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Hamm

Hamm

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Does anyone know the dates these were published in the RP for the main trainers? Or where I can buy/read these (doesn't have to be RP).

Much appreciated,
Andrew
 
If you have one of the racingpost website membership packages you can see a list of all runners for each day which have had a stable tours comment (and the comment itself).

I'm seeing comments for McCain runners today (dated 10th Oct) so looks like this seasons are already filtering through
 
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Anyway I could read the full McCain one from October 10th? They really don't advertise them well enough if that's when his one. I am pissed off.
 
i get it everyday and believe me they havnt started yet they normally advertise them a week in advance at a guess the Rp Trophy is next weekend (so that will be their concentration past winners ....) so they will start them the week after
 
You can save yourselves money by adopting the following procedure.

Prepare several dozen strips of paper and divide them into four separate piles, one for newcomers, one for hurdlers, one for chasers and finally a smaller pile for stable stars. The number of strips in each pile should correspond to the number of horses in the stable coming into that category.

On the newcomer slips you write phrases such as "We found him in a field in Ireland", "he is still a big baby", "he is coming along nicely at home", "we hope to find a nice little race for him somewhere", "he is showing plenty of promise but it's still early days", "he had a little setback but we should see him out later in the season"...

The hurdlers one has gems such as "anything he does before he goes chasing will be a bonus", "he's come back in great heart from his summer break", "he will need to sharpen his technique", "I'm sure there's a good race in him", "there's a good race in him if we can catch him right", etc.

You should have the idea by now.

Now draw one of the slips at random and match it, again by random procedure, with the name of one of the stable inmates in the appropriate category. Repeat this procedure till no papers are left. And bob's your uncle.
 
Grey, I'm not interested in what a trainer thinks of them.

I am very interested in what the plan for their campaign is; for example, Simonsig, does he go chasing or hurdling. Oscar Whisky, Champion Hurdle? Etc etc
 
Love it.

There will also be comments along the line of.

"He's coming on really well, we like him, he could be a cheltenham horse" - They don't have an owner for him yet.

"He's been a bit disappointing,he's a bit of a monkey, he might win a small race somewhere some day"
This lad has 35lbs in hand but I'm hardly going to tell you suckers, he will pay for my retirement .

"We've entered him for the (insert race) and I wouldn't put anyone off having a bet, he has a chance "
He's already 4/6 fav in a 24 runner handicap. He might win, he might not. I'm just throwing the dogs a bone.
 
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We are going to take our time with him - that means to run him half fit over the wrong trip and ground and have it right off when we go handicapping.

He's shown us a lot more at home that he has on the racecourse - Horse is brutal but I've sold him to his current owner for the price of a reasonably sized African country and hoping to get one more touch out of said owner before he realises what's going on.

He is a horse without a trip and we are uncertain what his ground preference is - either means 1) I have made a complete bollicks of the horse and he's handicapped up to his gazoo or 2) in trying to handicap him we have completely confused the poor beast and ourselves and really don't have a clue what we are at or how to place a horse.
 
"He's had a slight setback, and it will be Christmas before he's ready" equals "He's out for season, but it's only fair to let the lads in the yard lay him right up to the January Trials meeting"
 
We feel he's right back to where he was before he got injured, he's ready to run soon - Owner is a pleb - got two more years training fees out of the fool - we will enter and declare him liberally over the next four months while he out hobbling around a field on three wheels.
 
For our flat friends - He was never going to a 2yo anyway - translates as he's as slow as a leaking boat, the next time he gets in a horse trailer it will be headed for the factory
 
A friend of mine told me to never buy a "big, chasing type" - it'll be slow and take you three years to realise it's useless.
 
Grey said:
You can save yourselves money by adopting the following procedure.

Prepare several dozen strips of paper and divide them into four separate piles, one for newcomers, one for hurdlers, one for chasers and finally a smaller pile for stable stars. The number of strips in each pile should correspond to the number of horses in the stable coming into that category.

On the newcomer slips you write phrases such as "We found him in a field in Ireland", "he is still a big baby", "he is coming along nicely at home", "we hope to find a nice little race for him somewhere", "he is showing plenty of promise but it's still early days", "he had a little setback but we should see him out later in the season"...

The hurdlers one has gems such as "anything he does before he goes chasing will be a bonus", "he's come back in great heart from his summer break", "he will need to sharpen his technique", "I'm sure there's a good race in him", "there's a good race in him if we can catch him right", etc.

You should have the idea by now.

Now draw one of the slips at random and match it, again by random procedure, with the name of one of the stable inmates in the appropriate category. Repeat this procedure till no papers are left. And bob's your uncle.
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Great stuff. Was going to post something similar but in no way as detailed or amusing.
 
On The Bridle said:
We feel he's right back to where he was before he got injured, he's ready to run soon - Owner is a pleb - got two more years training fees out of the fool - we will enter and declare him liberally over the next four months while he out hobbling around a field on three wheels.
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An improvement on: "The poor bugger fell off the ramp as we were unloading him from the sales and broke a leg, but the owner never visits, so we'll keep giving him entries and see what happens."
 
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