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You do you then. :rolleyes: I thought it may well have been an angle that not every person had considered. Some courses do indeed suit front runners while some don't just as going changes can influence that too.

This is an interesting read and he makes a good point - plus he likes your Bad https://www.racingpost.com/news/the-front-runner/the-importance-of-being-eager-why-it-could-pay-to-follow-front-runners-in-saturdays-paddy-power-gold-cup-at-cheltenham-aIQ5L1Y7g9kI/

Faye has probably just missed it as there are so many. I can see your post so it's fine. She will update it when she sees this post. Thanks for entering!

Welcome to the forum, Statto. Hope you enjoy it on here and look forward to reading your posts.

I missed Our Boy Stan's race as the internet was sticky. Read the report and it sounded like he had a few jumping issues. He is a big horse though and his future may lie over fences.

She was at Wincanton yesterday flogging the headbands so maybe there was an extra need for decoration.

Absolutely not everything is a plot. But the trainer's job is to win races for the owner (not the punter) and if the horse is too high in the handicap to win off it's current mark, then matters are taken in hand.

Oh I meant to put Our Boy Stan in my Ten to Follow! I really liked him last year.

Just a quick glance but if Skelton's keep Protektorat in on top weight, then that leaves Riskintheground on a very attractive 10st5 - he's a course winner plus he comes here off the back of a nice victory over Blue King d'Oroux last time, setting him up nicely. Currently 16s.

Horses are being stopped regularly and if you don't think they aren't then you really shouldn't be punting. I am not saying it is all about landing a touch but more to do with getting a horse back down to a winnable mark. So you run them in the wrong races, on the wrong ground, on the wrong...

Jonjo O'Neill stops more horses than most trainers put together (or did when I knew him/ran against him) And he will tell you in a completely deadpan accent that the horse was completely running on it's merits and he has no idea why the horse ran like that. And before anyone comments about how...

Chaumi - I stuck Starzand in as my Dark Horse on the strength of that win and the seemingly very positive response from connections after the race. I then collared Johnson at Newton Abbot and he was very positive about the horse. So I was surprised to see Philip implying that Sober Glory was the...

Yes he definitely was an odd one although I felt the horse wasn't suited hugely by the fences - he kept jumping slowly and deliberately. But he was sitting a ridiculous way off the pace in any case. I think there used to be but couldn't find anything so I thought I would modernise it anyway!!

I couldn't find anywhere to post this so I thought maybe there should be a thread. Both NH & Flat are welcome. For those horses that are swinging out the back and just aren't put in the race until IT IS TOO LATE...! And maybe they are wanting to get the handicap mark down..... Not talking out...

She was the best horse in the race but that mistake two out made the difference - that and the near two stone she was giving the winner.

Just popped up via my tracker but thanks for the reminder 🙂

1,600 words plus is the easiest way to lose the interest of the reader. It should be far less, have a beginning(or introduction), a middle and an end (or conclusion). When I write up point to point reports, I try to start off with a brief paragraph of the main events, followed by what I think...

It's a yard I don't have a lot of trust for...or respect. I just feel it's a bit of a factory. Often happens when they are chasing titles.

I'm a bit annoyed. I spoke to Johnson White last week and asked about Starzand who I popped in as my Dark Horse and was he their best. Johnson did confirm that he was really highly thought of and now I read that this Sober Glory is their next big horse - surely he could have told me that...

I was on a zoom call last night about pointing and we had one of our senior stewards on it who is also a course inspector and he said part of the problem at the moment was that because of the very hot dry summer, the recent rain has only gone in so far. Which means you have a few inches of...