RACING POST SUNDAY JANUARY 27th 2013
WEEK MONDAY JANUARY 21st to SUNDAY JANUARY 27th 2013
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DAVID'S SATURDAY MUSINGS
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Today's Horse Racing Cards
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WORLDWIDE STAKES RACES |
| 3:15 | SHO | John B. Connally Turf Cup Stakes (Grade 3) (Turf) 1m1f | ||
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| 8:35 | SHA | Kent & Curwen Centenary Sprint Cup (Group 1) (3yo+) (Turf) 5f |
LEOPARDSTOWN (IRE) ATR |
GOING: Hurdle course - SOFT TO HEAVY (Soft in
places); Chase course - HEAVY (Chases limited to 20) (3.35 transferred from
Saturday; Solerina Mares Hurdle transferred from Fairyhouse) RACING GOES AHEAD.
(Partly cloudy, windy)
SHA TIN (HK) |
GOING: TURF: GOOD.
| 8:35 | Kent & Curwen Centenary Sprint Cup (Group 1) (3yo+) (Turf) 5f |
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SAM HOUSTON (USA) |
| 3:15 | John B. Connally Turf Cup Stakes (Grade 3) (Turf) 1m1f | ||
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| 3:45 | Houston Ladies Classic Stakes (Fillies & Mares) (Dirt) 1m110y |
PAUSE FOR THOUGHT
DAVID ASHFORTH
Saturday's musings from a retired racing enthusiast.
Saturday's musings from a retired racing enthusiast.
David Ashforth:
twice voted journalist of the year
PICTURE: Dan Abraham twice voted journalist of the year
“PONIES eat less and are nearer the ground, making it easier for jockeys to get on.”
Pic:
“Getting ready to crack a walnut in aid of Prostate Cancer UK
Showing
David wielding a huge sledgehammer above a tiny walnut on a table
“IF THE snowman down the road
doesn’t take that silly grin off his face I may have to strangle him with his
own scarf, or eat his nose (it’s a rather nice-looking carrot).
JMC: Racing ponies need the right environment and the
right training, the right handler and the right rider each day throughout training, key,
just the same as Racehorses. The size of the racingpony or the racehorse holds
no advantage. There are quite a few racehorses that are ponies. Eg: Katchitt won many races
including the Champion Hurdle. Speed and ability does not come in sizes.
Confidence
KELLY MARKS
KELLY'S BOOK Perfect Confidence, sets the record straight and yes politicians do need to take notice due to the fact that every day they are shattering the lives of so many British people, who have lost all confidence in this ancient defunct political Rip Off Britain System.. The
annual Cheltenham festival produced another
debate on the use of the whip in horse racing."
Does it have anything to offer
on the question of carrots, sticks, and motivational leadership for humans? Yes, yes, yes.
“When
meetings are being abandoned with such depressing regularity it’s not a
grinning matter and, if things get worse, it may be time to take up virtual racing,
or roulette machines.
“Personally I’d find that
difficult, but might ask Coral if it’s okay for me to stand on one side of the
counter, with an affable member of staff on the other side, and have a bit of a
chat between me handing over £10 notes and her handing back £9.73. Every now
and again I’d be brought a cup of tea and perhaps a chocolate biscuit. I think
it might work . In which case we could move on to the to £20 notes £19.46.
“Failing that, Betfair could set up
a person-to-person system where we take it in turns to do the handing over and
the handing back, online, with Betfair charging a small fee, although I suppose
that’s pretty much what happens already. It might be quite fun , although I’d
still prefer to watch a selling hurdle at Catterick.
“It was clever of Edward Gillespie
to abandon his job at Cheltenham before the
Ice Age set in and, during a period of austerity, it was particularly shrewd of
him to become chairman of the Pony Racing Authority.
“Everything tends to be downsized during
a recession and horses are no exception, Ponies take up less room, eat less and
are nearer the ground, making it easier for jockeys to get on. They are ideal
for shrinking economies. Pony racing is probably all the rage in Athens and there’s every chance of it doing well at Wolverhampton .
“Even so I wonder how much Cheltenham ’s former managing director really knows about
the sport. Does Gillespie realise that, when the Tote made its debut at a
British racecourse at Newmarket on July 2, 1929,
a mechanical tote was already in use at Northolt Park
“In those days they staged pony
races 50 days a year at Northolt, it was the time of the Great Depression and
horses were shrinking. They’ve grown again since.
“Also, does Gillespie know which
trainer made his gambling name under Pony Turf Club rules before winning the
1954 Stewards’ Cup with Ashurst Wonder, at 50-1? It was Less Hall.
“If you’re old, without quite being
dead yet, you may remember Hall. He was a one, which explains why he lost his license, briefly, in 1965.
“Six years earlier, at York Wolverhampton .
“Yesterday, in a shop window in
Holborn, several of us spent the afternoon cracking walnuts with sledgehammers,
proving that, if you do take sledgehammer to crack a nut, there won’t be much
of the nut left, nor of your thumb. I’m not sure it will catch on but Prostate
Cancer UK
“Today at Cheltenham
there will probably be an exhibition of snowmen-building competition for racegoers with a suitable
prize-an enormous tub of vanilla ice cream.
“There may also be some racing. If
so you may like to cast your eye over Quincy Des Pictons, the best horse Alan
Jones has ever trained. Jones is the tall, slim one with a yard with a
reputation for gambles, although not on a scale to match Les Hall. The heavier
the going the better Quincy Des Pictons’ chance of giving Jones, the owner
Stephen Spence, the biggest win of their lives in the Murphy Group Chase.
“That’s the one before the Victor
Chandler Chase , in which Kumbeshwar offers Wayne Hutchinson another chance to demonstrate he’s the best
second – string jockey in the sport.
“Kumbeshwar has a rather better
chance than the 14-year-old Kinkeel, whose connections are ever on the lookout
for big races with extensive prize-money and small fields.
“Kinkeel brings his rating of 64 into battle with
Sprinter Sacre, rated 179, If Sprinter
Sacre is Goliath, Kinkeel is David but smaller. On their form in the Tingle
Creek Chase at Sandown last month Kinkeel has 102 lengths to make up. I think
it might be beyond him.
No, no, no no Sprinter Sacre is not Goliath. As neither is Kinkeel David.
More like BHA bloodhorse illiterate working practices at the top table are Goliath - and Sprinter Sacre - David. Appropriate at present as the BHA , due to their sledgerhammer and walnut attitude to stop trainers, from training their novice chasers properly. To punish them instead. BHA are hell bent to punish all the Novice Chasers, their trainers, their handler riders, their jockeys and their owners. Everone who has achieved true bloodhorse literacy to include the horses and their owners, all are to be severly punished, warned off even for achieving bloodhorse literacy in their own right. The BHA's street is a one way street, their own. Rather like the Medical Profession their street is a one way street, their own as well.
No, no, no no Sprinter Sacre is not Goliath. As neither is Kinkeel David.
More like BHA bloodhorse illiterate working practices at the top table are Goliath - and Sprinter Sacre - David. Appropriate at present as the BHA , due to their sledgerhammer and walnut attitude to stop trainers, from training their novice chasers properly. To punish them instead. BHA are hell bent to punish all the Novice Chasers, their trainers, their handler riders, their jockeys and their owners. Everone who has achieved true bloodhorse literacy to include the horses and their owners, all are to be severly punished, warned off even for achieving bloodhorse literacy in their own right. The BHA's street is a one way street, their own. Rather like the Medical Profession their street is a one way street, their own as well.
“Still, you never know. That
snowman’s stopped grinning.”
More later
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