Surely if you are using a football analogy then it's more La Liga than SPL. The top two are miles ahead with firepower but you have sparks of excellence from others too. Not as competitive in general as Britain perhaps but has top quality performers. Stick, that horse and that cliff. Are you tempted to turn lemming?
I'll be having a little e/w dabble on the classy Alaivan in the Pertemps qualifier at Exeter this afternoon. He put in some pretty smart efforts in top handicaps last season at around this mark and is interesting stepped up in trip. If they really want to aim him at the final he will need to be wining this to get a mark of around 138-140.
That Nicholls bumper horse Drucilla (finished 2nd on debut costing me a 4-figure payout on a patent when ridden by his daughter) goes in the last at Exeter today and will be carrying some of my Euros with Sam on his back
Golden Chieftain in the veterans race ............... just need one more at a nice price for an e/w Lucky 15
Liz Doyle's Pairofbrowneyes in the 3.15 at Leopardstown - goes off the same mark as when finishing a close-up 6th behind Katie T and Modem over C&D 3 weeks ago
OK here we go - €1 e/w Lucky 15: 2.25 Exeter Alaivan 2.55 Exeter Golden Chieftain 3.15 Leopardstown Pairofbrowneyes 4.30 Exeter Drucilla Best of luck everyone
Ireland produces some of the best racehorses globally badger and many of Britain's best are Irish bred horses...considering Britain is over 10 times the size of Ireland I would say Irish racing is probably top of thee tree globally and it's hard to argue with it.
Fair enough point about those 2 monopolizing badger, its hard to disagree with that. But I'd say regardless of where their based, with their firepower, they'd dominate anywhere. Using football analogies their the equivalent of Real Madrid currently, boss at home but around Europe too! I suppose when you look at the biggest races/festivals this is backed up. Mullins top trainer in March is a given. O'Brien in the English Classics/Royal Ascot- he farms these. He wins the Derby/Guineas so often, the English trainers must be fed up of him. So the fact their based in Ireland isn't why they dominate- they'd own English racing too if they moved base! Ireland produces the best horses and jockeys. Vast majority of both come from Ireland. The breeding of horses is largely dominated by Irish stallions much to the disdain of Godolphin and the Arabs! Last point. Nicholls is monopolising the big English races (with horses who aren't exactly Kauto Stars or Master Mindeds) every week too. I hardly remember a big Saturday race that ain't going his way! So you can make the exact same point their! No offence taken badger, I think you made a valid point. I hope my counter argument is taken as respectfully as I've tried to make it. Peace people!
Surely this raace that Burton Port will relish hasn't won for about the same time since AP hasn't been champion jockey but although he was pulled up lto his run before seemed quite encouraging and against horses his own age he has the best form and only has to run to a bit of improvement on his first run to figure
Having a quiet Sunday morning so decided to fire up the newest Starters Orders game. Chose the use the Waley-Cohen silks for my stable. Its a great game, but is it some sort of bug that the jockey keeps falling off my horses at great speed?
Lol Nass. In the absence of respected forumite Sir Barney I feel obliged to defend everyone's favorite dentist/jockey with the default response of look at his record over the big uns at Aintree old boy. They bear comparison with all! Why poor old Sam gets such abuse is beyond me, you'd swear he'd given you a dodgy filling or something...
I'm not saying Irish racing is **** or Irish produced horses are poor quality i was just merely pointing out that for me personally i barely look at the Irish race cards/meetings because i don't view them in the same lights as i do British racing. Like i said earlier know one i know who is into their racing bothers with the Irish cards so maybe that's just rubbed off on me and is why i don't take them as seriously. When i go through the cards to look at horses to back the Irish meetings just get a cursory glance usually unless its one of the big festivals. And you can't tell me that a horse who wins the Irish Derby is given the same credit or held in the same esteem as a horse who wins the English Derby for example? I'm not talking about Irish horses or Irish bred horses or Irish trained horses, my point is purely aimed at Irish race cards. I wasn't trying to cause argument with my comment, even as flippant as it may have come across, just my view that i have of the Irish race cards generally. I take your argument respectfully Beefy no slanging match coming from my end! Good luck everyone today with their bets
No worries badger I'm the exact same with the English cards, especially the midweek stuff that goes on, never look at it at all. In fact, a slightly funny story on that was yesterday. I'd only looked at the 2 televised Warwick races so was unaware Mullins had one in the novice hurdle event earlier on the card. Of course I got a text from a friend right after his thing hoses in basically saying that was a piss easy win go & collect, the assumption being that Mullins fanboy aka me (lol) was on... I'll study the Saturday English cards better from now on!
