Oaks

shimmering bet down the khazi ! have followed you in on frankly darling ,missed the 33s and 16s but think the 12s each way is still worth a pop ,obviously love will be hard to beat but anything can happen the newcastle win was impressive and she should come on a bundle for that ,obviously needs to improve but should  have  frankie onboard and that counts for plenty. distance should suit and trainer has won it 3 times so knows whats needed . also  had an each way double with mogul for the derby 12s and 8s  good luck.

frankly darling 7/4 fav runs on tuesday, ribblesdale

im not so sure, look on  so wonderful today close up and still a maiden, love won well and is probably the best filly   out there and she was 3/6 last year.
just thinking before last week, pinatubo would have started 1/5 to beat love and peaceful

Frankly darling impresses

No mention of Gosden's Franconia on here yet. I liked her win on Saturday and would think it will be a tough choice for Frankie.

you think frankly darling didnt have anything up her sleeve impossible?

Frankly Darling won despite pulling early on. If held up longer and then sprinted away to win her race I'd be impressed. I'm not sure how good the horses she beat were. Then again I said the same about Enable when she out ran Rhododendron in the Oaks. I hope I'm not wrong this time.

I’ve watched the race a few times now. FD is obviously very highly strung which accounts for the hood she wears to the start. The first part of the race could not have been run any worse....without any meaningful pace which caused FD to pull as hard as any horse in the race for nearly 3 furlongs. At this point I thought it wasn’t to be and that she would struggle to get home. The fact she had the raw ability to quicken clear 2 out and put the race to bed is testament to her class.

Epsom is the next stop. The track should suit her better with a 4 furlong climb which should allow her to drop the bit and get into a similar rhythm to Newcastle and with any amount of improvement still to come I’m sure O’Brien ISN’T thinking Love is a shoe in.

Franconia going for French Oaks I thought ?

I was just going from the Charlton interview this morning, and hoping the owner wants an Epsom runner.

Would be very interested in Raabihah if she were to come over for our Oaks??
Think she could be very smart, had a small poke at 36.0 for The Arc.

Having backed Frankly Darling I certainly hope that’s the case impossible123 but I do fear Love is a bit special - O’Brien seems confident going by recent comments. I also hope Frankly Darling settles a bit better to give her every chance on the day.

Will be interesting to see the SP’s of the market leaders.

Market manipulation it turns out.

11 left in sorry

Assuming all 8 stand their ground, Ennistymon each way at 7’s with 365 is a cracking bet.

She’s as short as 9/2 with PP/BF.

Hoping the ground is "good" and Love proves a special filly.

Despite some of the subsequent poor displays from some of the Guineas runners I still have it as an up to scratch winning performance from Love, and if she can run even close to that over the longer trip it'll take an exceptional performance to beat her. As to her staying or not, I wouldn't be truly confident either way. A bigger doubt I have about her is whether she will go on on from the Guineas. For some horses the Guineas is the culmination of what they achieved as a 2yo, and they don't do much after reaching that peak. For others it's a platform for them to have a great 3yo season. At this stage I'm more inclined to view Love in the former camp and so have no interest in her at a short price.

Frankly Darling was fairly impressive to the eye at Ascot, but I rate her a few pounds below an average Oaks winner. Possibly she can improve again, or if Love runs below par and nothing else steps up she may not need to, but I couldn't back her at this kind of price. The rest need to improve even more than her. Most of them look pretty exposed apart from Gold Wand. I was quite taken with her on debut where she ran very promisingly in defeat. I couldn't say she proved she had built on that on her reappearance at Newbury, but the race was very slowly run so it was difficult to show much more than she did. Again I was impressed with how she travelled and think she could leave that moderate form behind in a faster run race. Whether she is up to this level is total guesswork, but, in a race lacking depth and with doubts about the front two in the market, I'm having a small bet on her.

Its all
LOVE

IMPRESSIVE

Special, special filly.