Newmarket - Saturday

EC1 said:
great call Stan:cool::cool::cool:

Kate slightly unlucky at the start.
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And reportedly finished with a shoe torn off - believed to have happened at the start - and may have been in pain during hte race. If so, it was a very brave performance.
 
Euronymous said:
I'm on Bronze Angel at big prices for the Cambridgeshire. I had a mega rant on here when he didn't get in the Golden Mile because of the way 3yos are conspired against in big handicaps and I took 33s when odds were released for the race before pricewise somewhat ruined the price by selecting him a couple of weeks back. The way he finished in the Britannia from a bad draw having tracked to the far side suggests he's way ahead of the handicapper.
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Top work.
 
Thanks EC. To be honest I had a bad period at the start of the season that coincided with trying to quit smoking. Not a good idea.
 
Gamla Stan said:
sn't Siyouma another case of overpriced French runner? Easy to forgive her run LTO and I can't see her out of the frame myself. Is a lot closer to these on lateral form lines and 9/1 looks very big.
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One of my main angles but I was so one eyed today I didn't even look at the race. Top work.
 
BTW I could have cried when I got back from the course today. Losing a few bob on the Cambridgeshire is one thing, but my main interest today was in taking advantage of another unexpected chance to photograph Frankel in full flight. I had the perfect position down at the 8 pole and have been on tenterhooks all week in anticipation of seeing Sir Henry's mighty colt again. I set the camera to aperture priority and fired a few test shots off before he appeared. Then just as he kicked off and I took my pictures a cloud must have slipped over the sun and my camera metering system automatically dropped the shutter speed from a nice 1/320th to an unsatisfactory 1/180th of a second. I was completely oblivious as I was intent on framing him up. It wasn't until I got home to process the pictures that I realized I'd screwed the whole thing up. What a spanner! :o

This is the best of a poor bunch of pictures. Beautifully framed but not even remotely sharp. I am truly gutted! :(

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Scaramanga said:
BTW I could have cried when I got back from the course today. Losing a few bob on the Cambridgeshire is one thing, but my main interest today was in taking advantage of another unexpected chance to photograph Frankel in full flight. I had the perfect position down at the 8 pole and have been on tenterhooks all week in anticipation of seeing Sir Henry's mighty colt again. I set the camera to aperture priority and fired a few test shots off before he appeared. Then just as he kicked off and I took my pictures a cloud must have slipped over the sun and my camera metering system automatically dropped the shutter speed from a nice 1/320th to an unsatisfactory 1/180th of a second. I was completely oblivious as I was intent on framing him up. It wasn't until I got home to process the pictures that I realized I'd screwed the whole thing up. What a spanner! :o

This is the best of a poor bunch of pictures. Beautifully framed but not even remotely sharp. I am truly gutted! :(

frankel29ath.jpg
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do you use photoshop?...if not i'll have a go at the ones that are underexposed

thats a lovely shot
 
EC1 said:
sorry..you mean they are blurred..got ya
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Yes EC1. They are okay at up to about A4 size, but just not truly sharp on his legs. It's my own fault. I got distracted in talking to a couple of other enthusiasts that were down there to see him and basically fecked it up. :(

I wouldn't mind but he was that close to me as they walked down I could literally have reached out and touched him.

On a positive note Yarmy stopped to have word just prior to him coming down the course and he has offered to get a few of my favourite shots of the horse signed by Sir Henry and Tom Q. So something of a consolation prize. :)

As you can see. If they'd been proper sharp they'd have been nice pictures.

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