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Brave Inca’s emotional comeback win in the 2010 Irish Champion Hurdle at the age of 11 was the highlight of the forum’s first GWID (Great Weekend In Dublin). One of Inca’s owners, Oran Crean, used to be a member here, Cantoris, and he had played a big part in organising that weekend. It made for...

“There are going to be some ructions now, I can tell you”. An accurate prediction there from Graham Goode

More the Shakespearean sense, Eddie. Your incredible memory is correct that Denman won that day, but it was the Berkshire Novice Chase that he won, by 12 lengths at odds of 2/11.

I think I know the lady you are referring to, Quix.

My one and only time to visit Towcester was almost 19 years ago, in November 2006. I was there to see the debut of the first horse I ever had a share in. I was recruited to the syndicate through this forum, by the late and much missed Brian Hartigan, or Lord H as he was known in these parts...

Al Aasy would be odds on today if I was pricing up the race (Leop 15.50). A horse that has delivered on plenty of occasions up against a field of unproven types whose connections are hoping to get lucky.

Yes. Will you be there yourself?

I detect nothing sincere in your apology. The Earl of Pembroke

Sorry, that title has been reserved for edgt.

This is a table matching penetrometer readings with going descriptions [t

From the France-galop.com site. After 46 mm of rain in the last 7 days it will remain dry until Sunday, when temperatures will reach 27 degrees. They therefore expect the going to correspond to a reading of 3.4, which they term Bon Souple, which to me suggests decent ground with no jar in it...

Back in the 1980s, the old Phoenix Park track was using a thing called a penetrometer and certainly Longchamp was using something similar at the time.

I reckon that French officials are as capable of providing a going description as anyone else. The thing to be distrustful off is literal translations of the terms they use. Yesterday’s going at Longchamp was Très Souple, which can be translated literally as Very Soft. I see that the...

Same here, but I make an exception for ice cream cones. The O’Brien vans at some of the Irish tracks provide an especially good one. I’m looking to go to Laytown on Thursday. The forecast for Ireland’s east coast is pretty hairy for tomorrow with heavy rain and spot flooding forecast. And it...

Of course, only too delighted to help. And surely it isn’t only Porta Fortuna you have your eye on. Without wishing to get personal.

Thanks for the detailed reply, QC. This has been a fascinating thread. Enjoy your break.

There’s something I’m not getting here. You ex bookies are showing no respect to Pricewise and Hugh Taylor yet also saying that you made sure no one could get a decent bet on their selections. You even closed the accounts of their followers. Why would you bother doing that unless they were...

I think an ever greater portion of betting on races is being done in the final minutes before the off. Ante Post and overnight betting is greatly restricted, so prices before the day itself are increasingly irrelevant. And even morning prices are no great guide. I would have thought that for a...

The normal race has entries five days out and then decs two days beforehand. But for the bigger races entries are made earlier and at the five day stage you can either take your horse out of the race or leave it in.