Archive for July, 2008
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Trainer Henry Candy has been enjoying a successful season and one of his stable stars, Corrybrough tackles group company for the first time tomorrow in the 2.20 at Newbury. Corrybrough has been most progressive winning a listed race at Sandown on his last run. He has been running ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
The main meeting on Friday is at Newbury where the first 3 races are for maiden fillies. I gave Ballyalla a positive write up prior to her debut at Newbury but she could only finish 9th of 13. She started 3rd favourite that day though so must have ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
There is afternoon racing at Leicester on Thursday where the first race is at 2.10. Richard Hannon has Luxuria in the opening event which is a nursery handicap (a handicap for 2 year old horses). Luxuria (pictured below) was a winning tip for me last time she ran ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Aleatricis (picture below) provided my list to follow with a winner on Monday, and there was a nice story to go with it as it was jockey Rosie Jessop’s 19th birthday. The horse will not be penalised for the success and it is long odds on that his ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Yorkshire trainer John Quinn was in fine form over the weekend with an across the card double. I wasn’t convinced that Blythe Knight would be able to win over 7 furlongs at Chester, mainly on the evidence that he had not won over that distance before and he ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
THE GOLDEN JOURNEY TO SAMARKAND PROLOGUE I We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
It has been a dire week for my tips over the last few days with the steady stream of losers only matched by the rain outside which has turned the going in the back garden to soft, heavy in places! Once again there are plenty of meetings over the ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The last few days have been remarkable, not only for the number of my losing selections, but for the number that have actually finished last! The only way is up? With 6 flat meetings tomorrow there is plenty for the punter to go at – in fact ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I’ll start tonight’s preview at Newmarket and the listed race at 1.30. There are two runners from our list to follow, Unleashed, representing last season’s winning trainer Henry Cecil, and Wood Chorus, who is yet to be out of the first 3 in her career. Unleashed won a ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Trainer Mark Usher is one of my links so I always keep a watch on his results. He had a 28/1 winner this afternoon with Diminuto at Wolverhampton. I had a note to watch out for this one when running at Southwell where he had won 3 times ...
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