Monday's Meetings Redcar Flat 8 Races 1:00-4:53p.m. Windsor Flat 8 Races 1:40-5:30p.m. Kelso N/H 7 Races 1:50-5:15p.m. Racecards At The Races Sporting Life Racing Post Good Luck
11 Diablo Loch g (GB) Form: Age: 4 Weight: 10 - 7 Colour: b Dam: Galileo Sire: Golden Horn Dam's Sire: Sadlers Wells Trainer: Ewan Whillans Jockey: C J Todd (3) Dam won six times between 1m and 1m 4f including three Group 1 races. From oddschecker. Dont believe everything you read. Galileo did indeed win three G1's but HE is not Diablo Loch's dam. He is the sire of the dam but she herself was unraced. All this aside I am nearly tempted to take the 16/1 on this for EW purposes.
Hello, team. Five things which aren't exactly headline news but I thought noteworthy at any rate. (i) The Devizes crew have purchased one of the mares (Toast The Host trained by Pip Hobbs) who ran in Fishcake's February bumper. Toast The Host finished, that day, 4 places in front of dear old Fishcake. The 5YO will remain with Pip. Apparently will have one more runner in a bumper, this term, before going hurdling in the Autumn. No idea what the purchase price was but someone else seemingly impressed by the Fishcake formline... (ii) Pied Piper, who is set to run on Thursday at Aintree, has been installed at 14's to win The Gold Cup. Cor blimey if he obliges at the Royal Meeting expect to see a Crown and a battered old trilby hurled at the old boy!!! (iii) Midnightreferendum, one of Alan King's, was mentioned on the forum a while back (apologies can't remember by whom) and she has now been...how do I put this diplomatically...'visited' by old boy, Nathaniel. One more run before retirement - Challenger Finals Day at Haydock Park on 16 April. (iv) Lieutenant Henderson's Pentland Hills might be back on Friday after 25 months away (last run was '20 Champion Hurdle). The 7YO is entered in the lucky last, that day, at Aintree. Given a chance by the handicapper as was rated 157 when he last ran and now on 151. (v) Polly Gundry has said that Santini is 'hugely disadvantaged' by never having run in the Grand National before. Really, I say, really, Polly?!? 20 of the last 26 Grand National winners were making their Grand National debuts. Hope everyone well. And fit and firing ahead of Aintree.
Did the favs in 215 Windsor, 250 Windsor and 350 Redcar as they were all shortening on odds checker so I've obviously missed the value but a winners a winner at any price. Patent bet, small stakes. Also through a couple of quid each way on Langer for the Masters 1000/1 10 places. Now to get the rest of the field covid
Good day to you all! Enjoying the banter between Stick and Nassau, sometimes can be a bit fierce, but today quite funny. For myself, wouldn't touch the 17:15 at Kelso with a sugar-coated-bargepole. However, did notice one runner who might interest SBC (that's if he has sufficient G&T's in the fridge). I refer to a horse with the grand name, Och One More Gin? Might run well if the gelding is well tanked-up?
Pentland Hills taken out of the Aintree race on Friday. Looks like the Lieutenant has changed his mind completely, re this one, as he's now entered Pentland Hills, on the level, at Royal Windsor on Monday afternoon in a 11.5 furlong handicap. Interestingly, Pentland Hills is rated just 70 on the Flat. Hasn't run in this discipline since September '18 but he is a half-brother to Balios who won the King Edward VII Stakes, at Royal Ascot, back in '15.
