MONDAY JANUARY 28th RACING POST 2013. LEOPARDSTOWN YESTERDAY TEAM MULLINS SCORE WITH HURRICANE FLY.

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RACING POST MONDAY JANUARY 28th 2013

WEEK MONDAY JANUARY 28th to SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3rd  2013
 

REVIEW YESTERDAY'S RESULTS

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PREVIEW TODAY'S CARDS

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REVIEW LEOPARDSTOWN YESTERDAY

1.55: BHP Insurance Irish Champion Hurdle (Grade 1) 8 hurdles 2m winner e71,500  

WIN: /131-11 HURRICANE FLY 9 11-10 partner RUBY WALSH handler presenter
 GAIL CARLISLE trainer Willie Mullins for George Creighton and Rose Boyd. 5 lengths at
 1-6f  going Heavy. RP rating 177  This race run in gale- force wind, driving rain and snow. HURRICANE FLY battled bravely through all that to lead unchallenged to win by 5 lengths.

 

Mullins said: "He was very good and is right back to his very best. If we can keep him in the same sort of form for Cheltenham, then I'll be very happy. He took off turning into the straight as if he'd just jumped into the race." Ruby Walsh confirmed "The Hurricane was very good today and I was very impressed. He did everything I asked of him and he won as he liked."

SO MANY QUESTIONS ... "Jurors including Istabraq's jockey Charley Swan tackle the weekend's big issues Monday Jury, page 6

EQUUS ZONE  a must read

MARTIN KEIGHLEY (licensed jumps trainer) who has learned his trade well from a master tutor talks to Julian Muscat.

"Duke's influence pays off royally for devoted pupil.

 

"Some people are anxious to escape the overbearing shadow of a famous mentor, but Martin Keighley is not among them. He will always be happy to have spent his youth  within the paternal embrace of David Nicholson.

"Mere mention of the Duke, as Nicholson was known, prompts Keighley to lower his voice in respect of a trainer who was champion for two seasons  to 1995. It's as if Nicholson, who died more than six years ago, was about to rise up and berate Keighley one more time.....

 

JMC: If one is fortunate enough in life to have a mentor as David Nicholson, is something else. Something else like calling racehorses giants. Racehorses are not giants of course.  But they are something else. Something  inexplicably beyond the every day living experience of most people. At Royal Ascot, the Grand National and the Derby we observe huge crowds of people, most of whom will never pic up on any of this, their perception perspective being a day off, a day out at the races, end of story.

 

 

But this perspective should not be end of story, it should be the beginning of a far greater adventure story. A true story beyond all belief to most people. Frankie Dettori knows this true story and has lived his life every day within this environment, giving billions of people worldwide a wonderful day out at the races. Frankie describes his life so far as "one big roller coaster ride."  An amazing, an inexplicably amazing rollercoaster ride shared with racehorses in training, that have taken him to compete on racecourses all over the world.