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Oh you;ve gone awful quiet over there,
oh you;ve gone awful quiet over there, oh you;ve gone awful quiet, gone awful quiet, GONE AWFUL QUIET OVER THERE! |
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Nico de BIENville!
Ooh! La! La! |
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Sacked in the morning, Cobden;s getting sacked in the morning!
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Great Jockey and i will fight anybody that says otherwise.
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Well said Spurs?????? Are you having a laugh? He hasn;t uttered a word for ten minutes!
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And I'll be your Batman sir.
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Great jock on the big days unlike his 2nd jock, Bowen.
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I think Shishkin ran very well. A couple of sticky fences, and ran a touch in snatches but no great concern for me; Altior was the same. And, I think he'll be finishing up the Cheltenham hill too.
Watch out Galopin Des Champs! |
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Everybody is allowed to comment, but you go out of your way to ram your opinions. Which is ok if you have the ecperience in a saddle.
I don;t either by the way but then I try not to bully other forumites with bombast - unlike you. |
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Bowen found trouble, twice, in a four horse race the other day! Go figure how big stables employ him.
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Nico did a good job today, however I wanted to see a really impressive performance from the horse today with the Gold Cup in mind, didn't really get it .
You can't be coming on and off the bridle like that in a GC, he'll just lose his place, throw in the poor jumping and he's right up against it and he'll just give himself way too much to do. |
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LH I'm pretty sure acey has sat on a horse in the past
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I think you may be right but then he has a real superstar, in my opinion, granted, to beat.
His beating of Hitman is no great recommendation but his beating of Protektorat gives him every right to give it a bash though. Again, in my opinion. |
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Yes but i know that was not directed at me,
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I know he has. Good ones too. But then he knows what he is talking about and, when he gets it wrong he doesn't go and and hide - he takes it on the chin.
Where is spurs? |
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I think he is a very good jockey
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Shishkin has not had a run since Kempton. And, post finishing like that today I'm more convinced Shishkin would have won the King George; he'll be finishing like that too in the Gold Cup next month.
If alongside Galopin Des Champs or any other horse after the last my money will be on Shishkin 100%. |
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As for my quip about Cobden earlier it was made very much tongue in cheek. All his fans please accept that I think he is a brilliant jockey too.
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impossible
Did you lay SHISHKIN today, as you said you would? |
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Shishkin, he's always been on and off the bridle, even over 2 miles, but will keep finding, it's just the coming of the bridle that is the issue and around Cheltenham that could be an issue like in the Ryanair when he got into trouble.
Would love to see him win the Gold Cup, just not sure though. |
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Regards Nico, he doesn't get it very wrong on the big days and agree with James Bowen wouldn't have him on anything.
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'saxon farm', no I backed Protektorat (foolishly/forgotten tough previous race) to minimise pain for the Gold Cup (GC) just in case (I've backed Shishkin). Lately, my interest for this game is vaning by the day. Very possibly post Epsom Derby I may venture elsewhere for recreation than horseracing.
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