Archive for August, 2008
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Disappointingly day 2 of the York Ebor meeting has been rained off and we have also lost racing at Carlisle to the weather. Hopefully Folkestone and Hamilton will go ahead. Hamilton is Scotland’s only dedicated flat racing track. It was also the first track in Britain to ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
The going seems likely to play a major part in at the first day of York’s Ebor meeting, with heavy ground forecast. In the sprint handicap at 1.45 I am going to keep the selection process simple. Green Park has won twice on heavy ground, was ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
As usual I will concentrate mainly on the prospects for the horses from my list to follow over the next couple of days. Cruel Sea and Melodramatic run at Bath in the 4.30 in the Dick Hern Stakes. One of my earliest racing systems revolved around trainer ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
My selections this week have won a few silver and bronze medals but gold has been hard to come by. Astrodome won up at Hamilton and Dar Re Mi went in at Deauville but I was relieved when Tropical Strait gave me a 10/1 winner this afternoon under a confident ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Did you know that one of the British competitors at the 1896 Olympics in Athens delighted the home fans by reading out an ode he had written in ancient Greek at the closing ceremony? Well, there haven’t been any odes so far but it’s been enjoyable nonetheless. ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
The racing this week has been dross in the main, not that my tipping has been much better! I did give the John Dunlop 3 year old Perks a positive write up prior to his win at Haydock on Saturday though and I feel he could be one ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Ted Hughes, The Horses I climbed through woods in the hour-before-dawn dark. Evil air, a frost-making stillness, Not a leaf, not a bird - A world cast in frost. I came out above the wood ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
There is evening racing at Musselburgh tomorrow with the first race at 6.10. The only runners from my list to follow in action at the Scottish track are both in the last race on the card, the 8.40. La Fortalesa has run 5 times but has not really ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Looking back to Saturday’s racing there was a very topical winner at Haydock in Valery Borzov. Named after the gold medal winning Ukranian sprinter at the Munich Olympics, Dandy Nicholls 4 year old notched his 3rd win of the season. It was a particularly noteworthy performance as he ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
After a few near misses earlier in the week a couple of runners from my list to follow found their way to the winner’s enclosure on Thursday. Hurlingham had been rated as high as 87 but had dropped to 69. He was given a really nice ride by ...
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