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  • 18-12-2011 6:33pm
    #1
    Colonel Sanders
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    only 4 races but a lot to take in

    Zaidpour won easily after being heavily backed (4/5 last night into 1/3 SP). The opposition might not have been up to scratch (except Prima Vista who was having his seasonal debut) but he's starting to look a top prospect again. Trouble is soft ground looks to be a necessity

    Boston Bob looked very good in the Grade 1 novice hurdle. Again not sure of the ground will be critical for this one but looks a serious horse. Certainly wouldn't give up on Mount Benbulben, looked quirky again today and jumped right at almost every hurdle. Thought he'd given them the slip 2 out but BB knuckled down really well. Ipsos Du Berlais is still a promising horse but maybe not with the major Spring festivals in mind

    Performance of the day goes to Don Cossack IMO. Rory O'Moore looked to have given them the slip (must have been more than half a furlong ahead at one stage) but DC really showed a willing attitude and turn of foot to chase him down inside the last 100 yards. The 2nd horse was entitled to get a bit tired late on but to cut him down in that ground with a long way back to the 3rd was a serious performance. Only 4 but already looks a 3m chaser in the making. Another really exciting prospect for Gigginstown


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    Colonel Sanders
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    Forgot to add the bookies seem to be making error after error pricing up Sunday racing on Saturday afternoon

    Some I can think of recently:

    So Young at 10/11, think he started 2/5
    Last Installment at 2/1, think he started 4/6
    Zaidpour at 4/5 SP 1/3
    Don Cossack 6/4 SP 4/6

    There are others as well who've been beaten but were WAY shorter than their early shows come the off


  • #3
    Huntey
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    Colonel Sanders wrote: »
    Performance of the day goes to Don Cossack IMO. Rory O'Moore looked to have given them the slip (must have been more than half a furlong ahead at one stage) but DC really showed a willing attitude and turn of foot to chase him down inside the last 100 yards. The 2nd horse was entitled to get a bit tired late on but to cut him down in that ground with a long way back to the 3rd was a serious performance. Only 4 but already looks a 3m chaser in the making. Another really exciting prospect for Gigginstown

    I thought that race was a shambles, you can probably draw a line through the horses in behind as they ran no race.

    Had Rory O'Moore won it would have been an embarrassment for the other jockeys. Someone said to me that Nina gave the horse a great ride but I think it was more a case of the horse getting her out of a hole. She had the best mount in the race and nearly beat Don Cossack herself.


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    Colonel Sanders
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    Huntey wrote: »
    I thought that race was a shambles

    Wouldn't disagree with this
    Huntey wrote: »
    Someone said to me that Nina gave the horse a great ride but I think it was more a case of the horse getting her out of a hole. She had the best mount in the race and nearly beat Don Cossack herself.

    Not sure it was a great ride but I do think it was a very good performance. Ground was very tacky and to make up that amount of ground (even considering the 2nd horse was probably tiring) marks him out as a very smart horse IMO. Add in his previous Naas win and I think he could be a star


  • #5
    Huntey
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    Colonel Sanders wrote: »
    Not sure it was a great ride but I do think it was a very good performance. Ground was very tacky and to make up that amount of ground (even considering the 2nd horse was probably tiring) marks him out as a very smart horse IMO. Add in his previous Naas win and I think he could be a star

    Ya he looks a nice type and I'm not taking anything away from the horse.

    I just think that he probably had a harder race today than he needed to have.


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    the groutch
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    Colonel Sanders wrote: »
    Forgot to add the bookies seem to be making error after error pricing up Sunday racing on Saturday afternoon

    Some I can think of recently:

    So Young at 10/11, think he started 2/5
    Last Installment at 2/1, think he started 4/6
    Zaidpour at 4/5 SP 1/3
    Don Cossack 6/4 SP 4/6

    There are others as well who've been beaten but were WAY shorter than their early shows come the off

    worst one I remember is Martin Brassil's NICKNAME. He had won a grade 1 hurdle in France, and was 25/1 early doors, won at 5/1 in a canter


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