Gosden bottling out again

British trainer running in the British Champion Stakes...seems logical

He thumped Delacroix last time and he’s bottling?!

Will we see Delacroix after the Irish Champion?

Let’s see ….

The Irish have paid the travel expenses for SHIN Emperor such is their desperation to form a field for this G1.

Zarhann is also entered in the Prix Niel.

Easy to talk large when you likely know it won’t happen!

'We'll put the pace on and find out once and for all who the best horse is' - Aidan O'Brien wants Delacroix decider with Ombudsman

"I really hope he will come over," replied O'Brien when asked about round three of Ombudsman and Delacroix. "Sheikh Mohammed is probably the greatest sportsman we’ve ever seen and I know our men will be delighted if he comes over. We’d love him to come to Leopardstown and, if he does, it will be a proper race.


"We’ll try to run a pacemaker if John doesn’t and we’ll make it very straightforward. The pacemaker will go on and Delacroix can follow him and Ombudsman can follow Delacroix, if he wants! We’ll let them turn into the straight and see what happens from there. For the race and for everybody we want it to happen – win, lose or draw, we’ll be delighted.

Run a pacemaker like you did in the POW and King George?

Wasn’t there one in the race at York?

They know it’s horses for courses - it’s hometown advantage for Delacroix having won there twice this year.

O'Brien sends horses for all the top UK races but UK trainers scarcely send over any (especially during the NH season). Would have been intersting to see the 2 clash again but I'm not surprised at all.

Hmmmm I understand what you’re saying but here it’s easy pickings when he comes, that might be the reason!

I’d say outlining The Champion Stakes, The Breeders Cup and Japan Cup shows a lot of bottle. It’s an audacious plan and one that doesn’t play ball with their shatty ones.

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BREAKING: Ombudsman will not run in the Irish Champion Stakes next Saturday and will now be freshened up for an autumn campaign targeting the Champion Stakes at Ascot, Breeders' Cup and Japan Cup.

Hopefully you were on Delacroix before the odds changes that came with the news.

Amnat is still a good yard stick should he turn up to give the race any cred.

I just like to see the best horses turn up in the best races, we have too much of trainers/owners avoiding each other and its at the detrement to the game which is already going down the drain fast.

I totally agree TG AoB has more than one that he could run here there’s only one Colt for Godolphin so you can see why they’ve chosen to do what they have.

I think all those races seem too much, but we’ll see.

These trainers cherry pick the best opportunities to win, when you don’t have the amo you have to be more selective.

I’m not a fan of NH but understand your dislike of British trainers ambition to travel there. You can understand that reluctance given the power houses based in Ireland.

What’s worse for British trainers and racing (like Nicholls) who does run in Ireland is that British owners are now sending horses to Ireland.
Eg the King following on from Cheveley Park etc… I forget the other recent owners sending horses to Mullins and not Nicki or Paul.

For me that’s a very bad sign for British jumps racing, because it’s not like those guys can’t train.

Henderson was a prime example with Constitution Hill, wouldnt go over when the horse was in top form and not sure what to expect from it this year.

It was madness and desperation to travel the horse when they did.

They have their preferred routes or pattern to Cheltenham and can understand why they’ve chosen not to travel before March.
Punchestown was an afterthought and not fair on the horse.

At the same time Hendo will say that they never sent State Man to face Constituion Hill and sent a scout instead in Lossiemouth.

I’m all for trainers who travel and think that it makes for exciting racing, sadly it seems it’s not happening as often as we’d like.

I think times have changed this year  , Punchestown 2025 - Dereham , Pipe , Jonjo , King , Greatrex and Hendo (2) all had  winners .

Henderson clearly has much to learn from DelaDimwit

But,he was spot on regarding the Irish Champion race

Appleby did with Pinatubo and Native Trail to take on Coolmore at their backyard. Hendo is a chicken.

uptheirons • September 3, 2025 1:36 PM BST
But,he was spot on regarding the Irish Champion race

impossible123 • September 3, 2025 2:52 PM BST
Hendo is a chicken.

Wonderfully succinct Impossible!

