Hennessy Meeting

[uncle goober]

The diminutive SOLIYA wins The Juvenile Hurdle

THE HAIRY LEMON wins for Alan King and Robert Thornton

EDEN LINTY continued his winning run

takes the last ahead of Mike De Beauchene

Andrew Thornton gets stuck in aboard the runner up

but EDEN LINTY kept on best

HOBBS HILL

HOBBS HILL leads Silverburn over the final open ditch 3 out

HARRYCONE LEWIS wins The Amateur Riders Chase

THE PACKAGE takes the final flight like a spaz in winning Fridays finale

 

[uncle goober]

Saturday.
PASCO goes to post for the opener

HELENS VISION

HELENS VISION takes the first flight and was never headed

HELENS VISION

SIR BATHWICK joins Junctiontwentyfour at the fourth last fence

SIR BATHWICK

Contrasting styles of MAMBO DES MOTTES and PERCUSSIONIST at the first in the 2mile Chase

SAINTSAIRE stretches clear

INGLIS DREVER goes to post

OSCAR PARK

 

[uncle goober]

INGLIS DREVER wins The Long Distance Hurdle for the 'third consecutive year running in a row' which I think means he's now won it nine times.

INGLIS DREVER

DENMAN parades

NEW ALCO

STRONG FLOW

SLOWY MOURNING

ABRAGANTE

SIR REMBRANDT leads the field after four fences with DENMAN in fourth

The field leave McCoy behind on the deck at the 7th

DENMAN hits the front at the 8th

 

[uncle goober]

DENMAN and SIR REMBRANDT approach the 9th

DENMAN heads to the final fence looking like he's only got to jump it

and he jumps it like a fresh horse

sets off up the run in to a tremendous ovation

DENMAN wins The Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup

DENMAN returns

Denmania

The old lady and Barber eventually get their chance to see the horse

 

[uncle goober]

My work here is done

KELREV wins the next

KELREV and Christian Williams

MON MICHEL (farside) wins The Gerry Feilden Hurdle

On Sunday, PURE GENIUS is about to be beaten iby One Gulp in The Mares Novices Hurdle

ONE GULP

BIG BUCK'S

OVERLUT and BIG BUCK'S take the water in The Novice Chase

BARBERS SHOP appeared to have the race won, but no

BIG BUCK'S

 

[uncle goober]

THE TOTHER ONE on his way to another easy success

THE TOTHER ONE

NEVADA ROYALE and HERES JOHNNY before disaster struck!

AZTEC WARRIOR

OFFICER DE RESERVE wins

RING THE BOSS led all the way

RING THE BOSS

MIDNIGHT SAIL wins The Bumper

 

[Flame]

A few pics I got on Saturday of two horses I really like;

(nowhere near in the same league as anyone else on here)

Percussionist on his way out to the course.

Percussionist returns, as Dennis explains the disappointing run to connections.

Saintsaire enjoys a well earned hose off

Crystal Dainy checks out the opposition

Inglis Drever getting saddled as Wylie checks out the latest prices

Finally Amy Winehouse gives Dennis O' Regan his orders.

 

[Colin Phillips]

Thanks, Goobs, some lovely shots there, but some dear souls might be offended by your caption for The Package.

 

[crazyhorse]

home & hosted, UG, and thanks so very much for sharing ( I must think of something else to say, but what shrug:: )

Brilliant stuff as usual :clap:

 

[Shadow Leader]

I do believe you labelled Abragante incorrectly - surely it should have been "Abragante - what mugs ever thought this even close enough to being good enough to win??"

And where's Boys?!?!

 

[Diminuendo]

I love this set of photos Goober. Great work.

 

[Brown Jack]

I have first of all to point out that I am in fact Isinglass impersonating my other half as he is already signed in.

Thanks for sharing, as always. Of course I love the Denman ones because he is my kind of guy, but Big Bucks is pretty outstanding looking too. And Inglis.

I love the one of Kelrev with Christian bent over the horse. It is a great shot.

 

[trackside528]

Fantastic stuff UG!

