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    Funniest thing I've seen in ages (I'm easily amused tbf)

    Reach For The Moon is one of four declared for the 7:35 race tomorrow at Market Rasen ( a class 4 two mile handicap hurdle ). He's currently 3/1 third favourite, and Jamie Snowden is in really good form (10/25) with his hurdlers in the new Jumps season.
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    The 2025 Royal Ascot Tuesday Thread

    Just the two so far which are last year's third Kyle of Lochalsh ( 33/1) for Hughie Morrison, and Reaching High (16/1) for Willie Mullins. Kyle of Lochalsh was also fourth of eighteen in the two and half mile handicap at the Goodwood Festival and was afterwards rated as high as 99, but is now...
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    In Memoriam (racing people)

    I thought I would post this short film about Sea Pigeon's runs in the Champion Hurdle.
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    where do I find f/cst and tricast on bet 365 - they've disappeared

    Click on More Markets and they are on the left below the one or two horses offered at enhanced odds. That works anyway for the 5:20 at Goodwood.
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    The 2025 Derby

    The St Leger could be on the cards for third placed Tennessee Stud, or even the two mile race at Ascot on Champions Day if they think he will be better on softish ground. I've looked at a replay of the race and he had ten horses in front of him after rounding Tattenham Corner. I wondered who the...
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    The 2025 Dash Handicap

    Last year's winner, Dream Composer, is too big at around 20/1 to ignore, and the same can be said for Tees Spirit ( the 2022 winner ). Existent is on a losing run of 40 and is too consistent for his own good. He's now six pounds higher than when finishing second to Spartan Arrow over course and...
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    The 2025 Longshot Thread

    Pocklington - rated 96 - is another Geoff Oldroyd horse in the same ownership. His last run was over five and a half furlongs at the Ebor meeting when finishing 10th of 22 ( 25/1) when the first five all raced on the far side of the track. I've been keeping an eye out for him ever since and at...
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    Does this make you think racing is straight?

    David Walsh or Walshe?
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    Whats the best horse youve seen race live

    Flat: nothing of note apart from Silver Patriarch in his box at Arundel. Jumps: Barnbrook Again winning at the April meeting at Cheltenham in 1990 a month after winning the Champion Chase. Bradbury Star finishing second at 50/1 in a Kempton novice hurdle when trained by WT Kemp, and Panto...
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    Funniest thing I've seen in ages (I'm easily amused tbf)

    Wordsworth - 3rd in the 2021 Irish Derby for Aidan O'Brien, and with a Flat rating as high as 111 - was eventually moved on to David Pipe, and has a hurdles mark of 120, but has been off the track since finishing down the field in the 2023 Cesarewitch. Reach For The Moon - winner of the 2021...
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    Frankel v Brigadier Gerard. The greatest showdown.

    Keith Knight is the author of the horseracingmatters blog. It's not a name I've heard before, but I clicked randomly on one of his older blog entries - the one for 26/12/2021 - and he was discussing Desert Orchid's first King George VI Chase win in 1986 and mentioned that he was at the course...
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    Frankel v Brigadier Gerard. The greatest showdown.

    https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrLABT7syxoKQIAIM8M34lQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNpcjIEcG9zAzIEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1748969723/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fhorseracingmatters.com%2fblog%2fa-very-important-book/RK=2/RS=I6RWMqYs35GAq058PdYIwhjmk0Q- I discovered the blog horseracingmatters.com this afternoon and...
  13. J

    Before they were famous

    Heads Hands and Feet - Tryin' To Put Me On ( 1972 )
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    Flatties to follow 2025

    1. Almudena - (rated 79) - 655/44431123- 4yo filly - Study Of Man x Albamara ( Galileo ) Sir Mark Prescott - Miss Kirsten Rausing Entered for the 2:40 two mile handicap at Goodwood on May 23rd as is the stable's Trooper Bisdee. Accruing prize money in small instalments may not be the main...
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    Royalty sticking together

    Perhaps they are already thinking of the Ascot Stakes Handicap ( 0 -100 ) over two and a half miles next month? He's currently rated 92 and would probably have to go up a few pounds to be guaranteed a run in the Copper Horse Handicap which Belloccio won for Willie Mullins last year.
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    The 2025 Longshot Thread

    Saturday - Haydock Park 1:35 - Swinton Handicap Hurdle ( 17 runners, £45,000+ first prize ) Going, good ( 7.4 ) Tapley - Suzy Smith ( 14/1) - 2nd in this race last year when ridden by Elizabeth Gale (7). Sean Bowen has been booked to ride in this race. 6th at Aintree on penultimate run in the...
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    Novice Limited Handicaps

    2:10 100% RacingTV Profits Back To Racing Conditional Jockeys' Novices' Limited Handicap Hurdle (Class 5) (4yo+ 0-95) Winner £3,301 10 runners 2m125y Good RTV race conditions £6,250 guaranteed For 4yo+ Rated 0-95 Weights highest weight 11st 12lb Weight raised 7 Minimum weights: 10-5; 4-y-o...
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    Forum Horse Connections

    https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr.gJRjuxtoKgIAshMM34lQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNpcjIEcG9zAzQEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1747857507/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fcheltenhamdream%2fposts%2f1606637506238913%2f/RK=2/RS=W5TTWAH4alfBTPU1XTjutPbbe1E- I also had trouble with the blog link, but got into...
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    This is sublime. Can't get over it

    Here are three in a similar vein. I first heard the Bach piece on Radio 3's Late Junction over twenty years ago. The Icelandic conductor scores maximum points for enthusiasm.
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    The 2025 Suffolk Handicap

    Moving to a new stable after the retirement of Sir Michael Stoute wasn't a disadvantage for either More Thunder or Fox Legacy. Aerion Power ( 18/1) runs for Hamad Al Jehani in the 3:55 race at Goodwood this afternoon. He's a seven-year-old bought by Wathnan Racing who is invariably slowly...
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