Archive for February, 2009
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Gee Dee Nen gave me a winner at Ludlow today . Tony McCoy always looked confident on this former flat stayer and drew away to win easily. He looks a horse to keep on the right side as does the horse that finished 3rd Putney Bridge who was ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
I only have time for a quick update this evening. I see that Quickbeam runs in the Doncaster 2.10 tomorrow. He has had problems with his jumping but at least put in a clear round on his last start. With the stable of Venetia Williams in such ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
The horse that caught my eye this afternoon was Carrickboy at Market Rasen. A fine big chasing type he was given a confident ride by Sam Thomas and looks one to follow. The racing tomorrow is pretty low key stuff. In the 3.00 at Southwell I am ...
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
There were a few Cheltenham Festival pointers at Leopardstown this afternoon. Neptune Collonges won the Irish Hennessy beating the Welsh National winner Notre Pere to enhance his Gold Cup claims. Cooldine outstayed Forpadytheplasterer in the PJ Moriaty Chase. Both have festival aspirations, although probably in different races. ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
There is some interesting racing on tomorrow although we have lost Sedgefield to the weather. At Hereford Thumb’s Up could be worth noting in the 2.10. He won a couple of times on the flat where he was rated in the low 80s and is now with ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
With some improvement in the weather up and down the country we might well get some racing tomorrow, and if we do there are some competitive races that will take some solving. There are only 4 runners in the 1.05 at Ascot but they all have a ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
This is not a record of the top so many juveniles of 2008 but a look back at the 2 year olds that featured on my web site during the season. For no particularly good reason I am going to start with a William Jarvis 2 year ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
The best race at Fakenham tomorrow is the 2.30 which looks to be between West End Rocker and Hora. The former is having his 3rd run over fences and the form of those first two efforts looks pretty solid. At Chepstow on his chase bow he was a ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
I see that Chepstow has beaten the weather so here goes with a hasty look at the action there. Seefin Mountain is a tentative selection in the 1.40 on the strength of his second at Taunton at the end of December. I am hopeful that Jaunty ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Conditions at Musselburgh seem to be improving so there is a chance that racing at the Scottish track may go ahead tomorrow. The first race on the card at 1.55 looks to be a match between Son of Flicka and Glencree. Glencree won over course and distance at ...
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