Best Lay of 2014...

seems to be gone at the game recently snap but still should beat this lot if he jumps around safe imo....

He's gone richters,gone for good, Au Revoir, Adios...!!

Derek O connor goes over to Kelso today for two rides. First one up is for Donald McCain in the 2.55 on abbey storm. He only has one horse to beat on recent form imo, the panama kid who has won his last two very easily. O Connor is easily the best jockey in the race and surely he wouldn't be making the trip unless he thought he had a strong chance of winning.

This horse often goes from the front so hopefully Derek might take the bull by the horns and ride his less experienced colleagues to sleep from the front.

One negative is possibly the form of McCain whose stable isn't exactly firing on all cylinders but it's still worth taking a chance on at 9/2 nevertheless.

new approach.....that booking today caught my eye.....firstly I thought maybe he is riding this horse with a view to a Cheltenham race.....but this horse with a rating of 120 wont get into any race there......let alone win one.....its possible that he is over in McCains schooling other horses for Cheltenham for them......he just got touched off on one last year in a 3m Handicap.....its possible that maybe Corrin Wood is going for the 4m chase and he may be over riding that.....
it could be any reason possibly.....but one reason I doubt is that hes there specifically to ride Abbey Storm......and im not saying it wont win because it can.....as its a bad race.....and as you said he's light years ahead of the clowns that ride in these type of races....

And another thing you were right about.....the stable could be going better too......

Fair point Paulie, never thought of that. But it's hardly a coincidence that he came over on the same day as a relatively high profile mid-week card which happen to have two races confined to amateur riders only.

If he is schooling cheltenham horses, which seems a likely reason for him to go over, they probably planned it today so he could ride for McCain in what is a relatively valuable race by British standards.

yes as I said.....it certainly can win.....and the fact that he rides it gives it an immesuarable advantage.....he will do well to win on the yoke in the hunter chase though.....he may be good.....but he aint that good.....
best of luck to you......and for what its worth I agree with snap crackle and pop......long run looks on a sharp downward spiral.....its easy to see him getting beaten today......

Derek OConnor is the most overrated jockey in history.

Horses jump for him and he is a natural horseman but he is a poor tactician

His record in bumpers is abysmal,he just can't judge them,to me he is a huge negative in a bumper.

I quite agree with you Wildman......in bumpers he isn't the greatest.....in fact hes downright ordinary.....but over obstacles he is very useful.....and against English country squires.....he's on a different planet to them fellas that are riding in kelso today......you need a bit of a brain to ride well in bumpers......there have been a good few excellent jump riders that were nowhere near as good in bumpers......Derek .....Jamie Codd and poor John Thomas are three to spring to mind....even Enda Bolger and John Berry were nowhere near as competent in bumpers.....

last years useful novice duke of navan goes down in class today and should be able to see off the mccain mare,as the lads said earlier re the stable form of mccain,they dont seem to be seeing out their races imo...

that didn't got to plan
50/1 winner of the first, bookies having a field day so far @ Kelso

I see crawfords has been wellbacked in the bumper 5/1 this morning..

jesus h christ that was absolutely brutal.....mc cain horse again fails to see the race out....

yes I wanted to back her rich but stable form put me off! but does nothing for annies form ?

was well backed tony,never went a yard,should easily have taken care off that lot.....i really should of done an ozy and said i backed it at 3s and laid at 2s.......

Dickie, please don't lash out at me just because you are doing your dough.

This is not a game where everyone can prosper.

ive wanted to back 2 of his in the last week but left it..and both were beat..worring as the festival is around the corner.

oh dear..snap..

had to back it.

great to see him win

at least he stopped the rot, but I can understand snap laying him..after his recent runs..

tony could i claim that won as a winner.....lol.....

Snap it seems all your backs lose and your lays win. "Best lay of 2014" - youre even beginning to sound like Teabag over on the main forum!

Lol Arkle! Not gonna lie, thought it was a cracking lay at 2/5!

was it back to its best today?, you know the great fighter that has won a gold cup, only takes 3 bad runs for some people to write it off.

Crawford indeed Tony,did well to get him up after looking a bit overconfident early in the straight.

I took the 5s pa..delighted when the money came..but I ddint think it was going to get up?