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The 2025 Should Be Odds-On Thread

I honestly think you're miles out there, Slim. She might have been prominent but in that company she'd have been under serious pressure in that company. She's have finished next to JB.
 
Dessie -I think you are missing something very important about The Curragh on Pretty Polly day.The drying ground made it a speed favouring track with Moore and Keane dominating the card.I thought Kalpana ran a great race in the circumstances being narrowly denied by a younger filly in receipt of weight who enjoyed making the run NG.
 
Desert Orchid said:
I honestly think you're miles out there, Slim. She might have been prominent but in that company she'd have been under serious pressure in that company. She's have finished next to JB.
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I think you backing Kalpana at the Curragh has your blinded here.
 
I'm really just going by my numbers, to be honest, and how they tend to work out in races of this kind of class.

The vast majority of G1 12f horses are at home over 10f unless they're actually 12-14f types. Today was only Kalpana's third go at the full 12f. In winning the Musidora, Whirl hit a then career peak of 110 and had to step up in trip in the Oaks to improve on that.
 
Desert Orchid said:
I'm really just going by my numbers, to be honest, and how they tend to work out in races of this kind of class.

The vast majority of G1 12f horses are at home over 10f unless they're actually 12-14f types. Today was only Kalpana's third go at the full 12f. In winning the Musidora, Whirl hit a then career peak of 110 and had to step up in trip in the Oaks to improve on that.
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What has any of that got to do with a 10f horse leading that race today at the two furlong pole?
 
It's for debates still raging almost three hours after they weighed in - and spreading to other threads - that I visit TH, a forum more addictive than crack cocaine, or even chocolate hob nobs, surely the most addictive substance known to man,

The pace they went early doors today I think I might have still been in contention at the 2f pole - I'll leave it at that! 😂
 
Kalpana will end up being the wise-guy horse for the Arc—rightly or wrongly, but mainly because of the colours and last year’s winner.
 
One of the many things I dislike in the racing and social media is "the new...." and it's odds-on the RP will be asking if Kalpana is "the new Bluestocking."

None of that interests me, but what does interest me is I think she's likely to get a more suitable surface at Longchamp in October.
 
I've taken the 8/1.

I don't regard it as a gigantic price, but I think it's fair and I agree it's likely to get shorter - I'm expecting to be reading a lot of "the new Bluestocking" between now and October! 😂
 
I was like a dog with a bone before this race. The news that Anne Marie O'Brien was at Galway to watch her nephew ride and 365 being half a point shorter than everyone else on the live show had me thinking this was going to be an exceptional weekend.The wide draw didnt help and I'm not sure how good Paddy Smullen is.
 
Was listening to Willie McCreery yesterday talking about Galway in the seventies.He was saying the quality of the horses running there has improved dramatically since then.I think it is a brutal test for 2yo's and inexperienced horses.
 
When I saw Minnie hawk win at chester I thought she'd be placed at best in the oaks. Whirl reminded me of snowfall at York and thought she looked the oaks winner. Now we have two top fillies both of whom haven't reached their ceilings. The joy that is the puzzle of horse racing.
 
LUKE said:
I was like a dog with a bone before this race. The news that Anne Marie O'Brien was at Galway to watch her nephew ride and 365 being half a point shorter than everyone else on the live show had me thinking this was going to be an exceptional weekend.The wide draw didnt help and I'm not sure how good Paddy Smullen is.
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Smullen is young and will improve but very weak at minute
 

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