Saturday 2 March 2013

SACRED SUNDAY MARCH 3rd RACING POST 2013. DON'T MISS YOUR RPSUNDAY SPECIAL. RUBY WALSH IN FOCUS. KAUTO STAR LEARNS TO DANCE.

 
 
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
Cheltenham Festival Betting Odds



PAUSE FOR THOUGHT
DAVID ASHFORTH
Saturday's musings from a retired racing enthusiast.

David Ashforth at the Derby Awards 6.12.10
David Ashforth:
twice voted journalist of the year
PICTURE: Dan Abraham

DAVID'S SATURDAY MUSINGS
02.03.2013

 
"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 on Wednesday (I don't suppose you were), you'd have seen the rare sight of an officially white horse - Russe Blanc. White Russian is not only the name of a cocktail but also refers to anti-Bolshevik forces, including supporters of the Russian monarchy, during the civil war following the 1917 Russian revolution. Russe Blanc is by Machiavellian  Tzar. You never know, it might come up in a quiz.
 
 
AN ADVENTURE INTO RUSSIAN HORSERACING PERHAPS?
 
anti-Bolshevik forces

Russian Racehorses?

Russian Racecourses?
 
But do any of these exist?
 
 
 

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 Handler - Rider's Perspective?
 
The Purpose?
 
Russian American Horse Healing Conference September 6-7, 2007
Yaroslavl, Russia
 

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


SECRETARIAT - Heart Of A Champion 1973 USA
 (found to have a huge heart)
 
 
Secretariat A Moment of Eternity 1973
Secretariat dies- various news tributes from 10-04-89 ..

 
 
1981 Grand National at Aintree won by Aldaniti  GB
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 two years ago. It must be "Russe



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 Blanc11, as white as the washing in Persil adverts at the time (Persil washes whiter ... and it shows), won a maiden at Lingfield.

JMC Turfcall Comment Grey's as termed by powers that be, mean every light coloured horse is to be known and referenced as 'grey'. Dark grey yearlings in later life turn to silver white.

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, a famously flashy chestnut and with four white socks. Sea Bird 11, the 1965 Derby winner and arguably the best of all time, was a chestnut with two white socks, and the magnificent Tingle Creek, one of the all-time great two-mile chasers, was another flashy chestnut with a white blaze and four white socks.

 
"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.

 
"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 Robber, for instance, a ten-year-old bay who has never won under rules. At Leicester  on Tuesday Sea Robber unseated Mr G Crow in the hunter chase but then jumped wonderfully well, and straight, and didn't miss a fence. I've never seen a loose horse jump better. Arkle was a bay. My case rests."
 

J Margaret Clarke
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 maybe) (There will be other horses there as well so he won't be lonely.) Paddy Power's plane
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."
 
 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.
 
DAVID'S SATURDAY MUSINGS
02.03.2013
"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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