Curragh & Limerick Sunday

Minsk is a 6/1 shot with most bookmakers.

have a little gem for the handicap hurdle tomorrow

Thanks Punchestown. I'll have to back it at 6.

Only the end of the Flat at the Curragh. Still a couple of turf meetings left at Naas, Navan and Leopardstown. Great jump racing over two days at Punchestown meeting next week, the season really kicks in then.

Gigginstown starting to get moving.

Far Away So Close hopefully will get off to a decent start in the beginners chase.

Giggi have a nice Maiden entered in a Point at Tinahely tomorrow and the return of Backstage too at the same meeting (if anyone cares lol).

tinahealy on tomorrow....?...going to football myself ...ut for anone who want's to enjoy the delights of p2ps , tinahealy is a smashing place to start....

Yeah - first meeting of the year for them.

Giggi House horse is Devil May Care, Backstage goes in the Open (Elliot had a second in the Open at Taylorstown with Nedzers Return today).

Looks a lovely track - will get there eventually

I notice that Minsk runs in Barry Connells colours for the first time tomorrow .......I would imagine that he was bought as a possible triumph hurdle horse .....anybody have any idea what he paid for him ???? and who his new trainer might  be ???......

only bet for me tomorrow is royal reveille 3.30 lk.....a much improved horse imo....anything over evens would be value imo....

Will Royal Reveille go on soft ground? It's heading that way, wouldn't take much rain to turn it soft!

hopefully he will ..cant see ted running him if its nor suitable ....

not a great price tbh..plus i very seldom back odds on....

Curragh Selections

Zalantoun Nb Takar
View Nb Swerve
Kardyls Hope Nb Cave Artist
Katla Nb Croisultan
Kalann Nb English Summer
Azores Nb Eva's Time
Sapphire Nb Pink Symphony

Limerick Selections

Sailor's Warn Nb Magical Memoir
Beir Bua Nb Hepahepa Naenay
Royal Reveille Nb Acapulco Gold
Vino Vino Cavo Nb Capal Dubh Alainn
For Bill Nb Elysian Rock
Loosen My Load Nb West With The Wind
False Economy Nb Far Away So Close

Lim 3.00 Niveks Dream E/W ,owes me a few quid and was going great when tipping up last time.
Lim 4.35 For Bill E/W Should be up to the weight carrying (saver on Bideford Legend).

AND lay (your house) on Sailors [;)]







Excuse (from Eddie/stable lads) to follow later [:x]

Cave Artist overpriced at 25/1 in the 3.15 i think

you not going bjg....? i thought it been local you'd have gone...

Windy and rainin so gonna watch from the comfort of my own home

I'm tryin to round up a few to go, encountering a few of the excuses BJG is saying, all we do is follow owners around to see if they are backing their horses anyway, pretty naieve like, we have it on good authority that they like the buzz of cash in hand like.

..not backing royal poor price imo...off to bray myself its frezzing here here as well ....enjoy the day  lads..

going to have a good bet on the locally trained Liitle green 11/10 w/o sailors warn in the first at Limerick .......think he can give the favourite a good race ....won a grade 2 hurdle earlier in the year on heavy .....only one he needs to beat is magical memoir who was withdrwn at Tipperary on ground conditions last week .....Little green also ran well at listowel in the lartigue when she was carrying a big weight ....back with 10 13 here think she ll beat magical memoir

The Oxx boys did a nice number on Smullen in the opener.

great call

dinglemick

Nice one mick

thought she might have been running a little free during the race but she s a game little filly ...think she only cost 800 quid !!!!! ...gave saliors a good race who entitiled to beat her on ratings 139 -123 .....

Top call Mick!!

Backstage won easily at Tinahely - Jamie Codd has had the first four winners on the card!! Something fishy going on there (I'll get me coat).

Won all 6 races on the card in the end did Codd

incredible performance princesse ..... gary o brien just said he s only the second ever jock to do it ...john berry 1988 the other

Yeah - not sure if it's going through the card or riding six on a card he's the second to do.

