RACING POST WEEK MONDAY JULY 25th to SUNDAY JULY 31st 2011

THE RACING POST FRIDAY JULY 29th 2011

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LEE MOTTERSHEAD GLORIOUS GOODWOOD YESTERDAY

“No dismount but FRANKIE’S toe fails to dull the gloss on model day. For surely the first time at Glorious Goodwood, a Daisy, Delfina and Dido are among the jockey’s riding in the opener. Racegoers are entitled to be confused, but if the identity of the jockey’s is a mystery, trying to work out who’s who among the horses is a nightmare.

The Magnolia Cup for celebrity ladies is a wonderful idea and will raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for Great Ormond Street Hospital, but the organisers haven’t half made it complicated. The problem is the names of the runners have been changed for the purpose of the race. (JMC Strains of Alice in Wonderland appear)

EMMA SPENCER’S mount is officially JUNGLE BAY but will run as ROYAL STAR because presumably, the name JUNGLE BAY just wouldn’t do. Why  then, has Andrew Balding’s entry, GRAND PIANO, been renamed JUNGLE? And to make matters worse, Goodwood’s official racecard has blundered and renamed the already renamed JUNGLE as JUNGLE BAY. So the real JUNGLE BAY is racing against a fake JUNGLE BAY. Sit Peter must be glad he has retired.

“Regardless of her horses name, SPENCER is considered something of a good thing. Initially installed at 7-2, she has been backed into 5-4 with William Hill.

“Fortunately for the many shrewdies  who have steamed in, the Channel 4 presenter, once the sport’s top female amateur, sounds confident while waiting for her chauffeur in the car park. “I’m not doing this just to take part,” she says before hastily correcting herself. “I’m doing it just to take part, but I would like to win. The problem is I haven’t ridden for eight years or so until I started riding out seven weeks ago. I’ll look alright on the bridle but if push comes to shove I’ll be pathetically week.” More than that, she’s then got to return to the day job. “I’m supposed to be in front of a camera ten minutes after the race,” she reveals. £My boss Andrew Franklin asked me how long it would take me to get out of my silks, changed and ready. Mike Cattermole told him they should expect me for item 44, one minute before we go off air.”

“Cattermole turns out to be wrong as SPENCER is back in her telly clobber within minutes, but only after defeat at the hands of supermodel  EDIE CAMPBELL, whose reaction is delightful but not quite in keeping with Goodwood. “Oh my God, did I really just win?” she blurts out like an excited teenager. As she does so, the sound of an ambulance siren is audible, quite opposite too as one of the courageous riders, ANNETTE LYNTON MASON, is not long after carted off to hospital having parted company with her steed soon after the line. Around half an hour before MASON fell to earth she had stood by the scales with her ten comrades, creating a jam of photographers that made it almost impassible for a bemused FRANKIE DETTORI to enter the weighing room. “Let me in lads,”  DETTORI pleads before finding a way through the throng. A little later, it  is DETTORI  who benefits from overcrowding as he lasts home to land the Goodwood Cup on OPINION POLL, who most certainly would not have won had fellow Godolphin runner LOST IN THE MOMENT not got stuck in traffic down the straight. The winner is trained by Mahmood Al Zarooni, the second by Saeed Bin Suroor. The margin between their runners is only a head, but it’s a head that matters, and the fortune that favours Al Zarooni’s horse but not Bin Suroor’s serves to highlight that it is the Godolphin new boy who very much holds the bragging rights this season.

“If one cannot win, he wants the other to, says racing manager Simon Crisford. No doubt he is right, but although there is no more gracious loser than Bin Suroor, he would surely have loved for this photo to be reversed.

“FOR disappointed racegoers there are no photo’s of a DETTORI flying dismount. “ I can’t, I got a sore toe,” says DETTORI, delivering no quite the most macho line of his life. Then, though, his reputation is boosted when Crisford tells television viewers that the jockey, injured in awful circumstances at Ascot on Saturday, has “a small hairline fracture on his toe”.

“DETTORI’S ten-year-old daughter Ella confirms her dad’s toe has seen better days. “It’s bruised,” she says, adding: “Not nice.” In the following race DETTORI and his toe complete a double on MEEZNAH. There will, however, be no more races for one of Flat racing’s quirkiest warriors, the triple Gold Cup-placed GEORDIELAND, who trails in a long last behind OPINION POLL. “I think he’s broken down again,”  says clearly upset Jamie Osborne. “Retirement beckons.” It might also beckon for some of the brave ladies who got the afternoon off to an unusual but enjoyable beginning. Never before have so few jockeys worn so much lip gloss. And for anyone who was wondering, DAISY finished in front of DIDO and DELFINA.”

