Recent content by archie

To be fair, I think it's basically a New Course issue because of the practicalities of when you can water. The clerk has had flak in the past for watering and then getting heavy ground when more rain than expected appears. Yesterday the rain came lighter and later than predicted so didn't get in...

Friday 1.20 Kai Lung 2.00 Sinnatra 2.40 Dinoblue (Nap) 3.20 Thedeviluno 4.00 Gaelic Warrior 4.40 Barton Snow 5.20 Kel Histoire Cheers.

I'm away from tomorrow until Thursday lunchtime so will do a couple of days now and put in a guesswork selection for Thursday. Tuesday 1.20 Old Park Star 2.00 Kopek Des Bordes 2.40 Pourquoi Pas Papa 3.20 Hyland 4.00 The New Lion 4.40 Downmexicoway 5.20 King Of Answers (Nap) Wednesday 1.20...

For me, neither of them gets up the hill at the longer trip. The right call with Fact To File and Romeo should wait for Aintree. Of course, my ew double from November Fact To File (Ryanair) 4/1 Wendigo (BANC) 25/1 might be colouring my view slightly.

I realise that I'm treading on a few toes here because people do get attached to their equine heroes. However, I tend to judge horses on a body of work rather than individual races. Thus, Master Minded was a brilliant Champion Chaser in 2008 but he gets nowhere near my top 2 mile chasers...

6 weeks after finishing third in the Galway Hurdle, the sainted Airlie Beach won the listed Oyster Stakes on the flat at the same venue.

Legend.

So far Kitzbuhel Miami Magic Sixmilebridge Kala Conti

This is a racing forum. Just my view but, because it works elsewhere, I would like to see a simple home page along the lines of: ****** National Hunt Racing (Most recent post) Flat Racing (Most recent post) Competitions and Polls (Most recent post) ****** Below this a message that when...

Just my view... Lossiemouth - has run to about 160 enough times to be reliable at about that rating. Probably suited by further than 2 miles. The New Lion - OR 159 and, again, probably suited by further. Constitution Hill - officially 170 OR but no better than 162 the last year including when...

The Great Nudie is half sister to my mare, Connie, so I'm hoping for more black type for her page.

They can check for eye disease and cataracts but I don't know how they can get him to say which line of letters he can see clearly. It's ridiculous to blame the new hurdles. He has always jumped low and got away with it. Schooling should fix that but he's now taking off at the wrong place which...

I fully accept that MisterB is doing this for free and thank him for it. However, there are certain things that he may not know that are important to some of us who have been on here for some time. For perspective, I am now 77 and have, I think, been a member here since the late 90s. I have had...

I'd say that that is the technical equivalent of knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

Maybe someone should tell the powers that be that he brings more clicks than 20 uninhabited flat race threads. Seems to be all that matters these days. Very disappointing.