Saturday 26 October 2013

SACRED SUNDAY OCTOBER 27th 2013 REVIEW OF YESTERDAY'S HORSERACING ACTION BROUGHT TO US LIVE BY CH4 FROM DONCASTER. NEWBURY AND AINTREE


 
 Big Races Coming Up
 
 
SOME OF THIS WEEK'S EQUUS NEWS IN THE RACING POST
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Kingston Hill partner Andrea Atzeni
surge to Racing Post Trophy Win

 By David Baxter 3:55PM 26 OCT 2013
 
KINGSTON HILL lives up to the faith that TEAM VARIAN  hold in him.
 
If you take a closer look at the Life and Times of Roger Varian you will find an historic thread weaving it's way back through an historic highly significant Equus path.
 ROGER VARIAN  through  MICHAEL JARVIS
 through GORDON SMYTH,  through  TOWSER GOSDEN and back again to the present day to John Gosden,  Towser's son. 



 
John Montague "Towser" Gosden (1904–1967) was a British racehorse trainer based near Lewes, East Sussex. He married Peggy Gosden (née Gearing), with whom he had two children, John and Sally. He is the father of British racehorse trainer John Gosden.
 
 
PAUSE FOR THOUGHT
 
David Ashforth at the Derby Awards 6.12.10
David Ashforth:
Twice voted journalist of the year
PICTURE: Dan Abraham
Racing Post Saturday October 26th 2013 p17


"Accumulate wealth with trading hotshot Hughes
Pic: "Arian Foster: pioneering Houston Texans star
 a trading commodity.

"TODAY'S Racing Post Trophy may reveal next year's Derby winner, another High Chaparral or Motivator, Authorized or Camelot, but it will not yield another Arkle

 

"There are several reasons for this, including the fact Racing Post Trophy winners rarely contest the Cheltenham Gold Cup or Leopardstown Chase  (well never, really), and that there will never be another Arkle.

 

"Yet, this week, their paths crossed. This week of the Racing Post Trophy has also been the week of the Arkle Pilgrimage, inspired by Sir Peter  O'Sullevan Charitable Trust. Some people go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land; others to Mecca or Santiago de Compostela, but on Monday, led by Sean Magee, author of the splendid Arkle; The Life and Legacy of Himself, a group of pilgrims set off to Ireland, and all things Arkle.

Arkle Pilgrimage


Arkle The Legend

 Horse Racing 1964 Cheltenham Gold Cup Arkle and Mill House.avi  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2obAN9XAzY


Arkle - 1965 Gallaher Gold Cup Sandown
 

Injured Jockey Fund

Sean Magee's 50th Year Anniversary Book

Celebrating 50 Years, 1964-2014
 
 "It was a tremendous visit and I am looking forward - and you can too - to Magee's account of the pilgrimage, which will appear in the Racing Post tomorrow week. Unlike pilgrimages to Mecca (1,426 killed in a stampede in 1990) or to the Ratangarth temple (91 killed this month), hardly anyone was killed at all.

Pilgrims to Lourdes
http://www.directfromlourdes.com/?xtr=Google 
http://www.catholicpilgrims.com/lourdes/ba_bernadette_intro.htm
http://www.catholicpilgrims.com/lourdes/recommended_reading.htm

I am wondering myself if the Church Of England has lost its way. Too much punishment,  threatening punishment  do this or you will go to hell. Sort of stuff. Like the political and horseracing government, to include British Law.  Dark age stuff to frighten people to include the horse.


Condemning everything and every one to include the horses. St Bernard Abbott of Clairvaux  1091 - 1153 concentrated on love he wrote Eighty Six Sermons on the Song of Songs (Solomon).

"With Nick O'Toole (thank you)  to guide us, we saw all sorts of Arkle things, including the stable where he was born (thank you to Peter Reynolds at Ballymacoll Stud),  the fields where he grew up (thank you to the amazing Alison Baker, aged 94, and her family), the box where he lived when in training (thank you, Jim Dreaper, son of Arkle's trainer Tom, and family), Arkle's grave, and even his skeleton (thank you, Sally Carroll and colleagues at the Irish National Stud)

 

"The skeleton reminds me of a Spike Milligan cartoon, in which a man peers out from a coffin and says, "I demand a second opinion . In Arkle's case, I think it's too late for that.

 

"There were too many evocative places to mention them all and too many wonderfully hospitable people to thank, but thank you Paddy Woods, Arkle'swork-rider and one- time jockey, and Willie Robinson, Mill House's partner, and Johnny Lumley, Arkle's  groom. Splending time with them was a remarkable experience.

