Well done David, Bacciodilupo, and John987 on your winners. John has left it late this month but arrives on the scene with a 32/1 winner. Could be an interesting final day!
JD/Leo: I cannot find a winner called Snead at Santa Anita - what race please?
Nottingham abandoned tomorrow,we will have to wait to see Sixfiveseven run.
King Of Lombardy 3.45 Chepstow is the nap,well done yesterdays winners with top marks for John with his french connection.
Nap: Oh so chic, 15:22 Cat
After his prolonged bumper career Masaccio gets off the mark at the first time of asking over hurdles. The step up in trip and soft ground seemed to suit him. Of course, he'll never be as great as his namesake but he didn't ask to be called after that supreme master of Renaissance art.
Jill Rose. Catterick 2.52.
Who was it who said it's deja vu all over again? Bryony 'Elbows' Frost was up to her usual tricks in the Huntingdon bumper yesterday. Once again Bradley Harris was the sufferer, getting elbowed and having his line taken. The RP close-up writer didn't miss it, even if the stipes turned a blind eye.
Paul Nicholls is getting out what is supposedly his best unraced bumper horse very early. Captain Bellamy (Chepstow 4.16) looked a real machine winning his point at Dromahane in April. That was on nice quick ground so it remains to be seen whether today's testing conditions will disadvantage him.
Sceptical note: I regard the official going of good to soft, soft in places as somewhat fanciful. I have been staying not a million miles away from Chepstow since Saturday and it hasn't stopped raining. And it'll be proper poached by the last race of the day. Talking fanciful, ATR's tissue price for the Captain was 4/1. Er, what? That was never going to happen. He's 5/6 as I write.
Magical Effect 14:52 Catt EW Nap
Pink Parfait - Newcastle 7.45.
One for Joe - are we settling on the PM prices on French racing now?
One about sour beer - its rubbish isnt it?. Scotland too has its share of folks mixing odd fruits with good beer and selling it in colourful cans. Target audience apperently those with no sight or taste buds.
Ive tried a few and thus far havent found one id have again though ive finished them. Im keen to try a "fat tire" - Boschs choice of beer in the excellent TV show based on the excellent Michael Connoly books - whats a equivalent available here?
Curragh 3.37 - Fashion Flair (each way)
Kitchen Sink aka Ringside Timing in the 13:22 at (The) Curragh.
After Sunday's entry Venetia has her 2nd runner since 2oth May. She has some entries but I can only see 2 for Ascot on Saturday. The usual excuse is the weather being too dry. Maybe she goes out to summer grass with the stable. Perhaps someone knows something.
Smiled when I saw
Nap 1230 Chep 135not out
which has actually not been out for 741 days. Cannot win. On the other hand Cobden said they'd some good horses coming out this week.
Think I need a Jake (or John?) special to have a chance of winning this month. Bert Wilson in the 15.45 at Chepstow is the selection. I will back it ew but for this comp it's win only.
Here’s the details of that phantom meeting:
https://www.sportinglife.com/racing/results/2023-10-29/churchill-downs/766712/race-7-maiden-special-weight
It brings to mind the ‘Trodmore Coup’ as told by James Lambie in his history of the Sporting Life. An individual calling themselves Mr G Martin fabricated an entire race meeting in Cornwall on August Bank holiday, 1898. He sent details of the runners, divisions, jockeys and stewards to the main racing papers and then went on to lay a series of singles and multiples bets on the non-existent runners at the imaginary track. The following day Martin telegrammed the results to the racing press and they were published on the Wednesday. He collected a fortune from the layers, and it was only a disputed SP that raised the concerns of the bookies and led the editor of the Sportsman to scream “and where the hell is Trodmore anyway?”. Unfortunately, ‘G Martin’ wasn’t around to enlighten him.
NAP Domaine De L'isle 1.30 Chepstow.
I was ew. I'll take whatever I can get.
11.30 Chantilly Dire la verite
Blue yonder 4.10N.
Moonlighter - 15.35 Chepstow
As Alan Partridge says "and on that Bombshell".
A 32/1 Winner.
JOHN987 had specified each way so probably too late.
Win only might be different.
I was going to nap Samuel Colt in the 12.20 at Curragh as where we would be without that vital self-defence mechanism patented by Mr. Colt that Sue Magnier has acknowledged in a Horse Name.
I know Mogwli runs twice a day and has helped me out many times before but these are desperate times that require desperate measures and I need big on the last day.
I am going Selton Hill. e.w. 12.20. Curragh who might only need to be placed at 50s.