1000 Guineas (and beyond)

[Guest_]

First race time - 2m 36 reported on RUK.

 

[SteveM]

The Hannon filly was looking good to me in the days leading up to the race, but I guess it has swung in favour of Fallon now.

I'm looking at Seta and Pollenator, but hope that Special Duty can find her form.

 

[Songsheet]

LADY DARSHAAN would have trouble being by DARSHAAN, as described in the paddock commentary just now on C4 !!

 

[Gamla Stan]

Delighted for Special Duty if she got up but that was a fucking farce of a race.

 

[Guest_]

Well done Henry but in terms of a race to view it's really is a farce. I HATE the stalls in the centre of the track.

 

[Guest_]

Oooooo will she keep it??

 

[Songsheet]

Stewards' enquiry!:blink:

 

[Gamla Stan]

It was absolute bollocks. Splitting in a classic, it's not the Wokingham FFS.

Music Show absolute battered her side.

It was obvious after the Dahlia that the near side was the place to be, why they all didn't come across I don't know.

 

[Guest_]

I think the winner might lose it in the stewards.

 

[Irish Stamp]

Delighted for Special Duty if she got up but that was a fucking farce of a race.

Agreed - you back a horse and then it has no chance as the jockey goes far side when the ground is 2-3 lengths quicker on the near.

 

[Songsheet]

I think the winner might lose it in the stewards.

Doubt it very much...

 

[Irish Stamp]

She smacked into the runner-up and beat her a nose - agree with Gal that she might well be thrown out.

 

[Irish Stamp]

What did he say Gal?

 

[Guest_]

She smacked into the runner-up and beat her a nose - agree with Gal that she might well be thrown out.

I think she should be thrown out - she carried her right out into the centre of the track. I didnt back anything in the race by the way!

 

[Guest_]

What did he say Gal?

I deleted it after I put it up!! I said John Fran was a dick - he hadn't even seen the replay and said absolutely no doubt the winner would keep it. She might well keep it but look at the replay might help decide....

 

[Guest_]

If they keep to the rules I think the second horse should be given the race - it was only a nose.

 

[LUKE]

Laid SD at evens in enquiry -surely bet of the year .

 

[Desert Orchid]

The UK stewards are far too cowardly to promote Special Duty, which they should do.

Delighted with the runs I got from both the French filly and the Bolger one, apart from the bump that might have cost Special Duty the race.

 

[Guest_]

Special Duty gets the race.

Well done stewards....desperately hard luck on Cecil but the right decision.

 

[Gamla Stan]

Oh I feel so sorry for Jacqueline's owner, the look on his face when they announced the amended result!

 

[Guest_]

I would add what a classy lady M Head Maarek is - from her interviews on ATR this morning to all the interviews on the track. Class through and through.

 

[Gamla Stan]

I would add what a classy lady M Head Maarek is - from her interviews on ATR this morning to all the interviews on the track. Class through and through.

Agreed.

 

[Songsheet]

So do I - what a shame they couldn't just have dead heated and that would have been an end to it. I am sure we'd all want to win the race if we'd owned SPECIAL DUTY but Juddmonte need to take care they don' make a habit of this in the Guineas!!

 

[Guest_]

Watching the replay again and Queally really did lose the run of himself a bit.

 

[krizon]

Eat your words, DO! I was yelling at Queally to change whip hands - it was so obvious he was carrying Criquette's head out. I'm glad that it didn't matter if it was a Class 6 Seller or this - rules are rules and when it's by such a tiny margin, yes, you've got to argue that the horse could well have won without having been pushed so far across the course. Of course, desperately sorry for Noel Martin and Henry Cecil, but a second is still bloody good.