 

"A special thank-you to TP Burns, who provided one of the highlights of the tour, and to James, his solicitous son. Burns, now 89, was the only jockey to have won a Flat race on Arkle, because it was the only Flat race (bumpers excepted) Arkle contested. There were some lovely black and white photographs on  the walls, and a scrapbook  on the table. Fittingly, Arkle's Flat success was at Navan, where we ended up on Wednesday. Arkle wasn't there, but some enormous beef rolls were, and I suggest you have one next time you go.


Perhaps if globally we all attempted to concentrate on developing peace, not war.  Starting with setting out the true Equus rules of global horseracing to include the horses, this world wouldn't be in the mess it is in now. The Equus  friendship of our own Queen Elizabeth and the American Horseman Monty Roberts between them they have been working on this Equus perspective since the early 1980's. So there is absolutely no reason why the British political and horseracing governments should refuse to move forward to attend to,  and change their poor leadership direction, and dark age punishment policies, the British people deserve better.  Our Queen and Monty Roberts have achieved massive strides in the right direction within Equus over the last 40 plus years worldwide.
 
"Right, enough of that, because I think I've worked out how to make a fortune. Richard Hughes doesn't know it yet, but the plan is for our champion jockey to follow in the pioneering footsteps of Arian Foster and become a trading commodity.

 

"FOSTER or, as he is now known, Adrian Foster Convertible Trading Stock, is the Houston Texans' star running back. The Texans pay Foster more than $5 million a year, but Fantex Inc are proposing to pay him a one-off $10m for a 20 per cent stake in his future earnings from all sources. They plan to raise the money by offering 1,055,000 shares at $10 each.

 

"If you watched the Texans play the Kansas Chiefs last Sunday, you'll have seen Foster leave the field with a hamstring injury. If the stock was already trading, its value would have fallen. He's expected to be back next weekend, so his stock would have recovered.

 

"I don't know how much Hughes earns, but I think he could be usefully converted into Richard Hughes Convertible Trading Stock and sold off in £10 portions.

 

"Somewhere along the line, I'd like to think there'd be £1m for me, preferably before Hughes does something silly - rides in India, for instance - and picks um an enormous suspension,

 

"Hughes is riding Chief Barker in today's big race. Victory would give a healthy boost to his stock. Chief Barker boosts the engaging form figures of 111. When I first followed horseracing, I assumed that 111 was better than 000, and that 0432 was a particularly promising combination. Unfortunately it isn't quite as simple as that.

 

"Still, one can dream, in which case the finishing order, as per the above system, will be Chief Barker first, with Kingston Hill and Pinzolo dead-heating for second, and Century fourth.

 

"If anyone pays any attention to what I write (I don't suppose they do), they will have backed Upswing when he won, easily, at Carlisle on Thusday.  I told you, twice (Racing Post February 23 and March 23, 2013). You just can't help some people. I expect you're one of them. I know I am. "




J. Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment (JMC) 

REVIEW EQUUS PRESENTED YESTERDAY:
 
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS
TO TEAM BALDING - OISIN MURPHY - TEAM VARIAN
 
DONCASTER (SOFT)
3.15:  WIN: DUNGANNON (GB) 6 8-7 partner OISIN MURPHY (5) 5f Andrew Balding 16-1
 
 Racing Post Trophy 1m
3.50: WIN: KINGSTON HILL (GB) 2 9-0 partner ANDREA ATZENI Roger Varian 7-2f
 
 5.00: WIN: HIGHLAND COLORI (IRE) 5 8-13 partner OISIN MURPHY (5) 7f Andrew Balding 15-8f
 
5.30: WIN: SOARING SPIRITS (IRE) 3 9-0  partner OISIN MURPHY (5) 7f. Roger Varian 7-1

NEWBURY (HEAVY)
1.15 WIN: WYLYE (GB) 2 9-0 partner DAVID PROBERT Andrew Balding 8-1
1m.
 Horris Hill Stakes (Group 3) 2yo Colts. 7f.
2.20. WIN: PIPING ROCK (GB) 2 8-12 partner PAT DOBBS Richard Hannon 3-1.
 
 
RICHARD HUGHES ON SATURDAY
 
CHAMPION JOCKEY FLAT TURF
"No time to relax despite thrill of second title win. "
 
STABLE JOCKEY - TRAINER - RELATIONSHIP
"I wouldn't tell Richard Hannon Snr what to do. "
"I WAS enjoying Julian Muscat's article in Wednesday's Racing Post, until I got to the bit  where he wrote that I encouraged Richard to race his better two-year-olds more sparingly" . I nearly fell off my chair in mid-sentence. I would just like to stress that Richard trains them and I ride them.

"When a horse is visually impressive in victory I might suggest it is actually weak, but that is the only time I get involved. Richard Hannon trained plenty of good horses before I came along" .
 
