Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Winners continue to be hard to dig out at Goodwood. Have my tips gone to the dogs? Anyway, onward to day 4 at the Sussex track. Dandy Nicholls has trained 5 of the last 10 winners of the Stewards Sprint Stakes, the 2.50 at ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
After day 1 at Glorious Goodwood at least I can say I haven’t peaked too early with 4 days to go! I did get a tip for Finjaan (pictured below) but too late to pass it on I am afraid. I don’t have a ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
I am not going into Goodwood on particularly “glorious” tipping form, but there have been some near misses, for example Dan Chillingworth who was 2nd at 12/1 today. Goodwood is never easy as some horses just don’t handle the track, which makes previous course form an important ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
I usually enjoy a fair return from following Sir Mark Prescott’s 3 year olds but this season the strategy has not worked as well. Aleatricis has won 5 times but apart from him most of the others that I have followed have disappointed, the latest being General Ting ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
There were some winners for the site on Thursday. Aleatricis duly completed his 5 timer and I see he is entered at Kempton on the 30th so he could yet make it 6 on the bounce. Dvinski kept up his good record at Kempton winning at 11/2 under ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I am going to start Friday’s preview with a look at the 4.30 at Ascot, a race where Mark Johnston has trained 3 of the last 10 winners. He saddles William Blake this time, a winner twice on the all weather and also at Beverley earlier in the ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
The Yorkshire Festival of Racing moves on to Doncaster tomorrow evening where Another Decree lines up in the Yorkshire Racing Festival Handicap at 7.40. This son of Diktat did my list to follow a bit of good when winning a Pontefract maiden at odds of 16/1 back in ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I haven’t had much time to reflect on the racing last weekend. I fancied Knot in Wood for the sprint at Musselburgh on Friday night and he won well, albeit not quite as easily as last year. Valery Borzov again showed plenty of early dash and there may ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
The only runner from my list to follow in action tomorrow is Aleatricis, a typical Sir Mark Prescott 3 year old, who goes for a 4 timer in the 3.15 at Yarmouth. The horse seems to be improving at a rate of knots and should be able to ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The big race at Ayr tomorrow is the valuable sprint handicap at 4.30. There are plenty in with chances including two previous winners of the race, Fantasy Explorer and Fullandby. Fullandby carries top weight and is 9 lbs higher than winning last year. Fantasy Explorer is actually on ...
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