Re: The Horse Racing Thread

by G.Wood Thu 15 Dec 2011, 22:19

embee wrote:Im surprised they could find so few guilty dodgy midgets

I think they only looked at one race

by skully Fri 27 Jan 2012, 09:18

Black Caviar just strolled in for no. 17.

by JGK Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:01

"Strolled" might be overstating how hard she was trying.

by skully Fri 27 Jan 2012, 21:57

How about running backwards giving the others a tongue-out

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by embee Fri 27 Jan 2012, 22:12

Did that in win 12

by Merlin Fri 10 Feb 2012, 08:13

Another legend of UK Jump Racing departs.
Josh Gifford - of "Aldaniti" fame ( film - Champions) leaps his final fence.

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by JGK Sat 11 Feb 2012, 02:25

Black Caviar goes for 18 out of 18 today. First time she has raced over 1400m and it is a group 1 race.

Latest I saw was that she was paying 1.04.

by lardbucket Sat 11 Feb 2012, 02:39

Surely she will do well to see off Southern Speed over that distance ...

by JGK Sat 11 Feb 2012, 03:22

I must admit I had a little flutter on Southern Speed this morning.

by lardbucket Sat 11 Feb 2012, 04:37

Well done.

by WideWally Sat 11 Feb 2012, 04:53

Kicked their tits in.
applause

by JGK Sat 11 Feb 2012, 05:08

I'm not sure she couldn't win a Cox Plate.

by skully Sat 11 Feb 2012, 08:02

What the Cav did as she wandered past the rest...

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by JGK Sun 12 Feb 2012, 02:15

Looks like she'll go around next week in the Futurity as well. Would be pretty impressive to win at Group 1 at 1400m one week and then at 1000m in one of the world's leading sprint races the next.

by skully Sun 12 Feb 2012, 02:39

But there's nothing within a bull's roar of her talent in her age group, is there? And being a baby, she'll get nowt on her back compared to older horses in said Futurity, no?

by JGK Sun 12 Feb 2012, 02:53

No, she's a 5 year old. At the prime of her life in theory.

By the way, I am talking out of my arse. I meant the Lightning Stakes over 1000m. The Futurity is the following week over 1400m again.

by skully Sun 12 Feb 2012, 02:57

Well clearly I have no idea about the nags, so you fooled me easily enough. Cool

by bodyline Sun 12 Feb 2012, 23:00

JGK wrote:I'm not sure she couldn't win a Cox Plate.

I seriously doubt it.

by G.Wood Mon 13 Feb 2012, 06:12

I don't

by Bradman Mon 13 Feb 2012, 06:19

She'll be six won't she. What is it? 56.5 over 2000?

by bodyline Mon 13 Feb 2012, 06:22

G.Wood wrote:I don't

You've been listening to too much Glen Boss.

And mares don't have a great record in the Cox.

by G.Wood Mon 13 Feb 2012, 06:34

GFY I wouldn't listen to anything that farktard said - I hate him more than I hate Craig Williams (and that's alot)

She can't be judged by the standards of normal mares. I wouldn't be surprised by her doing anything Moody trained her for. It's all a moot point because he'll never risk it when she can just go out and smash the sprinters so easily

by bodyline Mon 13 Feb 2012, 06:38

I'd back her to win maybe up to 1600m. But past that - she'd need to be comletely re-educated, completely different training regime. And I just don't think she has the build to take on a 2040m sprint.

by bodyline Mon 13 Feb 2012, 06:40

Sorry - she might of been a show in 1991 (when Surfers Paradise won).

by G.Wood Mon 13 Feb 2012, 06:48

yeah, the speed they run the CP at would be against her and that big Serena Williams arrse would be a load to drag around - but she just relaxes and does things so eaily I wouldn't be prepared to say she couldn't

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