A poor day yesterday, and the end to a bad week of betting. I’m going to take a break from betting fairly soon – it’s too time consuming and too much of a distraction. Baldovina makes her hurdling bow today in a pretty uncompetitive maiden. On the face of it she has a lot going for her – she has …
Analysis
There is some decent racing today, and much of it is my sort of stuff – I’ve spent some time looking through it all. I’m a creature of habit and I have a structure to my analysis. I like to go through the card twice – once the night before (to get the juices flowing) and in more detail at around …
Back to the daily grind
The summer holidays wind to a close and I’m back at my desk for a while now, which feels pretty good. Lord Peter Flint made his debut last Friday and he ran well, finishing fifth of 13 in what may have been a decent maiden. He’s sure to improve for the run and he looks like a fine prospect. The …
York Day 2
Authorized did fantastically and I’m thrilled for Pete. I backed him but I was a bit cowardly and I should have had more on. It was nearly a very good day as Oasis Wind came close – the unlucky horse in that race was Hitchens, who ran behind Effingham and backs up that form. Day 2 of York brings the …
Entries
I have a few interesting entries this week. Baldovina is declared in a maiden hurdle for David Pipe on Wednesday night. There’s a chance she’ll turn her form around, but I think it’s unlikely. Lord Peter Flint may finally make his debut on Friday. At this stage I don’t know if he’ll stand his ground – we like the horse …
Men with cats
Ultimately a disappointing week horse wise, but a good break with the family. We took the quick ferry over to France on the Monday – around 3 hours from Portsmouth to Cherbourg and a 2 hour drive the other end. It was fairly uneventful – my one observation was that although I wasn’t driving that fast in France I wasn’t …
Vive La France
I’m off to Deauville with the family this morning – we’ve decided to make a week of it ending with Winker running in the Morny on Sunday. As I’ve said he’s in great form and I think he’ll win easily – the danger looks to be MyBoyCharlie who has been impressive in winning, albeit on heavy ground. Racing looks pretty grim …
Hard times
A poor run yet again from Captain Hurricane, finishing mid division. Pete showed yet again what a master he is with 2yos. The ground this week has been very hard, and a lot of horses have struggled with it. I think that when it is as firm as this it becomes a bit specialist and there can be value siding …
Boogie blues
On the face of it Bouguereau ran pretty disappointingly – seventh out of 18 is nothing special and given the form of his trainer and my general expectation it was a poor result. He did show a lot of promise though, taking the long way round and moving up pretty smoothly before coming to a halt. Michael Hills said that …
Bouguer off
It’s a big day today as I find out how good Bouguereau is. He’s been working very nicely at home, but is still immature in a number of ways. There are three possible concerns about today’s race; There may be better horses in the race He has a bad draw He’s a big baby and he may run in snatches …