Not a good day yesterday.
I know it's the risk that finding excuses for horses can seem like pocket talk but I've been watching the game long enough to know how a horse has been ridden. I know that Princess Shabnam was not on it. Here is a horse who very often has made the running, given a middle draw here. Many a time we will see a horse bust out of the stalls and get a good position early on, especially if they can be front runners like PS. No, the jockey leaves the stalls at a leisurely pace and get's in behind horses. At the business end, the jockey is very easy on the horse: a couple of whipflicks and that was it. 'Not a going day' is the euphemism. As Outsider has pointed out, it could well be that they have the 7.5f race at the course in mind at the end of May. She'd get in there with about 8.12 or so.
The other one yesterday, Salamanca City was another who was just having a run and never going to win. Yes, fifth, but not exactly asked any serious question by Doyle up top. In the final furlong a couple of those 'look at me trying' - type touches with the crop. Yes, another day.
Anyway, on to today and, at last, we get to see Military Tycoon in a handicap. There's still some soft in the ground, which is good, although I would have liked to see him racing over slightly further. Still, 2m 2f should be enough. If the ground gets too firm, I'd expect the trainer to take him out.
Military Tycoon - Stratford 7.50 12/1 Ew
Next, I think this may well be the day to back:
Cottie – Huntingdon 1.50 12/1 Ew
He did me a favour at 14/1 in Eire the last time I backed him and since then he’s joined Skelton for whom he’s had four runs. It’s worth noting that when he won, he did so after taking it up at the second hurdle and making it from there. In all his four runs in theis country he’s been held up at the rear; they weren’t on were they. He won that race in Eire off 104 by 9L. Here he’s down to 106 and I think that could be a winning mark. I really would like him to be very prominent, if not making it.
Yesterday was a hard one to take but as you say, Chaumi, that's the game. To quote the song: pick yourself up, dust yourself down and start all over again.
And the sun's shining
I know it's the risk that finding excuses for horses can seem like pocket talk but I've been watching the game long enough to know how a horse has been ridden. I know that Princess Shabnam was not on it. Here is a horse who very often has made the running, given a middle draw here. Many a time we will see a horse bust out of the stalls and get a good position early on, especially if they can be front runners like PS. No, the jockey leaves the stalls at a leisurely pace and get's in behind horses. At the business end, the jockey is very easy on the horse: a couple of whipflicks and that was it. 'Not a going day' is the euphemism. As Outsider has pointed out, it could well be that they have the 7.5f race at the course in mind at the end of May. She'd get in there with about 8.12 or so.
The other one yesterday, Salamanca City was another who was just having a run and never going to win. Yes, fifth, but not exactly asked any serious question by Doyle up top. In the final furlong a couple of those 'look at me trying' - type touches with the crop. Yes, another day.
Anyway, on to today and, at last, we get to see Military Tycoon in a handicap. There's still some soft in the ground, which is good, although I would have liked to see him racing over slightly further. Still, 2m 2f should be enough. If the ground gets too firm, I'd expect the trainer to take him out.
Military Tycoon - Stratford 7.50 12/1 Ew
Next, I think this may well be the day to back:
Cottie – Huntingdon 1.50 12/1 Ew
He did me a favour at 14/1 in Eire the last time I backed him and since then he’s joined Skelton for whom he’s had four runs. It’s worth noting that when he won, he did so after taking it up at the second hurdle and making it from there. In all his four runs in theis country he’s been held up at the rear; they weren’t on were they. He won that race in Eire off 104 by 9L. Here he’s down to 106 and I think that could be a winning mark. I really would like him to be very prominent, if not making it.
Yesterday was a hard one to take but as you say, Chaumi, that's the game. To quote the song: pick yourself up, dust yourself down and start all over again.
And the sun's shining
