Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Horses running from our main list to follow
Fontwell 1.50 – Classic Fiddle
Fontwell 2.50 – Air Force One
Warwick 2.40 - Pauillac
Russellform Ramblings
Classic Fiddle is my main hope today. She is a dual bumper winner and won two of her three starts over hurdles last season, her only defeat being ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Horses running from our main list to follow
Huntingdon 2.10 – Noble Sham
Musselburgh 1.00 – I’m Delilah
Musselburgh 3.00 – Native Coral
Horses running from our “dark horses” list
Huntingdon 1.40 – Hitaaf & Indicible
Musselburgh 4.00 – Wipe Your Eye
Russellform Ramblings
All the horses noted above are in with a ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Russellform Ramblings
As the bad weather continues Tuesday’s jumps meetings have been abandoned.
I was pleased to see a couple of the horses featured yesterday come up trumps. In particular the veteran Chopneyev ploughed his way through the mud at Folkestone to take advantage of a lenient rating. ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Horses running from our main list to follow
Folkestone 1.40 – Aux Le Bahnn & Master Overseer
Folkestone 2.10 – Manhattan Boy
Horses running from our “dark horses” list
Folkestone 1.10 – Dave’s Dream
Russellform Ramblings
I was pleased to see Labelthou return to winning ways over hurdles on Saturday. Emma ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Horses running from our main list to follow
Ascot 1.45 – Twist Magic
Ascot 2.55 – Gaspara
Ascot 3.30 – Regal Heights
Ascot 4.05 – Cave Hill
Haydock 1.25 – Afsoun & Regal Heights
Haydock 2.00 – Simon
Haydock 2.30 - Silverburn
Horses running from our “dark horses” ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Horses running from our “dark horses” list
Catterick 1.10 – Ballabriggs
Catterick 2.10 – King Killone
Catterick 3.20 – Custom Design
Russellform Ramblings
“Now, I found, that the world is round
and of course it rains everyday.” [From World, by The Bee Gees]
You will have to bear with me if I ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Horses running from our main list to follow
Newcastle 1.00 – Double Default & Top Cloud
Newcastle 2.05 – Money Trix
Horses running from our “dark horses” list
Newcastle 2.40 – Brook no Argument
Russellform Ramblings
Despite the incessant rain that seems to be sweeping the country Newcastle seem hopeful of staging ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
We were very tired, we were very merry -- We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable -- But we looked into a fire, we leaned ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Horses running from our main list to follow
Folkestone 1.50 – Time Bandit
Folkestone 3.20 – Noble Sham
Russellform Ramblings
The David Pipe pair of Time Bandit and Noble Sham are of interest at Folkestone tomorrow. Both have come back this season after lengthy absences. Noble Sham fell at Huntingdon on ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Recuerdo
We were very tired, we were very merry --
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable --
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, ...
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