Implausible surpasses even his normal ineptitude

Ombudsman is owned by a dictator so Gosden may have taken instructions from above.

As has been already pointed out,why would you want to travel and face the certainty of team tactics by AOB?
If AOB truly wants to find out he could come Ascot.
The spacing of Gosden's plan is better for the horse

If Delacroix has an easy time in the Irish version he may well run in both.

O'Brien said: "We want everyone to come. The more runners we have from everywhere means we will have more interest from all over the world. That way our horses and everyone else's can be gauged. It's from now on that the travelling roadshow starts, but we would love all these good horses to come to Leopardstown first."

Without them there’s little substance to the race.

This statement makes me think we might not see him, unless he tries the mile at Ascot for extra prestige?

'I can't tell you how important he is' - Aidan O'Brien on Coolmore's Eclipse hero Delacroix

"I can't tell you how important he is. The lads have been looking for a Dubawi all their life and he's out of a champion. He's a beautiful big horse with power, strength and everything you want. I am delighted for the lads that he has won," said O'Brien, who was registering a remarkable ninth win in the race. 

Although his year-older Galileo half-sister Grateful won the Group 1 Prix de Royallieu over a mile and six last year, Delacroix failed to stay the Derby trip at Epsom last time out and Ryan Moore believes the colt has the speed to drop down in distance.
"I think ten furlongs is fine but if anything he would probably run shorter," commented the jockey who was winning the race for the third year in a row and the fifth time in his career.

"We have always held him in high regard right from his two-year-old days. He is out of a great racemare and by Dubawi and only time will tell how much they can step it up when they race."

He’s - 14/1 for the QE11

12/1 and bigger than Amnat @ 8/1 for the Champion.

Do the bookies think we’ll see him again?

I can fully see why Diamond has swerved this knowing it’s been their target ;)

so in 2 consecutive group 0nes,judd and isish champion, 2 of the worlds greatest trainers both saying because the way races were run,would be run,,some of the worlds highest rated horses wont be able to/didnt show their form, but they expect punters to bet on it
come racing
their surely bringing racing in to disrepute

Gosden has stated quite clearly that the spacing of the races made his decision easy.
I don't for a second believe he has made the wrong call

The present trainers (Gosden senior included) are very unlike Sir Cecil and Sir Stoute or Mr Cumani or Mr Harwood. They do not have a firm itinerary for the star charges and often subject to media influence or after thought ie no set target.

Until Field Of Gold runs again and beats a distinguished Gp 1 field he cannot be compared in the same vein as Kingman or Baaeed let alone Frankel or Dancing Brave. Field Of Gold have beaten mediocrities so far.

Is anybody trying to do that,implausible?

In this instance Impossible I have to say that Gosden doesn’t plan for anyone but him and his horses. He’s targeted perfectly races like the Lockinge and has shown brilliant patience to win races with the horses picked for them.

The ground work goes back far and it’s something I look out for.

He plotted the POW and won it with a 33/1 shot, he’s under the radar value in the big G1’s.

He spent a most  of (‘22) running Mostahdaf over 1m 4f then dropped him back to 10f, truly a great. Waiting a year for one race.
The public had forgotten his runs earlier that year at Sandown behind Bay Bridge and had him as a slow horse that was now needing 1m 4f.

Gosden has form. He'd So Mi Dar (2f) for the Epsom Oaks. The horse was a no show due to a slight injury. Gosden was adamant she'd be ok for the Irish equivalent. Again, no show, instead rerouted to France a few days later. Similarly, Jack Hobbs who was supposed to be running in the Coronation Cup but ended up in the PoW instead, and finished last. The excuse was the firm ground.

It’s the master plan  to big odds

These days I take everything a trainer says with a pinch of salt, a larger dose if one is bookie-talking eg Hendo / AOB / Mullins.

Have you ever considered applying for MENSA membership,implausible

Deary me i take a look at the Gosden thread and there he is…..

unbearable would struggle to get into densa

I have a view Aceform and have experessed it,do you?

