Interesting sprint at Windsor at 534 ,it looks tighter than a ducks @rse . I should not be betting on it but it has me so small bet only , it is ew friendly but on the nose i think . I can not make a good excuse for any of them but Hugo sends loverly breeze here and strangly books Rossa who is in form and is about 13%sr here loverly breeze has no track experience but does go well and is down to a mark below the last win . Also now dropping to a class 4 . I think the odds of 8/1 are the selling point but as mentioned ony a small stake for me .
I must correct myself here - those 3 maiden hurdle runs of Old Page under rules were for Christian Williams. Now with Sadik and he immediately sends him handicap chasing in his son's memorial race. Might be an almighty plot - I'll certainly be watching the race to find out
I knew it was tight the fav and 2nd fav propped up the rear , no prizes though but thats why i went small
My goodness, Old Page really gave it a go and looked the likely winner. Although I thought Dee Star would win it, I was surprised that he was 6/4 fav. Winner was fortunate to survive a god-awful blunder at the first (or second) fence, and only the never-say-die attitude of both horse and rider won him the race. Young Kevin Brogan is certainly a fine NH jockey, and will do very well at the game.
Thanks, Swanny. The one I took out of the race was actually the runner-up, Majestic. I expect to see him stepped back up to a mile as we now know that his handicap mark is fair but the drop to seven furlongs just left him a little outpaced. Your Tangled ran a good race with the visor applied so he is another who may revert to a mile in a similar class of race. Watching the race real time it was obvious that the leader Antagonize had gone off way too quick running sub 11 second furlongs, so the real pace was It Just Takes Time in second. Once he passed the leader on the climb to the winning post it was just a case of could he hold on. I am at Beverley in a couple of weeks on my mate’s birthday p*ss up (lame excuse for a bunch of blokes to have a day out but leave the wives at home), so it is not impossible that some of these might be entered on that card. Annoyingly my mate was offered two tickets for Saturday’s Beverley meeting fifty minutes before the first race – since my private jet was not fuelled up, we had to decline. I could have cleaned up on the Beverley card as the two Varian horses that I was tipped won (my mate did them in a double but I did not fancy the first one) and I could have forced myself to back Tis Marvellous to repeat his Beverley Bullet win but as it was my only other bet was Soul Seeker, who got beat by Melody King, a horse he beat last time.
In the nearest William Hill to me, the manageress is quite fit and I would not mind giving her a run for my money. Chance would be a fine thing – she is way out of my league as she has a body temperature and a pulse.
Some good comments there! Always good to have the private jet fuelled-up and ready to go, QMII, if it looks at all like it will be needed, with the pilot on standby? Always stood me in good stead in the past. (This must get the 'Bullshit of the Month' (or 'Year) award, surely? T-shirt please, Oddy)
I pilot the jet myself, Swanny. If you have seen “Top Gun: Maverick”, that was me doing the aerobatics. Landing on the A1174 next to Beverley racecourse would be a bit of a problem as the cows that graze on the Westwood keep walking across it...
