Sunday, 16 February 2014

MONDAY FEBRUARY 17th RACING POST 2014. REVIEW OF THIS WEEKEND'S HORSERACING ACTION. THE MONDAY JURY.



 
MONDAY FEBRUARY 17th  RACING POST 2014
WEEK MONDAY FEBRUARY 17th TO SUNDAY FEBRUARY 23rs
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  PREVIEW TODAY'S EQUUS CARDS 
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 CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL 2014
TUESDAY MARCH 11th TO FRIDAY MARCH 14th
CH4 LIVE COVERAGE 22 DAYS TO GO 
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RACES ... ENTRIES ... DAYS



THE  MONDAY JURY

RUBY WALSH  and PHILIP HOBBS
 STAR
 page 4


Get more vital Equus Cheltenham Festival Clues
  today in your Racing Post





The Andrew Marr Show -
 16/02/2014

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03wc5qk/The_Andrew_Marr_Show_16_02_2014/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0080bbs

 


EQUUS ZONE
 
BRYAN COOPER
Every Sunday in your Racing Post
 (page  6 yesterday)

RACING POST LEADING JOCKEY'S SUNDAY COLUMN
EVERY SUNDAY FEBRUARY 16th 2014
 
How to weigh-up the clues 

PREVIEW.  ACTUAL RACE PERFORMANCE.  REVIEW.

Today's Rides
Preview Clues ...  and yet even more ..... Preview Clues ....
Who's clues will you choose to follow?
 
PREVIEW PERSPECTIVE
Equus Zone British Horseracing Novice Chase Jumps Turf (12 chase = big fences)
 
 CONTEXT
A Novice Chase over 2m 1f. Weights for Age. 5 ran
CH4 Tanya Stevenson (Punters Zone) if calling (she wasn't) this race she would have given us  the stats and market mover previews which would have been interesting. Bright New Dawn won at 5-4f.
 
AN EQUUS PREVIEW GIVEN HERE
Preview  given here by Bright New Dawn's  partner to be  Bryan Cooper

NOVICE means a racehorse learning how to race and to jump the big chase fences in a race with other racehorses all around him.
 
Bryan Cooper "Just one mount at Navan  but chance to shine aboard New Dawn"

Bryan Cooper "I KNOW there will be plenty of people anxious to take on Bright New Dawn in the Flyingbolt Novice Chase (3.10) at Navan but I wouldn't be so quick to write him off .
 

Bryan Cooper "He faced a big challenge  giving  11lb to Djakadam at Leopardstown last time and some people think Willie Mullins' novice could be a Gold Cup horse in time.  Djakadam was impressive that day and perhaps time will show we faced a huge task to give him weight and the race had an egg-and-spoon feel about it as the pace was stop-start.

"Today will be a totally different contest  and two miles around Navan cound bring out the best in Bright New Dawn. He handles the ground and can roll away and make good use of himself. "

 

ACTUAL  EQUUS   RACE  PERFORMANCE
NAVAN (IRE) Sacred Sunday February 16th 2014
 


 CONTEXT  REVIEW
 
ANALYSIS  "Dawn shines Brightest paying a compliment to his Leopardstown conqueror  Djakadam, BRIGHT NEW DAWN appreciated the reversion to this distance with a performance that ought to shut up some of his doubters.

 
"The pace was good throughout, these two fine jumpers disputing at various stages. Six out, MALLOWNEY (2nd) was notably better but BRIGHT NEW DAWN (win)  was soon back in contention and any notion of his being a bit soft was seemingly put to bed here. He was on top by the final fence and sealed the issue with a fine leap.


"Dessie Hughes talks of him as of more of a Powers Gold Cup candidate than an Arkle one but he would have a squeak in the Cheltenham race. Certainly his stamina and smart jumping would stand him in good stead. He is a 33-1 chance for that race.  "

THIS RACE NAMED AFTER THE CHASER FLYINGBOLT
 Flyingbolt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyingbolt   

Flyingbolt was a famous racehorse. Officially he is the second best National Hunt racehorse of all time, after Arkle, but he is not nearly as well known as his rival

weather watch
 
COUNTING THE COST OF STORM DAMAGE. THOUGHT NOT TO BE OVER YET.

With so many lives and homes broken.
 
 
  
Jon Lees, brings news:
 
"Henderson weather headache for Sprinter"
 
"Superstar chaser's festival preparation has to be delayed"
 
"We're cut off from the world - it's all a bit of a nightmare. "
 
" THE worst of the winter's storms may have relented but the aftermath of the battering is still causing problems for champion trainer Nicky Henderson, who has decided to postpone Sprinter Sacre's scheduled gallop during racing at Kempton on Saturday.
 
"The champion chaser was due to have a public workout in the next stage of his preparation  for a return to competitive action following his heart scare at the same course in December. But after an intended routine exercise session at Seven Barrows on Saturday was called off due to a fierce gale, and already disrupted  schedule has been reshuffled accordingly.
 
"The  4-5 favourite for the BetVictor Queen Mother Champion Chase will now head to Kempton on Friday week, just 12 days before his festival target.
 
"Henderson said yesterday he has up to a dozen Cheltenham Festival-bound horses to work over the Pollytrack at Kempton, but he wants Sprinter Sacre to have another work session in Lambourn before giving him a racecourse day out.
 
"While Lambourn village itself has escaped the worst of the flooding and power problems, Seven Barrows three miles away has not been so fortunate. Henderson's estate has been hit by flooding and has struggled on without electricity since Friday. Engineers hope to restore power today.
"We're cut off from the world - it's all a bit of a nightmere.
 
"Henderson said yesterday at Kempton: "Last Saturday was difficult. I wanted to work Sprinter Sacre but we had a ghastly wind.
 
"He seemed good but I couldn't get him to do what I really wanted to.  With the ground as it is I think I'd rule out a spin over fences. I might prefer to have another week at home and come here [ to Kempton ] after that.
 
"There is a whole team to come here on two different days. There are a dozen or so we've kept back because we wanted to come here to have a spin around, which will probably be on a morning next week. We'd go the two miles and have a racecourse gallop. Bobs Worth, Captain Conan, Oscar Whisky and Triole D'Alene would come too and others who have missed races due to the weather. "
 
"With the stables without power and February being a month when he abstains from alcohol, Henderson added: "We're cut off from the world. We have had no electricity for two days. It's all a bit of a nightmere.
 
"The horse walkers don't work, what we steam the hay with and the cookers don't work, and the lads are cold and have no hot food. It's a brute of a time.
 
"Telephones don't work and there's no communication whatsoever. You can't charge your mobile. I wouldn't be much good in a mud hut.
 
"It's February and I'm not allowed to drink. If I could sit at table with a candle and a bottle of wine it would be something. "
 
"Henderson added West Wizard, one-time favourite for the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle, would not run again this season.
 
"We're going to leave him alone this term, " the trainer saiud. "He's had issues with growing. "
 
"Henderson is unlikely to be the only trainer taking advantage of the opportunity to work horses on the all-weather on Friday week. The rival Paul Nicholls indicated he could take his own team, which is set to include Silviniaco Conti, Hinterland and Irving.
 

 


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