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Been watching racing in Hong Kong for a couple of years now, plenty of good-priced winners up to 80-1 had and to be had. Sire interest plays a big part for me, as usual. The formats, race days, spread of good class races, and the general race classes are all easily understood once you get your...

I tried this a few years back, but time got the better of me. Now, I'm 'officially' retired (at least from the Telecoms day job of some 45 years) as of end last Friday. I'm thinking I may have enough time to at least get into the depths of winter with this ( a camper van trip to Portugal is on...

Clearly, the market leaders here - including the likes of Al Riffa - have great chances of winning. But, as is my typical wont, I want something at juicy enough odds. And one that arguably fits the bill is Athabascan. Seems he gets a definite run with 8-2. You could argue there's a picture...

When I post, I normally have the option to disable signature (which I do, 99% of the time). I can't see how to do that now...and on checking, it looks like my signature had been inserted on all my recent posts (and potentially all of them, haven't checked) even though I know I chose to disable...

This is tying in with some work on the forum enhancement project. So, I've noticed that the forum appears to be getting a fairly big volume of what I'll call 'branded searches' in search engines. That's to say, there's some evidence that searchers are typing in terms like 'Talkinghorses'...

Stumbled on this a few days back. It ties in with discussions on several recent threads. Haven't signed up yet, but looks fascinating and can see that theoretically it could be wildly useful. Seems that in-running punters are already using it, but I'd be thinking it could be a source of...

This might have been better on the antepost thread, but it's in limbo right now. No harm in having a Galway thread anyway, though. *********************** A Wave of the Sea Galway Plate 25 WH/Ladbrokes, B3 bit shorter others Galway Hurdle Best 66-1 PP, B3 Been around for ages...

4.05 Ling So, Id watched Monks Mead for each of his three maidens at the time of those races. Clearly no chance, and for each one Mark Usher had been saying pre-race ' you won't see anything till he gets in a nursery'. Looked at the race today, at first glance thinking 'this is weak' I then...

5.40pm Windsor Richard Hannon's 2YO Adaay filly Seven Aces Was 33 a couple of hours ago, now mainly in to 25. £40k buy. Has entries in all the valuable 2YO races (as many of Hannon's do, but interestingly his other more obviously fancied runner here doesn't) Plenty that could be anything...

Since there's not much racing... This is just about a year old now, but maybe some have not heard it...a duet to remember... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_cDtjM0aY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgyNOxK0YYQ

Is often not human. Anyone that has a dog, cat, parrot will know what I mean. So thought it might be a good idea to give any special friends a moment of glory on the world's greatest forum. Meet Pickle, a 4 year old Spaniel/Pointer cross from Cyprus.... And, for interest, here's an...

20 will go to post. Hard to tell whether Royale Pagaille will run, but seems a logical runner if Venetia has him fit Nicholl's Secret Investor won't go if it's soft. Fortescue, I'd think unlikely, believe the plan is to keep to novice hurdles, possibly right up to the National. Escaria Ten...

For anyone that's never heard it... Sit down somewhere quiet...close eyes...sink into it...and just get lost for fifteen minutes or so... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDPT0hABlNU

Videos on this site (where available) https://www.breederscup.com/horses/flightline?tab=results I've deliberately picked the monster! But you can search on other races and select individual runners in those. Obviously, the US runners/races.

https://www.attheraces.com/competition/breeders'-cup-competition Worth a go, only takes a few seconds. One of us might be lucky.

We all know that finding winners is not necessarily only about predicting who is the best runner in a race, but predicting who is most likely to triumph in the context of that race. Doesn't need saying, but thoughts around that can clearly be applied in multiple ways and against multiple races...

Loft is seemingly out, going by a recent AU news article. It's interesting that Hoo Ya Mal moved to Gai Waterhouse, clearly with this race in mind (current odds around 14-1). Gai will know what's needed (and have a good feeling for Hoo's prospects), given exploits with Fiorente some 8 or so...

Watch the grey fight. Who needs a Derby!! :-) ......... https://www.racingpost.com/results/25/hexham/2022-04-11/807257 Sentiment would love 14YO Purple Harry to have one last hurrah in the 4.50 at Cartmel today. It looked like he'd done it in that Hexham race. Logically, he can't do it...

https://www.geegeez.co.uk/trainers-and-run-style-part-1/ Some thought-provoking and potentially valuable info here. My first thoughts are the value is only likely to be realised with deeper trainer-specific analysis (which will take time) and then only in certain circumstances (eg to back up -...

So, just focusing on the flat (although similar parallels could be drawn over jumps). It's probably a no brainer that form (in general) is more likely to hold up/have more inherent reliability when based on runs at certain courses. That's fairly obvious, given the said courses (generally)...