Gabby you seem incapable of taking on even the most basic of arguments  if it deviates even slightly from your blinkered and fawning view,that everyone in racing must be beyond criticism.You are a sycophant,blinded to the point of idiocy.

So your latest attempt,after the laughable 8 out of 10 hoses have gaps open for them at GOODWOOD or that a horse can only be stopped from getting a run by more than 3 horses,to justify Hughes ride.Is that Hughes deliberately steered SL in behind other horse close home because he wanted cover.So he was prepared to take a major risk of losing a gr 1 race to get cover for a horse that has never shown it needs cover.Not logical is it Gabby.Some horses need cover to run their best races most don't,so its best on those horses not to go into areas where a clear run is unlikely.


Why don't you try one of your Favorite anti punte pro the great a good arguments,that I must only be moaning because I am a pocket talker.All your other arguments have fallen flat on their face.

I think there are some fair points on both sides. In my opinion the horse had a run on the outside. Hughes took a pull and got some cover to make sure she didn't go too early over the trip - that ultimately cost her as the run she had on the outside evaporated.

I think, granted a clear run, she would have scrambled home with a burst of speed between the 2 and 1. Certainly travelling better than the winner as she tried to squeeze into the gap. The horse has speed. We all know she is not an out and out galloper, so she was never gonna get home after meeting that kind of trouble.

As for the ground, I honestly don't think it was fast enough for her, especially over the trip. She wants it rattling and a fast time won't convince me that the ground didn't have a bit of cut, or at the very least dead patches.

So a horse that you may have doubts about staying(none were expressed by connections,infact the opposite)the plan was to keep asking it to decelerate and quicken again.The surest way to tire a horse.The best way to keep a horse from tiring,is to allow it to run at a smooth and uninterrupted pace,then to quicken.So did this cunning plan work to steer SL in behind and then have to keep snatching up,did that help the horse stay the extra 2 furlongs.Would you advise Hughes to do the same again if the race was re run?

Tonto thinks that by covering up a horse is the surest way to tire it out.

The surest way to tire SL  was running it into the back of other horses,when it was not necessary.AG so do you think every horse benefits from being covered up?If not why do you think it was a good idea to take this risk of being stopped with SL.

That's the main point D2E SL did not have to be covered up to win,so it was an error to do place it in a position where trouble was very likely.

Agree D2E  Hughes is very good most of the time but as on SL he over complicates too many times.Not sure if its because he likes to show boat or just that he gets himself in bad positions too often.

I personally think Hughes's problem stemmed from when Johnny's Murtagh's horse drifted towards the inside across the Godolphin runner which caused that one to edge out across Hughes, so was as much the Godolphin runner edging out as it was Hughes going back inside. Whilst he certainly did go inside for a stride or two, I was as a result of what the other horses did ahead of him, yet once the Godolphin runner went a length up on him he then tried to edge out again to make the run some on here are saying he should have all along. That actual run wouldn't have been possible anyway with the Godolphin runner edging out unless Hughes edged out even more, meaning he went even wider, otherwise he would have just run up the arse of the Godolphin horse and have been stopped in his tracks.

Unfortunately for him at just about the time he went inside to avoid the Godolphin runner edging out across him, as he tried to come back out again himself a few strides later, Buick came up on his outer and gave his horse a slap with the whip in his left/wrong hand and pushed Hughes back in again. Even then for a stride or two it looked as if Hughes could still have come between the Godolphin horse and Buick on the winner until they both performed a pincer move on Hughes and squeezed him up, causing him to snatch up and costing him any chance of a place let alone any chance of the win.

r walsh,6/4 under 5, 4 won ,=+3 profit,60 per cent return on investment, free money.

can't add much to what has been said about the ride except that I don't think she would have won anyway.

Sky Lantern looked a world beater at Royal Ascot but has subsequently had two unpleasant experiences, clouted on the head by Buick's whip at Newmarket and then squeezed out and buffeted about at Goodwood.

Deserves a break now, bring her back in the Autumn if there's some decent ground.

I hope they keep her in training as 4yo, sure there is more to come from her.

hughsey 5 wins 1 nr.windsor.

Compare their number of jockey title wins and classic winners and then you might understand it's not actually as laughable as you misguidedly think...........and Hughes just for good measure via a couple of family connections has had things a lot easier in the game compared to Fallon too.

Well as long as that one trick is to get his horse over the line before anyone else then I don't think he will get too many complaints.

Not that he was a one trick pony anyway as his rides from off the pace and getting up late with perfect timing have shown on many occasions, as much as his completely different rides when he has set out to make all and judged the pace to perfection and won have also shown.

Meanwhile with a finesse jockey like Spencer, well best of luck backing him looking stylish and and crossing the line in 5th having given the horse far too much to do but at least he looked the part eh? Oh and as far as I'm aware, you don't get paid out any extra on here if your jockey is pleasing to the eye in the saddle.

No but my family come for Galway and I grew up around horses and have worked in a number of stables in the past, although not racing ones and nor have I ever ridden in an actual race.

I've also never driven in a Grand Prix race either but when a driver crashes into the tyre wall I think I can work out something went wrong there, and I'm assuming all gynaecologists must not only be female but mothers too as who else would be qualified to make medical judgements on the female reproductive system?

Hughes is good when he keeps it simple. God only knows why this concept seems to be difficult for him to stick to.

I just hope Flyingbolt never finds out where you live.