July 18th

ste2010

My first go at tipping flat
Epsom salts @ 5-1 winner of the same race last year at a lower mark than when he won and nicely drawn. 1st race at Epsom

Amenable @6-1 in Hamilton 4.30.
Course winner again at a lower mark than when he won here in August last year. Nicely drawn and violet Jordan has travelled 313m to bring her only one here. Mark tumbled since winning last and I'm pretty confident this one will give a good account

Johner

Nice confidence booster for Telescope there! Visually that was very impressive.

Johner

Looking forward to seeing Sizing Platinum in the novice hurdle in the next at Killarney. Looked like he could be anything when hacking up in his maiden hurdle.

rossom

5.25 Killarney

Queen Alphabet 6/1

Peter Fahey has already won 2 bumpers at the Killarney Festival (including a 1-2 last night) and his 4 year old filly has a really striking pedigree for a contest of this nature. This daughter of King's Theatre is a full sister to Willie Mullins' talented Royal Alphabet who was a winner of 8 races including 2 Bumpers (including on debut), 2 flat races and a Grade 2 over hurdles and was also placed in the Champion Flat race at Punchestown. Additionally, she is a half sister to Richard Hannon's 7 time winning gelding Red Spell (including on debut) who reached a peak rating on the flat of 104 as well as Noel Meade's winning bumper debutant Azalea. For a bumper horse, Queen Alphabet looks extremely well bred and a horse who should be extremely forward for her debut. Fahey also saddles another debutant in the shape of flat bred A La Perchoine but Queen Alphabet looks a far more likely type on paper and the jockey bookings would seem to suggest that. Looking at the opposition with experience, Tirauli and Egyptian Warrior both set a decent standard and should prove formidable opponents in addition to Henry De Bromhead's Rules debutant Sizing Scorpion but Queen Alphabet has the breeding to prove a very useful horse and Peter Fahey clearly has his string in top order at present. If fully wound up on debut which her forward looking pedigree suggests, I expect Queen Alphabet to put in a very big performance on debut and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if this 4 year old filly has a big future ahead of her.

rockycelt

have a wee sneaking feeling about Spic n Span in the 4.50 @ Brighton.
off a good mark now, and 25/1 in an 8 runner field is the best e/w value for me.
holds an entry in 4-5 days time, for possible follow up.

rockycelt

rockycelt wrote: »

have a wee sneaking feeling about Spic n Span in the 4.50 @ Brighton.
off a good mark now, and 25/1 in an 8 runner field is the best e/w value for me.
holds an entry in 4-5 days time, for possible follow up.

What the fcuk, I mean, what the utter fcuk!!
Surely stall malfunction there
My boy try's to jump out and dumps Morris, another nearly empties his pilot, and a third get stuck and loses 10 lengths.

Moral victory for spic n span though, who crossed the line first, even if he did nearly take out 4 runners on the home straight

Johner

My god Thomo is useless in commentary. In the last at Leicester he goes the favourites struggling a bit out on his own and started listing all the horses on the otherside and didn't realise the fav was coming through to win until the last second! Good man Thomo!

Johner

Some money for O'Briens bumper horse here at Killarney! Not sure what price it started at but it was 11/4 a few minutes ago and is now 7/4.

ste2010

ste2010 wrote: »

My first go at tipping flat
Epsom salts @ 5-1 winner of the same race last year at a lower mark than when he won and nicely drawn. 1st race at Epsom

Amenable @6-1 in Hamilton 4.30.
Course winner again at a lower mark than when he won here in August last year. Nicely drawn and violet Jordan has travelled 313m to bring her only one here. Mark tumbled since winning last and I'm pretty confident this one will give a good account

Not going well..lets see what the 6.10 brings!

Sir_Scat

All my eggs in one basket today, lumped on Legal Lyric this morning in the 9:05 Leopardstown.

Hulk Hands

Next years Derby winner about to make his debut here at Leopardstown. You heard it here first

Johner

What the **** Smullen? What a shocking ride.

UrbanSea

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Next years Derby winner about to make his debut here at Leopardstown. You heard it here first

That Montjeu?

Johner

That won't be winning any Derby anyway! The second horse should have won that race! And no I didn't have money on it.

UrbanSea

The filly that was second can anyone check her breeding the dams name stands out i just can't think of her or who else she is dam of

Johner

Galelio and Saddlers Rock I think Urban!

UrbanSea

That's the one

Johner

Wonderfully > Mars. :pac:

Hulk Hands

UrbanSea wrote: »

That Montjeu?

May have been exaggerating slightly but that horse will turn out a hell of a lot better than showed there

tryfix

Johner wrote: »

Wonderfully > Mars. :pac:

Beating Perhaps > Battle Of Marengo.:p

tryfix

UrbanSea wrote: »

That Montjeu?

Out of Helsinki a full sister to Street Cry, once owned by Sheikh Mohammed and not sure how that worked out, but Coolmore is a strange place to find her daughter.

UrbanSea

Who is she down to be owned by

Sir_Scat

Royal Diamond More Like Royal Precession

tryfix

UrbanSea wrote: »

Who is she down to be owned by

Owner: Coolmore Stud
Breeder: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum
Winnings: 5 Starts: 1 - 0 - 1, $23,101 in FR/UAE

http://www.pedigreequery.com/helsinki2


They bought her at Keenland for $3.9m from someone else who had bought her privately.

[Taylor Made Sales Agency, which had been honored earlier in the day at Keeneland for surpassing $1 billion in public auction sales, consigned Helsinki and her daughter for Dr. Phil McCarthy and Fred Hertrich. McCarthy is a Kentucky veterinarian, and Hertrich is a Delaware car dealer. They own Watercress Farm near Paris, Ky., and originally had acquired Helsinki privately.

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/25326/helsinki-sells-for-39-million-at-keeneland-business-continues-to-boom

She's also the dam of Shamardal. An expensive piece of property!

UrbanSea

Bloodhorse is another top site

rockycelt

rockycelt wrote: »

have a wee sneaking feeling about Spic n Span in the 4.50 @ Brighton.
off a good mark now, and 25/1 in an 8 runner field is the best e/w value for me.
holds an entry in 4-5 days time, for possible follow up.

rockycelt wrote: »

What the fcuk, I mean, what the utter fcuk!!
Surely stall malfunction there
My boy try's to jump out and dumps Morris, another nearly empties his pilot, and a third get stuck and loses 10 lengths.

Moral victory for spic n span though, who crossed the line first, even if he did nearly take out 4 runners on the home straight

missed this horse last night, won @ 14/1, fcukity fcuk!!! :mad: