Hayley added a third grade 1 win to her CV on Saturday with I'm A Dreamer's win at Arlington in the Beverley D. Stakes last Saturday - a ride which Ryan Moore gave up so that he could ride in Europe last weekend. That will have been a nice payday with the winning horse receiving almost £279K.
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Snow Fairy won impressively on Sunday at Deauville. Despite being short of room about half a furlong from home, she showed true game and grit to get her head in front for the G1 Darley Prix Jean Romanet under Ryan Moore (which will have helped sweeten the disappointment of the night before).
Ireland had a 1-2 on Saturday with Donal Fahy winning and Richie Killoran coming second (44 seconds behind) in the 1000km/7 day Mongol Derby. The third placed horse was over an hour behind....
Saturday also heard the familiar voice of Derek 'Tommo' Thompson again at Doncaster after his surgery for cancer. Unfortunately, he was admitted to Addenbrooks with suspected viral meningitis after feeling unwell that same day but is on the mend once more with the help of antibiotics and more chemo.
But enough of all that past history stuff....the best of the week is yet to come.
It’s Ebor week!
I love this meeting and 2012 is particularly special with the appearance of Frankel. His performance on Wednesday, when he’ll race for the first time over a mile and quarter will determine whether he goes for the Champion Mile or the Champion Stakes at Ascot in October for what will almost certainly be his final appearance on a racecourse in October. There's a lot of hyped up debate about whether he'll stay but have you seen the distance that it takes Tom Queally to pull him up each time he’s run? And as for the argument that other greats have been undone at York (Brigadier Gerard was beaten there), it's a different track these days. Suffice to say, I'm not worried....just as long as Tom doesn't mess up!
Here’s a TV ad that’s been showing on prime time which is amazing given that horseracing isn’t exactly premier league football in terms of mass popularity!!
Michael J M Murphy will be making an appearance at York on the first day riding when riding Van der Art in the 16:50. He’s a 7lb claimer to have on your side for sure! His strike rate over the past fortnight has been phenomenal with 12 winners from 26 rides (on Monday evening at the time of writing). However, he may not have too many more rides at the Ebor Festival as he’ll be vying for rides against the top jocks here and the handicaps which can use his allowance will be a little thinner on the ground. Keep your eye on any that he gets though.
Historically Kieren Fallon has had a decent record at York (strike rate around the mid teens but not so hot in 2yo races) and he has plenty of bookings lined up though nothing for the big one, the Juddmonte….yet. He can certainly pull a great ride out of the bag once in a while (Arlington Million on Afsare last Saturday wasn’t too shabby) but I think age is sadly beginning to catch up these days. If I was an owner, I would be booking Buick– his riding this season has been much more consistent which I’ll put down to his new found maturity at the grand old age of 24 and he has a very decent strike rate around York.
A good source for some enlightening daily jockey and trainer stats can be found on the Totesport site.
They are the RP ones packaged up in a very reader friendly
way and well worth bookmarking!
I’ll
be getting excited and blogging and reviewing a couple of races a day over the Ebor meeting and as ever, more daily tips will be up at Speedy Equines.
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