The wife has gone to Haydock to watch Kylie after racing but as part of the ticket price she gets to take in the racing as well. She'll almost certainly not watch any of the races but has asked me for my tips so this is what i said to her: Race 1: Mr Lupton Race 2: Busy Bimbo Race 3: Simply Shining Race 4: Sirheed Race 5: Suitor Race 6: Bnedel
HEAD EAST interested me at Haydock. 3rd behind subsequent Royal Ascot 5th Glenowan, where the 4th has won since and those miles bakc have both been placed in maidens. Starting have form stack up, very rare for a maiden up in the North like that but 11s on the exchanges will do.
Have had a fairly good day today so tonight I'm following the Hannon horses and the Johnston horse at Haydock. Also at Lingers I'm going for the complete outsider in the 8.30, THE HOLYMAN at 33/1 as he won this race last year.
I backed Brazen Beau, but I think he was fairly beaten. I don't buy that he needed to race with the pack, afterall the winner of the Wokingham travelled up a similar area of the track, so I don't think it was running any slower. I also don't agree that he needed something to race against, as he looked to run genuine the whole way to the line. Had they switched BB across to the pack, he'd of lost a couple of lentghs, and would have likely been beaten further. He ran a pretty good race regardless, the first 2 pulled well clear of the rest, he was just beaten by a slightly better horse on the day. No excuses from me about that defeat
Mr Brightside goes off 1/10 in the next at Lingers. However I fancy 11/2 without the fav for Equillinsky, who was recently bought by the Chrysellium partnership after it's low key debut.
Cor blimey. Here is a rare event. Print this one out and stick it on the back of the loo door. King Shergar and I agree about something. I have no idea whether it was a deliberate plan for Brazen Beau to just exit the gate and run a straight line to the post irrespective of what the rest of them did but it looked like he gave it his all and Undrafted was just the better horse on the day. It is impossible to speculate whether he would have done any better if he had company and he did still thrash the home team. Brazen Beau was my selection but I did not have a bet at Ascot at all.
Brazen Beau looked a typical high level Aussie sprinter- quick out the gate, and burning them off one by one. He got himself nicely clear to be fair so Unbridled Song got up on merit in my opinion as he wouldn't have had the Aussie to aim at. Very good performance from him and you'd think they might be tempted to have a crack at our other top sprints? The same can be said for the American horse too- both of them looked like they belong in our top races.
Given the distances that Brazen Beau and Undrafted have travelled to run at Royal Ascot, they would be out of their minds to head off home when they can wait three weeks for the July Cup at Newmarket. The bookies already have them as co-favourites with Muhaarar at 6/1.
I hope so, though Newmarket doesn't hold anywhere near the same appeal to international runners as Ascot does. So I wouldn't bank on them running. I think Muharaar would have certainly been in the mix with them today, had this new 3yo sprint not been introduced
Who would have thought it? England’s top five dig them into a big hole and then the stand-in wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow comes in and hits an unbeaten 83 to win the game. Lewis Hamilton will win the Austrian F1 Grand Prix and lap everyone tomorrow then we will really know that somebody is playing tricks on us...
Fabulous spirit from the cricketers- the most freedom they have played with for a long time and I think it says an awful lot about Alistair Cooks 'tread carefully' timid style of leadership that they have got their new era off to a flyer in what was a stunning one day series to watch. This should set the trend now for young English cricketers- let's be positive and learn along the way!
Yeah well done to England for scraping victory at home, to a small little country like New Zealand Let's be honest, we should be wiping the floor with them on our own patch
That's just not true Shergs and you know it. New Zealand and Australia took ODI cricket to new levels at the World Cup and a 3-2 series win over the World Cup finalists is a HUGE step in the right direction for an England side that looked old, stale and stuck in the past. England have a long way to go still to start saying they should wipe the floor with any of the top sides.
Fair enough they did well on home soil in the World Cup, but I'd hardly say they are a major cricketing nation. They sort of fall into that 2nd tier of teams
Going for one in the lucky last at Lingfield. Cottesloe 5/1, used to be trained in Ireland and done his winning on the sand at Dundalk so will hopefully take to Lingfield. He's been coming down in the weights and back at a winning mark. The only negative would be the trip, he may need a bit of a longer trip but I'll take my chances
