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Rancid Post Bloopers
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Them replay options are dangerous! |
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High Ron 5/2 9 11-12 Caroline Bailey 120 18 131 »
Tom Scudamore Made all, lumped left 14th, mistake 3 out, not fluent last, ridden out (tchd 9/4 and 11/4) |
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6.40 Bath last night...
"Primobella, up in trip for this seasonal/handicap debut, struck on over two out and ran a fine race. She couldn´t hold on but should improve for drier ground." Odd one that, because she ran over slightly further in a handicap 2 weeks ago, and the winner of that race was in the same race last night.... "Rainbow Lad, a fast-ground Beverley winner, failed to reproduce the form here on a much more testing surface." So hard to see how he missed it, as he must have had the form available. |
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Fisherman Frank 25/1 5 10-9 Michael Blake — — —
QUOTES We´ve only had Fisherman Frank about five weeks and he´s had a few niggles which we´ve had sorted out. He´s schooled well over hurdles at home and that will probably be the plan a bit later in the autumn - Johnny Farrelly, trainer. |
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10 3 8 Perspicace 4/1 5 8-13 p David Pipe 77 27 63
Sam Hitchcott Midfield, ridden 4f out, weakened over 2f out, eased, finished 12th, placed 11th (op 7/2) Finished 12th, placed 11th - 10 runners! |
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Oops 11 runners! Still....
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Racing Post Result......
ASCOT 2:45 1st (8) Desert Law 8/1C 2nd (13) Robot Boy 8/1C 3rd (15) Lexington Abbey 12/1 4th (3) Jack Dexter 20/1 ACTUAL RESULT 14:45 Ascot 1st 18 Royal Birth 8/1 c 2nd 13 Robot Boy (IRE) 8/1 c 3rd 15 Lexington Abbey 12/1 4th 3 Jack Dexter 20/1 |
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She wouldn´t want the ground to get too testing though even then YULONG BAOBEI (nap) still ran well for a long way over 6f in the soft at Royal Ascot and that seventh in the Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle run over 5F |
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This can go to ON ALBERTS HEAD, a dual point winner who appeared to be going well before losing his footing on the home turn on his chasing debut last month and remains on the same mark as when scoring over hurdles two starts ago
The race in which ON ALBERTS HEAD "lost his footing" was a hurdle race..... More sloppiness from the Rancid ..... |
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Just about to post this myself pp. His chasing debut was at Exeter on 3rd May in an intermediate hunter behind Sonoftheking. How good is Chris Wilson!
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Here's a classic today from the 230 Perth today (Sandra Noble). I don't know what race she was watching but it was clearly a different one to me
Dumbarton was under pressure from a long way out but looked a challenger turning in before fading. As this was only his third start in two and a half years he might improve for this. |
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Owen Burrows has now got an apostrophe in his name according to today's RP news headlines...
"York likely for Massaat as Burrow's lowers sights" |
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I'd agree with intheknow's previous comment. Dumbarton travelled easily at the steady pace, and was never under any pressure until the 2nd last when asked for an effort (as you might expect having raced over shorter trips previously). Also, her arithmetic is wrong, it was his 3rd race in ONE and a half years. And I don't know why she'd expect him to improve - he was beaten futher than he was 3 weeks earlier when he certainly wasn't ridden as if needed the run, being sent clear at the bottom of the Hexham hill. Also, he wore a tongue-tie for the first time in his life at Hexham (and again here) - no mention in the analysis that day. Also, 3 runs ago, the RP analysis said he likes good ground - it was soft at Perth - any comment? Also, it was only his 2nd run ever at 3 miles having been PU on his previous try - did he stay? - any comment? In short, inaccurate, space-filling guff.
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Troubled Soul twice called a "he" in the spotlight for limerick...despite running in a mares only
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Not a mistake - But, surely, an OMISSION
NO mention whatsoever in the ANALYSIS under the 6:10 Wolverhampton race RESULT, last evening, - - that the Winner started at 200/1 - with a Betfair SP of 764.0 |
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From the website. Not often you see a typo in the first word in a headline ffs.
Eposm: De Sousa at the double Silvestre de Sousa lands a double at Epsom to go with yesterday's four-timer at the same track after Nouvelli Dancer takes the 7f handicap. He leads Jim Crowley by three (83-80) in the title race. 4 hours ago |
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^ I thought, 'E posm' - was how Dame Edna used to address her audience.
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Goes well with slats
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The Beverley Bullet on Saturday...
re Son of Africa... "Blind removed late..." Wrong horse. They really should pick this sort of thing up and correct it. It's materially wrong. |
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They've got Schindler's Prince winning off 85 at uttoxeter when he actually won off 92.
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Wonder how many more people wouldve bet him at bangor next time out if they'd known he was only off an 8lbs higher mark!
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I did and I did!
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In all honesty I find myself rechecking stuff that I see on the website simply because there are so many errors. I'd tweet Millington but he's blocked me for asking, politely, questions/issues that he found difficult to answer or justify.
He's done a first class job in dumbing down and reducing standards in what should be racing's main media outlet. |
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It was Maarek that the blind was off late
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Blake Dean won over hurdles two starts ago and Reverse The Charge deverses to get his head in front soon,
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i see wheldon is still doing his spotlight for the rp
5.50 muss, says trainer J J Feane has a record of 5/16 when bringing horses over from ireland, well its actually 5/22 (gw mistakenly read his turf record) |
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Fair play to Alan Sweetman, who has corrected his 'blooper' from the weekend!
