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22 Aug 14
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Anyone looking at the mile tomorrow, always a decent betting race...tricky stuff
I see the books have put Captain Cat in at 2-1 and rightly so, on his romp at salisbury...anyway that run was only 9 days ago and he is drawn out wide here
Just trying to figure out whether fanning will let the johnston horse loose here on the lead...he was strangled last time and was one paced when let down after being free early...
hors de combat is progressive and just got nailed close home in that messy race with the pair pulling clear he is likeable but just not sure if he saves a bit for himself but will have small saver on
anyway the one i quite like is chill the kite who has been in good form recently albeit after a horror show ride from baker last time when caught out on the stand side on his own, you have to forgive him that but with buick taking over after that prep run i expect him to be ridden for a place and come late here and at the 7-1 ew can go well from a good draw...anyway i hope he isn't better at seven but hopefully if he get him relaxed he should get home and is a course winner from his only start at the track
the top 2 in the market are respected but i fancy him to get the better of the others...any thoughts?
I see the books have put Captain Cat in at 2-1 and rightly so, on his romp at salisbury...anyway that run was only 9 days ago and he is drawn out wide here
Just trying to figure out whether fanning will let the johnston horse loose here on the lead...he was strangled last time and was one paced when let down after being free early...
hors de combat is progressive and just got nailed close home in that messy race with the pair pulling clear he is likeable but just not sure if he saves a bit for himself but will have small saver on
anyway the one i quite like is chill the kite who has been in good form recently albeit after a horror show ride from baker last time when caught out on the stand side on his own, you have to forgive him that but with buick taking over after that prep run i expect him to be ridden for a place and come late here and at the 7-1 ew can go well from a good draw...anyway i hope he isn't better at seven but hopefully if he get him relaxed he should get home and is a course winner from his only start at the track
the top 2 in the market are respected but i fancy him to get the better of the others...any thoughts?
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Captain cat only two runs this year last week and back in April so can't see that he would bottomed after running nine days ago , wide draw not ideal but doyle is a patient rider who will get him into the pack soon enough . looks the clear form choice. GL
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captain cat or hors de combat look the likely winners on form, favs still seems fresh with just the 3 runs this year. gl all
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Unlucky Captain Cat backers, Doyle left his brain in the stalls.
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Did William Buick do a better job than George Baker? I wonder if the horse is just not good enough.
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Buick?
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Yes Buick.
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Oh, you mean Harry's post. Whether a horse would've won or not doesn't mean it wasn't given a poor ride. In every other sport comments are made in the media about poor decisions. In tennis, snooker, football, cricket, etc, poor choices of shots and decisions are referred to, whereas in the racing media there are only brilliant rides and unlucky ones. Utter bollocks and a complete turn off to most potential young racing fans. If poor rides are all going to be referred to as unlucky then there can be no such thing as a great ride, they just got lucky.
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Did William Buick do a better job than George Baker? I wonder if the horse is just not good enough.CryCry
so did you think baker gave the horse a good ride at newbury feltfair? shame you didn't post your thoughts before the race but nice to have a good aftertime you seem quite pleased to shove it up me by your posts...grins and cry... i got the fav beat which is all i wanted the way i play...fanning rode them to sleep on the easy lead and chill the kite got buffeted around at the start and was very free off the slow fractions... you are right feltfair he wasn't good enough so well done clever guy clearly but i suppose emell was good enough to finish where he did in a muddling race, yes he was because he sat right on the leaders shoulder and had the run of the race just for the record figgis i agree a horrible ride by doyle |
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Negativity followed by abuse, standard behaviour.
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interesting - abuse?
nice and flippant feltfair |
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It was not a great ride on Captain Cat but the horse looked a total pig to me in the last furlong.
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Won 3 of his last 6 starts, not bad for a total pig.
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His head went in the air when asked to challenge at Goodwood.
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He's done it before, it's never stopped him from winning and he was still consenting to run on at Goodwood, crap ride.
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I agree he put his head in the air...the point is though he sat up in the saddle without asking the horse until 1 1/2 furlongs out after they had gone slow, sat motionless in fact...it had nothing to do with how genuine the horse is as he ran through the line, it was more down to doyle making the error of not getting his horse closer in a slowly run race...poor judgement on this occasion from the jockey no matter how you cut it but also a very good tactical ride from fanning
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The worst thing, harry, was the post race explanations from cetain pundits. I had no bet on the race and decided to watch it on ch4 for the HD coverage, so I don't know what was said on RUK. Persad has his detractors on here but to be fair to him he immediately criticised the ride. However this was quickly followed by wishy-washy McGrath's feeble excuses.
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Hope those who backed Captain Cat recovered losses yesterday. At least Doyle was openly honest in his criticism of his own ride, which is a good sign of a jockey that will improve on his mistakes, imo. Just a pity we have eunuchs as racing presenters.
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