I've not had the time to devote to these races as I would have liked, alas, owing to a server meltdown at the Day Job yesterday, but my thinking at the moment is to have a couple of small each-way...
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I've not had the time to devote to these races as I would have liked, alas, owing to a server meltdown at the Day Job yesterday, but my thinking at the moment is to have a couple of small each-way...
Hope to see Keppol's Hill on Sunday, Martin, if I do end up doing the racereading there - all TBC. It'd make sense, as I'm working at Larkhill on Saturday and Charlton Horethorne is barely half an...
Probably e/w on The General Lee in the Ludlow race; partly for the very reason of jockeyship Martin mentioned (JD Moore won the national novice riders' title in 1998 and is still better than many 14...
So where are the Pointing great and good heading to this weekend, then? Presumably Horseheath for you on Saturday, Martin, but if you're Tweseldowning on Sunday I'll be there also.
At last, at...
LOL. Sympathise entirely - sometimes it feels less of a case of "well done" and more one of "stakes is raised", doesn't it! :cool:
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)
Dunno if I mentioned it at the time, but George told me after her win on day one of the season that he'd love her to spend the forthcoming spring and summer contesting handicap hurdles on the...
What Martin said, basically. I'd also like to point to Eleazar's ability to defy sizeable lay-offs as another virtue of his - three times in his career he's gone in after absences as long as today's...
Note that Special Portrait won a hunter at Ayr about this time last year (probably the corresponding race), has been aimed for this contest for a while now, and had the form of his January 29th...
If Larkhill (including the Coronation Cup), Tweseldown or Horseheath feature on your weekend intineraries at all, here is a good piece of advice about going to those places.
The advice is - don't...
I'm not entirely sure Patrick Smith got away scot free, Martin - my correspondent for that meeting noticed him with his arm / shoulder in a sling subsequently, owing to a suspected broken collarbone....
Happy to oblige! It's astonishing how much Monkerty Tunkerty has improved since his days as a gifted but errant youngster with Bob and Ben Woodhouse, and one increasingly wonders whether the previous...
Aye, and it's worth reiterating that Monkerty Tunkerty's duffing over of Welsh Foxhunters winner Sericina at Wadebridge last time was entirely on merit - Jessica kicked on with just under a mile to...
That looks a card of epic proportions but isn't too far removed from what some I'd spoken to a couple of weeks ago were expecting, given how many expressions of interest (and subsequently entries)...
Splendid effort by all concerned with Marblehead - and by Marblehead himself, for proving as amenable as he did to a marked change of tactics over this longest ever trip.
Fergal and Jelly O'Brien...
I'm guessing he'll have entered your orbit around the time he won that chase at Fontwell, did he? In the interim he's continued to carve out a reputation as a horse that will frequently outperform...
Yep, I was sick as the proverbial chocolate frog about missing out. I've not been to many of the Devon & Cornwall Area courses yet, but Chippo would be my favourite by some margin. Wide open spaces...
Indeed he didn't - my car essentially blew up outside of Taunton (so only 11 miles from Chipley) after the software controlling the radiator fan malfunctioned. Arsington Sodmonster.
I did get to...
What A Laugh is a credit to all concerned with him - Richard Davies-Cooke for keeping the faith in owning Pointers after previous attempts to didn't even get as far as the racetrack; and Gary Hanmer...
Day one of the Yorkshire Area season for me this coming Sunday, with the YAPPC holding their annual meeting at the Sheriff Hutton course owned and run by the Easterbys.
Every chance, as is often...
Oh bugger - no pressure, then! :eek: :D
Martin - it's not the same as yours, for all that I will be having an investment in My Flora as well in the hope she can jump up and down hills as well as...
Heh-heh, no kidding. And he won't mind us saying as much! :D
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)
Gulp - hope that wasn't last season's 11-runner meeting you went to, was it? The field sizes can be a bit on the thin side (even if there's quality among them) as the toughness and length of the...
From the 2010 Annual, the last in which he appeared:
"Can show speed, but has a habit of ignoring the fences, and does not look willing when push comes to shove".
That could have been a whole...
Correct - Cossack Dancer fell at the 12th and wiped him out, so Bucks Bond absolutely cannot be blamed for his exit yesterday. He remains a really taking prospect if none the worse for the...
You do have to pick and choose your way through the courses in East Anglia, Martin. Cottenham is, as you rightly say, a good place to get a stack on - especially those early, pre-Christmas meetings...