Yesterday was a so close yet so far day. Salik Tag couldn’t manage the final push in the 17:35 Carlisle and (away from the system) I picked 'The Name Is Don' in the 14:50 Folkstone (3rd at 7/1) but not 'The Name Is Frank' in the 17:00 Bath (1st at 12/1).....what's in a name?.....apparently a large profit. It seems boxing promoters are popular names for racehorses (King and Warren by the way)!
It’s pretty tragic what has happened to Hayley Turner today so close to the end of the season. Broken ankle after blog selection Rose Aurora reared up, dumped her and then landed on her. That is bad luck in bulk and tied up with a ribbon. I’ve understand that a fall for a flat jockey can be a heck of a lot worse than jumps. It seems illogical but a jumps jockey is always prepared for the worse when he/she approaches a fence and has time to roll with the fall. A flat jockey is rarely expecting it and when a fall does come along (far less frequently thankfully), it’s at a faster speed usually resulting in nastier injuries. (Was I the only one who wondered how the on course nurse managed to get close enough to anyone to treat them? Big boned...??)
I hadn’t noticed Welcome Approach was running again yesterday – a day after he ran against his stable mate winner (and blog selection) Almaty Express at Wolves. He won the apprentice race at Bath under Justin Newman.
What a disaster of a day! A day of huge gambles and huge sums gambled on them... ah well, "recover, regroup and recoup"....(I like that - I think I'll use that again - not in hurry hopefully though!)
Salisbury
16:25 Theladyinquestion
(8.4) UP
17:30 Sabotage
(4.4) UP
17:30 Colour
Vision (4.4) UP
Another dutch but both are big enough
to warrant this at the moment (rev forecast as well perhaps)
Redcar
16:50 Master
Nimbus (9.2) UP
Kempton
19:10 Nezami
(7.4) UP
19:40 Planetoid
(3.6) UP
A poor sad dire awful -6 loss today ...but at least the only way is up because it can't get worse unless I choose seven selections for tomorrow!
Dubai Queen would have made this list for the 16:25 at Salisbury if Cumani had been in better form recently. I'm sure I'm not imagining that he's not had the most spectacular season and his 14 day strike rate is only 5%!
and since we've had a running theme of funny racing commentaries this week - here's another!
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