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Post by Pulse on Nov 24, 2020 13:16:16 GMT
Hill Sixteen 138 (+12) Buzz 148 (+11) Eclair d’Ainay 127 (+11) Tamaroc du Mathan 141 (+10) Master Tommytucker 157 (+9) Third Time Lucki 140 (+9) Demachine 140 (+8) Main Fact 154 (+7) War Lord 138 (+7) Imperial Aura 163 (+6) Espoir de Guye 150 (+6) The Big Breakaway 148 (+4)
Hype rises Buzz excessive +11lbs Third Time Lucky 🤷♂️
For what it’s worth the new young kid on the block Buzz is housed beside Buveur D’Air & Champ @sevenburrows
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Post by Pulse on Nov 25, 2020 13:08:32 GMT
Trainer Fergal O'Brien seeks to build on successful season by taking on a second yard near his Cotswold base.
New stable, close to his Ravenswell Farm base, will give him an extra 30 boxes O’Brien and partner Sally Randell only moved to Cotswolds yard last November Trainer is close to his career-best 63 wins despite pandemic-disrupted season Fergal O'Brien has taken on a second yard to cope with an influx of horses owing to his spiralling success.
The new stable, close to his Ravenswell Farm base in the Cotswolds, will give O’Brien an extra 30 boxes. Fergal O'Brien and partner Sally Randell only moved to Cotswolds yard last November.
New satellite yard for O’Brien, very best of luck to him , hard times for all and he rolls the 🎲.
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Post by Pulse on Nov 26, 2020 0:42:37 GMT
5 of the most unpopular horse racing opinions
Horse racing is a very divisive sport and that is what makes it great. 1. Sea The Stars > Frankel
Many don’t like to hear the words “Sea The Stars was greater than Frankel”. They were both incredible horses for different reasons with Frankel hitting the heights constantly as a four-year-old. However, he was raced in a very controlled environment which renders him a little soft. Frankel had one mighty sustained burst of acceleration in him but many will argue Sea The Stars achieved more with something in reserve. He had the ability to quicken at the death which would have done Frankel at the line over 10f. People will argue this until the cows come home but both sides can make a valid case. 2. Ted Walsh should not be on TV
If you live in the UK, you might not see Ted Walsh too much on your screens. But in Ireland, he is the football equivalent to Eamon Dunphy. Ted is not afraid to voice an opinion and in Ireland you can pretty much say what you like. This makes for terrific entertainment for the viewer but it can also rub people up the wrong way. One of his famous quotes was from December 2019: “All them timber hurdles should be all burned together, and have a bonfire. Burn everyone of them, and burn the fellas who made them”. 3. Punters calling someone bent if they lose a bet
There is nothing worse than listening to a punter moan about a jockey or trainer when their bet loses. Many punters out there believe that if they lose a bet, there has been some outside intervention. It could never be the fact that their horse was 100-1, didn’t go on the ground and had form figures of FPP4P6. No, it’s the trainers’ fault or it’s the jockey that was at fault. Ruby Walsh historically came under huge scrutiny every single time he lost a race. On the Flat, Ryan Moore was subject to the same abuse and trolling. If you can’t handle losing a bet, don’t bet. 4. Flat racing is better than the Jumps
This is certainly one of the more unpopular opinions in the UK and Ireland. The Flat lovers out there, and there are many, tend to dislike National Hunt racing and vice versa. We generally see a more polished, well-to-do crowd that support Flat racing, whereas the Jumps is far more traditional. It could be argued that Jumps racing is the real working class sport. There is no better meeting on earth than the Cheltenham Festival. Tens of thousands of people flock there annually from Ireland, the UK and even France. If people prefer watching horses run in a straight line though, that is their choice. 5. The whip should be banned
Racing has faced a lot of public scrutiny about the whip in the last ten years or so. Public perception is hugely important and as a sport, we need to do more to educate the public. As a horse racing lover, I 100-per-cent see the need for the whip in our sport. Not only is it needed as a safety instrument, but how can a jockey straighten or control their horse without one? I would also be in favour of changing the name of the “whip”. Again, perception is key and we don’t want the uneducated public thinking we simply whip our horses. It is an air cushioned stick and rather than pander to people who hate our sport, we need to come up with innovative ideas to move the sport forward.
