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I’m glad that MrB has just pointed out where the blogs can be found. My last blog post was in October when we were just back from Madeira - it’s April now, we’re there again and it’s a good discipline not being able to bet (not easily, anyway) in the fag-end of the jumps season and the new shoots of the flat as horses are just getting started. So, it’s a watching brief trying to get the notebook going.
The jumps is finishing with the battle for the trainers championship and Dan Skelton isn’t given much chance against the Willie Mullins juggernaut. I’m not so sure, DS has opened the gap a little and I remember last year that he said his mistake was not holding a few back for the final furlong. It might not be as easy for WM as the market seems to think.
So far on the flat those I wanted to watch have mostly needed the run, so I’d be on a fair losing run if I’d been tempted at home. I certainly would have backed Exclamation who finished strongly in the Brocklesby after a slow start. This time he was 3rd at 5/1, more smartly way and again strong in the finish, but the first two looked a class apart and he couldn’t lay a hoof on them. Wait for six furlongs or lower class for him.
Pellitory WON nicely at 25/1, but not that disappointing to miss since I wouldn’t have been backing him anyway. He was always just a watch.
PELLITORY is a massive horse who has done all his work with Wimbledon Hawkeye [stable companion]. We've had this race planned the whole season and you get here and think it's a strong race but it was a learning curve today to see whether we were a handicapper or a bit better. He's got a French Guineas entry and we'll think about it but he's a lovely horse with a great future - James Owen, trainer, speaking to Racing TV.
Today, the watchers are Tatterstall and Ivatt at Musselburgh
The jumps is finishing with the battle for the trainers championship and Dan Skelton isn’t given much chance against the Willie Mullins juggernaut. I’m not so sure, DS has opened the gap a little and I remember last year that he said his mistake was not holding a few back for the final furlong. It might not be as easy for WM as the market seems to think.
So far on the flat those I wanted to watch have mostly needed the run, so I’d be on a fair losing run if I’d been tempted at home. I certainly would have backed Exclamation who finished strongly in the Brocklesby after a slow start. This time he was 3rd at 5/1, more smartly way and again strong in the finish, but the first two looked a class apart and he couldn’t lay a hoof on them. Wait for six furlongs or lower class for him.
Pellitory WON nicely at 25/1, but not that disappointing to miss since I wouldn’t have been backing him anyway. He was always just a watch.
PELLITORY is a massive horse who has done all his work with Wimbledon Hawkeye [stable companion]. We've had this race planned the whole season and you get here and think it's a strong race but it was a learning curve today to see whether we were a handicapper or a bit better. He's got a French Guineas entry and we'll think about it but he's a lovely horse with a great future - James Owen, trainer, speaking to Racing TV.
Today, the watchers are Tatterstall and Ivatt at Musselburgh
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