Cosmic Year -3+
Field Of Gold -2+
Camille Pissarro -1+
Ruling Court 0+
Jonquil +2+
The Lion In Winter +2
Shadow Of Light +2
Henri Matisse +2
Expanded +3
Arizona Blaze +3
Rashabar +5+
Wimbledon Hawkeye +5
Twain +5+
Hotazhell +5
Convergent +5+
Aomori City +5
Noble Champion +5
Caburn +6
Scorthy Champ +7
Mount Kilimanjaro +7
...
Opera Ballo +9+
Detain +10+
Provisionals included . Convergent had slipped my mind completely and the figure looks too high but Burke only has a couple of entries .
24/3 there was interest in Seagulls Eleven over the weekend , a flurry of bets across the board early Saturday morning .
Camille Pissarro looks out of place but he was penalised at The Curragh . The natural order of things is in place at last with the colts ahead of the fillies . The Gladness used to be a recognised trial for classic colts but , like The Madrid and English Free Handicap , has fallen out of favour over the last 30 years . Nijinski and Minsky won it in the 1970s . Minsky ran in The Brigadier's Guineas. Giant's Causeway and Lomond won it recently .
.If you missed what Aidan O'Brien said allow me to summarise . In The Gladness Ryan was never going to ask for more than 90% of Camille Pissaro . The reason for this was because winning the race probably cost Giant's Causeway the Guineas . Strictly speaking Cosmic Year is still a provisional rating since the key was a long way behind and the placed horses are unknown to me . It was a long looking 5 lengths but I have used the official distance .
And wrt NH racing Alex Harvey(5) is worth every pound of his claim .........
Lake Victoria 0
Desert Flower +1
Vertical Blue +2
Simmering +2
Red Letter +2
Better Together +3 ntbs
She's Perfect +3 ntbs
Exactly +3
Daylight +5
Bedtime Story +5
Zanzoun +6+ ntbs
Duty First +6+ ntbs
Chantez +6
Merrily +6
Janey Mackers +6
Falling Snow +6
Bubbling +6
Babouche +6
Lake Victoria looks to be uneasy in the market but was too short at 3/1 .
Arabian Dusk might be of interest at a very big price . The Crisford string seems to be in fine fettle if results from the desert are anything to go by . Take a look at her form .
24/3 Desert Flower is now a 7/4 fav . Ridiculously short as there are at least 6 fillies that could win and not an eyebrow would be raised . Then there is Lake Victoria and several dark ones .
Swelter , as expected , joins Lake Victoria at the top but is going to The Curragh .