Recent content by barjon

Can’t believe it, Stencil started at 6/5. I don’t usually back drifters, but, blimey, it wasn’t too difficult to shy away from Juby Ball given the weights and that ridiculous price.

Nice one

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What a dilemma, Constitution Hill was the best I’d ever seen and well on his way to being the greatest of all time - then the wheels fell off. I can’t remember seeing a top horse being so affected by a fall - after the first one he ballooned the first hurdle in his next race as if it was a six...

2:37 Chepstow: Juby Ball was running very nicely at Ffos Las last time when he came a cropper - 8/1 evens favourite was going best of all when he fell three out. - but he’s miles wrong in the weights with the odds-on Stencil and has a mountain to climb. ps. Just seen Stencil has gone to evens...

Really strong race, I think and a good win by Maestro Conti who won’t be finished yet. Minella Yogi ran out of puff at the end in third and the surprise (not for Harry Derham) was the strong run of One Horse Town in second. I’ll be interested to see the ratings. Poor Sir Gino, fingers crossed...

No, they’re running it!

Not quite sure , but in a key area. It’s an absolute farce watching them trying to build a rail to avoid it - surely they’ve got to abandon the race, Henderson has had enough and withdrawn AOI.

Just back from a late lunch and they’ve found a bloody great hole on the course - the groundsman chap pushed his arm in it up to shoulder. How it hasn’t caused catastrophe during the afternoon God knows. Then to find the horrible news about Sir Gino. Jeepers.

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Oh you spoiler, you :D Aye, can make a good case.

Oh to be a horse - what horrible conditions. Alsakib on Thursday was weak in the market, but raced prominently and looked quite threatening until the last couple of furlongs when he went out like a light. At first glance he didn’t get the extra distance, but the conditions may have had a bit to...

So do I, but after all this chat it’s becoming almost a certainty that he’ll run and win doing cartwheels :D

Who knows. My money would be on the new hurdles, but they got some in for him to school over. He appears to be ok at home, but at race pace and in the race hurly burly it’s a different question. I said he was done after last time and I’d have retired him then, albeit £signs must still flicker...

Such a shame, he’s the best I’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t want to see him on the flat - it’d be like seeing Lionel Messi turning out for Goring&Streatley, interesting but wholly undignified. He always flirted with danger and there was generally a “suck in the breath” type moment over the earlier...