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Just watched the replay a couple more times, MO. Mm, he doesn't help his cause by battering the second last and then hanging out noticeably left. Overall, though, he's smart at changing leads on the turns and I'm not sure a r/h track disadvantaged his very good speed and fluid hurdling style...

HLB = Stewart Family, Alf = Hales.

Excellent, Steve! Perhaps a nice orange silk handkerchief to flourish at some point, too?

Cute photo! Thanks for finding it and putting it up, Miesque.

If I were going for NH, I'd look for anything by BOB BACK that had a fair race record. He begot durable, well-made animals who seem to last well, the old feller himself passing away at 30.

KK: SADLER'S WELLS bonked thousands of mares in his time, so his influence is as rampant as Japanese knotweed - it's as likely to be in the best and in the worst examples on a course these days, since his books of mares were very far from limited by numbers, or elite. Actually, I didn't say you...

A barely-there little life: the SULAMANI 3 y.o., GEORGEOFLANCASHIRE, fatally injured on Bruce Hellier's gallops this morning. He'd got his debut race out the way (finished last of 14), and that, sadly, is the sum total of his active life.

Had a look at it, Steve. It looks like an exercise in confession and catharsis all right!

Yes, really. He has a double RR on his record, which bodes 'iffy' if not actually 'ill' to me. Why bother with these half-cocked animals? Pay around the mark where you know there is at least honesty and soundness. The subject foal may have all sorts of similar pedigrees to all sorts of animals...

Really, Steve? I suppose that surprises me a wee bit - it's as if cops and firemen blogged their activities, things we tend to think aren't revealed, a bit like soldiers' experiences. Maybe this is the new reality of instant and usually anonymous communication? It's a bit like...

Do we know how GAUVAIN is following his cruncher?

Well, I've copied the words off a flyer given to me in one of our best Chinese supermarkets, following a great lunch of dim sum at the China Garden, Chef. We wished and were wished gongayfatchoy a few dozen times - very nice. I bought lots of amazingly tasty Chinese noodle dishes for snackies...

That he is, Clivex, but what is also horrible is the amount of people who are contributing to him showing any points. The US candidacy - apart from Obama - doesn't look particularly edifying, which is quite a worry.

They are kidding with DR MASSINI, surely! :lol: I don't care how cheap he is - you get that mindset handed on and you may never even see it out of the stalls.

May I wish you all a very happy (Chinese) New Year. It's the Year of the Dragon, which is a symbol of power and strength, which some of us could use after the past financially feeble years! Have a good one, folks.

Cruella, I didn't realise Sanctimonium was that bad. I understand his 'pro-life' stance included denying abortions to women pregnant as a result of rape and incest (which is just family rape), so that a 14 y.o. girl impregnated by her father and/or his paedophiliac friends, would be made to...

Bruce - no, I wasn't on the line. It was some other stuck-up woman.

I hope all sorts of people take the piddle out of this nonsense. "And now, the Queen's carriage is arriving, drawn by the usual four magnificent ggggr.... ORANGE horses?"

It's not going to work, children. But to show you how it won't work, you're both getting your own dinners this week and, as for the laundry... oh, dear. Looks like all your shirts are missing one sleeve - how could that happen?

That's a fabulous fun post - even if Riverdale bolts up stone last. Rory - love that phrase, "a freak gelding operation"! I'm sure I've seen several of those on YouTube, involving skateboarders failing to grind the rails in the accepted manner.