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Well done Robski. My ex flagged her up last year as potentially going to bag a big one and now she has. I think fillies seem to come to themselves this time of year for some reason possibly a hormonal thing....be interested to see any research on it but it does seem that fillies can show improvement around now. And she did look very well.

I’ve always been of the thought to leave those mid-coat change along from a betting point of view. I feel horses seem to go a little off when they’re changing their coats...but like my greyhound, she definitely goes very quiet when she’s moulting. And even Dave my 9 year old Pekin cockerel is currently under the weather due to his moult.

LA I was happy with. I still think he’s a work in progress and possibly didn’t benefit from the cutaway as if he’d had the rail to grind along all the way to the finish, it might have helped. That said the winner won well and I’m pleased for her (not the trainer who’s a prize twat imo). I hope LA stays in training as I think he’s got more improvement in him and this time next year would be a much stronger horse.

Sad to see Haya Zark...was there an announcement made? Funnily I was watching the shot from the drone behind and thought, “that horse is really throwing its hind leg oddly there,” and as the shot changed to round the bend, the horse broke down.
 
jinnyj said:
Well done Robski. My ex flagged her up last year as potentially going to bag a big one and now she has. I think fillies seem to come to themselves this time of year for some reason possibly a hormonal thing....be interested to see any research on it but it does seem that fillies can show improvement around now. And she did look very well.

I’ve always been of the thought to leave those mid-coat change along from a betting point of view. I feel horses seem to go a little off when they’re changing their coats...but like my greyhound, she definitely goes very quiet when she’s moulting. And even Dave my 9 year old Pekin cockerel is currently under the weather due to his moult.

LA I was happy with. I still think he’s a work in progress and possibly didn’t benefit from the cutaway as if he’d had the rail to grind along all the way to the finish, it might have helped. That said the winner won well and I’m pleased for her (not the trainer who’s a prize twat imo). I hope LA stays in training as I think he’s got more improvement in him and this time next year would be a much stronger horse.

Sad to see Haya Zark...was there an announcement made? Funnily I was watching the shot from the drone behind and thought, “that horse is really throwing its hind leg oddly there,” and as the shot changed to round the bend, the horse broke down.
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Haya Zark was sweating up really badly on what didn’t seem to be a particularly warm day. Should that have been a warning sign that something was amiss?
 
jinnyj said:
MDS got pushed into the Bois du Boulogne when Haya Zark broke down if you watch the rerun! And Continuous was also badly hampered.
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Thanks, jinnyj. I only saw the race via the bookie's site on my phone here in Spain so not a big enough screen either to see everything that was happening and I've only seen it once.
 
moehat said:
Haya Zark was sweating up really badly on what didn’t seem to be a particularly warm day. Should that have been a warning sign that something was amiss?
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Yes 100%! I will never forget Kieran Fallon not wanting to ride Horatio Nelson in the Derby for that very same reason and the fact he moved poorly to post. He broke a leg coming about three furlongs to go and it was dreadful. Horses know when something isn’t right..and often their jockeys do too!
 
jinnyj said:
Yes 100%! I will never forget Kieran Fallon not wanting to ride Horatio Nelson in the Derby for that very same reason and the fact he moved poorly to post. He broke a leg coming about three furlongs to go and it was dreadful. Horses know when something isn’t right..and often their jockeys do too!
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I don’t know the horse well enough to know if he’s a free sweater anyway and didn’t really want to scrutinise a race in which a horse dies but I hadn’t watched the race properly ( we’d only just got home and as we were watching the race the dog stole a fruit scone that I’d stupidly thrown into a bag and forgotten about). So I had to watch the re run close up on my iPad as my tv doesn’t have catchup. He was sweating round his neck but sweat was literally pouring down from under his saddle.
 
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