Nass. As an adult, I've followed racing for more than 40 years, and in that time, I've lost count of how many times a connection "embiggened" (you like that?) a horse's chances. If ever you have a secret you want kept, don't tell a racing man.
There were 3 phases to his career. The first as Sir David Robinson's private trainer when he had many good horses and could be looked upon as late '60s early '70s Richard Hannon. Then after Robinson died he had the tougher years which he came through gloriously with the victory of Carroll House in the Arc. And then the final phase with the succession of higher quality horses, classic wins and the patronage of the Maktoum family. As to today's runner's price, Dick Hern knew Brigadier Gerard was the best 2yo he had, so did all his stable yet he still started in a listed conditions race as the 100-7 outsider.
Take it from me, Bob, this is straight from the punter's mouth, via the hoss's............. (Erm, B.Lynn = Berlin, I wonder?)
Me too, Chaninbar, was a bit sad once, but now could hardly care less. Had a Scottish grandfather (long dead before I was born), engineer, did well for himself in London. With a lot of my mates, worked our honourable asses off early days of the 'oil' part of the North Sea, early '70's, trained loads of local Scots too. If I'd known this might happen, might have cut it short and buggered off to resume working abroad a bit earlier than planned. Yeah, I know, but I do feel a bit bitter with the whole goddamn business. A few of them seem to be behaving like their ancestors, i.e. barberous Picts?
4th (3) 8 4 Quality Song (USA) R Varian 2 8-12 Dane O'Neill 25/1 Held up 4th and last, outpaced 2f out, no chance with leaders £25000-£1000 Hope that £1000 wasn't the yard's money
A colleague of mine got talking to a group of people last night in a restaurant about horse racing and it turned out they owned an horse and we're quite keen on its chances as it's dropped to its last winning mark and are expecting a big run from it today. At first they were a bit reluctant to give him the name of the horse saying they were worried that if it gets too much money on it then they'd not get the decent price they'd like today. Eventually after a bit of back and forth they gave him the name and it runs in the 4:50 Beverley and is called Mr Mo Jo. I got 14/1 on my lunch break, has been as big as 25s I personally always take tips with a pinch of salt but I thought i'd pass this on anyway
