Lockinge

Yes looking forward to it
I can't really take to Night Of Thunder
Integral for me
 
I have never seen so many desperadoes in a Group 1-I predict a great race to watch but some nightmare in running stories.
 
Night Of Thunder is the one to beat. Form is there to see.
The straight mile and likely pace in a big field will only help his cause.
 
Two are winking at me. I think Aljamaaheer is a tad overpriced - ability wise he's in the same ballpark as the likes of Here Comes When and Moohaarib but is twice the odds. He ran well in this race a couple of years back as well. I also like Integral at around 13/2. Her best run last season was at Royal Ascot, the only time she ran in a double figure field size (aside from her last run which is easily ignored because of the ground) and I think a strong pace over a straight mile on decent ground are her optimum conditions.
 
I am with Suny and Custom Cut lay NOT with everything u got he wins nothing

Then sing with me.....I wanna be a billionaire so fuckin bad" :lol:
 
Top Notch Tonto to run a big race for his Geordie trainer Brian Ellison....:)

This happend in 2013 in the Queen Elizabeth at Ascot when he was 2nd to Olympic Glory, he could run well here at a big price..
 
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Toormore the one to take out of the race for me given they seemed to think he was short of fitness but the way they finished in a heap makes the form a bit doubtful IMO


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Strange race only .42 quicker than the class 2 handicap yet that winner carried 4 pound more off 102 looks very weak form the result looks alright on paper time suggests lots of runners have run poorly..
 
sectionals show that the leaders went too hard to 4 out and that Night Of Thunder was positioned in the best place at that point..in fact he has run his race very efficiently...Toormore comes out as the best horse in the race by being on the pace and nearly winning..if Hughes had held him away from that early pace he would have won.

the Lockinge was a full 2 seconds faster to halfway than the Spark Plugs race..that race was pretty decently run so you can see how eneven they ran in the lockinge just with that comparison

Toormore is certainly the one to take from the race imo..i'd be rating him 2 or 3lb better than the winner

time comparisons with other races may be messed about by the headwind i think...the 2yo's though ran a suspiciously fast time comparitively with the card..Eltezam looks a sure fire winner being the only one closing into fast sectionals in that race
 
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Like to see Toormore string two good races together. He's had lot of excuses before now. I think he curls up under pressure and needs time between races. Hughes didn't have to keep him away from the others most of the way yesterday.
 
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Lacks a gear change, according to his jockey, and his form suggests he's right, too.
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agree..he is the sort of horse that needs to lead..and run horses into the ground..which he did here ro those near the pace..but did too much early by some way. had he sat a bit back it would have been a very interesting final furlong
 
The consensus is that Toormore will reverse the form with the winner. Not so sure myself. The winner looked like he was going to win convincingly at the 1 pole. He too will come on for the run.

Having said that, the French horse may be hard to beat at Ascot.
 
they have faced 4 times with the chesnut in front everytime


disappointing race
slow pace was no help but it looks the field will not have effect in the queen anne where better horses will run


Custom Cut if the race were a handicap would go in my book as a non trier of OMeara thinking in other days
 
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