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    Black Forest Lodge now off - they are hoping to re-schedule for next Saturday.
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    Random question - does anyone know anyone who trains pointers in North Somerset who might need someone to ride out weekends?

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    Have a word with Kirsty (Jinnyj) she might know of people
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    Anything stand out here to our knowledgable hunter chase followers

    (4:20) 28G Raymond Smith Memorial Hunters S'chase
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    74-6- 1 Big Shu (PMaher) - . ....................................
    06f1- 2 Carsonstown Boy (CAMcBratney) -
    . .................................... (112)
    22-0- 3 Johnnyofcourse (BRHamilton) - ................
    00p4- 4 Kilcrea Castle (PMJDoyle) - . ......................
    55//- 5 Mister Top Notch (DEFitzgerald) - . ...........
    -62p- 6 Newbay Prop (Mrs.CO'Leary) - . .................
    -423- 7 Northern Alliance (AJMartin) - ...................
    612-4 8 Not Before Eight (DMChristie) - ........ (114)
    1-14- 9 On The Fringe (EBolger) - . .........................
    0-3- 10 Oscar Delta (JJMangan) - . .........................
    f-p/- 11 Parsons Pistol (NMeade) - . .............. (127)
    f0-5- 12 Perce Rock (GB) (JHalley) - . ......................
    60p4- 13 Saddlers Storm (AJMartin) - . ............ (126)
    u11-p 14 Salsify (RSweeney) - . ........................ (119)
    86f2- 15 Tammys Hill (LLennon) - . ...........................
    -4f-5 16 The Tother One (EStanners) - . ..................
    44b2- 17 Vic Venturi (DTHughes) - . ..........................
    123-2 18 Viking Splash (JJHanlon) - . .............. (122)
    000-u 19 Wild Salmon (WPMurphy) - . ......................
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    Quote Originally Posted by granger View Post
    Anything stand out here to our knowledgable hunter chase followers
    Parson's Pistol jumped fluently and looked well at Ballydarragh on Sunday.
    You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miesque View Post
    Parson's Pistol jumped fluently and looked well at Ballydarragh on Sunday.
    This begs the question WTF were you doing in Ballydarragh on Sunday?
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    Quote Originally Posted by On The Bridle View Post
    This begs the question WTF were you doing in Ballydarragh on Sunday?
    Horse running...and hiding from work.
    You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

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    The Tother One is finished

    Not Before Eight is an improver this season but has to step up further

    On The Fringe - supposedly a machine but has had problems, was a top horse 2 seasons back as a youngster

    Carsonstown Boy - put him up elsewhere for the Down Royal HC, was fat as a butchers dog at Maralin FTO and was a very useful hurdler on his day.

    Salsify - Champion HC last season but dropped out rather tamely on his return to the track (had previously travelled v v well before being headed on the run in at Dromahane)

    Tammys Hill - improving type who could go well at a big price

    Initial thoughts on the race - would add that Oscar Delta bled FTO so that would put me off him massively.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trudij View Post
    Have a word with Kirsty (Jinnyj) she might know of people
    I'm having a think! I will ask around for names this w/e - how far into Somerset is your limit?

    Suggest you join Jumping for Fun forum and post something up there - lots of pointing trainers look in there.

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    They used to rave about On The Fringe....not sure what has happened.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irish Stamp View Post
    Carsonstown Boy - was fat as a butchers dog at Maralin FTO and was a very useful hurdler on his day.


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    I thought butchers' dogs were fit?
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    Yes, but why would a butcher's dog be fit? I think the person who coined the expression must have had a New Zealand accent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey View Post
    Yes, but why would a butcher's dog be fit? I think the person who coined the expression must have had a New Zealand accent.
    It's the Atkins diet, innit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jinnyj View Post
    I'm having a think! I will ask around for names this w/e - how far into Somerset is your limit?

    Suggest you join Jumping for Fun forum and post something up there - lots of pointing trainers look in there.

    http://www.jumping4fun.co.uk/jff/main/main.htm
    Thanks! We're in the Chew Valley so preferably not too far south. Will have a look at JFF.

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    Any views on the hunter chase in Ayr for the F/C? How far does Cloudy Lane win today?

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    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 Sheriff Hutton victory franked by the 3l second Harmony Brig going in at Overton on Sunday.

    Note also that everything that could have gone wrong prior to that Sheriff Hutton victory did go wrong. Per my copy in the Weekender the following midweek;

    “I’m chuffed to bits – we’ve had such a hard time the last few weeks”, [trainer Mark] Hughes remarked. “It was the original plan to come here on the 15th [the first date for this meeting before the weather intervened], then we missed days due to frost. He’s also had a haematoma between his legs and we’ve not been able to do much more than lunge him this week”.

    There'd also been the small matter of a second-fence fall (very uncharacteristic) at Alnwick on January 22nd.

    Special Portrait looked pretty fit at Sheriff, but I can imagine him stripping fitter still today if he's had a less interrupted time of things in the interim. On Official Ratings he probably shouldn't prove quite good enough, but I don't think the disparity in his and Cloudy Lane's chances quite warrants best prices (as at 10am) of 5-1 and 2-9 respectively.

    And if Special Portrait does go in again, nobody in the Northern pointing Area will begrudge Mark Hughes that one iota. In a sphere increasingly light on one- or two-horse operations run by working men, Hughes fits in training Special Portrait around his day job as a binman for Allerdale Borough Council. There was plenty of happy chatting with and backslapping of him in evidence on Sunday at Overton, only further reinforcing the impression of that being an everyman's venue with an everyman's atmosphere - I was quite taken with it, I must say.

    One jarring reminder of my increasing and inexorable hurtling towards middle age at Overton, however, was witnessing the victory in the Restricted of the foal of the foal of one of the 3m chasers of my formative years! Clive Storey's mare Weeumba is the daughter of Weejumpawud, niece of Wudimp and granddaughter of Weewumpawud, who used to guide Clive around the northern Rules venues in the early and mid-1980s. Pass me my pipe and slippers...

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    Interesting, thanks Jeremy. Great to hear stories of the small man doing well although I suspect Cloudy Lane will win by 5 or 6 lengths today. I won't be too disheartened if Special Portrait does it for Mr Hughes!

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    Another of my favourite types of races today, the hunters chase in Kelso 4.10! The favourite looks like a good thing as long as he handles the ground however I'm keen to take him on e/w with Sacred Mountain for the Waltons. Will handle the conditions and is in relative good nick as he won his last start. Anyone have any further insights on this race?

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    Wouldn't rule out Doc Row either - yard been in decent form at the start of hte p2p season and should go well.
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