"HUGHESIE'S HOTTIE
"NIGHT OF THUNDER (2yo) might lack experience, but he impressed me enormously at Goodwood.  He will go on the ground, which is a big plus, and should take all the beating in the Listed race (2.05) Doncaster 6f. Yes, yes, yes a magic moment for. NIGHT OF THUNDER Won 6-4f  partner HIMSELF by 3 lengths from AEOLUS partner GRAHAM GIBBONS  beaten 3 lengths.100-30.









 


 







"MY EYECATCHER
"There is footage on YouTube of me riding work on Tree Of Grace. He made a winning debut at Lingfield last week and is definitely one to follow next season. "
http://www.richardhannonracing.co.uk/gallops.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/horse-racing/24636605
http://www.richardhannonracing.co.uk/news.htm 
https://twitter.com/JemimaHannon
http://www.ukhorseracingtipster.com/2013/10/grace-glory-for-hannon-team/



Richard Hughes confident to break his Classic duck in 2013


Richard Hughes, despite a hugely-successful career, has never won an English Classic and the champion jockey is more intent on breaking that duck in 2013 than retaining his crown


 MONDAY OCTOBER 28th
RACING POST THE MONDAY JURY TEAM
  • Bruce Jackson Reporter. (News Zone)
  • David Marnane Trainer (Equus Zone)
  •  Oisin Murphy Apprentice Jockey (Equus Zone)
  •  Tom Pennington Bloodstock Reporter (Bloodstock Zone)
  •  Jason Weaver Pundit (Equus Zone)

 
MONDAY JURY TEAM QUESTIONS:

  •  How strong do you think the form of the Racing Post Trophy will prove to be?
  •  Who is your top fancy for next year's Classics?
  • Apart from Kingston Hill, who has impressed you most over the last few days?
  • Can Olympic Glory spoil Wise Dan's party in the Breeders' Cup Mile?
  • What's your most likely idea of a British or Irish winner at Santa Anita?
  • Give us one to look forward to closer to home this weekend?


TUESDAY OCTOBER 29th
Breeders Cup Info:
http://turfcall2-racingpost.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/tuesday-october-29th-racing-post-2013.html 


WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30th
Breeders Cup Info:
http://turfcall2-racingpost.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/wednesday-october-30th-racing-post-2013.html



THURDAY OCTOBER 31st
Breeders Cup Info:
http://turfcall2-racingpost.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/thursday-october-31st-racing-post-2013.html 

PADDY POWER GOLD CUP
PRICEWISE SPECIAL
 
Cheltenham November 16 2013
"Great anti-post package featuring card and form, trends, ratings, running plans and two fancies at 12-1 and 33-1 from Tom Segal  Pages 18-21. "
Tom's clues, bring us an interesting and informative read in every feature he brings. A great guide study for those who are interested in the gambling game that horseracing provides. Always a good read.
16 Nov 13 CHELTENHAM Paddy Power Gold Cup Chase Handicap Grade 3 Cl1 2m4f110y Card Betting

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1st

 
 
USA GLOBAL EQUUS PRESENT
Breeders Cup 2013
Host: Santa Anita Racecourse  
Los Angeles
Friday November 1st and Saturday November 2nd
 
EXPERIENCE HORSERACING'S
MAGICAL HISTORIC MOMENTS  

BOB BAFFERT (USA) "Training horses is much more than a career for me, it is my passion and who I am.  For more than 35 years, I have been dedicated to excellence in racing and providing quality care of my horses.  It is a successful combination that has produced some great horses, memorable and historic moments, and made many dreams a reality." jmc:  Check out Bob's runners over the next two days. Take note which races they are entered in, who partners each horse, who presents each horse, and who owns each horse.


SANTA ANITA (USA) ATR  FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1st

DAY ONE OF TWO


GOING: DIRT: FAST; TURF: FIRM.
8:45 Breeders´ Cup Marathon (Grade 2) (3yo+) (Dirt) 1m6f Card Betting
9:25 Breeders´ Cup Juvenile Turf (Grade 1) (2yo Colts & Geldings) (Turf) 1m Card Betting
10:05 Breeders´ Cup Dirt Mile (Grade 1) (3yo+) (Dirt) 1m Card Betting
10:50 Breeders´ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (Grade 1) (2yo Fillies) (Turf) 1m Card Betting
11:35 Breeders´ Cup Distaff (Grade 1) (3yo+ Fillies & Mares) (Dirt) 1m1f Card Betting


Student News

NATIONAL STUDENT RACEDAY
http://www.lovetheraces.com/students/student-news/don-t-miss-a-racey-day-out?gclid=CLHElvuZxLoCFebMtAod3xcABw




 
BET AMERICA
 


 

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2nd
BREEDERS CUP USA DAY TWO OF TWO.
 
Where are the true Equus Global Rules of Horseracing?
 
 Rules that should by absolute human right include the

 Equus rights and needs of all racehorses and all jockeys.