MAUREEN

I'm also on!

could have gone close but got knocked all over

will always be unlucky.
if you backed it you were fooled by the horse.

It wouldn't have been a surprise on her run at Newmarket where she got no kind of run at all and yet again the same happened in this.

It's always a gamble when a horse is surrounded by so many other runners and she got knocked from pillar to post but I wouldn't write her off just yet, but she certainly gets no luck in running as this is the third time now but a race like the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot might suit her if not too many runners and going around a turn might filter out some of the traffic problems.

Any of you guys who thought that she was unlucky at Newmarket need to stop gambling now. You have a lot to learn about race-reading.

They keep trying to creep to try and help her get the trip, at this stage she needs a step back imo.

Of course she was unlucky at Newmarket easygold and not trying to rude here but suggest if you think she wasn't then maybe it's you who needs to stop gambling now and not others.

The Racing Post after race comments were:

Steadied after start, held up in last quartet, not clear run over 2f out, still only 11th when ridden well over 1f out, headway and edging right over 1f out, ran on strongly inside final furlong, not reach leaders.

And despite all of that finished 6th, so made 5 places in the final 2f to only to be beaten 2½L after being switched back and forth to try to get a run, where once the jockey switched to the near side, had he continued to do that she would have got a clear run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wJzFi9DnEI

Watch the video from around 1 minute in and ignore the race and just watch her run.

easygold has this game by the bollocks

peslier got it wrong at newmarket because of the stamina issue and hughes was just unlucky today

So a filly that has won at 7f easygold and in two mile classics was doing her best work at the finish despite traffic problems and was closing all the way to the line, compared to say how far she was behind at the 6f pole in both races doesn't stay?

I think maybe you need to go and watch the videos again.

I'd say she's obv a doubtful stayer but as Rease said, none of us know. Hannon and Hughes don't, tactics and interviews seem to point towards if she does she willlll.....just.

If she was a doubtful stayer she would be dropping away at the end of her races rather then finishing and closing down/narrowing the gap between herself and the leaders and those ones weren't stopping either.

I hope they don't drop her back in trip though.

I think you could well be right cardiffc as bar a few odd ones, most of our sprinters are either failed milers or promoted handicappers and she wouldn't have to be great to win a decent 6f race but I think it's too early to consider her a failed miler yet but would understand them dropping her back in trip as her class would still make her competitive at 6f.

I suppose it's all about opinions but it's the connections who get to make the call.

Are u changing ur mind??

It pains me to say it, but I agree with ima on this one. She is a class filly who will prove herself over the trip ridden with more confidence

only 1 English classic winner tells its own story

No mate, It's the Fallon thing I have problems with at times. He has ridden for me in the past and in my opinion he's a wrong un who considers himself untouchable.

He has upset a lot of people and if, as I suspect, you are quite close to him then I am sure you will know this. You appear to defend him on every thread when at times he is truly indefensible.

We will learn more today for this 7f horse.

Only just seen this once the thread was brought up again so just to say I'm not actually close to Fallon tip1uk if you get to see this and have never even met him and know full well as a human being he has his flaws but all I've ever done initially is state that the Baliinger Ridge ride was a human error c0ck up and not dodgy. It then seems most of the vitriol towards him stems from that, so if he gets beaten on anything else or misses the break as all jockeys do, that's when the dodgy claims get wheeled out again.

As for Maureen today, again I felt she was a little unlucky in running although nothing like as before and eventually got the gap she needed if good enough but just wasn't, although I still wouldn't say she definitely doesn't get the mile because she was ridden a lot more handily today probably to trying to ensure she doesn't have traffic problems again, yet take the winner out which put distance between the rest and Maureen has finished a reasonably close up 3rd behind what would have been a dual 1000gns winner but for today's winner again.