You know it's been a tough day's racing for everyone when nobody here has tipped a winner. Luke came closest with runner up Bell Rock, and gets a return for EW. It's worth repeating here that on EW bets I count everything at 1/5th odds when settling. In the first weeks of the blog I urged EW backers to mention the place odds when confirming a result ... the idea never quite took off, and for a while I looked them up. Then, on a particularly frustrating day I stopped doing that. Anyway, it should all balance out in the end.
nap New Pursuit won 2/1
Waterville won the 16.15. Curragh. At 5/1. Looked like a Statue most of the Race but I can see why the Westerbergs are in love with Lordan.
Quai suggested a special bonus for finding a winner in a devilish 30 Runner H'Cap but that hasn't been escalated up to the Governance Committees on this Forum so I am just claiming 5/1.
My nap New pursuit wins at 2 to 1. Its 3 from 3 at Epsom now.
Saratoga gold won 5/2.
Cesarewitch. Never occurred to me, it's one of those words that I grew up with, but never analysed until now. Continuing a Russian theme,
"Cesarewitch" is an anglicised version of Tsesarevich, the title of the heir to the throne in Imperial Russia. The race was named in honour of Tsesarevich Alexander (later Tsar Alexander II), after he donated £300 to the Jockey Club. The event was established in 1839, and the inaugural running was won by Cruiskeen. (Wikipedia)
PR started long ago and I suppose statues are intended to immortalise heroic characters. Red Rum! Which reminds me that there is a gigantic statue of a horse in Milan...which we came across by accident on the way to the San Siro stadium...at the San Siro Hippodrome. It is named "Leonardo's horse" as it is based on his sketches, I think. 25 feet in bronze...look on my works, ye mighty and despair...
https://www.ippodromisnai.it/leonardos-horse/?lang=en
Feel like a busted bubble. I enjoy trying to identify future champions but like my dreams they fade and die....... Bradsell, The Platinum Queen, Trillium......
Nap Curr 1720 Painters Pallette
I can't remember what I saw in it to go in the tracker, for sure twill be erased on a poor show today
NAP Lot of Joy, 4.15 The Curragh. 8/1 is way too short a NAP in that race but's a Willie, second run for him, won the Swedish St. Leger (whatever that means) so......
Hoping my nap Sammarco in the 15:35 at Cologne doesn't stink the place up.
For the 4:15 at the Curragh my kitchen sink bet will be on HMS Seahorse.
We have Hurricane Ian heading my way, although latest track has it moving West of Tampa. I shall attempt to shop later, providing anything is left on the shelves.
New pursuit Epsom 4.30 is the nap.
Talk elsewhere of Statues, the weirdest place I've ever been is vigeland statue Park in Oslo. Its utterly bizarre and worth a Google.
It's a really large bizarrely themed park full of writhing naked bodies etc. I belive it was next to some football parks...Hard to imagine a stranger thing in other European capitals
Ar El Bee - 16.30 Epsom
Benaud 16:15 Curr EW Nap
Maze Runner - 16.15 Curragh
Powerful Aggie - 4.15 Curragh
Restorer. Epsom 2.50
Regulator 1.32 Ffos Las is the nap,well done with your winner yesterday Leo.
New Pursuit 4.30 Epsom for nap.
Not even going to try with those huge fields in Ireland - I'd like to see Rachael Blackmore win on Echoes in Rain, but no idea if the horse can do it, and Art Power won that race by 5 lengths last year, but no bet for me at around evens. Good luck!
3.25 Epsom - Eloso.
Barefaced cowardice on my part for avoiding the big race at the Curragh. I've got 4 tracker horses lined up in it but you could make a reasonable case for at least 15 of the runners.
Inuit. Curragh 4.15 EW
Saratoga gold 3.25E.
I used to work with a French woman who taught English in the UK. She picked up various colloquial sayings, one of which was, "It's doin' my 'ed in", when new demands from the College management for statistical data were imposed on top of our teaching workload. This is what Joe's job (trying to keep up with daily naps and ew selections, etc) would do to me if I had to carry it out. I don't know how he manages it. That aside...
Today it's the "Friends Of The Curragh Irish Cesarewitch" (4.15), 600,000 euros. After yesterday's wholly predictable stroll through by Majestic in the Cambridgeshire, which everyone backed, I think there should be a special merit award today for anyone who can pick the winner of the 30 runner Curragh race. I'll post up my selection later when I 'ave "Done my 'ed in" looking at the field.
Not forgetting to mention, though, that Art Power is the short odds favourite in the appropriately named "William Hill Ireland Renaissance Stakes". Surprised that EGS did not have a comment about the Renaissance, but he was waxing lyrical about decommissioned statues of Stalin in Budapest, so he can be forgiven.