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Post by Pulse on Nov 26, 2020 12:22:44 GMT
The McNeill family’s have removed their horses from Tom George’s Down Farm .
Worlds End sent to Olly Murphy Seddon sent to Harry Whittingham Now Look At Me sent to Warren Greatrex
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Post by Pulse on Nov 26, 2020 13:04:43 GMT
For anyone interested The first episode of OFF THE FENCE is now available on ATR & YouTube, Barry Geraghty (weekly) & (guest) ATR’s Tony Keenan , Vanessa Ryle (Host) For me thank God ITV-4s Matt (marmite)Chapman didn’t get the call 😂 Vanessa’s a lot more easier on the Ear and obviously 👁 👁 m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=fImcYtFKEbc“Upping The Ante “also on YouTube definitely worth a view . Cheltenham antepost run-in 2021
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Post by Pulse on Nov 26, 2020 15:02:44 GMT
Trainer I tend follow after a lean spell , prices depending B Smart Decent trainer , Stable has been on the (AW) cold list recently but they have had 2 wins in their last 4 runner @7/1 & @13/2 both ridden by G Lee Newcastle & Southwell % Palazzo following up previous 2nd , opened 13/2 won at 7/1 Swiss Connection opened 8/1 touched 6/1 won 13/2 had been unraced since 22/9/20
Tomorrow - 12:05 Midnight In Havana (Overnight) at Southwell (AW) Bombardier British-Hopped Amber Beer Selling Handicap SP Tomorrow - 1:40 Red Pike (Overnight) at Southwell (AW) Play 4 To Win At Betway Handicap SP Tomorrow - 2:10 Antagonize (Overnight) at Southwell (AW) Bombardier Handicap
Next : Newcastle following Tuesday.
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Post by Pulse on Nov 29, 2020 22:32:20 GMT
Ben Haslam has confirmed the lost of JP McManus owned For Good Measure today at Carlisle. Formally trained successfully at Philip Hobbs . #runfree 🐎💫
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Post by Pindropper on Nov 29, 2020 22:53:56 GMT
We've got so much to thank to owners and jockeys, not just the trainers.
Without them buying and paying training fees and entering races there would be no racing...and then for them to race and have a fatal injury, its an expensive business/game/hobby!
Jockeys- the risks they take, as well as fitness regimes, travelling up and down country for a race or two here (not so bad now with Covid and its just one meeting per day) but then how do they eat? Well? Doubt it to stick to the weights...and if overweight, what extremes do they go to meet the weight?!
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Post by Pulse on Dec 2, 2020 23:07:20 GMT
Today we lost an old favourite of masses , Whisper 🐎 expired doing what he done best , 🏇
Whisper (FR) Age: 12 (Foaled May 3rd, 2008) Sex: Bay Gelding Breeding: Astarabad (USA) - Belle Yepa (FR) (Mansonnien (FR)) Trainer: N A Twiston-Davies Owner: Walters Plant Hire Ltd
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Post by Pulse on Dec 2, 2020 23:34:52 GMT
Stats betting
A selling hurdle might not be for everyone but this is a fair quality race for the level. Neil Mulholland is the man to follow in sellers, a remarkable 50% strike rate with horses racing in this grade for the first time. Mulholland is 2/5 at this level so far this season for a level stakes profit of +£9.75. Niblawi is the horse in question here, with his chances boosted with the withdrawal of Paricolour. 12:37 Leicester Niblawi @11/4
Another 50% strike rate to look at here. This time it’s Martin Dwyer riding for Ian Williams at Chelmsford. That record is 3/6 but that goes back over the last five years so it is a rare combination and one that has paid off to the tune of a level stakes profit of +£7.35 from those runners. Cool To Be A Cat is their representative here, one who took a step back in the right direction on Polytrack last time out. 16:30 Chelmsford (AW) Cool To Be A Cat @12/1
It will be no surprise to anyone that Paul Nicholls is the man to follow in novice hurdles at Wincanton. What may come as a surprise is just how dominant runners from the yard actually are. 4/6 so far this season and a 56% strike rate since the 2016/17 season are remarkable figures. As is to be expected given the prices, the profit isn’t enormous but +£22.96 is certainly not to be sniffed at given the volume of runners in that time. Kilmington Rose is the representative for the yard here and she will no doubt be very popular in the betting. 13:15 Wincanton Kilmington Rose @11/4
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Post by Pulse on Dec 10, 2020 2:43:21 GMT
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Post by Pulse on Dec 15, 2020 15:17:16 GMT
Irish News , keeping the home fires burning. Personally it’s 🤮 for punters , hard enough to pick a winner in Irish racing .
