Quixall Crossett
Amateur Rider
I'm definitely going senile in my old age. A mate has just text me and said i had missed loads of JP- Haslam horses off that earlier list including a few that we had some right good touches on. They include, Rock On Fruity, Scoop The Pot, Protek Des Flos, Laskadine. Melody Of Scotland and a few more that i have forgotten already.A perhaps interesting observation...
The last horse I can remember pulling off the 'JP move to Haslam' trick was Didtheyleaveyououttoo last July in a race (at Cartmel) with a very similar profile/makeup. Fortunately, I'd been following Didthey for much of his career, so the early double figures (I think around 16s first thing) stood out like a sore thumb. Everything screamed out that day.
But Didthey had to fight very hard that day to nose City Derby ('came back' to form a few days ago, maybe a wind op helped, and carries a piece of paper here). CD is unbackable at the likely odds.
I'm thinking Ilikedway (in his prime) would have had an edge over Didthey (similarly, in his prime), and likely would trouble CD greatly if you took a hard lateral line (tenuous, I know). But has the wind op given CD a new lease of life?
Perhaps this just gives a little added interest to the context of the race, but if you take the view they think Iliked still has something, the signs are arguably there (though maybe misinterpretable) that he won't get many better opportunities. 7-1 is probably just about fair though, don't know if he's contracted since last night (but two of the three non-runners may have clouded that anyway, if that's the case).
I'll write them down next time.
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