4th.. What is it with Nico De Boinville being obsessed with going up the inside on this horse? 2nd time he s got in to all sorts of traffic problems on this horse. He would have gone close...
Yes looked the likely winner.. if given a more sensible ride. Awful as you say. Still no harm done each way at 8s with a bit of a profit...
In the Topham Chase I went with the Topweight Ibleo. The Williams chaser has improved about 3 stone over the past 15 months and last time out he looked ready for a step up in trip. Obviously he has a fair bit further to travel today as a son of Dick Turpin but I took a chance with that at 14/1 win only, as he either stays or fades out of the frame in my opinion. Two For Gold has a good strike rate but his jumping isn't always surefooted and I worry on that score. 4.05 Aintree Ibleo 14/1
Irish 2 from 2 ..... when will we learn???!!! Hope Houx Gris is ok, didn't see if he got up.... EDIT: just did a rewind, and he got up
Not exactly encouraging from Nichols re Poliologue ..... wish I'd heard that before risking my children's inheritance!
All the horses that did well at Cheltenham are doing well today - on the day that I decided to go for horses that didn’t run at Cheltenham
In the last at Aintree (17:15) The Widdow Maker for no other reason than a personal one. This damn contraption used on a tender-supported jack-up drilling rig claimed many lives during offshore oil drilling operatons. First couple of times it was used scared the s**t out of most of us.. Anyway, hopefully one for the good Mr. Tizzard!
Wasn't to be smokey. I had a very busy day and didn't get much of a break to fart even, I picked a few out last night and 4 of them won there, I also got word that Mt. Leinster Gold was fancied to go close. One of them days, could have stayed at home and made a fair bit more, but then it often backfires too, I guess. Onwards and upwards. PS. Lean Araig is a bit of a misspelling of Lean Ar Aghaidh, which means Proceed in English
Run was too bad to be true. Looked scared of the fences. Maybe it's fall in its previous race did a bit of a number on the horse