J Margaret Clarke Turfcall  

Strains of ALICE IN WONDERLAND ongoing here in 2011 ... same as in the early 1970’s when girls were allowed to apply to the Jockey Club for a licence to ride on the Flat, there were however hardly any races to ride in!

TETLEY TEA sponsored a few gallantly, and there were the amateur races. However the Jockey Club soon decreed that all girls who worked professionally in racing were not eligible to ride in amateur races.

THE RACING POST THURSDAY JULY 28th 2011

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BIG WINNERS BRAVE LOOSERS

FRANKEL 3 8-13 -V -CANFORD CLIFFS 4 9-7

J. MARGARET (Bloodhorse Literate) CLARKE TURFCALL 

THE RESULT OF THE DUEL ON THE DOWNS THE RACE WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

FRANKEL PAID AN ALMIGHTY COMPLIMENT TO HIS RIDER TOM QUEALLY, TO SIR HENRY CECIL AND TO ALL THE PROFESSIONAL HORSEMEN WHO MAKE UP SIR HENRY’S TEAM AT WARREN PLACE.

FRANKEL’S remarkable presence and intelligence shone out for all to see every inch a supreme champion. With head held high inquiringly, ears pricked he calmly took in all

before him as he stepped out on to Goodwood’s carefully manicured turf in no hurry, he cantered quietly away to the starting gate, to put in a brilliant performance that did indeed thrill us all.

A beautiful colt at peace within himself, at peace with his rider, allowed to believe in himself confidently and in so being to carrying out the task he was at Goodwood to accomplish so easily.

BROUGH (Bloodhorse Literate) SCOTT Racing Post Wednesday July 27th "The Duel on the Downs" for the Qipco Sussex Stakes is like no other unscripted drama on earth. So it has come to this. Just two rivals in against FRANKEL and CANFORD CLIFFS

this afternoon and yet the racing world is beside itself with expectation. Never can we have been more challenged by the disbelieving words of Paul Mellon’s father Andrew about the enthusiasms of MILL REEF’S owner – all that – “All that damned fuss about whether one horse runs faster than the other”. But the sheer simplicity is the key to it. When those four gates slam open at 3.10 we will be less than a minute and 40 seconds away from a piece of history that will be forever written on the racing page. It is indeed just four horses running across the Sussex Downs but those 8 furlongs of effort will strain our emotions and link us from the present to the past like no unscripted drama on this earth”.

FEATURE RACE "DUEL ON THE DOWNS"

3.10 Qipco Sussex Stakes (Group 1) (Class 1) for 3yo+ 1m Winner £170,130

Top Flat Horses in Britain and Ireland From January 1^st 2011
Position 6^th FRANKEL 3yo win money to date £369,005 now £539,135
Position 12^th CANFORD CLIFFS 4yo win money to date £241,272 now £305,772
(Position 1^st TREASURE BEACH 3yo win money to date £922,365)

WIN: FRANKEL 3 8-13 partner TOM QUEALLY handler presenter? trainer Sir Henry Cecil for K Abdulla 8-13f from CANFORD CLIFFS 7-4

THE RACING POST WEDNESDAY JULY 27th 2011

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HEARTS WILL BE RACING

FRANKEL 3 8-13 -V -CANFORD CLIFFS 4 9-7

THE RACE WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

BROUGH SCOTT (Bloodhorse Literate) says “the ‘Duel on the Downs’ for the Qipco Sussex Stakes is like no other unscripted drama on earth.

“SO IT has come to this. Just two rivals in against FRANKEL and CANFORD CLIFFS

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THE RACING POST TUESDAY JULY 26th 2011

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LEE MOTTERSHEAD SETS THE SCENE FOR FIVE DAYS OF GLORIOUS SPORT

TODAY’S BIG TALKING POINT CRACK SHOTS ALL SET TO GO DAY BEFORE THE DUEL



“BACK where the records were smashed they return. Back to the most beautiful racecourse in Britain go the two Richards, Hannon and Hughes, the unstoppable force

from an unforgettable week. Like no men before them they last year dominated Glorious Goodwood. The defence of these crowns starts today –

“Twelve months on, to win just once would almost certainly suffice. This year they bring to the South Downs an extremely strong suit. The bet365 Lenox Stakes they challenge with STRONG SUIT.”

PAUL EACOTT

“Ground is good and the outlook set fare. The official going described as good, good to soft in places. Seamus Buckley clerk of the course gives GoingStick reading of 8.0. I am looking forward to seeing how it rides.”

