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Nice finish - cut up his brother, too, that’ll go down well :)

Decided that if I wasn’t taking Handstands because he was so disadvantaged with Protectorate then I better have a little on that one instead. Couldn’t believe the ITV gang didn’t make anything of the weight difference, but Ben Jones said afterwards that the weight got to Handstands in the end...

Yes, at each fence/hurdle

Nice one, sir

“RaceiQ’s Lengths Gained Jumping (LGJ) is a metric that uses GPS data to quantify a horse's jumping efficiency, measuring lengths gained or lost against the field's median at each obstacle . It breaks down jumps into 60-meter windows, measuring entry speed, speed lost at landing, and recovery...

Neither Winston Junior nor Old Park Star broke sweat in winning, with the latter a real “wow” performance which saw him installed as Supreme favourite, whilst the former, too, was installed as favourite for the Fred Winter. Jonbon won at an unheard of 6/1. Windsor 3:00 - Handstands is very...

Hear, hear

Aye, rarely gets round without throwing one in that has him on or near the floor.

Oh, Jonbon, Jonbon what you’ve done for me 6/1 ( I do hope Il Etait Temps is ok)

Had a nice day, yo, couldn’t bring myself to bet against the 2/13 favourite Sober Glory who looked the part and ran like it, so left Dutch Corner alone. He ran ok, although Harry Skelton worked him surprisingly hard to snatch a distant third towards the line. Fire Warning, too, looked impressive...

Off to Newbury today and a few of interest that I’ll be looking at: 12:35 Dutch Corner 1:05 Bespoke Tailor 2:05 Top Target

Must have missed that - when was he found guilty of criminal tax evasion?

Yup, to read this thread anyone would have thought that any jockey who has the temerity to get up on a horse for JP, or has trained for him, tended his horses, or associated with him in any way must have sold their souls for JP is the Devil incarnate. From many of the comments he apparently...

Absolutely whataboutery, but if you’re going to call out one to the extent of applying the final solution you have to be sure you’re not over egging the pudding.

Why single out JP? How healthy is it to have races with half a dozen of the runners from the same stable? Or the runners day in and day out that are running for the purpose of lowering their handicap mark? Or the runners that are running short of fitness (often announced as such - after the...

Aye, it’s always sad even though we’re remote from them, what it must be like for those that care for them every day I shudder to think. As for horse racing, I blame the BBC. No longer covered anymore and to watch the sports news, let alone the main news, you’d be hard pressed to think it even...

I’m all for giving newbies a warm welcome, but rather than criticising each other I wonder why this particular newbie hasn’t drawn the fire. Obviously, someone with a simmering agenda below the seemingly innocuous and somewhat fatuous questions. from ….,this may seem like a strange and perhaps...

No, Ian, I don’t doubt what I do, but I do try to determine why my selection didn’t win and that includes looking at the winner to see if there was anything I may have missed that should have flagged up any serious danger to mine. In truth I wouldn’t have done this time without the thread...

Sure - would you like me to edit with (except Ian) :) . I was merely trying to counter the sort of “out of the blue” flavour to comments. I dare say JP has his horses campaigned to suit him, but he’s not alone in that.

Back over hurdles and top rated on Timeform adjusted ratings, so the clues were there if we had been sharp enough to look.