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QIPCO British Champions Day

Slim

Slim

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Please tell me your fancies — good-ground horses only — for the Daisy Cutters in autumn. The Weapons of Mass Climate Change Lucky 15 is required.
 
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I had no idea Slim was on the meeting sponsor's marketing team.

We live and learn.

I shall be going through the card at Ascot's Champions' Day fixture and shall provide all the winners in due course.

Once again, no need to thank me - I'm all about putting food in tummys.
 
Ian_Davies said:
I had no idea Slim was on the meeting sponsor's marketing team.

We live and learn.

I shall be going through the card at Ascot's Champions' Day fixture and shall provide all the winners in due course.

Once again, no need to thank me - I'm all about putting food in tummys.
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Don't worry about the Juddmonte form.
 
Stayers Sibayan. I only care about the ground for this one in so much as will he run if it's not got enough dig - I think so as his sire is yankee dirt horse and he's trained by the new master.
 
Slim is once again ahead of the game as we've had a dry week on the Hampshire/Berkshire borders and there is no rain in the forecast for the next ten days.
 
Unfortunately, there are a few at short prices who like it on top.

What's really needed is a 40/1 winner in the lucky last to bump up that Lucky 15 pay out and send the layer's share price south come Monday morning.

I just about stopped myself from backing Arisaig for the Cambridgeshire and, sure enough, she was instead sent in pursuit of black type 24 hours earlier.

She hasn't won a race since Walsworth was at school (well, Borstal) but she likes it on top and I don't see a better-handicapped daisy cutter among the entries.

The yard won the race with The Gatekeeper a couple of years ago.

But will they actually run her?
 
Great news, should be a fantastic race if all three of the big guns turn up.

I'm not pleased Kalpana might run in the fillies race as I've a nice price about Waardah. Hopefully Ascot gets no rain and they pull her out.
 
Ian_Davies said:
Unfortunately, there are a few at short prices who like it on top.

What's really needed is a 40/1 winner in the lucky last to bump up that Lucky 15 pay out and send the layer's share price south come Monday morning.
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I doubt he'll get in but Dashing Darcey is 66/1. I can make a case:

Last run forget 7 round York was the complete opposite to his optimal conditions.

Before that he finished like a rocket after being really well backed behind Great Chieftain at Haydock.

And if we go all the way back to last year's Britannia yes he was well beat (8l) but he's weighted to reverse with Native Warrior.
 
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Oh yes. Delacroix to run in Champion.
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And I've got 16/1 - and, not for the first time (nor the last, I'll warrant) the man I've got to thank is Slim.

Slim (several times): "Why wouldn't they run him?"

Me: "He's right, why wouldn't they?"

If Delacroix wins next Saturday, I'll be so pleased I think I'll even be able to (just about!) tolerate the beast being referred to as - cringe! - "Del Boy!"
 
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Ian_Davies said:
And I've got 16/1 - and, not for the first time (nor the last, I'll warrant) the man I've got to thank is Slim.

Slim (several times): "Why wouldn't they run him?"

Me: "He's right, why wouldn't they?"

If Delacroix wins next Saturday, I'll be so pleased I think I'll even be able to (just about!) tolerate the beast being referred to as - cringe! - "Del Boy!"
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Why is it you don't use your 500 word count to say I'm great?
 
Here is what 'Uncle Smartarse' might have posted in full flight:

And not for the first time (nor, I daresay, the last — though that remains to be seen), I find myself compelled to offer a few words in praise of Slim.

Slim, of course, reminded me — inadvertently, as is so often the case — of a day in 1988 at Pontefract. It was one of those afternoons when optimism hung in the air like cheap aftershave. I’d just joined The Racing Post, was wearing what I foolishly considered a “slim-fitting” shirt, and fancied myself part of the new media guard. A colleague (whose name escapes me but whose tie I still resent) asked what I fancied in the second. “Cavied Hero,” I said, more from rhythm than reason. It won. Naturally, I’ve been a marked man for insight ever since.

Which brings me, circuitously but inevitably, back to Slim. He said — several times, in fact, though always with that half-knowing tone — “Why wouldn’t they run him?” And I thought, yes, why wouldn’t they? The logic was unimpeachable. Of course, one must also consider that there were perfectly sound reasons they mightn’t, but that’s the beauty of racing, isn’t it? Two sides to every fence, and a man like me perched neatly on top of it, watching both paddocks with interest.

If the horse wins, I’ll naturally credit Slim’s insight. If it doesn’t, well, perhaps the ground went against him, or perhaps we were all simply victims of optimism — that most treacherous of goings. Either way, I’ll wait to see how it rides on the day before committing to a firm view.
 
The RP will probably spend the entire week bigging up an Ombudsman v Delacroix rematch as if they're Mill Reef and Brigadier Gerard.

This takes me back to 1985, when I went to Newmarket for what was meant to be a Champion Stakes showdown between Slip Anchor and Commanche Run.

Pebbles hammered both of them.
 
There could be supplementary entries coming tomorrow now the mainstream racing fraternity have wised up to the possibility of quicker ground.
 

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