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Good racing on both sides of the Irish sea today. Great to have the National fences back and having taken 14/1 about Palypso De Creek earlier in the week it's pleasing to see the race cut up as much as it has.

Howard Johnson has a decent record over the big fences - all his horses to run over them seem to be very well schooled and take to them like a duck to water regardless of previous form. Frankie Figg was running a blinder in the Topham when over-jumping and coming down at Bechers Brook second time around and although higher in the weights this time around he's also in better form. It's hard to make a major case for Royal Rosa but he runs off a lightweight, will have improved for his seasonal reappearance and is sure to run a race if they've sorted out his problems.

Troytown day in Ireland and the lightly weighted Glenquin Castle who ran a career best behind facile winner Our Monty last weekend over 3m 4f appears to be good value at 16/1 - relative to the rise that the winner from last weekend 6lb looks pretty lenient and on ground he will appreciate and with little weight on his back he's capable of going well.



Martin
 
Nice card at Navan.


difficult races.



Sports Lines race looks an interesting one.


Judge Roy Bean , has the form but different distance and didnt look a horse to trust last season.



In the troytown

short list:
Treacle 152p
Selection Box 153p
Bella Mana 156+
Away We Go 153P
Casey Supr 147++


in the hcp hdl
Bobs Display looks solid.
 
The two today are Cadspeed at 5-2 and For Bill will be very hard to beat and 3-1 is worth taking.
 
I'll be having an each way bet on Blazing Tempo in the bumper, fancied by her trainer to run a big race at 16/1.
 
Solstice Knight should not be dismissed lightly in the 2m beginners chase at Navan, and I like Bella Mana Mou in the Troytown.
 
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I love Sportsline as a long term prospect, but Grasshopper is right to respect Solstice Knight who is sure to strip fitter than the Mullins horse first time out.
 
It was a grand day's jumping the other side of the water, too, at Auteuil. Martin, I'm surprised - nay, shocked - that you didn't put up a thread on this! Excellent prize money, from £23K to the mid 70s, with nary an Irish or British beast contesting a single race. Paul Carberry, Esq. saw fit to ride QUELLO in the last, and won it, which presumably paid for a Roederer-filled weekend. Otherwise, what are 'our' trainers thinking of? Superb prizes and races well within the grasp of Irish and British nags, but nahhh - is it a lack of thought, a lack of initiative, or just a lack of interest in at least trying to collar some decent prizes for their owners? Or are the French horses so much better than ours and Ireland's, that everyone's afraid to expose their failings by tilting at the French races?
 
I don't think it's that they're better neccessarily Kri but if you have a soft ground horse over here and it's capable of running in France then IMO it's silly to keep running for 5 or 6k here when you can run for 30k over there.

It is indeed Phillip Carberry who rides in France (primarily for the trainer Francois Cottin and the owner Jean-Paul Senechal). Some trainers are IMO missing a trick with regards the prize money levels and in some cases the relative uncompetitiveness of the races compared to the prize money.

Jumbo Rio IIRC copped roughly £180,000 in prize money from his three runs in France in 2009, and he didn't win any of them (three 2nds).

Princesse D'Anjou was scratched from the big one Kri which went to outsider Royal Penny. The ex-Howard Johnson horse General Ledger contested the main hurdle race on the card after running 2nd in the Far Hills Grand National in the US in late October.

I guess our trainers will target the races they think they can win Kri - even some of the horses likely to be imported in the not too distant future are running over there for a while and then coming to the UK. The McManus owned Rock Noir and Michael Buckley's Surfing are the two most prominent examples.
 
J'ai suis tout contrite, mon cher Colin, she wrote in Francaise parfait. Phillip it be.

We are in total accord, it would seem, cher IS. French jumps horses must be better than the vast majority of UK and Irish ones, since neither country's trainers see fit to make raids on what should be relatively easy races for them to plunder. It's like sending British Flat horses to the USA - a quick couple of wins or even places, and they return with more dosh for those than a two-year slog round the Polytrack here. Utterly absurd, if not downright insulting, differences in prize money.
 
sunybay said:
in the hcp hdl
Bobs Display looks solid.
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I wouldn't lose faith in her after that run. Colm was extremely worried before the race about the ground. She goes through a little give but it was very testing on Sunday. Townend did the right thing pulling her up and she was supposed to be in great form after the race so she should bounce back when the current wet spell passes over.
 
Gareth - it works out much better if they stay there for a year or two, of course, but if you have a live wire, like Songsheet's MONSIEUR BOULANGER, and could afford to send a few like him over, your outgoings would soon be covered. Better still to send them for longer-term training there after a few wins here. MB runs in just two races in the US scooped over $100,000 for doing so. The maths stacks up when you send them over, win something like that and more, then sell them on in the US.
 
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