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Yeah 8/1, not sure whether to cover the stake today with a bet on Joanna though..
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Nice price,and a good display today will give u a lot of confidence.
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Boom. Been saying for months she ain't that great.
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oh dear
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won't stay a mile
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Not too promising but she lost frist time out last year
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Will watch replay later, how did it pan out?
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travelled like he best horse, but struggled the final furlong, finished 3rd.
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Nice one, sounds about what I expected. Joanna wins so mini boom, quick ground we're all systems go. What price now?
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But why did she fade in the final furlong? Was it:
a) the terrible ground b) lack of fitness c) lack of stamina? CMH had intimated that defeat here would not be too surprising or troubling. |
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d) precocity ?
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Ram what was the ground officially
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very soft
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Good point Ram, but there have to be stamina question marks. What price will she be now? I strongly fancy Music Show after that.
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Only beat a length?
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travelled like the best horse and then petered out like an un-fit horse. Hardly surprising. Little disapoointing, but I wouldn't get carried away with knocking her just yet the trainer was speaking as if this was the plan all along tbf.
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Didn't show her normal turn of foot - whether that was the ground, the trip, lack of condition, or simply that she hasn't trained on (or a combination of these) is hard to say.
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Yes Ben. The win also got a toe into the race whislt SD had no cover out front.
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* winner
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remember that rouget has his horses 100% fit
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Yeah, no surprise she got beaten under the circumstances but she doesn't look bomb-proof for the Guineas now which she would've done if she'd won today.
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ty barjonn
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Im not concerned. So long as she turns up on the day and we get a run for our Money.
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In my experience no horse is bomb proof for the Guineas :)
Stan James 5/1 looks tempting, wish I'd watched the race now, too busy fuming over Possol finishing 3rd after that non runner :( |
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Now 5/1 best price with SJames
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Couldn't back it with bad money on the back of that, even taken into account the multitude of excuses those with ante-post vouchers will forward.
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I thought she was a bit fresh in front and probably just tired. I am sure she is no soft groung animal although she can obviously cope ok on it. Remember that she is being trained to peek at the beginning of May and her prep was earlier than most so how tuned up would you expect her to be? she is still a worthy favourite imo and will improve dramatically for that; also the winner isn't that bad and comes from a stable in form.
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sintonian thats what i was thinking just turn up and run and whatever happens at least we got a run for our money , if the trainer had said she was fit then we would be worried now , what she said yesterday happened today
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Does she normally go off in front ben?
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nothing 2 concerning there.
Whilst I hold an AP voucher of 8s for the GNS I thought she was a lay today @ odds on on the softened ground. Travelled well just seemd to blow up. Quicker ground @ Newmarket will see her in a far better light. |
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tbf,Rockmoney, they are probably legitimate excuses. Sure, ante-post backers (myslef included) will be disappointed, but if you listened to the interview yesterday from Criquette and watched the race today, it is no surprise she got beat. She also made the running and the winner had a toe into the race and comes from a yard firing in the winners.
Disappointed yes, but 5/1 probably refelcts her chance now. So long as she turns up , none of know how fit she was B-) |
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Just checked, yes she does race freely. I couldn't recall her being quite so free.
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[i]THE participation of ante-post favouriteSpecial Duty in the StanJames.com 1,000 Guineas is in severe doubt after she was beaten into third place behind Joanna (Jean-Claude Rouget/Christophe Soumillon) in the Prix Imprudence on Thursday.
A best-priced 5-2 favourite for the Newmarket Classic, the Cheveley Park Stakes winner was a market drifter for the Group 3 trial at Maisons-Laffitte, where she was running over 7f for the first time. Starting just about an odds-on chance, Special Duty disputed the lead under Stephane Pasquier before being asked to claim the race a couple of furlongs out. However, she had been tracked by ex-Italian-trained Joanna throughout and had few answers when the 13-5 second favouritewas brought upsides to challenge inside the final furlong. In testing conditions, Joanna went on to score by a half-length over Evading Tempete, who finished well on the rail to take second place another half-length ahead of Special Duty, who is now a 3-1 chance for the Guineas with Totesport. Looking ahead to the 1,000 Guineas, Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager for Special Duty's owner Khalid Abdullah, said: "There's no decision for the moment whether she comes for the Guineas. "She needed the race and blew a lot afterwards," he added. |
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I agree with sintonian and lobster luck - it was a satisfactory reappearance and she will strip much fitter for the big one on 2nd May, when hopefully quicker conditions will prevail (she wouldn't have liked the soft ground today). I'm not at all bothered by that defeat, she was only beaten just over a length and the winner is from a stable that always fires in the winners at this time of the year (and the runner-up was race-fit from a recent Listed win). 5/1 with the sponsors looks too big. She's still the one to beat, in my opinion, unless there is a spectacular performance from something in the Nell Gwyn or the Fred Darling.
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full steam ahead im going in again .
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Ignore Teddy Grimthorpe's comments. If Criquette wants to bring Special Duty over for the Guineas, that's what will happen.
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Agree with that, in general it's wise to ignore anything Grimthorpe says.
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