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QIPCO British Champions Day

Surprised Ombudsman is now as big as 2/1, he is the class act in the field and comfortably beat Delacroix last time on worse terms than he will be here.

I can't get on board with the Calandagan hype either , couldn't win a weaker renewal of this race last year and even this season lost to Jan Brueghel and Danon Decile who are nothing special. The form in beating Kalpana has hardly worked out either.

The rest of the field look miles behind.

Ombudsman still seems to be underrated for some strange reason and 2/1 looks huge to me . He actually looks the best bet of the entire card in my view and is the only horse really that has no questions to answer .
 
He used the phrase 'the son of Roaring Line'. If you want to spot a fraud in racing, look for this kind of filler to pad the word count.
 
Slim said:
He used the phrase 'the son of Roaring Line'. If you want to spot a fraud in racing, look for this kind of filler to pad the word count.
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Back in the 80s, when I first got involved in all that malarkey, the school of thinking was that mentioning a horse's name repeatedly would grate on the reader so use euphemisms that convey extra info instead.

So Shergar would become the son of Great Nephew in the second sentence, Michael Stoute's charge in the third, the colt in the fourth and the 3yo in the fifth, then maybe Shergar again in the sixth in case the bewildered reader had by then lost the trick of who they were on about.

Ex Timeform Graham Dench, one of the more genuinely knowledgeable of the Racing Post's original staff imo, reckoned that was all dated cliched nonsense and insisted on calling a horse by its actual name.

I thought you'd enjoy reading all that, so no need to thank me.

Dench was alright imo - and he never wore a tie I resented, in fact I can't remember ever seeing him in a tie at all.
 
Truncheon said:
Luckily we have the 2yr old race first to get an angle on the ground conditions
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I see they've changed the running order - the Long Distance Cup now retains its position as the opening race and the 128 large non-Pattern 2yo contest with Group 1 conditions is second in.
 
Ian_Davies said:
Back in the 80s, when I first got involved in all that malarkey, the school of thinking was that mentioning a horse's name repeatedly would grate on the reader so use euphemisms that convey extra info instead.

So Shergar would become the son of Great Nephew in the second sentence, Michael Stoute's charge in the third, the colt in the fourth and the 3yo in the fifth, then maybe Shergar again in the sixth in case the bewildered reader had by then lost the trick of who they were on about.

Ex Timeform Graham Dench, one of the more genuinely knowledgeable of the Racing Post's original staff imo, reckoned that was all dated cliched nonsense and insisted on calling a horse by its actual name.

I thought you'd enjoy reading all that, so no need to thank me.

Dench was alright imo - and he never wore a tie I resented, in fact I can't remember ever seeing him in a tie at all.
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Good story, but a bit disappointing you didn’t back a winner somewhere in the ’80s.
 
Final declarations made, as this is Slim's (sponsor's name-riddled) thread I am assuming all discussion about trying to gauge any draw advantage on the Ascot straight course is verboten, Arisaig runs, the excitement mounts!
 
Arisaig is well drawn in 4 and is as low as 8s.
Absolutely gutted that Oliver show is drawn 2f2.
In the last 10 yrs only Escobar won from a draw higher than 11.
Billy the kid will need a lot of luck.

O'Mearas 3 are all well drawn 3,5,6
 

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