Sunday 14/8

Crumbs · 14-08-2005 9:54am #1

Great win by Powerscourt in the Arlington Million last night. Top work by O'Brien and Fallon. Anyone else see it?

Anyway, today is looking like favourite's day to me. 3 bets, all favs. I suppose I'm just asking for trouble by making these selections public. :eek:

Leopardstown 3:45 - Shalapour
Even though it's being used as a trial for the English Leger for him, I think the 18lbs he gets from Vinnie Roe should be more than enough to allow him to win this. Priced around 4/5.

Bath 4:30 - Shohrah
A 1m listed race for fillies. She ran twice as a 2yo, winning her debut easily and then coming 5th in the Fillies' Mile at Ascot behind some useful types. Needed her first run this season when a staying-on 5th over 7f. Around 9/4.

Leopardstown 4:45 - Caradak
Around 11/10. I expect him to hose up in this G3 before moving up to a G1 for his next race.

Race of the day is the Prix Jacques Le Marois (Deauville 2:15). Eagerly anticipating this one. Hopefully it'll live up to expectations. Won't be having a bet though.

CiaranC · 14-08-2005 2:11pm

Shalapour seems a huge price at 4/5. Whats with that?

Crumbs · 14-08-2005 4:31pm

Shalapour drifts to 5/4, gets ahead of Vinnie Roe but is beaten by Chelsea Rose. Fitness told more than ability I think.

Shohrah drifts to 10/3 and runs very poorly. She's surely better than that but she's off my list now until she shows it.

Caradak, into 4/5, wins but had to work a lot harder than Kinane thought he'd have to.

I had more on Caradak than the other two, so made some profit

but I never mentioned any staking plan in the original post so that means it's really a level stakes loss.

Tomorrow - Roscommon 5:50 - Nakiska - I've been waiting yonks for this filly to run again since she appeared in my notebook. She's been entered in maidens pretty much every week for the past three months but has never been in the final declarations. I'm assuming then that she's fit to run well despite the layoff. Weld and Oxx have two good types in the race which will hopefully mean a reasonable price for my selection.

fade2black · 15-08-2005 4:55pm

Well done Crumbs. Spot on.

blahblah06 · 15-08-2005 4:57pm

didnt even notice this one. well done mate. fade u got anything tonight?

fade2black · 15-08-2005 5:00pm

Stylist in the 6.20 was my only bet of the day Blahblah but to be honest I'm taking a little break from posting up selections here, to get my barings so to speak....(so we'll keep it between us to ok.....:))

blahblah06 · 15-08-2005 5:04pm

LoL sounds gd to me. a modest bet

CiaranC · 15-08-2005 5:07pm

Nice tipping on Nakiska Crumbs. Had forgotten about your nod, and backed it on the strength of Scargills thread.

Pity about Shalapour yesterday. Everyone including the jock had thought he only had Vinnie Roe to beat it would seem.

blahblah06 · 15-08-2005 5:13pm

fade2black wrote:

Stylist in the 6.20 was my only bet of the day Blahblah but to be honest I'm taking a little break from posting up selections here, to get my barings so to speak....(so we'll keep it between us to ok.....:))

drifting to 6/1 ... :mad:

fade2black · 15-08-2005 5:15pm

shusssh....don't tell the horse.

blahblah06 · 15-08-2005 5:17pm

Lmfao

blahblah06 · 15-08-2005 5:22pm

howd we do ?

fade2black · 15-08-2005 5:23pm

It's a mystery to me why the change the tactics of a horse like that. Fair enough the winner was well backed etc but Smullen...ah I won't even bother....

fade2black · 15-08-2005 5:24pm

photo for 2nd. Really thought there was a winner there tbh

blahblah06 · 15-08-2005 5:24pm

3rd. ah well. nice ew at 6/1 LOL thanks m8

fade2black · 15-08-2005 5:27pm

Not what I was expecting though. Ah well.

blahblah06 · 15-08-2005 5:27pm

10 on Laith in the 6.30 come on

blahblah06 · 15-08-2005 5:30pm

Woo Hoo i should have dug deep into my pockets for that one

Crumbs · 15-08-2005 5:53pm

CiaranC wrote:

Nice tipping on Nakiska Crumbs. Had forgotten about your nod, and backed it on the strength of Scargills thread.

Yeah, my notebook came good for a change. Very happy with the SP too. I almost don't feel bad now about scargill stealing my thunder.

Pity about Shalapour yesterday. Everyone including the jock had thought he only had Vinnie Roe to beat it would seem.

Yep, it was a shame but that's racing. In fairness, we were told that Shalapour wasn't 100% fit and also the winner was a Group 1 winner who was dropping in class.

Crumbs · 18-08-2005 6:30pm

From the formline that gave you Nakiska last Monday, comes another pretty little filly, Princess Nala.

After finishing 4 lengths in front of Nakiska and 2 lengths behind Irish Derby 6th, Helvetio, Princess Nala then won her maiden beating Briolette in early June. Briolette has since finished 2nd to today's York winner Kastoria (and will hopefully win her own maiden in Tralee next Monday). Princess Nala runs tonight in a nice little 5-runner race, Tipperary 8:20. The favourite is AP O'Brien's Streets Of Gold and 2nd fav is Weld's Clearing The Water. Both have put up decent performances in winning maidens and it makes for an interesting race (imo anyway). I think the 11/4 on Princess Nala is a little bit of value. Also, trainer Mick Halford is in good form and Johnny Murtagh has already ridden a winner for him tonight.

clusk007 · 18-08-2005 7:23pm

Won well. Thanks Crumbs.

blahblah06 · 18-08-2005 7:32pm

damn it i didnt think it was racing tonight

Crumbs · 19-08-2005 6:55am

She won very easily indeed. Looks decent.

masterK · 19-08-2005 7:07am

Good call there Crumbs. It's always nice to see somebody rewarded for putting the effort into studying the form.

Sunday 14/8

Comments