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Given the principals and Sky Lantern came from some way back, Sajjhaa has acquitted herself with a lot of credit after racing forward of midfield from early on and going prominent early in the straight.

It was a very unsatisfactory race, though, unless you backed the winner.

Hughes's pre-race fears that he'd need luck due to the amount of 'dead wood' in the field were proved well founded.
 
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Hot Snap is clearly the one to take out of the field
slow start and bad jockey decisions cost the race

Sajhaa good race form the prominents


Sky Lantern not good enough and one to oppose form now after a hard season, good fillie but overrated


Juddmonte should be happy with the winner, lucky one
 
sunybay said:
Hot Snap is clearly the one to take out of the field
slow start and bad jockey decisions cost the race

Sajhaa good race form the prominents


Sky Lantern not good enough and one to oppose form now after a hard season, good fillie but overrated


Juddmonte should be happy with the winner, lucky one
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Sky Lantern got carved up..how do you know she isn't good enough?
 
Sky Lantern was murdered twice - how Buick continues to get away with riding like that is a real indictment of our rules . He knew Sky Lantern was there and he deliberately kept his whip in the wrong hand so that after murdering her once he murdered her again .

I suspect with hindsight ,however, the Hughes will wish he had ridden the horse as he did at Ascot stone last and out of trouble - he was lit up by Queally trying to barge out on Hot Snap and found himself about to hit the front too soon and taking a brief pull meant the horses on the outside charged up and shut him in .

Heffernan may be able to persuade the stewards the horse ducked out Richard Quinn once persuaded them he was looking for better ground in the Predominate when he was clearly taking the wrong course until the last moment.
 
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For mine, Sajjhaa didn't stay. Not suggesting she would have won anyway, but the 7mm of rain wouldn't have helped her at all.
 
They decided the interference was accidental - strewth and then banned Buick for his use of the whip and Doyle too .
 
sky lantern done nothing wrong yesterday, starting to look unlucky in some
of the races, thats two extra group 1 wins should have by now. easily the
best horse in that race. winsili was the better price on the day and jockey
got first run on r hughes and slammed the door shut.if you understand the form, elusive kate which got lucky beating sky lantern has already gone onto win
another group 1 easily in france.
 
Sheikh said:
Hughes needlessly got sky into that position.Buick is just a better jock.
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All the big names are making horrendous errors of judgment or tactics these days. Murtagh is making the fewest. 44% (from carefully-picked opportunities, you'd have to say) in the last fortnight and making it look so easy on the likes of Novellist and Forgotten Voice.
 
Yeah, Buick was poor on the The Fugue at Ascot don't forget. They all have bad days just like any professional sportsman.
 
Buick looked like a 7lb claimer on Excess Knowledge earlier in the week.

What did people make of the "Mister Buick" comments from Hughes in the post-race interview yesterday? He said it more than once.

It's worth remembering that it was at Goodwood only a couple of years ago that Barry Hills had a go at Hughes for perceived foul riding on Strong Suit and made a comment along the lines of "he does it all the time."
 
That was probably a carryover of 'stewardsenquiryspeak', though he clearly wasn't impressed with Buick's tactics - rightfully so, imo.
 
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Can't have it that Buick is a better jockey than Hughes. Hughes didn't do much wrong on Sky Lantern. Goodwood essentially a track that law of averages says you'll be made to look like that at times.
 
Gus

Whatever Barry Hills said, it won't be as funny as Terry Mills' comments after the Tillerman/Where or When Celebration Mile.
 
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