Across the pond

ThreeMustangs · Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:36 am

20hayes20 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:32 am
ThreeMustangs wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:20 am The Frankel mare Alpinista won the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (G1), her fourth G1 win in a row.
Brilliant training performance from Sir Mark Prescott been of the track for 8 months and wins the group 1

Prix Vermeille next followed by the Arc

I backed her today at 10/1 and ive backed her for the Arc at 33/1 all being well

Hayes

I was very happy with Alpinista’s win, but disappointed with Hurricane Lane. He didn’t really have any excuses today.

20hayes20 · Sun Jul 03, 2022 12:06 pm

Totally agree with you Three Mustangs Hurricane Lane was a big disapointment beating just one home.

Hayes

Starine · Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:38 pm

Alpinista was terrific again! How dangerous will she be once fully cranked? This year's Arc looks like it is going to be a fantastic renewal.

20hayes20 · Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:25 am

John Gosden has confirmed Frankie Dettori will ride Emily Upjohn in the Irish Oaks.

Hayes

20hayes20 · Tue Jul 05, 2022 7:18 am

The Sabbatical didnt last long

Frankie is riding Inspiral in the group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket on Friday.

Also on Mighty Ulysses on Thursday for Gosden.

Hayes

20hayes20 · Tue Jul 05, 2022 8:38 am

Charlie Appleby's Adayar will not run in the King George later this month.

Looks between Desert Crown and Westover its a race that does favour the 3 year olds.

Of the older horses the German horse Torquator Tasso can be thrown into the mix and looks to be coming back to his best ,he would love cut in the ground thou.

Coolmore hasnt got a decent 3 year old colt this season that ive seen.

Hayes

Northport · Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:29 am

Missed the Coronation Cup, Prince of Wales’s, Eclipse, King George… I don’t think we’ll see Adayar again.

It’s a shame that Hurricane Lane appears to not have trained on as well. It looked like Appleby had all the aces for older middle distances horses in 2022.

20hayes20 · Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:43 am

Joseph O'brien is to have a small satellite stable at Saratoga this summer

Hayes

BaroqueAgain1 · Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:06 pm

That is really cool.
It's possible that we will see more Euro horses come over for our grass races, since our purses are higher and I believe travel restrictions have relaxed. I think there are 8 - 9 European entrants in this weekend's turf stakes at Belmont.

20hayes20 · Fri Jul 08, 2022 10:47 am

Inspiral beaten at odds of 1/7 by Prosperous Voyage in the group 1 Falmouth Stakes, didnt appear to be any excuses.

Hayes

ThreeMustangs · Fri Jul 08, 2022 10:48 am

20hayes20 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 10:47 am Inspiral beaten at odds of 1/7 by Prosperous Voyage in the group 1 Falmouth Stakes, didnt appear to be any excuses.

Hayes

She was just flat. Didn’t look like herself at all.

Starine · Fri Jul 08, 2022 7:42 pm

Appleby, O'Brien have horses to beat in Belmont Derby
https://www.drf.com/news/appleby-obrien ... mont-derby

Thoughts?

ThreeMustangs · Fri Jul 08, 2022 10:04 pm

Starine wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 7:42 pm Appleby, O'Brien have horses to beat in Belmont Derby
https://www.drf.com/news/appleby-obrien ... mont-derby

Thoughts?

I think Chad Brown has a really strong hand as well.

CorridorZ75 · Fri Jul 08, 2022 10:47 pm

20hayes20 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:43 am Joseph O'brien is to have a small satellite stable at Saratoga this summer

Hayes

Among many things I despise about slot welfare purses is that they are basically a poorly disguised wealth redistribution machine- encouraging the lower income hoi polloi to lose more than they can afford out of sheer boredom and misery in their lives in order to hand it over to ridiculously wealthy people.

BaroqueAgain1 · Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:03 am

Forgive my ignorance, but...what are "slot welfare purses?"

20hayes20 · Sat Jul 09, 2022 8:19 am

Be very intresting how Perfect Power gets on today in the Group 1 July Cup at Newmarket. taking on harden older sprinters for the first time.

Hayes

ThreeMustangs · Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:41 pm

20hayes20 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 8:19 am Be very intresting how Perfect Power gets on today in the Group 1 July Cup at Newmarket. taking on harden older sprinters for the first time.

Hayes

Well-beaten seventh. He apparently didn’t like the ground.

Two G1 wins for rider Rob Hornby in two days. Nice to see after he was taken off subsequent Irish Derby winner Westover.

CorridorZ75 · Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:59 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:03 am Forgive my ignorance, but...what are "slot welfare purses?"

The way NYRA can afford to offer a purses of $700,000 and $1 million for Belmont Oaks and Derby as well as ridiculous MSW purses is due to money coming in from Resorts World slots, NOT racing handle. Same with Kentucky stuff- they just call it historical racing, but they are still slots. Parx and other less prestigious tracks can afford to have "big" days and pretty much stay in business only because of legislated welfare from incoming slots money.

Just remember this (along with the vast amounts of state and federal money that is given to agriculture) when certain people in racing sneer at the "nanny state" and "welfare queeens".

BaroqueAgain1 · Sat Jul 09, 2022 2:18 pm

I would guess that these gambling (slots) establishments are making a LOT of money, so seeing some off their profits turned over to maintain horse racing is a good thing, IMHO. IIRC, when gambling destinations cut out the racetrack next door from sharing any monies, the track...and all the owners/trainers/riders...suffer.

ThreeMustangs · Sat Jul 09, 2022 2:34 pm

Lovely photo of Alcohol Free by Michael Harris.

https://twitter.com/mjyharris/status/15 ... 3hzadPpH0w