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The Sunny Southwell Sands Thread

Discussion in 'Horse Racing' started by NassauBoard, Nov 26, 2018.

  1. rainermariarilke

    rainermariarilke Well-Known Member

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    And so, yet again, the torch has to be picked up and carried by people of lesser talent, but greater resolve and stronger character.
     
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    Comforting, Swan, but I think that he might have run into one today. The Cox horse looks a bit of a beast to me, and I suspect that Zarzyni wouldn't have given him 6 lb however the race was run. Missing the kick didn't help, and it looked as if he got bumped early as well, but if you bet almost exclusively on 5f and 6f races - as I do - you have to live and die by the starts. Which is why I have a high regard for Luke Morris - much reviled on here for lack of elegance with the whip - who is almost never in the wrong place after 50 yards. Ditto the divine Hollie Doyle, of course.
     
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    I’ll get my coat.
    Sorry guys :afro:
     
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  4. NassauBoard

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    The King is dead, long live the god awful Tapeta.

    I think we all can agree that 4 meetings at Southwell is enough to get a feel for the new mediocre surface.

    So what have I learnt? Well, apart from Rainer peaking too early (rumours have been abound for a while on that one), the key message for me is that you seem to need to be running wide from off the turn into the straight (good old times).

    So having borrowed a system from Andrew Mount, I give you....

    Races over 6 furlongs or further (so running the turn).
    Drawn in stalls 6 to 9


    87 runners
    16 winners
    Expected winners 9.04
    A/E 1.77

    PL to Betfair SP - +123.67 (£1 level stake)
    ROI +142%

    PL to SP - +64.88 (£1 level)
    ROI +74%


    However, I have adapted to take out horses running with headgear or wind surgery

    47 runners
    11 winners
    BSP +132.72 ROI +282.39
    SP +77.88 ROI +165.69

    So the horses that qualify are

    16:30 Merweb
    16:30 Nashy
    16:30 Artillery
    16:30 Dew You Believe
    17:00 Rainbow Jet
    17:00 Onesmoothoperator
    17:30 Susie Javea
    18:00 Gypsy Whisper
    18:00 Full Approval
    19:00 Sophar Sogood
    19:30 Porterinthejungle

    (all without headgear angle - )

    16:30 Merweb
    16:30 Nashy
    16:30 Artillery
    16:30 Dew You Believe
    17:00 Rainbow Jet
    17:00 Cherokee Dance
    17:00 Onesmoothoperator
    17:30 Fitzrovia
    17:30 Susie Javea
    17:30 Ricksen
    17:30 Lucayan
    18:00 Eye Of The Water
    18:00 Gypsy Whisper
    18:00 Global Vision
    18:00 Full Approval
    18:30 Arpina
    18:30 Estefan
    18:30 Rogue Storm
    18:30 Medal Of Glory
    19:00 Sophar Sogood
    19:00 Socially Shady
    19:30 Storm Over
    19:30 Queen Of Kalahari
    19:30 Porterinthejungle
    19:30 Burrows Seeside
     
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  5. rainermariarilke

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    Four meetings ? I'd been thinking of two years, to build in seasonal surface-variations and allow for the emergence of new trainers who didn't care for fibresand, particularly some higher-profile ones from Newmarket.

    Prettier girls than you have commented critically on the early-peaking thing; but no, I can't deny the rumours. Merry Christmas.
     
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    Happy New Year, all, and I trust rested and refreshed ahead of the riddle-within-an-enigma that is World of Tapeta.

    I won't waste the forum's time by putting up an odds-on shot in a 6-runner conditions race, but something would have to go very wrong for Arriviste not to win the 2.18. More speculatively, the claims of Restless Endeavour in the 3.28 aren't very obvious, but I think that Mick Appleby might have targeted this race (which he won in 2019 and 2020) after campaigning her almost exclusively over 6f since acquiring her from Grant Tuer. She has always looked to me as if a flat 5f might bring out the best in her and, though the wide draw could be either good or bad, at around 12-1 I'm willing to take the chance.
     
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