Gets my goat that does - you wait to hear the excuses after the Derby from connections where the horse didn't handle the course. They have a perfect trial today and no bugger is using it. And us punters do our hard-earned on their horse when all along it didn't handle the fecking course
Just got piss wet through on the way to work. Must invest in an umbrella but cant help but feel a right tool when I have got one. Are there no proper man umbrellas anywhere, with a sports car and a pair of tits embroidered on or something? Cameron Highland really nice prospect but remember UNEX RENOIR is bred to appreciate the step up in trip and shaped very well chasing home Top Offer in a 1m maiden. Possibly the bet in that race for me.
Get a golfing umbrella- one of the massive ones. Now no women would be able to hand something that big
I think Mullins stepping Sous Les Cieux up to 3m and in first time blinkers smacks of desperation a little. He might well win but at the price I think he is worth taking on. Ipsos Du Berlais has some decent form behind the likes of Boston Bob and Lovcen (on unsuitably fast ground). He will love the ground at Punchestown today and must have a great EW chance at 6/1.
Zen I disagree. On his last two runs he has looked in need of the step up in distance - no point running him over 2m 2m4f if he isn't quick enough to win top races over the distance. As for the blinkers so every horse that wears them its a sign of desperation from the trainer ?
This was a horse that was touted as a Supreme candidate at the start of the season. The very fact that he has looked like he needs to step up in trip is a concern. He never got involved at any stage at Cheltenham and was beaten by a less fancied stablemate. I don't think any of his form looks very strong now either. As for blinkers, normally, yes. The changes might work the oracle but I couldn't be backing a horse with so many question marks at 5/2. I think Ipsos Du Berlais will relish conditions.
cant argue with the first 2 horses mentioned in this thread - LIFE AND SOUL and RESURGE. I also like the look of MISTER MUSIC in the Derby trial although all form might well go out of the window today if the rain keeps falling
Big fan of Ipsos myself as Stick knows but surely you can not be backing him ? he is wearing blinkers SLC last run at Cheltenham over 2m5f stayed on approaching last, never nearer Ipsos Du Berlais last run at Aintree over 3m1f - mistake 3 out, soon hung left, weakening when hit last
I don't have a problem with blinkers but they are a 'last resort'. You don't put them on unless there is a reason for it. Ipsos Du Berlais definitely stays, definitely relished heavy ground, and was always going to be a 3miler. My doubt about Sous Les Cieux is that he wasn't supposed to be a slowboat on bottomless ground. He was supposed to win either the Supreme or the Neptune but got nowhere near. At the start of the season you would have expected IDB to be running in this, but you would have expected SLC to be running in the 2m or the 2m4f race. He's been a disappointment so now they are changing the trip and sticking the blinkers on, hence why I say 'smacks of desperation'. It does IMO. This would have been 'the plan' for IDB, but it certainly wouldn't have been for SLC. That's the difference.
Sir Des Champs was looking tired at the end of that race yesterday. Massive question marks for me about whether he'll get up the hill next year. It was a bad jump at the last that I think was a result of him being knackered. Maybe it was because he had to make the running.
I thought the way he picked up after the last suggested that he still had a good bit left in the tank. If he was tired that mistake would have stopped him in his tracks.
It's subjective. I thought he looked tired. Against that lot he really should have been looking really comfortable coming to the last and I don't think he did. We'd know more if Mossey Joe didn't fall. I'm not even convinced he did pick up that well.
No-one really wants to risk racing their horses on such an idiosyncratic course. If it weren't for the Oaks and Derby Epsom would be the flat equivalent of Towcester
We won't know if Punchestown is on till 2.00 apparently. Seems the wind is threatening to blow down the temporary structures. And me just stuck a few runners on multiples an' all.
Afternoon, all. Hope everyone well. Cor blimey though people, chop chop, liven up! I’ve dropped off to sleep twice whilst reading this thread and to be honest it looks the perfect cure to insomnia. When incidentally did the ‘daily thread’ stop being about what people ate for their lunch and move onto discussing ponies running round in cirlces. Whenever it was it was a bad choice, get in back to its original intention, say I! By the way I just had a lovely chicken stew with dumplings. Gave it 9/10 as it was just what you need on such a dull, cold and wet day. Onto the ponies and today is a very sad one, I’m afraid, and probobly the low point in British racing as in the 6.50 at Kempton Park, this evening, 2 fillies run called Dank and Tatty. I say what lovely names for fillies...NOT! Connections should be ashamed of themselves and ‘warned off’ for life whilst the authorities who allowed these names should swiftly be handed there P45s. Disgraceful, and judging on this appalling behaviour, is it any wonder that ‘Broken’ Britain these days is little more than a second tier European member state. Carry on...
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Barney thats brilliant. Agree with Broken Britain though, its an absolute disgrace- a country afraid of its own identity.
