Windsor Road, just down from Seven Sisters. Nan and Grandad lived a few hundred yards along the Cally. Grandad was Park keeper at Highbury Fields.
Windsor Road, just down from Seven Sisters. Nan and Grandad lived a few hundred yards along the Cally. Grandad was Park keeper at Highbury Fields.
Don’t forget the following.....
Course form. It’s not for every horse and those that have performed well here in the past, often do again.
Also Mark Johnston ALWAYS targets this meeting and has been quoted recently saying he could have run horses elsewhere but has saved them for this week.
tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito
Maybe I should be committed, considering the money I left in was supposed to do me till the jumps got going again, I now have zero pounds in my Betfair account having put the lot, that was left after the King George meeting, on Hollaway Boy.
Plus she's got my visa card and is going shopping tomorrow.....Tuesday could be a bad day all round for me.
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Aw thats lovely yes Highbury Fields was a place I used to train with my team in the late 1990s. We won the Camden and Islington Cup Final in 1997, 5-4 in extra time, and I got man of the match. We played at some football pitches at the back of Kings Cross called Coram Fields on astro turf. I was asked to train for West Ham after that but I had an ankle injury my ankle would keep giving way in matches and aged 12 I just wasn't ready.
Lovely London memories.
Last edited by Marb; 25th July 2022 at 7:21 PM.
Good luck, Fist, You're a braver man than I am sending your visa card shopping, and backing a Chesham winner at Goodwood.
I’ve backed Galeron too. Holloway Boy did extremely well first time out but the Chesham is only a listed race at the end of the day and the form hasn’t exactly been franked.
Bet of the day for me tomorrow is Stone of Destiny at c. 10/1 in the sprint. Including the 5lb claim he’s running off a near astonishing 79. I say that as it was only a year ago he was rated in the 100s, as when he was unlucky in the Dash off 102 and arguably again when switched to group company in the Coral Charge at Sandown.
It’s not too difficult to make excuses for his runs this year and it’s not often you see a horse running off a claim adjusted mark which is 25lbs lower than he was at this meeting last year. He’s running in a handicap now. Then he ran in the G2 King George and was only beaten 7 lengths, in front of horses like Battaash, Art Power and Liberty Beach.
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Alright lads its been a while I'll be taking in some of the racing this week as I've got a bit of time off work I'll be opening the batting with the 2 Bahrain Bandits in the first tomorrow. Best of luck
Hope you're all well.
Man who catch fly with chopstick .... accomplish anything.
Nice to see you back, Danny - stick around this time, eh?
Danny (26th July 2022)
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Wednesday's Sussex Stakes looks a cracker, with 'the best horse in the world' having his mettle tested by the speedy Japanese front-runner.
Wonder if there'll be 13lbs between them, come tomorrow evening?
I’ve deserted him Martin and gone with Bell Rock, for whom I just hope the jockey’s relative inexperience doesn’t affect the outcome too much in a race where it’d be very easy to meet trouble from an inside draw if not breaking smartly.
I know Johnston targets the meeting but he doesn’t look to have the same firepower this season as he normally does and I vaguely recall Kealy saying something about how he’s way down on winners compared to previous years. I do think West End Charmer will bag a decent handicap but Norton is going to have to make plenty of use of him early doors from 14 and, as one who likes to be prominent, I can see him being up there throughout only to be picked off in the final furlong
All that said, I fear I’m going to need to have a saver on him now with the 7 places on offer.
In the Lennox, I think Laneqash is too big. I’m not sure what happened in the Criterion but on earlier form in the Hungerford and John of Gaunt he’s a much more similar chance to Sacred, Kinross & Pogo than the prices would suggest. He’s over five times the price of Sacred and twice the price of the other two.
Especially if the pieces continue to have a positive effect.
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Desert Orchid (26th July 2022)
He better be at his very best today Reet.
The ground is perfect for Order of Australia and he'll make him pull out all the stops.
An upset could be on the cards.
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Bathrat Leon posted a time of 93.1 secs for 1m on g/f last April. which is probably faster than Baaeed's ever run in his life.
Have had a nibble at B365's 40/1.