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Daily Racing Thread Sunday 16th. May 2021

Discussion in 'Horse Racing' started by attivo, May 15, 2021.

  1. rainermariarilke

    rainermariarilke Well-Known Member

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    Djebel (1940) ? Not checked this out, but I seem to remember that the French result isn't generally recognised - from unreliable memory, and something my dad told me years ago, the Poulains and Pouliches weren't run in the spring of that year, due to the German invasion and the general state of France at the time. I've a feeling a single combined colts' and fillies' 'substitution' race was run that autumn at somewhere like St. Cloud or Auteuil, which Djebel duly won, but I think the result comes with an implied asterisk, like Barry Bonds' home-runs record.
     
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  2. Black Caviar

    Black Caviar 1 of the top judges in Europe

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    lets hope Poetic Flare is as bad as it ever gets for the 2000 Guineas
     
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  3. Black Caviar

    Black Caviar 1 of the top judges in Europe

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    On a line through Policy of Truth and Normandy Bridge, Van Gogh would take a bit of beating if he runs in the French Derby instead of Epsom, which looks likely from betfair prices.
     
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