RACING POST SUNDAY MARCH 3rd 2013
WEEK MONDAY FEBRUARY 25th TO SUNDAY MARCH 3rd 2013
RACING REVIEW YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Paul Nicholls Team four winners yesterday
Willie Mullins Team two winners yesterday
PREVIEW TODAY'S CARDS
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TODAY'S RACING REVIEW OF YESTERDAY'S ACTION
http://turfcallmorningline.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/sacred-sunday-ch4-review-of-yesterdays.html
YESTERDAY's CH4 MORNING LINE PREVIEW
Equus Zone meet up with Punters Zone in Theory and in Practice
http://turfcallmorningline.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/saturfay-march-2nd-ch4-morning-line.html
RACING POST NEWS
http://www.racingpost.com/news/live.sd
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL 2013
PUNTERS ZONE IN THEORY MEET UP WITH EQUUS ZONE IN PRACTICE
Tuesday March 12 to Friday March 15
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
"Colour
code a grey area when it comes to predicting greatness".
Pic:
" Pancake: has been running flat since winning last year."
Perhaps Pancake needs a holiday badly same as Paddy Powers horse?
"RACING'S
not all black or white - most of it's a rather monotonous bay colour - but if
you were at Chepstow last Saturday, or Bangor
AN ADVENTURE INTO RUSSIAN HORSERACING PERHAPS?
anti-Bolshevik forces
Russian Racehorses?
Russian Racecourses?
But do any of these exist?
- Kazan,
- Tatarstan
- Moscow
- Naberezhnye Chelny,
- Tatarstan
- Rostov-na-Donu
- Samara
- Ufa
- Doesn't look like it ...
Racecourses around the world
Taking a closer look at other Countries racecourses.
Environment - Perspective - Clues
Context Who's Context?
The Horses Perspective?
The Trainers Perspective?
The Owners Perspective?
The Trainers Perspective?
The Owners Perspective?
The Handler - Rider's Perspective?
The Purpose?
Russian American Horse Healing Conference September
6-7, 2007
Silver White
Bill Nack on Secretariat. Part 1/4: The early years
Bill Nack on Secretariat " A 6 million dollar horse had run like a
goat".
Bill Nack on Secretariat. Part 2/4: The Triple Crown
Bill Nack on Secretariat. Part 3/4: Death of a great horse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIFqnzgqR0
Bill Nack on Secretariat. Part 4/4: The legacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SAItjrSmcU
Bill Nack on Secretariat. Part 4/4: The legacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SAItjrSmcU
(found to have a huge heart)
Secretariat A Moment of Eternity 1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=6zHvR7K1btQ&NR=1
Secretariat God's Amazing Creation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnVgJK3lzts&NR=1&feature=endscreen
Secretariat God's Amazing Creation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnVgJK3lzts&NR=1&feature=endscreen
Secretariat dies- various news tributes from 10-04-89 ..
1981 Grand National at Aintree won by Aldaniti GB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfeveHOqUMI
Bob Champion recalls This Is Your Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDjlt52yg8
Champions 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s63_wYtohY4
Bob Champion recalls This Is Your Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDjlt52yg8
Champions 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s63_wYtohY4
One of the greatest true stories of all time
Phar Lap (Film 1982) Australia
(found to have a huge heart)
"The
Whites fought the Red Army and lost, as did Russe Blanc at Chepstow and Bangor , although he
did win a bumper in the mud at Warwick
Blanc's granddam was Blanche Fleur (White Flower), whose sire was Mont Blanc 11, which brings back memories. In 1966, as you'll remember, there was quite a stir when Mont Blanc 11, as white as the washing in Persil adverts at the time (Persil washes whiter ... and it shows), won a maiden at Lingfield.
The
silvery white (grey) horse SIMONSIG hitting the headlines at present for all
the right reasons. Due to challenge for the Racing Post Arkle Novices' Chase at
the Cheltenham Festival Day 1 Tuesday March 12 Race 2. Many truly great
photographs captured on film by Champion Racing Post Photographer Edward
Whitaker. As published in the Post today Monday ( 04.03.13).
David continues:
"It's
been an interesting time on the colour front. Last year Modern Society raised
eyebrows, scratched heads and provoked a storm of tut-tuts (I'm speculating) by
appearing wearing skewbald colours. Have
you ever seen another thoroughbred racehorse officially described as 'sk'? The
answer is, no, you haven't. Modern Society ran three times but not very fast.
You can't when you're the wrong colour.
"Flashy
chestnuts with white socks used to be regarded with suspicion, hence the
saying, 'One white sock, buy him. Two white socks, try him. Three white socks,
keep him not a day, Four white socks, send him far away'.
