Saturday's Meetings Musselburgh Flat 8 Races 1:10-5:25p.m. Worcester N/H 7 Races 1:45-5:30p.m. Doncaster Flat 7 Races 1:55-5:40p.m. Epsom Downs Flat 7 Races 2:00-5:50p.m. The Derby Off @ 4:30p.m. Hexham N/H 7 Races 2:05-5:55p.m. Limerick (E) N/H 7 Races 5:45-8:50p.m. Lingfield (E) Turf 4 Races 6:00-7:30p.m. A/W 3 Races 8:00-9:00p.m. Newcastle (E) Flat 7 Races 6:10-9:10p.m. Racecards At The Races Racing Post Sporting Life Good Luck
I read earlier that John Gosden will walk the course tomorrow morning before deciding if Jack Hobbs will definitely run. Anyone actually think there's any chance of Jack Hobbs being pulled out?
I think Golden Horn is the class horse in the race but hasn't today shown us that the class horse with stamina question marks is vulnerable to pretty much anything that needs a trip. It's a price question again and if you're not on at fancy prices then what's the point. 7/4 or whatever is horrible win, lose or draw. There will be significantly better 7/4 shots all week albeit i think the fav is the most likely winner.
I too will be on this but doubt I'll get anything like that price I won't be putting it on till I can get to bookies in morning so hopefully there's still a nice price left worth taking
I'm pissed, and can't be bothered to do the research. Did monte au ever get beaten on rattling ground? I've had a change of heart hans Holbein get on.
Montjeu only ran on firm ground twice. Tokyo, 4th to Special Week beaten 2¼L Breeders Cup Turf, 7th to Kalanisi beaten 4½L Once on Good to Firm. KG at Ascot beat Fantastic Light 1¾L
If Jack Hobbs is to win the Derby Stravagante will need to win the first on Saturday. However Taking my lead from the Monty Python Philosophy illustration of Logic and its misuse (the actual gist of the words were Alma Cogan is dead, but not all dead people are Alma Cogan) I will say that if Stravagante wins it doesn’t mean Jack Hobbs will win. Stravagante was beaten 12 lengths plus by Jack Hobbs in a Sandown handicap. He ran a strange race and was unsuited by the poor racing surface. In the first on Derby Day Stravagante will give Ryan Moore his first winner of the day.
4.30 Epsom- Epicuris- 20/1 ew This French horse would have run in the Chantilly equivalent last Sunday but for red tape. He has become hard to manage at the starting stalls and requires the help of a horse whisperer, to which British officials have no objection but which the French would not allow. He won a Group One race as a two-year-old but all his form since his debut run has been in small fields on soft ground, making him hard to assess in this context. He won’t get soft ground here unless the forecast is wildly wrong and he is unlikely to be allowed to set a steady pace, as he has been doing. If, by any chance, he is a better horse for settling behind a lead and copes well with a sound surface, he will go close, but that is quite a risk for a punter to take on minimal evidence. There is some hope in his pedigree that dry ground may be fine for him but overall his profile is that of a horse short on speed.
Epsom Derby 4.30 **** it, MOHEET 33/1 Zawraq was the one I had my eye on all spring but since his scratching, I've been digging a little deeper for potential. Moheet made a striking debut impression at Salisbury and although the form was not up to much, the way he lengthened clear did have one or two middle distance hallmarks. However, his two subsequent defeats this year offer hope that this is a horse who wants a trip. In the Craven, he was done by a Kool Company slow pace and sprint to the finish, keeping on best but only for 3rd place when too late, and in the 2000 Guineas, where he was around 8L behind the winner but was poorly positioned and met traffic problems before again keeping on well. With confidence not high in any of the trial winners, I thought I'd have a pop at Moheet who at least shapes like he wants the trip, and as it is first try might get the improvement required to hit the frame. Hannon managed to surprise us in a classic last year in Night Of Thunder - could he do it again?
Liber Nauticus's half-brother Indelible Ink should get off the mark at Musselburgh!! Not Stoute's usual hunting ground
Moheet at 50s ew for me to hopefully nick a place. Also thrown a few coppers ew at the German raider Rogue Raider because at some stage in his career Oisin Murphy will be in the winners enclosure after the big un.
Mezajy ew in the first Buratino in the second A French horse or the unprounceable one in the third In the dash the face has good chance. Perfect Muse or N Equilibrium ew Ryan Moore or the fave in the Derby Succes Days or Storm the Stars ew 5.15 Lungarno palace 5.50 Pearl Blue Ok off to the downs I go!
Morning all, Only the one for me today, cant be having any of the front 3 in the market as they just wont stay so I will be going E/W on Storm The Stars. Bredding shows he'll act around here and theres improvement in each of his runs and if he were trained by O'Brien or Gosden he would be alot lot shorter