Jim Bolger’s incendiary statements should shake racing to its foundations One of the greatest trainers ever believes drug cheats are getting away with it.
It’s six weeks since Jim Bolger declared drugs to be Irish racing’s number one problem. He doesn’t believe there’s a level playing field. These are incendiary statements from one of the sport’s grandees and should shake racing to its foundations.
One of the greatest trainers in the history of the sport here believes drug cheats are getting away with it.
So cue an existential crisis, right? Perhaps a glut of introspection or even recrimination? Or at the very least feverish speculation about how best to save the reputation of a sector long a symbol of Irish sporting excellence?
The credibility of a government backed industry worth billions, and employing thousands, has been questioned by one of its leading figures. At the very least the validity of Bolger’s claims would seem to require being publicly thrashed out.
Just imagine if Brian Cody said performance enhancing drugs were rife in hurling. Or Leo Cullen claimed Leinster rugby wasn’t competing on a level playing field due to doping. The impact would be seismic, the public debate all-consuming.
But not a bit of it. Six weeks later and rather than sound and fury there’s been little more than furtive silence. True to form, a sport and industry has obeyed its instincts and hunkered down to ride out the storm.
Bolger got heard but apparently there’s nothing much to see here. Horse Racing Ireland said it’s a regulatory matter and referred to the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board. The self-elected body formerly known as the Turf Club flung around spotless testing statistics which reassured only those anxious for reassurance and its top officials stayed notably mute.
If Bolger’s aim was to generate a conversation about drug testing in racing then it isn’t a very public one.
Colleagues of his passed the buck to the Trainers Association - of which Bolger too is a member - and it declined to comment
Even privately there is reluctance to discuss this. An issue of fundamental importance to the sport’s credibility appears to have got dismissed as an embarrassing example of one of their own peeing inside the tent. Bolger might be off a few Christmas card lists this year.
Since he’s a rather thorny figure, rarely concerned about being top of the handicap in any popularity stakes, Bolger is unlikely to lose sleep over that.
Invariably there were a few grumbles that he shouldn’t toss around accusations without backing them up. But since naming names in such circumstances is a high-speed shortcut to the High Court it’s a pretty empty demand.
However, the fact such a high-profile figure as the man who saddled New Approach to win the 2008 Epsom Derby is frustrated enough to speak out testifies to the gravity of all this. Because racing figures buck the traces like this practically never. Whatever’s in the tent usually stays firmly in it.
Of course the comparative lack of public reaction could be just down to low expectations too. Doping in the GAA or rugby is news. Racing’s stereotype is more like it’s going on all the time anyway and everyone’s still betting so why sweat.
Badlands
The reality is much more nuanced. The medication minefield here is nothing in comparison to the badlands of US racing. Anti-bleeding drugs are used there even on race-days despite their capacity to also serve as masking agents.
When it comes to doping Irish racing cannot afford to continue indulging its instinct for inertia. Dismissing dissent is a reflex that ultimately won’t do it any good There is also the reality that other racing jurisdictions around the globe are playing catch-up too. As with every sport the fight against doping is always evolving. If the rewards are big enough there will always be cheats.
No other racing country, however, has as much at stake in taking the fight to them, and being seen to do so. This small island is the third biggest producer of foals in the world. A couple of billion a year is generated by racing and breeding. Up to 16,000 jobs are directly linked to it. It’s reputation is vital.
