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MONTY ROBERTS
2013
PREVIEW TODAY'S CARDS
Interesting Jargon Busters
REVIEW YESTERDAY'S OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES
TOMINATOR 6 9-10 partner GRAHAM LEE TEAM O'NEILL for PA Byrne 9-2
A
beautiful horse, pale silver grey colour.
Carrying top weight, you can tell that he comes from a top team at home, beautifully
turned out. Full of confidence, at ease, in his manner. Spot on accurately in
tune with Graham Lee in the saddle. A joy to watch. Yes, Yes, Yes David the top's.
PAUSE FOR THOUGHT
David Ashforth:
Twice voted journalist of the year
Twice voted journalist of the year
PICTURE: Dan Abraham
Forget the tumblers, it’s a Plate
Jonjo craves – I would imagine
Pic: Jonjo O’Neill: runs Tominator
in this afternoon’s Northumberland Plate
“WHAT do you think Richard Hughes
does with them? There must be hundreds of them, thousands.
Maybe he’s built an extension to
his house with them, lined with shelves. Maybe he gives them away for
Christmas. Maybe the champion jockey travels into London Trafalgar Square
“I Ask because, at Chepstow on
Monday, after Hughes had won the bet365Handicap on Burnham (who looks capable
of doing even better, if he feels like it) , the champion jockey was presented
with a pair of glass tumblers. Two hours later, after winning the bet365.com
Handicap on Secret Rebel (who looks likely to be seriously rebuked by the
handicapper), Hughes was presented with another pair of tumblers, remarkably
similar to the first pair.
“Hughes could probably have won
more races but was worried that he might not be able to carry any more
tumblers, so he went on to Windsor, where he won the Windsor & Eton Brewery
Fillies’ Handicap on Easter Diva, after which he was probably handed a pint glass,
possibly two.
“Perhaps winning jockeys, and
trainers and owners, should be offered a choice of prizes. At Chepstow, when
trainer Henry Candy walked up to receive a decanter for winning the bet365.com
Median Auction Maiden Stakes with the enormous Java Rose (who could win again
before going chasing), it struck me that Candy might already be fully equipped
with decanters, collected from racecourses around Britain, and might have
welcomed the option of something else … a toupee, for instance.
“The thing to do is to provide a
choice. Either a trophy or an assortment of Shredded Wheat, baked beans and
marmalade; alternatively, a spade, fork and wheelbarrow. A voucher for Waitross,
Waterstones or Wyevale garden centres would be handy, as would a sack of Pollytrack
to freshen up the gallops. If that is not possible, winners could be asked if
they are non-drinkers, moderate drinkers or alcoholics, and the size of their
prizes adjusted accordingly. Non-drinkers could be given a bottle of wine
(empty), moderate drinkers a similar bottle (full) and everyone else a case of
12. Just a thought.
BETTING IN ACTION
David Ashforth fires a warning in his Racing Post Musings page 11, similar to C4 Jim McGrath earlier: On the John Smith's Northumberland Plate, "
PUNTING DIRECTION SUGGESTIONS
Although splendid in its way and rich in history, is jolly difficult to decipher there are so many horses taking their chances this afternoon, all carrying different weights, on changeable ground, which is always a warning sign, a bit like a lighthouse."
"Obviously, O'Neill might not have said anything of the sort, which is why it's easier just to make it up and hope he doesn't sue.
"R esponsibility for Tominator to bear, as is the burden of 9st 10lb- considerably more than the 8st 5lb he carried when winning the race in 2011 when trained by Reg Hollinshead. Tominator was rated 90 then, now he's rated 102. It doesn't look too promising but say not the struggle nought availeth.
