ok>

    Well you could be right Stick, but it might also decide BB's target :D

    Dunno why I'm smiling, my bank account is emptying faster than Regal Diamond did in the last <laugh>

    Comp race coming up - I did Druid's Nephew, but with the change in going, I'm wishing I hadn't!
     
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  2. OddDog

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    Very nice from Red Sherlock

    Come on Time For Rupert at Donny
     
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    Nice place money!
     
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  4. OddDog

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    Big Buck's looking very perky and on his toes
     
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    Afternoon all - backed Boston bob in this and hoping that the next 75 minutes are the quickest of all time - COYH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
     
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  6. OddDog

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    Good day for the Hornets so far Dan, just hope for you that we're not sat here in an hours time watching City's 5th goal go in <yikes>
     
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    Please let the real AT FISHERS CROSS turn up. Good luck Bucks though.
     
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    Indeed Oddy! Even fi we got to half time like this it would be good!
     
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    Ditto
     
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    Fitness told in the end. But so pleased to see At Fishers Cross Return to show us what he is all about. Great ride on the winner very gutsy
     
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    You got to love racing. How the **** can that win...
     
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    wow...66-1 winner. BB will definitely come on for that. Cheltenham it is!
     
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    Seriously, how can Knockara beat that class of animals?

    Couldn't have picked that in a million years.

    Pisses me right off.
     
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    If only AFC could hurdle better. He was in front a yard past the line - which is no place to "win" of course.

    Great run from the Big Horse though, will improve for that I'd think. But yeah - how the hell could that one win!
     
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    I am at a loss as to why STD rode him that way, I could be mistaken but I have never seen Ruby put him in front that far from home, especially after such a long time off. Surely he should have sat behind whatever took him to the last and then gone. I wrote in a previous post that I have always felt BB a horse that needs riding unlike Sprinter Sacre who of equal class could be ridden by anyone in any way with the same result.
     
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  16. TopClass

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    Still has all his class.

    Was it fitness that found him out, or was it age?

    I don't know how I can take any of that form seriously with KB winning the race. Leaves the World Hurdle in a right puzzle.
     
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    kinell 2-0 Watford Dan
     
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    <laugh> if only football macthes lasted 45 minutes eh? Very odd race that which makes the World hurdle extremely interesting
     
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    Surely now ANNIE POWER simply MUST go WORLD HURDLE!
     
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    Got a feeling that short head defeat for At Fishers Cross might cost me a nice sum... IF Lac Fontana wins. 7/1 > 4/1 currently <doh>
     
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