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Jim Best - the modern day equivalent of Barney Curley?
Jim Best - the modern day equivalent of Barney Curley?
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"Presumably 'a great bit of training' to take 7 runs to discover that the horse wanted better ground too?"
Dr Gonzo ,you may have hit the nail on the head with that comment,any fast ground horse are limited to two months of the year now are they not?,and even then they drench the flipping tracks to try and change it. |
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The better ground claim is total rubbish anyway. The race it cantered round in at Wincanton was run on ground fast enough to produce a time of 3m 32.6, only a couple of seconds over standard.
That race was won by Nordic Quest who finished 74 lengths in front of Saint Helena. When the same two horses met at Goodwood last autumn, Saint Helena was a couple of lengths the better at level weights, and that was on the soft ground she's now supposed to dislike. |
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So, for the sake of argument, if you have a horse that wants fast ground, what reason is there to run it round Plumpton in January on bottomless ground?
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Thousands of similar sorts have been beat The Anorak,I did not bet SH,too short for me,I was very interested in his other one,who I still feel could have walked it,but that's racing.
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Dr Gonzo Sir Mark still runs stayers in sprint races at two,and so do most others,it all helps!
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If you mean it helps in getting a lenient handicap mark, then yes.
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Have a look at the Melbourne Cup,them Aussies have to run in sprints to get there 2 mile stayers off the radar.
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Look folks it was SH turn to win,it's the same in most races,no crime committed,and this will never change
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Can't get too worked up about something that happens all the time but swapping jocks is dodgy ground. Neither of the jocks would relish 10-8 and McCoy not being given notice that he's to do his lowest weight in 3 weeks+ in his 2nd ride of the day seems v v unlikely.
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Apparently Best has a clear conscience,Great to know
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Good old-fashioned coup. If you stage racing with low-prizemoney, handicaps/claimers and bookmakers, owners, trainers and jockeys need to pull off clever stunts like this to make ends meet.
That is what Gay Future and most of the others, including Curley's gambles, all boil down to. Couldn't happen in Hong Kong, Australia, France - and indeed wouldn't need to. |
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One horse that Best did not get much of a return on for its owner was Gee Dee Nen. It supposedly cost £100K to get it from the Mark Tomkins yard where it was a six time Flat winner.
In about eight runs it only won a small Hurdle race at Ludlow before its owners sent it to Gary Moore who did not have much success with it either. |
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I see Saint Helena has been put up 8lb for that win.
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