The latter would be easier today as no divides etc but an amazing accomplishment none the less.  If he keeps that up it'll throw the title race wide open too - he wasn't far behind Doc last year!

i was out for a while and i m not aftertining it but i backed jills ballet at the curragh ...simply because i couldn t understand why it had won its last two races and gone up a total of only 8lbs ....in particular it got only 3lbs the last day for winning a 17 runner C&D  handicap ......is there something i m missing here or was the handicapper not doing his jobs ....she wins today with distances of 5L ,6L , 2 1/2 L

well done trade fair ......won t be surprised to see him favourite for the triumph hurdle after that ......

i m going chancing the english challenger west with the winds to overturn loosen my load in the grade 3 chase at limerick .... i think 100/30  is good value for a front runner on this track who easily accounted for Rio Gael whos a decent enough horse at Ffos las  last time ...Rio gael franked the form next time also .....i know loosen my load is a good horse and won well at navan the last day but at 100/30 he worth taking on

another welsh winner [:x]

wd mick

and there s me calling him english !!!! ..
I think what a charm will take all the beating in the last at the curragh to give the oxx team a 4 timer  ..... i saw john oxx being interviewed at listowel the last day when she won the listed race ..... he didn t overly fancy her that day because she takes a lot of work to get fit and he hadn t done a whole lot ..... that tells me she ll have even come on for that run so defo worth backing at 11/4

went out like a light what a charm ..... hopes were high when she got easy lead ....

well done workrider with royal reville

She went off at a fierce lick,maybe just bounced.

Minsk on his way to Dessie Hughes.

murtagh went off like a mad man on what a charm she was never going to get home going that lick.johnny very in and out this season

muirhead and meade make my blood boil....i was waiting for this for over £20,000 at galway...never tried a yard imo....it ran at fairyhouse a few weeks ago and didn't lift  leg ..rancid imo...

defo not workrider carberry fecked up at galway by being 2 far off the pace

yeah dont i know...but meade said we weren't sure he'd stay...really....one last chance i seldom knock trainers on here ..but imo meade KNEW the story with this horse....

Well done on Minsk TradeFair,hosed in.

muirhead so well handicapped over fences but the cards have to fall right for him in his races.reminded me of mossbanks win he was so well in too

Well done thatsurcoco on false economy! hope ya backed him

false economy will some horse on fast ground when he's off [;)] next years plate maybe

A very nice crowd turned up at heaquarters for their final meeting of the year.

Race 1) Call to Battle (9/2) Well backed from 10/1 on track. This one was always prominent under young curtis and won fair and square. The Chronicle boys took a 10 grand e/w bet on the winner at 10/1 and were seen scattering the ring laying it off. I Have a Dream the 7/2 jolly was never mapped.

Race 2) Homecoming Queen (5/2) Joseph O'Brien has a clock in his head and made all for a very easy win. Sinndarr's old man, a shrewd judge encouraged me to back it, he having backed it at 7/2. Swerve the 15/8 fav had only won a maiden at Listowel and this was a step too far for her.

Race 3) Jills Ballet (8/1) Fairly light in the market this was one of a succesion of easy winners on the day making all and having the race won two out. The well backed jolly Sadler's Mark trailed in last. No doubt the trainer will report something wrong to the stewards in the coming days.

Race 4) Eton Rifles (5/4f) Well backed on course from 7/4 Murtagh was always going well and pushed the button at the one pole to win comfortably. Runner up in the Ayr Gold Cup this was the form horse. 

Race 5) Minsk (4/1f) The plot horse this one absolutely hosed up under young Sid James whose claim was superflous to say the least. I was told after he won LTO to back him for this race and sindarr's pop told me he had taken the 13/2 the night before. A 200k purchase by Barry Connell this one now goes to the Dessie Hughes yard.

Race 6) Atlantic Swing (11/2) Plenty well backed in this race this one was bringing up the treble for the Oxx yard. It was always going like a winner. The fav Azores (5/2) ran well to be runner up overcoming a long absence from the track.

Race 7) Sapphire (5/2jf) Well touted all day, the class horse of the race coming back from a Group 2 Pat Smullen always had her in the catbird seat and once he pushed the button at the one pole the race was over. The other joint Fav What A Charm blew her chance by running much too freely.

So Murtagh leads Smullen by five with about 50 races to go it would be a feather  in his cap to win this season  considering all the Weld winners at Galway.

Nice review soapp,Eton Rifles a huge gamble on both sides of the Irish Sea,would have loved to have seen the scatter as described before race 1