Ombudsman only stuffed Delacroix by over 3Ls LTO.
Now he's running scared

Exactly.penzance

Mitolo

think we,re missing the point here
AOB said the york race was a joke,his horses didnt get a chance to run their best race
JG aint going to ire because he said tight track with AOB mob handed unlikely to get race run to suit
so 2 grade ones,2 best horses,2 best trainers and no one thinks they,ll get a fair crack at the race,basically JG thinks coolmore will cut him up
thats the game at its highest level in uk,now do every race below that

Gosden bottle?!

Come again!

Never believed the form of the Eclipse as stated elsewhere ;)

What irritates me is that John Gosden always has an excuse when his latest superstar gets beaten (again) Ombudsman ran right up to form but Field of Gold is just a decent 3yo miler who was way over rated. If the draw put him on the wrong side then find a jockey who can get him across to the other side. It was a straight mile with 16 runners for goodness sake.

Always enjoy his interviews.  One of Racing’s standout representatives imo.

An aftertime by Delbert.
Has this ever happened before

YES.

... Just seen he actually turned up on the Comps thread with his nonsense aftertiming... What a complete plonker. 

Didnt have the bottle to join himself but crawls on afterwards spouting the biggest load of bollix you will ever see. Sad phucker.

As he doesn't bet,it does'nt matter to him.
One of  his copy and pastes is bound to be right,eventually

Having seen you selections bitter one, can see why you’re so disgruntled!

One of us walked away quids in, one was left scratching!

Field Of Gold -  was always over rated!

Took some time to see that but the clues were there and didn’t I ask why or how he’d been given a higher rating than Ombudsman?

I can c&d where I stated that beforehand for those who doubt!

“Always enjoy his interviews.  One of Racing’s standout representatives imo.”

Agreed wholeheartedly!

Most trainers make excuses Sage - AOB made them for Delacroix re the pace after the International.

Turned out a two horse race with the shippers not trying and Delacroix got a new one torn for him that day too!

There’s a lot of irony in AOB suing the the international was a messy race as the Eclipse had looked the same also.

If Delbert had posted his 6.47pm post pre race he might have some credibility.
The fact is,he didn't.
He turns up well after the race,as usual,to try to appear smart
An aftertiming,non betting,copy and paste bore with no equal

It is one thing to make valid excuses but Gosden still seems to think that Field of Gold is the best miler around despite plenty of evidence that he is not. His defeat in the Guineas cost the jockey his job but has he improved since? He has been fourth and fifth in his only runs against older horses and the ones he beat in the Craven and the Irish GNS have hardly been advertising the form. Wimbledon Hawkeye has won a good race at Keeneland but Aomori City has since been gelded and Cosmic Year and Hotazhell have failed to win since he beat them.

I'm very surprised that Johnny G didn't withdraw Field of Gold from the QE2 yesterday, given that he knew he wasn't "match fit", he wouldn't run again this season, and therefore yesterday couldn't have been a prep run for an upcoming race.
Obviously just trying to nick another weak Group 1.

Oi gob****e bottle job!

Just to remind you of how many times you and others were asked!

Delashay • August 18, 2025 10:47 AM BST
Delashay • August 17, 2025 6:56 PM BST
And before I retire for the evening to paint into the night, I’ll ask YOU ALL :

Would you be willing or rushing to take such short odds for Field Of Gold again even thought two all age mile races have been won by the older generation despite there being NO standout star?

Delashay • August 17, 2025 7:26 PM BST
Delashay • August 17, 2025 7:08 PM BST
It’s an open question to everyone

I’ll await anyone’s thoughts on that subject and question posed, but I won’t hold my breath for a racing based response.

Post your profits from the race then.
I almost forgot that you don't bet do you
Go away you utter bore.

There’s only one on repeat mode Alf!

And one who ducks giving an opinion when asked outright! More than once I may add as the c&d prove! Time and again!

Couldnt help notice the aftertime was a 4 horse Acca this time !!  What next ? ..  Aftertimed Goliath.
 

I refer you to my 4.45pm post

Clearly autistic

You were asked more than once - bottled like the yellow coward that you are! Revert to type yet again why don’t you!

How is sweep getting on?

Delbert seems to be getting a tad irritated

"A yellow coward"
You have been watching too many Westerns Delbert