For a Saturday that looked as if wallet carnage could be a possibility, things didn’t turn out too badly, in the end. I was right to doubt if I’d get a single winner – I didn’t. However, three places (14/1, 16/1, 12/1) provided a nice return so, all in all, not bad.
I thought Global Skies was interesting. The commentary says ‘Slowly away, always behind’ but that’s not the whole story. The jockey definitely took a pull out of the stalls: quite different mood to ‘Slowly away’, in my opinion and although you could say that ‘Always behind’ was technically correct, I would prefer to say ‘ Steadied at start, held up, progress into home straight, outpaced, late progress, never nearer’.
My caveat about Base Note and the AW form was pertinent; he never travelled a yard on the turf and seemed to hate it from the off; a chance worth taking, though.
The Swinton was a strange one; not often we see a runaway winner like that. Gin Loco was just not good enough on the day. I shall be keeping an eye on Global Skies, for sure so I’m not forlorn about that one. He was staying on but the race was run at a dawdling pace, really and I’d like to see GS tried over 10f again but with pace in the race. I'm pleased to say that the day provided me with two or three for the notebook so good job.
Racing today does not inspire me one iota especially when the sun has got its hat on. The cats are in the garden so I’ll join them and do some Italian revision. Lesson tomorrow or ‘domani, as they say.
Arrivaderci.
I thought Global Skies was interesting. The commentary says ‘Slowly away, always behind’ but that’s not the whole story. The jockey definitely took a pull out of the stalls: quite different mood to ‘Slowly away’, in my opinion and although you could say that ‘Always behind’ was technically correct, I would prefer to say ‘ Steadied at start, held up, progress into home straight, outpaced, late progress, never nearer’.
My caveat about Base Note and the AW form was pertinent; he never travelled a yard on the turf and seemed to hate it from the off; a chance worth taking, though.
The Swinton was a strange one; not often we see a runaway winner like that. Gin Loco was just not good enough on the day. I shall be keeping an eye on Global Skies, for sure so I’m not forlorn about that one. He was staying on but the race was run at a dawdling pace, really and I’d like to see GS tried over 10f again but with pace in the race. I'm pleased to say that the day provided me with two or three for the notebook so good job.
Racing today does not inspire me one iota especially when the sun has got its hat on. The cats are in the garden so I’ll join them and do some Italian revision. Lesson tomorrow or ‘domani, as they say.
Arrivaderci.
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