Three Saturday winners - well done, all. If I've left anyone out, I apologise; please leave a message on this thread and I'll update.
Trueshan took me back to younger days, when Group horses regularly ran in handicaps and the sport was all the better for it. Alan King one of those who seldom makes big waves in the media, but there must have been some confidence today in that gamble.
Good to see Frankie booting home his sole mount after the turdish Gosden's cowardly 'endorsement' of his skills yesterday.
Autocorrect. Mucker. Is a Pucker not a Hurling and Hockey term (though I have never heard it used) or alternatively a reflex in the oral cheek to a tactile stimulus?
I need to find a way to switch off autocorect
Cougar won the 17.25. at the Curragh at 10/11. He was my nap and I don't know I decided my old pucker Hms Seahorse was not chosen at 13/2.
@tangovictorindia Calling Gosden a 'coward', a 'manipulator' is pushing the bounds of your site rules. But calling him 'turdish'? How is that being kind?
Joe, last November you objected vehemently when I highlighted the modus operandi of the McManus/Haslam/McLernon axis after one of theirs landed a monumental gamble at Kelso. After today's three winners at Uttoxeter and Cartmel you should look again at how it's done. Without being too prim about it, I suggest you owe me an apology.
Plenty of Irish raiders at Cartmel today, already 2 winners for TST and Crawford....................
NAP Lyrical Poetry 3.45 The Curragh.......................big price!!
Mercian Hymn 3.15W
Rob Hornby is doing his second consecutive stint at Windsor having been jocked off Westover yesterday. That didn't strike me as a very Juddmonte thing to do. I doubt it would have happened in Teddy Grimthorpe's day, especially as he and Ralph Beckett are cousins. The owners seem to hold it against Hornby that the horse didn't win the Derby, which is clearly wrong.
Long Call 4.40 Uttoxeter.
15.00 Uttoxeter - Sirobbie
The Navigator 14:20 Cartmel EW Nap
My Astra in the 15:45 at The Curragh.
Many years ago I test drove the sedan (saloon) version of the Astra namely the Vauxhall Belmont. I bought a Ford Orion instead. Although my nap won yesterday a tracker horse Solent Gateway ew would have been a more productive nap in my futile attempt to catch EGS.
Applaud Now - 13.45 Windsor
Tricky race but I'll stick with Major Snugfit on the 4.40 at Worcester. Nice to see a few enjoyed declan o rourke yesterday. He's a class act
4.10 Uttoxeter - Leylak
Just as an indication of what kind of form I'm in at the moment: 7 of my tracker horses 'ran' yesterday and the best resullt was a NR.
I need a big priced winner to try and get in contention so Court Master 3.00 is the nap.Well done yesterdays winners.Did any of us back Trueshan?I thought he was handicapped out of it.
Purplepay 3.45Cu.
Schoolboy error on my part not to specify French Claim e.w. at 16/1 yesterday. An 8 Runner Race. I have re-read my post 20 times and I definitely didn't say e.w. These are the fine margins by which I might actually not win this month's competition.
Usually Ballydoyle send their best Horse to the Chesham at RA but there was something about Alfred Munnings that didn't sit right with me as I thought Auguste Rodin was the one. I took 14/1 for the 2000 Guineas immediately after his debut.
I think that is a more sensible bet than the odds on in the 13.40. Maybe I am overthinking.
So my nap is Cougar in the 17.25. at the Curragh.