The Horse Racing Thread - Part 2

ccreds · Post by **ccreds** » Fri May 10, 2019 9:15 pm

Like how Charlie Appleby called Line of Duty "terrier like". Runs next week in the Dante.

ccreds · Post by **ccreds** » Sat May 11, 2019 6:04 pm

A horse with trouble concentrating may be just the type to give Godolphin a second consecutive Derby, according to the trainer Charlie Appleby, who hopes to saddle Line Of Duty in the Epsom Classic next month.

Appleby, who won last year’s Derby with Masar, sees similarities in what the pair achieved as juveniles but reports Line Of Duty needs a bit of drama to sustain his focus.

“This horse is better on a turning track, it keeps him interested,” the trainer said at his Moulton Paddocks stable on Tuesday. “That’s why I was confident going into the Breeders’ Cup, because there’s turns there and the hustle and bustle. He’s terrier-like and he loves to get into a bit of a scrap.

“He’s got all the right credentials to turn up in the Derby. He likes hustle and bustle and, one thing about Epsom, he’ll get plenty of that.”

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Appleby decided against running the colt in last Saturday’s 2,000 Guineas because that race takes place over a straight mile. “A horse like him, boredom could set in.”

Appleby, who shamefacedly admitted he had never seen the TV drama that shares Line Of Duty’s name, will send the colt to York next week for the Dante Stakes, often the strongest Derby trial, and expects him to be “a live player”. The colt is a living embodiment of the new detente between Godolphin and Coolmore, as he is by the dominant Coolmore stallion Galileo, boycotted in the past by Appleby’s employer.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/ ... nte-stakes

Boris the Spider · Post by **Boris the Spider** » Mon May 13, 2019 6:56 pm

Silvestre de Sousa - you fucking horrible goblin.

Petingo · Post by **Petingo** » Wed May 15, 2019 2:26 pm

Crikey.

Gigginstown pulling out of racing.

Singing The Blues · Post by **Singing The Blues** » Wed May 15, 2019 2:35 pm

Petingo wrote:Crikey.

Gigginstown pulling out of racing.

Big surprise. And a big blow for Gordon Elliott for sure.

Petingo · Post by **Petingo** » Wed May 15, 2019 2:48 pm

Singing The Blues wrote:
Petingo wrote:Crikey.

Gigginstown pulling out of racing.

Big surprise. And a big blow for Gordon Elliott for sure.

Indeed.

This will be a big test for Gordon.

Willie Mullins went from strength to strength after O’Leary took the Gigginstown horses off him so life after Gigginstown need not be a downhill journey.

ccreds · Post by **ccreds** » Thu May 16, 2019 4:03 pm

Petingo wrote:Wow......that Sir Dagobert sure looked good in the Chester Vase.

He will be a short price for the Derby if Too Darn Hot has failed to train on and is chinned in the Dante.

Gosden’s filly looked good in the Cheshire Oaks as well.

A pair of potential superstars.

TDH goes to back to over a mile but still ran ok in this.

Petingo · Post by **Petingo** » Thu May 16, 2019 4:07 pm

ccreds wrote:
Petingo wrote:Wow......that Sir Dagobert sure looked good in the Chester Vase.

He will be a short price for the Derby if Too Darn Hot has failed to train on and is chinned in the Dante.

Gosden’s filly looked good in the Cheshire Oaks as well.

A pair of potential superstars.

TDH goes to back to over a mile but still ran ok in this.

He ran well but clearly didn’t stay.

And I don’t know if he would beat Magna Grecia over a mile.

Sadly another precocious two year old which was unable to live up to the hype in his sophomore year.

ccreds · Post by **ccreds** » Thu May 16, 2019 4:18 pm

Petingo wrote:
ccreds wrote:
Petingo wrote:Wow......that Sir Dagobert sure looked good in the Chester Vase.

He will be a short price for the Derby if Too Darn Hot has failed to train on and is chinned in the Dante.

Gosden’s filly looked good in the Cheshire Oaks as well.

A pair of potential superstars.

TDH goes to back to over a mile but still ran ok in this.

He ran well but clearly didn’t stay.

And I don’t know if he would beat Magna Grecia over a mile.

Sadly another precocious two year old which was unable to live up to the hype in his sophomore year.

Or Persian King at a mile.

Jockey responses here

Petingo · Post by **Petingo** » Thu May 16, 2019 5:30 pm

I cannot make out a word Ryan Moore says there

ccreds · Post by **ccreds** » Thu May 16, 2019 6:06 pm

Petingo wrote:I cannot make out a word Ryan Moore says there

I can't either

Boris the Spider · Post by **Boris the Spider** » Mon May 20, 2019 2:27 pm

Oh fuck off Tony Hamilton, you helium-voiced smograt! Try and make it a little less obvious next time!

ccreds · Post by **ccreds** » Wed May 22, 2019 8:06 pm

Think it's the last of the Derby trial at Goodwood the next two days.

Petingo · Post by **Petingo** » Fri May 31, 2019 4:48 pm

Moore at it again.

He gave both Kew Gardens and Pink Dogwood so much to do that when they hit the front looking like certain winners the petrol ran out in the closing stages.

I don’t know how he keeps the gig at Ballydoyle.

ccreds · Post by **ccreds** » Sat Jun 01, 2019 5:24 pm

Japan ran a good race for 3rd at good odds 20/1(I didnt back him).Was fancied by a few a bit back before the Dante to be a real Derby horse.

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