Leopardstown Sunday

an capall said:
I was watching the Novice Chase with assembled family. As they approached the last, five in a line, all looking for a stride at the fence that could win the thing number 4 brother remarked.."This is why we love racing."
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Watching the recording at home last night, I remarked to myself at the exact same point, "They must be much of a muchness." :)
 
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http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rac...e-with-victory-in-hennessy-gold-cup-1.2096091

Anyone who's seen the much clearer version of this photo in the print edition will understand why there was a security scare at Leopardstown yesterday.

The authorities watching on cctv were startled to observe an alien figure standing at the rail directly behind Carlingford Lough and Mr McCoy bearing a most diabolical expression.

A spokeswoman for the course later remarked, "Nobody knew who he was. He looked like the devil himself, or at least like Fernando Rey in that film where he's portraying the devil. And he was stood there giving AP and the poor horse the evil eye into their backs with some device in his right hand that could have been anything. We thought at first the glowing halo around horse and jockey was because this individual was intent on causing them to burst into flames."

"The funny thing was", she continued, "when we confronted him afterwards he was disappointed to be mistaken for Mr Rey rather than Colin Farrell. That was when we knew he was harmless, God love him."
 
chroniclandlord said:
I don't know how anyone could look at the last two meetings at Leopardstown and suggest that racing isn't a great product to market.
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You'll find Leopardstown is Irish racing. The difference is our best horses take each other on at these meetings.
 
Wasn't your point how competitive yesterday's races were - on a day when a top-rated 11yo 164 horse leads the field at a pensioner's pace, in the major race of the day? :D
 
Grey said:
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rac...e-with-victory-in-hennessy-gold-cup-1.2096091

Anyone who's seen the much clearer version of this photo in the print edition will understand why there was a security scare at Leopardstown yesterday.

The authorities watching on cctv were startled to observe an alien figure standing at the rail directly behind Carlingford Lough and Mr McCoy bearing a most diabolical expression.

A spokeswoman for the course later remarked, "Nobody knew who he was. He looked like the devil himself, or at least like Fernando Rey in that film where he's portraying the devil. And he was stood there giving AP and the poor horse the evil eye into their backs with some device in his right hand that could have been anything. We thought at first the glowing halo around horse and jockey was because this individual was intent on causing them to burst into flames."

"The funny thing was", she continued, "when we confronted him afterwards he was disappointed to be mistaken for Mr Rey rather than Colin Farrell. That was when we knew he was harmless, God love him."
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The kid made me do it. McCoy signed his race-card on CL's name soon after - my legacy is another racegoer for the next 60 years.
 
reet hard said:
Wasn't your point how competitive yesterday's races were - on a day when a top-rated 11yo 164 horse leads the field at a pensioner's pace, in the major race of the day? :D
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Ignoring the deeply competitive high class grade 1's run earlier on the card?

And that was the 164 rated pensioner that finished 2nd in the GC a to another boat that ran yesterday.

Irish racing is as competitive and exciting at the top level as I've ever known it. In fact, I'd say the best horses were generally in Ireland these days, the fact that most of them are in one stable just makes it analogous to the flat season in the UK!

I live in England by the way....
 
chroniclandlord said:
I don't know how anyone could look at the last two meetings at Leopardstown and suggest that racing isn't a great product to market.
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That's just crazy talk.

It's well established that all irish G1's are soft-events that a mule trained in the UK could probably win. :whistle:
 
It's nothing to do with where one lives, Aragorn.
Yesterday's Hennessy was a poor contest by gd1 standards (even with the GC winner and his 160 rating), made all the worse by the funereal pace.
 
reet hard said:
It's nothing to do with where one lives, Aragorn.
Yesterday's Hennessy was a poor contest by gd1 standards (even with the GC winner and his 160 rating), made all the worse by the funereal pace.
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And the finish was fought out by the two most unexposed horses in the field which were sent off at the head of the betting. It was a perfectly satisfactory race.
 
I don't know what it is about Betfair and Irish racing but (I know it's aftertiming) I backed On His Own at 4.9 with a veiw to laying him in running suspecting Ruby would lead..........He jumped the first and by the time his front legs hit the ground he was 3.4......click outta there.........Never see that in English racing can only assume they are all mad crazy punters in the Emerald Isle.

As for the result the only thing I could take out of the race is that they must have been delighted with Lord Windermere's run. The dual festival winner's performance is ahead of where they had him at this time last year and on a par with where they had him when he won the RSA.

I see no reason at all why he can't win the Gold Cup again which is no better a race than it was last year
 
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