Wednesday July 6th 2022

The bandwagon punters have hammered the price on TJM. He is quite exposed now and he is ridden by a 10lb claimer with one winner to his name. But you never know with this outfit - the horse has ability though he sometimes isn't allowed to show it. On Monday I pointed up the chances of All Class at Limerick tomorrow. Sensibly they have put her in the extended 12f race rather than the mile. The tissue has her at 7/1 which would be lovely if any bookie was prepared to lay it. They haven't put prices up yet.

12/1 😁😁

For A.Q.P.S. - Autre Que Pur Sang (translated means other than thoroughbred) horses, which includes trotters, anglo-arabs, as well as what are known as "half-breds", each year requires a horse’s name to begin with a designated letter of the alphabet.

For example, foals of 2002 have names beginning with the letter "O", 2003 "P" and so on.

David,

Yes this has come up before and I think you explained to me the same question Luke has posited.

I saw a Racecard in France last year where LITERALLY every Horse in each Race started with the same letter. It seems unfair as I believed the Horse running in the 'c' Race would have had a better chance than in the 'g' Race.

By coincidence I got told off by someone who bred Horses in North Cork yesterday who was exasperated than I didn't know what a 3/4 bred was. That was her Specialty. She had a fantastic Broodmare and whilst I was equally exasperated to whom they were sold as she didn't seem to recollect but she said they were no shortage of Buyers.

Thank you very much Gentleman (and any Ladies present) - I have been educated, as expected, by members of this forum.

I didn't bet anything on the race, but wanted to nap it, as Gallopin des Champs was in my tracker and I was intrigued :D 😎

Gosden expresses himself with unusual care? He apologised for the way he had conducted this in public on the Nick Luck podcast (while still spending 70 % of it bitching about what Frankie had done). He is a coward and a bully as far as I'm concerned and nobody will convince me otherwise. I know a bully when I see one and hear one. Even Lydia Hislop is publicly criticising his behaviour. His supporters' rose coloured glasses seem permanently fixed.

Have a listen to the first part of this https://www.spreaker.com/user/sportinglife/racing-podcast-july-cup-preview_1

I find your opinion and continuing comments on Gosden equally offensive.

Goodbye.

Frankie does not necessarily have to approve of the character of the trainer for whom he rides. It's not a relationship based on an equality of power. Frankie may be riding for the owners and quite happy that Gosden has been put back in line, as he is clearly entitled to do.

I would repeat the question I posed to Harry: When did an elite trainer last criticize a front line jockey in public?

By the way, the "cant" I was referring to in my earlier comment was that promulgated by media hacks looking for copy. I don't regard any of Joe McNally's comments on this issue as cant. Quite the opposite, I see them as genuine and deeply felt. As a matter of fact, I queried Joe's focus on it when Hollie Doyle won in France, thinking that it took away from Hollie Doyle's achievement. However, Joe illustrated the snide nature of John Gosden's remarks and correctly judged that it was a grievous breach of trust.

Goodbye to you. You ask Tom why Frankie's gone back with a bully - because Frankie won this spat, that's why. Gosden backed down in the face of Cheveley Park as I suspected he would when we debated this in The Guardian - listen to the podcast I posted above to hear what Patricia Thompson said regarding the 'reunion'. I don't mind debating anyone, here or elsewhere, but I don't do cant. An apology would have served.