 

[Kathy]

Brilliant! :clap:

I actually managed to chat to UG on Saturday for a whole 10 minutes inbetween races. I spied Mick Fitz behind him (whilst we were sheltering from a cloud burst) wearing little more than a towel. Well, I thought it would have made a great photo :shy:

 

[Grey]

I saw him hanging around on Sunday looking a bit disconsolate after the second race. I thought it might have been because he forgot about the dog-leg in the running rail when riding a finish on Barber Shop and allowed Big Buck's to grab him on the line.

But maybe it was because Kathy wasn't there.

Nice photos, by the way.

 

[Sara]

Great pics, thanks guys - I esp loved the one of Abragante - what a character!!
Talk about taking the ***** - if anyone had seen his expression before the race they'd never have backed him LOL - not that I could see how anyone would anyway in a hot race like this.

The Tother One has a lovely intelligent head doesn't he, and that's a great shot of his neatly tucked in front legs; def one I shall be following

 

[rorydelargy]

They're not bad, but David Dew could do better.

 

[uncle goober]

Aftertimer

 

[Sara]

Mixed feelings seeing that one of Nevada Royale and Dartnell's - I had judged this a two horse race and put on a biggish RFCT :brows: so had just been counting my money as they come over the last... on watching the rerun in the Tote Club you could see NR's utter despair in a closeup of his face coming up to the fence - he just kind of crumpled on landing from sheer exhaustion.

In usual, NH fashion, almost everone on the course stayed standing for the full 15 mins or so whilst the horse was down behind the screens - there was a huge yell of joy and great waves of applause as he bobbed back up then was walked in by his very happy lass. He had stuck his tail out horizontally after leaving his hind legs in the water first time round, so I think he may have hurt his back - it was sticking up and out at a crazy angle when he walked in {quite happy with the attention if a little bemused!} - so I guess he'll need some physio

I think he was a very willing, brave horse on the day as he did his best for young Sam to finish, though might have been hurting all the way round. My friend I had a drink with after the race who was an eventer and now schools jumpers, remarked that he was a very big raw horse who would "need a lot of organising". I wonder if a more experienced jock might have felt something wrong after the water and pulled him up. In any event, happily he lives to race another day. Can anyone with a phone contact at the yard ask how he is?

 

[Shadow Leader]

Originally posted by Grey@Dec 4 2007, 01:39 PM
I saw him hanging around on Sunday looking a bit disconsolate after the second race. I thought it might have been because he forgot about the dog-leg in the running rail when riding a finish on Barber Shop and allowed Big Buck's to grab him on the line.

Yes, interesting that the view we had from up above showed that quite clearly eh Grey - I think Fitzy got away with that as no-one noticed, not least as the horse saved him by going around it anyway at the last minute so he didn't have to do a dramatic swerve right handed!!!!

Rory - how would you know?! I'd be assuming that the hangover today would be such that you couldn't see any of the photographic portfolios anywhere near close to being in focus anyway!!!!!!

 

[rorydelargy]

Originally posted by Headstrong@Dec 4 2007, 09:52 PM
He had stuck his tail out horizontally after leaving his hind legs in the water first time round, so I think he may have hurt his back - it was sticking up and out at a crazy angle when he walked in {quite happy with the attention if a little bemused!} - so I guess he'll need some physio

I'm sure he's fine ~ his tail carriage was nothing to do with the mistake, as he was carrying it that way from the start. You can also see from his athletic jump at the next fence that he hadn't done any serious damage with that howler at the water.

 

[Shadow Leader]

To be quite fair, I too was worried after the mistake at the water that he would be awkward and would be pulled up. However he recovered very well and his jumping and galloping after said fence was fine.

 

[Sara]

I haven't been able to look at the re-runs that closely - happened to miss that race on ruk on Monday! - so thanks for pointing that out. He's such a grand type, would be shame if the two mistakes did him any damage. Interesting tho that he was carrying his tail like that from the start - I'd always been led to believe that was a sign of something hurting in the back, eg pinched nerve or muscle problem

 

[Shadow Leader]

Some horses just do carry it like that, even though you're right, it can often be a sign of discomfort in the back.

 

[uncle goober]

Kildimo