In his analysis of Landfall's Group 3 win on Saturday, he wrote, not unreasonably  , that the horse could ultimately make a Classic contender for Ken Condon next season.However, the problem with this suggestion is that the horse is a gelding and presumably won't be eligible to run in the Classics! Alan though has clearly subsequently realised (or had it pointed out to him  ) his 'blooper' and not only has it been corrected in the online analysis, but he has even mentioned the horse is a gelding in his Ireland's Eye column today! |
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From the BHA website-
Newton Abbot / Fri 16 Sep Going/TrackGood, Good to Soft in places (GoingStick: 6.4 on Friday at 06:00) Updated @ 6:20am, Fri 16 Sep Rails: All bends moved out since last meeting by approx. 2m. Race distances effected as follows: Race 1 & 6 adds approx. 23 yards Race 2, 3 & 7 adds approx. 17 yards Race 4 & 5 adds approx. 29 yards Updated @ 6:45am, Fri 16 Sep Watering: There has been no watering for this meeting. Updated @ 6:33am, Thu 15 Sep Another dumbo who doesn't know the difference between "affected" and "effected". |
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FESTIVE DAY 4.20 Bal
"Down the field on most recent handicap hurdle run, won a beginners´ chase in the spring" Can't see any handicap runs |
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Southfield Vic probably bumped into one when beaten by a stablemate of the winner at Wincanton in December, but he was also beaten at 1-8 that day and his attitude will rightly now come under real scrutiny
----------- It was 4/6, at, "Wincanton in December" - not, "also beaten at 1-8 that day" - went off 1/3 the time before - but that was at Fakenham in November. |
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Charlie Parker - 2:10 Ludlow:
The only runner with the benefit of hurdling experience but didn´t achieve much at Worcester (remote sixth), finishing behind Hazamar. That was Invocation! |
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York Saturday 2;35 Weights - Care Needed
TheAnorak TheAnorak 07 Oct 16 20:59 Joined: 28 Oct 01 | Topic/replies: 1,707 | Blogger: TheAnorak's blog It seems the Post still haven't managed to spot the important clause included in the conditions for this race and others of the same type: NOTE: Any horse rated below 96 shall be treated as having that rating for the calculation of the weights In the online racecard, Snoano and Chancery are correctly shown as carrying 9-4, but their ratings are given as 95 and 89, not 96. Nor is there any mention under the racecard that any horses are running from out of the handicap. The same thing applies with the 3-y-olds Autocratic and Cote D'Azur. The Spotlight comments also seem oblivious of the 96 minimum condition - e.g 'Chancery fully 9lbs lower than winning this race last year'. Oh no he's not as he's 7lbs out of the handicap. Pretty hopeless from so called experts. |
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« 4 10 ½ Intisaab 28/1 5 8-11 p David O'Meara 99 88 104 —
Shelley Birkett3 Took keen hold early, prominent, not clear run from 2f out, ridden and stayed on final furlong but winner still overtook him ---------- What else would a WINNER do?  |
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James Fanshawe, who won the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes with The Tin Man and saddled Speedy Boarding to finish second in the Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes, was also referred to the BHA's Holburn base after stewards deemed he may have breeched rules relating to restrictions of horses on racecourses.
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Strumble Head (IRE) 7/2 11 11-12 b Peter Bowen 115 — —
Sean Bowen Chaswd winner until 9th, lost place 13th, tailed off 3 out (op 10/3 tchd 3/1) |
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On their website/database Galileo (no - not that one and not the other one either...the one before that) was sired by Fantastic Light. That's Fantastic Light b1996 with Galileo b1975. How does that work?
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It may wrong to call this a blooper, but I wonder what's the point of it:
The close up comment for Elm Grove who finished second at Navan on Wenesday: "...held by winner." I don't think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that if a horse finishes second then it has been "held by the winner" ! Sometimes they write "always held", which is fair comment if a horse persistently challenges but isn't able to get past having had every chance to, but that wasn't the case here for a horse who met a bit of trouble before staying on well to be never nearer. |
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From Yesterday's paper. "That appeared to leave the race in the hands of long-time leader Spock and the 9-1 chance was backed to 1.01 for the win".
Complete nonsense - the lowest Spock traded was 1.32. |
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4:40 - Racing UK HD Handicap Hurdle
Full result 1m7½f, Class 4, £3,249.00 1 Billy My Boy 2/1 2 Borak 20/1 3 Courtlands Prince 6/4F NR: Alberta (IRE), Trans Express (IRE) 6 ran Distances: dht, shd, 7l TIME 3m 28.90s (fast by 2.10s) Jockey: James Davies Trainer: Chris Down WIN £3.10 PL £1.50, £4.70 Ex £33.10 CSF £31.81 TRICAST £72.12 PLACEPOT £393.20 to a £1 stake. Pool: £59783.03, 110.99 winning units. QUADPOT £108.90 to a £1 stake. Pool: £3887.06, 26.4 winning units. Following a stewards' inquiry, Courtlands Prince, who passed the post dead-heat 2nd, was disqualified and placed 3rd - caused interference. Borak was awarded outright 2nd. Chaps, the winning distance was a short head not a dead heat. |
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Show's Over (IRE) 9/4F 5 11-1 tv Tim Vaughan 83 — —
Tom O'Brien Took keen hold, held up in touch in midfield, effort to challenge before 2 out, driven flat, kept on but never getting past beaten (op 11/4) |