- Thursday, 13 August 2015 07:09
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Perspicace (n/s) on the Gallops
Today we have five meetings, four flat cards at Salisbury, Beverley, Ffos Las and Lingfield plus a jumps card at Fontwell. All cards have over £30,00 in prize money up for grabs. David has two runners at Fontwell, Perspicace and For N Against and Tom Scu rides both. Perspicace was not beaten far in fourth at Uttoxeter last time out and the drop back in trip this afternoon might be to his advantage on good ground. For N Against has finished second on his last two outings at Exeter and Huntingdon. The handicapper put him up eight pounds for finishing second which I thought was a bit harsh for a horse who has had seven runs without winning! He knows what he is doing I think?!
- Wednesday, 12 August 2015 06:57
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Art of War runs today
Today we have five meetings and one of them is a jumps card at Newton Abbot. The flat cards are at Salisbury, Beverley, Kempton and Bath. I left Bath until last as they only have £28,000 in prize money for the whole seven race card. How do they get away with it? David has four runners at Newton Abbot, Art of War, Lady of Longstone, Spending Time and Skylander and all four are fairly big prices. Art of War is having his first run for Pond House and over hurdles. He is an 82 rated flat performer but has been disappointing recently so let's just hope the hurdles and the addition of a visor help to sharpen him up. I watched him school over hurdles yesterday, picture above and he jumped nicely so we will just have to see how he gets on.
- Tuesday, 11 August 2015 07:07
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Street Entertainer runs on the Flat
Today we have four flat cards at Carlisle, Lingfield, Nottingham and Ffos Las. The good news is that we have jumping back tomorrow at Newton Abbot and David is likely to have some runners so check back here for more news in the morning. David does have one runner at Nottingham this evening. He runs in the 1m6f handicap with Mikey Ennis claiming five pounds. There are only seven runners or else I would say he is a good each way bet!! I was talking about sellers and claimers yesterday and it was no great suprise that there were no bids or no claims. If the tracks are going to make any money they need 10 or 12 furlong races which will give the jumps trainers some interest.
- Monday, 10 August 2015 07:01
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
On Route to the Gallops
The big world wide story from the weekend in the racing scene is of course that Ruby Walsh won the Australian Grand National at Ballarat on board Bashboy. There were 3000 racegoers in the grandstand which is more than 10 times the usual crowd! Ruby got a great reception and he has now won five grand nationals (English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Australian) and the horse has won the race three times. It is great for jumps racing worldwide as everyone loves a fairytale.
- Sunday, 09 August 2015 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are just two meetings taking place this afternoon with action on the level from Leicester and Windsor. I keep looking at the flat meetings for sellers or claimers, although the only one I have seen lately is at Leicester over seven furlongs - not much good for potential jumpers! I always thought you needed a horses to stay 10-12 furlongs on the flat to be confident that they would be okay over two miles and hurdles. I claimed subsequent Champion Hurdle winner Make A Stand from a 1m4f claimer at Leicester, although that is still under dispute as Martin insists that he put in the successful claim! He turned out to be the best jumper of hurdles that I have ever seen...it just goes to show, there are bargains to be had if you look in the right place.
- Saturday, 08 August 2015 07:44
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Today there are six flat cards at Ascot, Haydock, Newmarket, Redcar, Ayr and Lingfield. The big meeting of the day takes place at Ascot as they hold their annual Shergar Cup match between the lady jockeys, Europe, Great Britain & Ireland and the rest of the World. You will probably disagree with me, but it really doesn't get me that excited - I am more interested in horse racing than some of these fancy gimmicks. One of the real problems with the event is how similar the colours are as well - while it is a team event, it is very difficult to distinguish between individual horses for betting purposes. Surely it would have been better for the horses to run in their owners' colours and wear a distinguishing sash or cap for each team (you would only need four different colours)...hardly rocket science in my opinion!
- Friday, 07 August 2015 07:38
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Day five of our Summer sabbatical and there are five meetings taking place on the level this afternoon. The action takes place at Musselburgh, Brighton, Lingfield, Newmarket and Haydock. It is a fairly nondescript sort of a day with a class 2 handicap from Musselburgh the highlight of the day - not great for a Friday afternoon I am sure you will agree. Meanwhile over in Ireland there is an evening meeting on the level from Tipperary which has attracted some competitive racing, including a couple of Listed races.