If the implications of Brexit is an immediate issue for racing, as is continuing to ride out the coronavirus storm, there is also a sense of both being to a large extent out of the sport’s hands. Tackling the drugs threat isn’t. Yet a chronic lack of urgency appears to exist.
Bolger’s comments haven’t come out of nowhere. There is abundant and sorry evidence over the last decade of drugs scandals in Irish racing and official complacency in response.
It is nine years since Department of Agriculture officials raided Philip Fenton’s yard and found anabolic steroids. Shortly afterwards commercial quantities of the anabolic steroid, Nitrotain, were found at the home of the former vet, John Hughes, brother of trainer, Pat Hughes.
As a result a cross-industry anti-doping task force recommended all of five years ago that a system be implemented to allow traceability of thoroughbreds throughout their lives, whether in training or not, which should be a fundamental requirement of any effective drugs regime.
That system is still not in place. There have been steps taken towards it but the pace of change has been glacial. It has often appeared that the focus has been instead on bitter internecine feuding and a grim failure to see the big picture.
It’s a context that means Bolger’s attempt to jolt the system shouldn’t be dismissed. When it comes to doping Irish racing cannot afford to continue indulging its instinct for inertia. Dismissing dissent is a reflex that ultimately won’t do it any good
Bitter experience suggests it is delusional to assume the sector here doesn’t contain some prepared to cheat. That Irish racing has more to lose than almost anyone else by not being on the front foot in tackling them is obvious. Yet it still appears to be dragging its feet.
Pointing that out does not let the side down. What does is circling the wagons and focussing on keeping the best side out rather than bluntly addressing the substance of how best to make sure the game is clean.
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Post by Pulse on Dec 19, 2020 1:15:37 GMT
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Post by Pulse on Dec 22, 2020 16:18:46 GMT
Samson & Goliath .. personally speaking I Can’t wait for this rematch . Interesting Cobbler preference for Cyrname...
Sadly Latest News on Ireland, English horses banned from travelling over to Leopardstown , hugely disappointing development that could keep running to Cheltenham (12 weeks ) at very least for Irish spectators..hopefully they are wrong .
Sam Twiston-Davies believes Clan Des Obeaux is the complete package as he goes in search of a third successive victory in the Ladbrokes King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day.
The famous race is littered with multiple winners down the years – with Kauto Star winning five time, Desert Orchid four, Wayward Lad three and some of National Hunt racing’s other greats claiming two, such as Pendil, Captain Christy, Silver Buck, The Fellow and One Man.
Clan Des Obeaux is therefore looking to enhance his status in an elite club, with trainer Paul Nicholls chasing an incredible 12th win in the Christmas highlight.
According to the bookmakers, his biggest danger is stablemate Cyrname, who was second last year and with stable jockey Harry Cobden once again siding with him, Twiston-Davies keeps the ride on Clan Des Obeaux.
“Before we won last year, I’d watched Clan very closely in the race from the year before and spoke to Harry. We talked about tactics and what might happen,” said Twiston-Davies.
“Harry was brilliant – he told me everything I needed to know about my lad, but he didn’t actually tell me much about Cyrname.
“Clan was fantastic. He jumped, he travelled, and he winged every fence down the back. Then, when I asked him to pick up, he winged the second-last and off he went. The rest is history.”
Before winning his first King George, Clan Des Obeaux had finished fourth in the Betfair Chase at Haydock to Bristol De Mai – but this year he went even closer in second behind the grey, trained by Sam’s father, Nigel.
“I rode him again on his first start of this season at Haydock when it was very soft ground. He jumped beautifully, travelled great and he felt like he was coming there to win the race,” Twiston-Davies told William Hill.
“Something I’d say is that the heavy ground at Haydock suited Bristol De Mai. That race is his Kempton, so I take a lot of positives out of that race for Clan.
“He has his own kind of way of jumping – you leave him to it, and he is very good. He’s very economical, efficient and, at the same time, he has plenty of scope.