YES, Yes, Yes
Newcastle 2-05. 6f
WIN: JACK DEXTER 4 9-3 partner GRAHAM LEE 4-5f
PUNTING DIRECTION SUGGESTIONS
C4
Horseracing Team Live (29.06.13): Jim McGrath last Saturday:
Jimbo
mentioned the need to learn, to know, to
realise if interested in having a bet to decide when looking through a day's
racecard whether "To Play?" Or "Not To Play?" "To Play To Have
a Bet" or "To Leave Well Alone"
Although splendid in its way and rich in history, is jolly difficult to decipher there are so many horses taking their chances this afternoon, all carrying different weights, on changeable ground, which is always a warning sign, a bit like a lighthouse."
"THOSE of the elderly disposition will remember the 1977 version, in which Sea Pigeon finished second to Tug Of War, who won the race again the following year.
"Two years after Sea Pigeon's defeat, the popular hero won a memorable Ebor at York
"I haven't asked O'Neill if this has any relevance, for fear that he won't say, "Yes, it's true. I loved Sea Pigeon and, ever since he was beaten in the Pitman's Derby
"On his seasonal reappearance Tominator was a creditable third in the Chester Cup off a rating of 100, is well drawn and has Graham Lee to help. It could happen. So, of course, could various other things, which is why big handicaps like the Northumberland Plate are much admired by bookmakers.
"It's a big day for Lee, and for Jim Goldie, who fires off his star sprinters Jack Dexter and Hawkeyethenoo in a pair of Group 3 races at Newcastle and Newmarket. If Jack Dexter can reproduce his terrific run when fourth, beaten less than two lengths, in the King Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot, he will win. That race, however, was only 11 days ago.
"I wonder if Goldie will be presented with a decanter, and Lee a pair of tumblers."
J Margaret Clarke Turfcall
DAVID AHFORTH (Twice voted journalist of the year) AND
CHAMPION JOCKEY RICHARD HUGHES
(Flat Turf Rider) (Stable Jockey to Richard Hannon)
BRING TO LIGHT several key issues
relating to 'Host Racecourses". Big
differences between the facilities racecourses provide for their paying guests.
Don't go racing to tracks who don't bother to have a big screen to watch the
races on.
Sounds like racecourses as a whole
couldn't care less about the prizes they give winning riders. Sounds like racecourses buy in cheap boring job lots of tumblers. How mean is that? What about the winning handler minders travelling and presenting horses to the public on racecourses? All taken for granted. The Equus area Zone remains to be a Racecourse Derelect Zone. A Dead, Racecourse, Equus Zone. The Jockey Club Racecourses are incredibly mean always have been. The huge money they get in at the big meetings that they refuse to share with the Equus Zone must be one of the greatest miscarriage of financial justice upsides the World Bank Scandal's there has ever been.
Suggestion: It would be good if racecourses
could get small silver medals engraved with the race name on, and if possible
the owners colours and name, the name of the winning horse, the name of the handler minder, the rider and trainer and the date.
As well as Waitross vouchers a much better idea if given in addition to a small
engraved colourful keepsake. Like a little badge of honour. Which is exactly what winning a race deserves. That little special something.
The true perspective of Pioneering British
Horseracing is being overlooked by the greed of harsh punishing governments, the bookmakers, and the racecourses
themselves.
One could ask oneself "How do we go about 'Building World Peace?'
One could ask oneself "How do we go about 'Building World Peace?'
THE RULES OF THE PIONEERING
WORLD HORSERACING SPORT
Cannot be collated, set in order, or upheld by the bloodhorse illiterate.
THE RACECOURSES PLACE AS HOST
SPORT OF HORSERACING
British
horseracing now in 2013 is like there is a whole untapped goldmine out there.
And that goldmine is the untapped "EQUUS ZONE". Everything about the
sport of horseracing revolves, or should revolve around each countries "EQUUS
ZONE". So how is it that the British Horseracing Authority Government
along with the British Political Government do not have, or allow an "EQUUS
ZONE?"
The
British Equus Zone at present is being governed by the bloodhorse illiterate,
to only suit the bloodhorse illiterate. It is being used to punish and condemn
all those who have achieved bloodhorse literacy in their own right, to include
the punishment of the horses. Bloodhorse illiteracy is cruelty and punishment to
horses and the people who care for them every day, every which way.
