A winner on Tuesday night with Kings Head doing it nicely. We€™ve believed for a while that he is a decent hurdler in the making and it€™s good to see a little proof of that. He needs top of the ground and he doesn€™t get that often in the winter months, so he€™ll probably always be a summer horse. His …
On a decent mark
The first piece of collateral form for Bouguereau comes today with Patkai, who runs in the final race at Chester. I like him as a bet. He was staying on in the Newbury race and will surely benefit from the extra two furlongs – he may also prefer the ground today. 90 doesn’t look like too harsh a mark and the …
All systems go for Bouguereau
I spent the whole morning deliberating about Bouguereau and whether we should have a tilt at the Italian Derby. Pete didn’t want to go unless we flew as it’s a long way to box a horse and they invariably run badly after a long trip like that. We thought there was a flight to Rome, but then we found it …
Ho Hum
Max performed poorly, trailing in eleventh of fifteen 11 lengths behind Natagora. It was a messy race and Natagora was a lucky winner in the end with a few hard luck stories in behind. Max was very tricky going down, and Richard had to dismount twice. At one point she nearly took out Aiden O’Brien who brushed past her at an awkward …
Little do they know
The week begins and all my thoughts are with Max One Two Three. I spoke to Mick earlier and he said he dreamt about her last night – I hope he didn’t cry out anything compromising. I read a couple of write ups on the 1,000 this morning, neither of them mentioning Max. “Little do they know” I thought. Bouguereau …
The joy of six
Timeform rated Bouguereau‘s run 107 whereas the Racing Post went 105. Either way he rates good enough to have a go at the Italian Derby. They’ve moved the race forward this year (May 11) which is good for us, but they’ve dropped the distance from 2400 to 2200 metres which is not so good. Prize money is currently 1 million …
A tale of two seconds
I was a bit down yesterday thinking about the number of second places I have, so I checked out the stats. The stats are poor for horses running in my name – 3 wins, 7 seconds, 6 thirds from 39 runs. If I include all horses I have a piece of the figures are 22-30-14 – not great but not a disaster. …
Double Bubble
I thought the Craven yesterday was a proper horse race. Raven’s Pass and Twice Over slaughtered what looked to be a decent field in a very smart time – they could turn out to be two very good horses, and the 2,000 could be a real strong race this year. I backed one of Tom’s last night – Firth of …
Craven bet
I’m fairly busy at the moment with no time to go racing – I’ll go to Newbury on Friday where I’ll hopefully have two runners. The forecast for Friday at Newbury is heavy rain – not good news for Bouguereau although not a problem for Skid Solo. Today is the Swindon Town FC golf day and I’m playing in that …
Craven Day 1
The Craven meeting starts today, and for me it’s the start of the flat season proper. I’ve had runners on this day a couple of times before and it’s a meeting I like – I was going to run Bouguereau in the Feilden today but we are preferring to go to Newbury on Friday. The main interest for me is Rayvin …