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They did not suggest it was "surprising": you did. It is not surprising, unfortunately. But it is noteworthy that, for instance, Ireland has produced more horses rated >130 in the last five years than any other country in the world, but those nine Irish-trained horses ran on home soil only 23%...

I would find a bookmaker describing racing's relationships with bookmaking as "parasitical" pretty offensive, too. That much was not apparent from Alan Lee's article. Sea The Stars could have run in those races but did not. Rip Van Winkle, the second-highest rated horse in Ireland (and in...

As an aside, if you consider Patrick Kennedy's comments to refer to Irish racing - that which takes place on Irish soil - rather than the exploits of its horses, trainers and jockeys, domestically and abroad, does he not have a point? As Timeform's Irish review pointed out, after acknowledging...

Connemara never figured. Exhi made nearly all and held Bushwhacked and Uptowncharlybrown. It does not look especially good form.

Agreed. The time was not up to a great deal (which arguably speaks in favour of one who sprinted clear as he did) but the breeding and race standards look encouraging to me. Only Retainer has impressed me more among 2-y-os so far.

It was "Bioenergetics and Racehorse Ratings" by Bob Wilkins. A highly lucid and revealing book, though I am not convinced by all of its findings. "The Compleat Horseplayer" by David Edelman is more limited in its scope but tackles subjects like the so-called Bounce Theory from a scientific...

Ironically, Mordin was the staunchest critic of sectional timing for many years. Some people tell me that the ability to change your mind after years of maintaining vehemently that the world is flat shows great intelligence. Then again, it could be interpreted simply as showing great stupidity...

The figure I have been quoted - from a trainer who uses the equipment, not Horse Weigh itself - for a mobile horse-weighing unit is £750. If that is so, then it might indeed be best to have one at each racecourse rather than travelling them round the country. Circa £50k initial capital outlay...

I have been trying to find out the cost of a Horse Weigh unit - the company is remarkably coy about such information - but the site at http://www.horseweigh.com/products.html should answer many of the doubts concerning accuracy ("to 2 resolutions" means to 1 kg for an object the weight of a...

Thanks very much for your observation about my not having "thought this through". I think you will find that I have. You should also understand that I have championed the idea of weighing horses for many years now, including in a national newspaper, and that I have done so as a racegoer and an...

I wrote about this in the second half of my blog : http://bbtest1.spamwar.eu/horse-racing/events/cheltenham-odds/champion-hurdle-betting-get-the-big-price-on-celestial-081209.html. It has also been discussed at considerable length on The Racing Forum and on the Betfair Forum. Paul Struthers...

This particular red herring has been shown up for what it is many times previously. The BHA based its gargantuan costing on just such a premise, but has failed to respond when the awkward truth has been pointed out to them: you would no more need 60 sets of scales, with 60 different sets of...

Following are average body weights of a random selection of Hong Kong horses on race day: 3yo 1074 lb (sample size 15); 4yo 1088 (57); 5yo 1090 (65); 6yo 1078 (49); 8yo 1116 (9); 9yo 1072 (5). The range was from 858 to 1302. Small sample of in-training 2yos in UK recently had an average of 986.

ditto

Thanks for that: interesting.

I was thanking the existence of the all-weather for turning a disastrous punting week into a marginally profitable one, not engaging in any of that puerile "Flat is better than jumps; no, jumps is better than Flat" nonsense. :rolleyes: Lingfield is no longer local, krizon, so I won't be there...

...fortunately for me there is a thing called the all-weather going on as well...

Punting high: I did not have a bet on the cross-country chase or the Foxhunter. Punting low: Long Run, Najaf, J'y Vole, Alaivan.....no, I did not back any of them each-way. Sporting high: The Gold Cup, its build up and the race itself despite the result not being what I might have liked, Big...

Mischief-making grasshopper would have you believe that you are better extrapolating a view about one horse from another than forming a view about both horses in a wider context. There is every chance that the similarity in margins between Denman and Neptune Collonges in the two races is...

Working fine for me: http://www2.france-galop.com/FGWeb/domaines/chevaux/cheval_perf.aspx?L=en Not being arsey, but are you scrolling down enough to see the race-by-race form beneath the cumulative?