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Not impressive in her final gallop and failed to sparkle. Encouraging gallop from Fantasia, mind blowing breeze for Serious Attitude.

Expect rapid changes in the betting market this morning.

Chris
 
Rainbow View drifts in 1,000 Guineas market

By Andrew Scutts8.48AM 27 APR 2009
RAINBOW VIEW is out to third favourite for the Stanjames.com 1,000 Guineas on Betfair, drifting to 8-1 on the exchange on Monday morning.

A spokesman for the John Gosden yard confirmed the long-time favourite for the fillies' Classic had exercised this morning.
Fantasia, likewise owned by George Strawbridge, is a shorter price than Rainbow View with Serious Attitude available to back at 5-1.

Forfeits for the Newmarket Classic on Sunday are out on Monday. Fixed odds firm have Rainbow View as the general 5-4 favourite.
 
FAVOURITE Rainbow View went "extremely well" during her penultimate piece of work before Sunday week's Stanjames.com 1,000 Guineas on the Al Bathari polytrack in Newmarket.
The 5-4 favourite for the first fillies' Classic worked over a mile in company with a lead and left her trainer satisfied that he has the George Strawbridge-owned filly exactly where he would want to be with race ten days away.

John Gosden, said: "She went extremely well and I am very happy with her. "
The unbeaten three-year-old had worked on Limekilns short gallop on Sunday morning and will work again before the 1,000 Guineas but Thursday morning would have been one of her most searching tests.

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The graph for Fantasia looks really odd:

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As if somebody kept ensuring that she never got bigger than 10s.

Edit:

Similarly, Rainbow View:

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And now we find out Gosden thinks she went well. Odd.
 
I noticed that as well Gareth; btw the quote from John Gosden was about her previous piece of work, not the one mentioned this morning. Caveat Emptor and all that. Thanks again to Chris, who was certainly very quick off the mark with this news.
 
The Racing Post article online is disappointing to say the least. it refers to her "pleasing work" this morning although the only evidence of this is a quote from Peter Shoemark who presumably was in his office when it happened and clearly not privy to how well she worked at all. The Post employs Tony Elves as a correspondent and appear to have not bothered to contact him regarding the gallop which he surely either witnessed himself or has heard a first hand account of*.



* admittedly, Shoemark may well have had a first hand account of the work too, but it's not his job to provide negative information to the press, especially given the nature of this particular market and the ownership of two of the leading contenders.
 
Turns out Gosden thinks she's fine:

Rainbow View betting 'bizarre', says Gosden

BY ANDREW SCUTTS8.48AM 27 APR 2009

RAINBOW VIEW'S trainer John Gosden on Monday described the betting activity on 1,000 Guineas contender Rainbow View as "completely bizarre" and assured punters that the filly was on target for Sunday's Classic.

Rainbow View drifted out to third favourite for the Stanjames.com 1,000 Guineas on Betfair on Monday morning, reaching a high of 8-1 before regaining favouritism on the exchanges hours later. At 11.45am, her price had contracted again to 2.9.
"Rainbow View worked this morning and worked very well," Gosden said on Monday. "She worked particularly well and I am very happy with her."

Fantasia, like Rainbow View owned by George Strawbridge, was at one point a shorter price than the one-time ante-post favourite at 6-1 but later dirfted to 15-1.

Gosden's racing secretary Peter Shoemark also expressed surprise at the drift, considering Rainbow View's pleasing workout on the Al Bahathri gallop.

"She is fine and worked very well this morning so we don't know where it has come from," said Shoemark.

Forfeits for Sunday's fillies' showpiece are out on Monday.

Fixed odds firms, including sponsors Stan James, suspended betting on the 1,000 Guineas in the face of the drift.

Charlie McCann, head of PR for Stan James, said: "We did not see a great deal of opposition to the filly [Rainbow View] before we suspended, but she is weak on the exchanges and we felt it prudent to suspend betting.

"If there was something seriously wrong with the filly one would have thought that Fantasia, in the same ownership, would come in for strong support but this is not the case."
 
The gallop of this weekend will not have been searching. Her ten day gallop was the big one, where apparently she gave two stone and a six length beating to her companion.
 
SINGLE ACCOUNT BEHIND VIEW DRIFT

A single Betfair account was behind the major drift on Stan James 1000 Guineas favourite Rainbow View on Monday, which temporarily led to the sponsors suspending betting.
The account in question began placing lay bets on Rainbow View at 0452 BST on Monday - at the time the horse was trading at 2.42. They continued to place lay bets at until 0831.
By 0456 Rainbow View was trading at 5.0, at 0623 the price hit 7.0 and seconds later she traded at 10.0 for the first time.
Between 0630 and 0832 John Gosden's charge traded at between 3.0 and 10.0.
The account in question stopped placing bets at 0832 and since then Rainbow View's price has gradually contracted back down and at midday she was trading at 2.78.
During the early-morning betting on Betfair, £8,114 (£4,057 backed; £4,057 laid) was traded on Rainbow View.
 
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