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The 2025 Newmarket July Meeting

I wish they'd stop filming the races with bloody worm's eye view or from a car racing alongside.

All this 'scene making' is there to make the race look 'exciting' to the non-officianados. Anyone else who's interested in how the race is panning out doesn't need or want those views in any way. I want to see the whole field in able to assess who's travelling, who isn't, how the jockey's hands are looking etc.

And again, all this doing close ups in the final furlong is just absolute dog- s***. We want to see not only who's winning but what is happening with the rest of the field as they end the race.

Stop with the 'glamour shots' and give us our racing backs, you t***s.
 
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The fav should win that but I tracked Shine on Me from the Queen Mary and I've got 9/2 without VS at Hills.

Also bet Regalian in the opener at double figures each way
 
Dingo Bingo said:
I stopped listening years ago. Same old 20 - 25 expressions churned out over and over post race. I get that in the top class races there might be a clarification that a horse is now going to be aimed at X race, so handy for antepost wager. Apart from that, it all seems a bit pointless.


As for the race commentry, I don't have the audio on for that either. Very distracting, "and just in behind is X with the big white face", now tell me you didn't look at the big white face, or "the purple colours on the outside" etc etc. The commentry has your eyes moving all over the place. No audio and you absorb so much more, narow it down to 3 - 6 horses going well and soak most of it up. It's all done for 'thrilling entertainment'.
I also recall a few years back noticing the thunder of hooves audio being added, someone in audio had messed up, the horses had crossed the line, some were close to walking, yet the audio was still playing as if it were a cavalry charge with 16 of them doing 40mph inside the final furlong.

Silence is golden.
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OMG, a man after my own heart!

💯% THIS!^ 😂👍
 
I left the Falmouth alone but have mixed feelings about the result.

I thought CA might confirm the form but CD beat me for a fair amount that day at Ascot as I had her in a win treble with True Love and Charles Darwin.

Still, I'm a big fan of Godolphin/Appleby/Buick and they're in storming form this week.
 
Looking ahead to Saturday - I like Run Boy Run EW at around 9 or 10/1 in the Bunbury Cup with most firms paying 4 Places. I also like Secret Theory EW in the 3.25 at 8/1 with Ladbrokes and Coral paying 3 Places with only the seven runners due to go to post.
 
Desert Orchid said:
Still, I'm a big fan of Godolphin/Appleby/Buick and they're in storming form this week.
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Here's one of Mountys breakdowns for super Saturday.

Be wary of backing riders claiming an allowance in non-apprentice races on “Super Saturday”
Back William Buick’s rides for Charlie Appleby at Newmarket
Back Andrew Mullen’s rides at Hamilton
Consider backing Callum Hutchinson, Hector Crouch, Jack Mitchell and Sean Levey

William Buick has often been the star of “Super Saturday” which is no great surprise given that he has the might of the Godolphin operation behind him. Backing his “Super Saturday” rides for Charlie Appleby at Newmarket only would have found 11 winners from 25 bets for a profit of £27.25 to a £1 level stake at SP (+£35.01 at Betfair SP). Jack Mitchell and Roger Varian are four from nine (+£12.25 at SP, +£13.03 at BSP) when joining forcing on “Super Saturday”, while Sean Levey is four from 14 for Richard Hannon (+£21.07 at SP, +£38.85 at BSP).
 
Day Three:

Venetian Sun must have cost Bet365 plenty. She’s so physically imposing you have to wonder if she’ll keep that advantage or if the others will catch her up. Royal Fixation made her work a bit and looks pretty good - the two of them left the rest for dead.

When VENETIAN SUN cruised to the front, she went a couple of lengths clear and thought it was all over. Ed's [Walker] horse quickened up nicely and Cliff [Lee] just said Venetian Sun was just dossing a bit in front. She is a filly a bit like that as she's so laidback and I also think the ground was on the quick side for her today. She is a very high-class filly. I think the Lowther would be out for her now as she has won a Group Two. She is in the Prix Morny and we'll have a look at that but we are very keen to step up to seven furlongs in the Moyglare. Her pedigree says she is more a miler at least and a three-year-old. She's a very mature filly with a great engine. I think she can be better on better ground and over a trip. She relaxes so well in behind. I think racing against the very best horses will bring out the best in her - Karl Burke, trainer.

Real Dream surprised me again running well in third and I’m thinking I must have got him wrong. I was pleased with Endless Victory who ran a good race and was a clear second - being pleased doesn’t add to the account, though.

Just the two notebooks at Newmarket today:

2:50 More Thunder, I think he would have made it a hat-trick last time by winning the Wokingham. As it is, it makes it three pounds harder for him today and he should cope with that - “21/6 a furlong out and he had a dozen or more horses ahead of him. He finished like an express train to go down by a head, not helped by TM trying to untangle his whip from the reins over the last fifty yards or so. Made the difference, I think.”

4:35 Inisherin, went into the book after his win in the Duke of York - “14/5 that was some performance since he was reportedly short of work . The win can be marked up.”. Subsequently, though, he was a flop in the QE II Jubilee at Royal Ascot and he’s not that reliable. Maybe first time headgear will work, but he’s drifted a bit overnight. I should leave him alone, really. (Particularly as I quite fancy Believing for it)
 
Nearly gave me a heart attack did that. More Thunder was behind an inch from the line and behind an inch after it, but where it mattered he was a nostril hair in front. Phew! I’d taken 13/8 last night which was uncomfortably short, but I didn’t add today because the price became silly for a race like this.

Inisherin was withdrawn because the vets “saw blood” as he was about to be re-shod. Kevin Ryan wasn’t a happy bunny since Inisherin trotted up sound and so taxed the stewards. They just passed the buck and told him to refer to the BHA. That just left me with Believing who ran a decent fourth and a groat of place money.
 
Euronymous said:
Zayer in third stepping up in trip went up no pounds despite covering a fair amount of extra ground in going from the nearside to not that far off the other side and becoming unbalanced to boot at one stage. He's got a nice race in him.
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I've been following Zaher for a while now.ive took 33 /1 stewards Cup.in my stewfolio.
 

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