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Old 14-05-2016, 09:31
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Cunco's race is up on YouTube now......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tn_JFRw8n4

Cunco is in the orange with light green sleeves and orange cap

Talk is that he might go for the 7 furlong Chesham instead of the Coventry at Royal Ascot.
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Old 14-05-2016, 10:49
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They showed the closing stages of the race on C4's York coverage and Cunco looks a nice prospect but a bit early to get carried away. Seems hard to believe it is 4 years ago I was at Newbury to see Frankel saunter home in the Lockinge which looks an open contest today.

Meanwhile the Derby picture is pretty much close your eyes and stick a pin in the card and its the French 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas tomorrow.
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Old 14-05-2016, 12:41
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The French classics are being run at Deauville because Longchamp is being redeveloped

The Derby, Oaks and Arc will be run at Chantilly

Must be a pretty serious redevelopment as it's taking 2 years.........
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Old 14-05-2016, 13:33
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The French classics are being run at Deauville because Longchamp is being redeveloped

The Derby, Oaks and Arc will be run at Chantilly

Must be a pretty serious redevelopment as it's taking 2 years.........
Yep they are knocking all the existing grandstands down at Longchamp and replacing them with one single grandstand. The French Derby & Oaks are always run at Chantilly.
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Old 15-05-2016, 18:56
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Did anyone watch the French 2000 gns ?

Very impressive winner.......Aidan O'Brien's 'The Gurkha' who only won his maiden at Navan a month ago

Zoom.........now he's favourite for the Derby at 3/1 with Ladbrokes !
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Old 16-05-2016, 10:28
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Did anyone watch the French 2000 gns ?

Very impressive winner.......Aidan O'Brien's 'The Gurkha' who only won his maiden at Navan a month ago

Zoom.........now he's favourite for the Derby at 3/1 with Ladbrokes !
He was a very easy winner and I suppose it is no surprise as the Derby is such a wide open race with no very impressive trial winners. The runner up, First Selection, was beated 3 lengths further by Galileo Gold in the English 2,000.
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Old 16-05-2016, 21:10
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Newcastle stages it's first All Weather card tomorrow

whatever you think of the proliferation of AW racing the industry certainly likes it.......all 8 races tomorrow have 12 or more runners, though that could just be novelty value

To be honest I'm not that fussed about Newcastle going AW as it's a track I could never get a handle on and tended to ignore the cards there
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Old 17-05-2016, 12:01
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So Mi Dar is out of the Oaks after being found to be lame yesterday.
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Old 19-05-2016, 17:26
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Backed a horse last night when the odds were 12/1. £5 each way. It won. My total return - just £28, due to a low priced non runner I can only assume. I thought there was some mistake. BS
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Old 21-05-2016, 17:05
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They Irish Guineas is off at 5.40

Looks like it should be a good race

I fancy Air Force Blue to beat Gallileo Gold
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Old 21-05-2016, 17:43
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or maybe not

Picked the wrong one to beat Gallileo Gold
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Old 21-05-2016, 19:34
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Lets hope Awtaad and The Gurkha meet in the St James Palace Stakes........that would be a mouth-watering clash
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Old 22-05-2016, 11:54
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I just noticed that Irish !000 Guineas is the 2nd race on the card at 1.55

Can't remember a Classic being so early on a card before
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Old 22-05-2016, 14:08
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Minding gets turned over in the Guinneas. Guess that rules out all talk of the Derby
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Old 22-05-2016, 14:25
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Jet Setting , the surprise 9/1 winner of the Guinneas, only cost £12k

Good piece of buying
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Old 23-05-2016, 08:41
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Jet Setting , the surprise 9/1 winner of the Guinneas, only cost £12k

Good piece of buying
and all three ATR tipsters put up Jet Setting and Kevin Blake also picked Beacon Rock and Fascinating Rock - a nice patent up there for me
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Old 23-05-2016, 09:34
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I took on Minding as well........with one of the big priced EW shots that unfortunately was a non runner

My reasoning was that Minding was being prepared for the Oaks so her training regime would have been biased towards stamina training and peaking in two weeks time........and she was stuck in the Guineas as a last minute decision because their intended runner got injured or had to miss the race for some reason

I just figured Minding was vulnerable.......

Given that it was a terrific performance by her !

You'd still have to fancy her for the Oaks unless that race has taken a lot out of her with two weeks to go

If she fluffs the Oaks because it comes too quickly there'll be lots of red faces around Ballydoyle/Coolmore
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Old 24-05-2016, 19:28
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Japanese horse 'A Shin Hikari' is a possible runner and is now favourite for the Prince of Wales at Royal Ascot after demolishing the field in the group one Prix D/Ispahan in France today

Should ensure thousands of Japanese visitors........
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Old 25-05-2016, 07:40
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Japanese horse 'A Shin Hikari' is a possible runner and is now favourite for the Prince of Wales at Royal Ascot after demolishing the field in the group one Prix D/Ispahan in France today

Should ensure thousands of Japanese visitors........
and an unbackable price on the day.
Still, worth taking on
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Old 25-05-2016, 09:18
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and an unbackable price on the day.
Still, worth taking on
From what I've seen the Japanese fans are mental......they support their horses like a football team !

Should be a terrific day at Royal Ascot if thousands of Japanese turn up.......they'll never have seen anything like it !

Should ensure some good EW prices if the field is big enough
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Old 27-05-2016, 10:21
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Frankel's second runner is out today........Majoris in the 2.40 at Haydock

The trainer has warned that he might need the run !
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Old 30-05-2016, 10:59
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Just goes to show how wide open the Derby looks when Red Verdon, a Haydock and Chester mile and a half class 3 handicap winner, is supplemented.
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Old 30-05-2016, 11:04
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Just goes to show how wide open the Derby looks when Red Verdon, a Haydock and Chester mile and a half class 3 handicap winner, is supplemented.
and he's 'only' 25/1 which suggests he's not without a chance
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Old 30-05-2016, 15:42
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With 4 horses supplemented at a cost of 75K each the prize fund for this years Derby will exceed 1.5 million, making it the richest race ever run in the UK

As well Red Verdon, already mentioned, the other 3 are Cloth of Stars, Humphrey Bogart and Wings of Desire

With 18 runners left in it could be the biggest field since 2006

Aidan O'Brien still has 7 runners in out of the 18
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Old 31-05-2016, 06:45
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I posted this is in the football section, but the article also features horse racing.

I find it hard to agree with the bib

Hopefully the publicity will cause them to re-look at it


As a sport with one of the highest levels of concussion, it is alarming that much of horse racing’s research and approach is steered by Michael Turner, the former Chief Medical Adviser to the British Horseracing Authority. Turner has previously stated that “a concussion causes no damage to any part of the brain” which flies in the face of 99 per cent of neuroscientific opinion. He also saw fit to play a presentation of jockeys suffering nasty falls to a Benny Hill soundtrack at a conference on concussion. Turner is at the head of a study called Concussion in Sport which is funded by Godolphin, the all-powerful racing stable, and the NFL.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...in-on-the-gam/
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