Horse Racing 2014
davethecue
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Sad news to begin this years' thread
Terry Biddlecombe has died
http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/news/article/465/9102753/racing-mourns-biddlecombe
Terry Biddlecombe has died
http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/news/article/465/9102753/racing-mourns-biddlecombe
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He was one of the few jockeys who's name was known to the wider public......I didn't follow racing when he was riding but I certainly knew of him
Ride goes to Sam Twiston-Davies - odd doesn't even begin to cover it as these are the rides that you must dream of.
Maybe they see Sam Twiston-Davies as their man for the future. I also thought they might offer Davy Russell a few rides as well.
STD (bit of an unfortunate acronym there) has a huge future as a top rider, when McCoy packs up the next off the rank is likely to be a youngster and maybe he and Bryan Cooper are the big two to watch either side of the Irish Sea.
Very sad news, looked as though he was recovering.
Such a shame. Lovely horse who fought everything right upto the end.
Sad news indeed,I thought he was on the mend
Dual Group-winning mare Chrysanthemum produced an attractive bay colt at 20.30 on Saturday 11th January 2014 at Coolmore Stud in Ireland. The stud reported that the foal is a handsome colt with a good head, a white blaze and great presence.
http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/news/article/465/9116980/first-frankel-foal-born
The injury cost him an Arc win on superstar Treve.
wonder how much is going on his last ride in accas ?
There have been gambles today on 4 ex Barney Curley horses
The first 3 have won and the 4th is Low Key in the 6.25 at Kempton
Eye Of The Tiger made his debut for Des Donovan in the 1.30 at Lingfield and returned the nine-length winner at even money having been as big as 5/1 in the morning.
Just 10 minutes later at Catterick, Seven Summits had his second start over hurdles in the colours of former BHA handicapper Christian Leech.
His wife, Sophie, trains the former Curley inmate and the seven year old battled hard to land odds of 9/4 having been an 8/1 chance with some bookies earlier in the day.
Next up was Indus Valley who went off at 4/6 having been 15/2 in the morning in the kempton.co.uk Handicap at 4.25.
http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/news/article/2/9128374/first-three-deliver-in-gamble
Briefly I thought Graham Lee and Seamster were going to spoil the party in the 4:25. Squeaky bums at the 1 furlong peg, for sure!!
Don't think I'll be getting involved at that price
2nd fav is 7/2 so that's not really an ew opportunity either
The pressure's on Keniry, wouldn't want to be in his shoes right now. 1/4 you say?? Utter madness. But a bit of mad is fun occasionally.
He's 4/7 now......
Gambles landed
Seemingly Bet 365 priced up the Curley acca at over 9000/1 last night. Sp just under 16/1. #SlightDifferenceOfOpinion
Hope the connections made a few quid today. It'll make up for when the gambles go astray
A crazy day in the world of UK horse racing continues!! The bookies are feeling the heat for a change.
Take EYE OF THE TIGER as an example - here are his 6 previous runs:
debut - 4th of 5 runners beaten 107 lengths!!
2nd run - 14th of 15th beaten 41 lengths!!
3rd run - last of 10 runners beaten 36 lengths!!
4th run - last of 10 runners beaten 110 lengths!!
5th run - last of 15 runners beaten 112 lengths!!
6th run - last of 13 runners beaten 84 lengths!!
7th time lucky then @evens ... what an absolute gangster Curley is.:D
Good luck to them. I have no problems in horses being laid out for a gamble.
Wasn't Barney banned from racecourses or something similar . I think a biography of him would be a good watch
Edit. On the racing review it says the gamble was £2 million
(The 15 mill was from the Mirror iirc)
pipers piping (5:00 kempton) 22/1 into 2/1