"Whoever
made that up would have got rid of an awful lot of Classic winners, including
The Minstrel, winner of the 1977 Derby Derby
"A
lot of people would have tossed out Pancake. Chestnut, with a white blaze, four
very long white socks and a white belly, Pancake proved there is no colour bar
in racing by winning four times for Philip Hobbs. Last year he won again, for
Bernard Llewellyn, but has been running as flat as one (sorry, couldn't stop
myself) since.
"Sir
Michael Stoute once said (at least I think he did) he preferred horses with
small heads. Sir Michael has done quite well as a trainer (25 British and Irish
Classics, ten-time champion trainer, etc, etc,) but he's surely wrongheaded
about heads. Granted, too much brain might be a bad thing in a racehorse but a
small head makes a horse look flighty and a bit, well, brainless.
"On
the other hand, a big head while tending to conjure up images of carthorses,
has an air of honest, if rather clumsy and plodding, endevour about it.
"THE
beau ideal of the big head was The Dickler. The 1973 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner
had a big head, with a big white blaze , and a big body. If Stoute is at one
end of the spectrum, head-wise, the late Fulke Walwyn, The Dickler's trainer,
and Captain Tim Foster must have been at the other end.
"
When Foster's Ben Nevis won the Grand
National, he did it with a big head and a white blaze. Did Dublin Flyer,
another of Foster's popular stars, have a small refined head? No he didn't.
Would Foster have given stable room to a blue- blooded, small-headed
thoroughbred, of the Stoute variety? No.
"Greys
are different, whatever size their heads. There is something about them that
makes us feel that they are genuine sorts, with a touch of flair. We loved
Desert Orchid, and One Man, and Grey Abbey, and the just retired Nacarat. All
of them were good jumpers and, to add to their appeal, greys are easy to pick
out, except in those races where a horse has to be grey to qualify. We love SIMONSIG, we love his colour (Silver White) will he win the Arkle Novices' Chase on Tuesday March 12th yes, yes, yes. What do you think? What does the bloodhorse literate (Equus Zone) term 'novice' mean exactly? Clue, a learner ....
an equine university student.
an equine university student.
"Greys
are a bit like people-their hair gets whiter as they get older - but they
remain officially grey. There don't seem to be any white horses running today,
or skewbalds, but there are some greys and lots of bays. There is, yes yes yes, the silver white SIMONSIG a fabulous horse, a superstar in the making with Team Henderson. Seven Barrows Lambourn.
"Bays
are all right. Take
Sea Tuesday
Sea
J Margaret Clarke
Turfcall Comment
Turfcall Comment
PAUSE FOR THOUGH
PADDY POWER'S HORSE AGAIN, ADVERT ON SAME PAGE:
Paddy Power's horse, a bay, is flying PP with his shades on, at last
Paddy has twigged that his horse needs a holiday, and is sending him off to
warmer climes to refresh. (Dubai
however is an army plane, not too good for Paddy's horse, looks like Paddy is taking his horse into a War Zone. No, no no surely not?
however is an army plane, not too good for Paddy's horse, looks like Paddy is taking his horse into a War Zone. No, no no surely not?
Yes, yes, yes, Paddy we hear you.
Hope the plane doesn't hit a Hurricane force wind before your gorgeous horse's
Fly-ght touches down. (nice one, or not as the case maybe) Humour. Who's? The ability
to make people laugh is not at all easy. What will make some laugh, may not
make everyone laugh ....... (I digress) (Sorry)
NORMAN THELWELL
3rd May 1923 - 7th February 2004
Norman said "With drawing the answer was always there in front of you,
you only had to look."
you only had to look."
http://www.thelwell.org.uk/images/ponies/pages/Ponies5.htm
JMC says "In equus practice, a yearling, two year old has much to learn before he ever reaches a racecourse he learns through his daily handler rider,
or not as the case may be. Directly a good experienced jockey gets the leg up on that two year old, on a racecourse to actually take part in a race, that jockey will know fast how he is being trained, and how much he knows, by the ride that two year old, gives that jockey, the answer is there under that jockey straight away.
JMC says "In equus practice, a yearling, two year old has much to learn before he ever reaches a racecourse he learns through his daily handler rider,
or not as the case may be. Directly a good experienced jockey gets the leg up on that two year old, on a racecourse to actually take part in a race, that jockey will know fast how he is being trained, and how much he knows, by the ride that two year old, gives that jockey, the answer is there under that jockey straight away.
"Colour code a grey area when it comes to predicting greatness".
Pic: " Pancake: has been running flat since winning last year."
How can anyone predict greatness? By observing, taking a closer look at how a racehorse is bred and by whom. How a horse moves is key. In whose hands a racehorse is placed is key.
By observing, the owners colours, not so much the colour of the horse. By observing who the trainer is. By observing the empathy between the minder, handler presenter working with the horse every day.
Grand National Winners 1981
Aldaniti and Bob Champion
One of the greatest true stories of all time.
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