BROUGH SCOTT

In RPSunday Special BROUGH SCOTT meets up with Mark Johnston on the eve of Glorious Goodwood week 2011.

“MARK JOHNSTON is good company but he doesn’t like comfort zones. That’s why Britain’s numerically most successful trainer has felt the need to rebrand his operation with a logo incorporating the winged-spur crest of the Johnston clan set above his own trusty motto ‘Always Trying’.

“You will see it on the tartan of the staff leading up the many Johnston runners at Goodwood this week, but to really appreciate the spur that pricks the trainer you need to be with him, and with his wife and closest ally, Deirdre, at Middleham looking out at what should be the most satisfying view in the country. “I need to have a project,” says the 52-year-old who has sent out his 105^th winner of the year the previous day. “The rebranding is to remind people that we are not dead, not finished and to start a drive to get more horses and more quality.”

“Since he came to Middleham in 1988 he has not only made himself into a major player, but with over 120 staff and ancillary employment he has put new life into the old town which once had Richard 111 as its guardian. Yet Johnston has made his progress challenging himself and the assumptions of others.

“Next month we will have a brochure to match the new website as part of the rebranding exercise persuading people to buy more horses and to see what we can do. As a rule my horses are not as good on soft ground and are better on galloping tracks. I think that’s one reason why we do so well at Goodwood. I would not hesitate to put SILVESTRE de SOUSA up in the Buineas or the Derby. He has absolute confidence and the big occasion does not faze him at all.”

Try following Johnston’s horses this week at Goodwood and see how they get on … SILVESTRE DE SOUSA partners NAMIBIAN in the 2.35 this afternoon will he win?

THE RACING POST MONDAY JULY 25th 2011

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 “SHE TALKS A GOOD RACE

“The search to find Britain’s first female racing commentator ended at Ascot yesterday with success for Hayley Moore, sister of jockey Ryan, who defeated Rachel Casey in the final of the ‘Filly Factor’  TALK OF THE TRACKS.

GIRLS ALLOWED

“Happy Hayley calls shots in commentary final.

“HAYLEY MOORE crowned a memorable weekend when beating Rachel Casey in the final of the competition designed to unearth Britain’s first female racing commentator.

“Moore, who is from one of the great dynasties had thought it could not get much better after winning the coveted Longines Ladies race on CAPTAIN  RAMIUS on Saturday, but seeing off a field of 46 hopefuls for the first prize

of £2,500 and the opportunity to join the commentators’ training scheme surpassed even that.

“Moore and Casey did alternate commentaries on the first four races on the card and picked out the runners accurately before calling tight finishes clearly and correctly …. Casey, who is already a broadcaster with Ladbrokes, said ‘I’m a little disappointed but Hayley did a cracking job. It was wonderful to call a live race here at Ascot.”

RODNEY MASTERS

“AND THEN THERE WERE  THREE …. French hope RAJSAMAN could provide only opposition to big two in Duel on the Down.

“THE towering presence of FRANKEL and CANFORD CLIFFS could result in Wednesday’s Qipco Sussex Stakes being contested by just three runners, making an already captivating tactical puzzle even more intriguing.

“With the showdown already being billed as the Duel on the Downs, a small field was expected but when declarations are made at 10am today the majority of the nine remaining entries are set to wave an early white flag. ….

TOM KERR

FRANKIE’S REWILDING AGONY. “King George tragedy a ‘tremendous loss’ says Dettori.

“FRANKIE DETTORI yesterday described the death of REWILDING in the King George vi and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Saturday ‘as a tremendous loss to everyone connected to the colt.”

“The Godolphin flagbearer shattered a cannon- bone as he launched his challenge, throwing Dettori to the ground and drawing gasps from the Ascot grandstand as he cantered loose for two furlongs before pulling up near the line.

“JOHN GOSDEN, trainer of King George winner NATHANIEL, went to  REWILDING’S aid and stood with the stricken four year old as vets arrived.

“Dettori paid tribute, it’s a tremendous loss to everyone connected with him.

“Despite suffering a heavy fall on Saturday, Dettori avoided serious injury and remains hopeful of being cleared to ride at the opening day of Glorious Goodwood tomorrow.”

“DAY ONE OF GALWAY. Our guide to one of the biggest dates in the Irish calendar …..

VERDICTS ARE IN  Big questions answered in the Monday Jury….

TODAY’S RACECARDS  Ayr, Yarmouth, Windsor, Uttoxeter and Galway