“I guess he’s grown up and, physically, he’s probably a little bit stronger this year – hence he can deal with heavy ground better than he used to. You could say he’s more complete now.
“I went to see him in the week and I’m looking forward to Kempton. From a jockey’s point of view, it’s just about trying your best and enjoying it.
“I just hope he can do something similar to last year. That would be nice. Between now and Boxing Day, it’s just a case of holding on tight, that’s the long and short of it!”
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Post by Pulse on Mar 1, 2021 14:26:49 GMT
Pretty much in shock today , I would have swore the photo was fake but sadly that’s now not the case , It’s a very sad day for racing on a whole & following Godolphin scandals breaking from his very own daughter, the BHA will surely act & I can’t see how Elliott Racing will have a runner @cheltenham , No matter what the Irish Racing authorities action decided. BHA will surely have to tackle the ungodly Godolphin scandle also . It’s been a Sick few weeks for racing on a whole & hopefully not to Damaging when 99% treat their horses sadly better than their human counterparts.
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Post by feech23 on Mar 1, 2021 15:12:50 GMT
Very disappointed with Gordon but always personally I didnt like him and now we get a glimpse into how the poor beasts under his care are treated. He has brought our sport into disrepute and should face a lenghty investigation into animal safety at his yard. Perhaps and I really hope it was a once off foolish foolish act but it will be hard for Gordon to shake off that image now. I dont imagine we would ever see Mr. Mullins behave in such a way, I suppose class cant be taught. As for the weirdos from the Gulf well money buys you fake respectibility.
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Post by Pulse on Mar 1, 2021 16:03:49 GMT
Keeping it in context the Elliott’s photo is really nothing compared to Godolphin revelations Honestly I think it’s a jack the lad minute of sheer stupidity surrounded by his mates and a cavalier hard-man , ,bravemansgame , A sick Photo taken without thoughts of consequences Obviously a nag not of much value , The loss not as hard felt as say one of his Grade 1 beast where we would have obviously seen a more somber picture 🙇🏼♂️ But too the masses it don’t matter an inch . What a complete prick he must feel today & whoever shared it now 4years later is now obviously not a friend or just another disgruntled employee ,
I honestly don’t understand how Elliott didn’t Just deny it as a photoshopped photo and deny all notion as most on twitter didn’t believe it to be fake , mayb he just thought the Sh1tstorm wouldn’t claim his high reputation and cause him the loss of probably 1/2 his owners alike Cheveley Park Stud will be surely shipping too Mullins ASAP.. Envoi Allen Etc will be welcomed with open arms after the O’Leary extraction . Sick & Sad times for the whatever.
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Post by Pulse on Mar 1, 2021 21:42:06 GMT
Gordon Elliott barred from having runners in Britain while image inquiry goes on The British Horseracing Authority will prevent Gordon Elliott from saddling runners in Britain while the Irish authorities investigate the photograph of the leading trainer sitting on a dead horse which appeared on social media over the weekend.
The BHA has used powers under its own rules to halt Elliott's involvement in British racing pending consideration of the outcome of the investigation being carried out by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board.
However, owners will be permitted to transfer horses to a different trainer and run them at British meetings. Elliott has 104 entries in the early-closing races at this month's Cheltenham Festival, most notably the unbeaten superstar Envoi Allen.
Qued round the block for WP Mullins to be Champion Trainer at the festival. 🏇🏆 Willie Mullins claimed the crown last year after saddling seven winners, including four victories on the Friday. Gordon Elliott also trained seven winners and both picked up seven second-places, but Mullins took the title with six thirds to four.
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Post by Bitchy on Mar 1, 2021 22:23:20 GMT
Cant the/a assistant trainer take over the licence to run his horses at the festival
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Post by Pulse on Mar 1, 2021 23:26:55 GMT
Cant the/a assistant trainer take over the licence to run his horses at the festival I’m not sure mate , mayb not with asking/looking owners to switch yards . Sad state of affairs . Ireland will probably ban him tomorrow , followed by his right to appeal , allowing him to run his string until that date .
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