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28 Aug 11
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up at around 5am this morning and my tv was still on on ATR and there was a Hurdle race on in Australia on and i watched it(just found out it was the Australian Grand National)and i see the winner pull up after the race and been lead back . I said in my sleepy haze "I know that jockey from somewhere" and i fell asleep . Never thought any more about till just a few mins ago and said i'd checked it up.
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Day of drama and despair as Black And Bent gets the jump on his rivals again
Michael Lynch
August 29, 2011 .
The winners on the day could not have been more different. Black and Bent, which saluted as a $1.16 favourite, the shortest-priced jumps runner in memory, is an outright champion which could not have been more impressive in disposing of a handful of rivals in the JJ Houlahan Hurdle over 3400 metres.
His future is up in the air as connections still weigh up whether to aim at the Melbourne Cup, a rich jumps race in Japan or have a tilt at the most ambitious target of all, the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in England next March.
Owner Mike Symons said the horse was ''such a good doer with such a good constitution that he needs to be kept up to this work''.
To that end, he could run on the flat again at Moonee Valley in a fortnight before trying to qualify for the Melbourne Cup with a win in either The Metropolitan in Sydney, the Ansett Classic at Mornington or the Bart Cummings at Flemington. His exploits there will probably determine his immediate jumping target.
The Grand National hero, trained at the home of Australian jumps racing, Warrnambool, by Ciaron Maher and ridden by Irishman Tom Ryan, provided the drama of the day when he stunned punters with a photo-finish win over the $3.30 favourite Kerdem, with $8.50 chance Al Karam third.
The winner, who paid $93 with the TAB, had been more than six lengths behind the runner-up in the Crisp Steeple a fortnight ago, but Ryan - an accomplished rider who boasts a win at the Cheltenham Festival as a career highlight - thought that Kerdem might be found wanting for stamina over yesterday's 4500 metre trip if it came to a slugging finish. He went for home a long way out and his theory was proved right, if only by the narrowest margin.
Ryan, a 27-year-old from Galway, could thank Kerdem's jockey, Steve Pateman, for his good fortune in winning a $200,000 race as his fellow pilot suggested the Irishman for the ride. ''He probably just needed the run the last day. Turning for home I said I had better kick now and try to take the sting out of his [Kerdem's] speed … This is an Australian National - you can't get better than that,'' Ryan said
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Day of drama and despair as Black And Bent gets the jump on his rivals again
Michael Lynch
August 29, 2011 .
The winners on the day could not have been more different. Black and Bent, which saluted as a $1.16 favourite, the shortest-priced jumps runner in memory, is an outright champion which could not have been more impressive in disposing of a handful of rivals in the JJ Houlahan Hurdle over 3400 metres.
His future is up in the air as connections still weigh up whether to aim at the Melbourne Cup, a rich jumps race in Japan or have a tilt at the most ambitious target of all, the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in England next March.
Owner Mike Symons said the horse was ''such a good doer with such a good constitution that he needs to be kept up to this work''.
To that end, he could run on the flat again at Moonee Valley in a fortnight before trying to qualify for the Melbourne Cup with a win in either The Metropolitan in Sydney, the Ansett Classic at Mornington or the Bart Cummings at Flemington. His exploits there will probably determine his immediate jumping target.
The Grand National hero, trained at the home of Australian jumps racing, Warrnambool, by Ciaron Maher and ridden by Irishman Tom Ryan, provided the drama of the day when he stunned punters with a photo-finish win over the $3.30 favourite Kerdem, with $8.50 chance Al Karam third.
The winner, who paid $93 with the TAB, had been more than six lengths behind the runner-up in the Crisp Steeple a fortnight ago, but Ryan - an accomplished rider who boasts a win at the Cheltenham Festival as a career highlight - thought that Kerdem might be found wanting for stamina over yesterday's 4500 metre trip if it came to a slugging finish. He went for home a long way out and his theory was proved right, if only by the narrowest margin.
Ryan, a 27-year-old from Galway, could thank Kerdem's jockey, Steve Pateman, for his good fortune in winning a $200,000 race as his fellow pilot suggested the Irishman for the ride. ''He probably just needed the run the last day. Turning for home I said I had better kick now and try to take the sting out of his [Kerdem's] speed … This is an Australian National - you can't get better than that,'' Ryan said
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We always said he would go places on here...but didn't think it would be Australia 
fair fecks winning a $200,000 race.
fair fecks winning a $200,000 race.
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