posted Jun 19, 2009

What obvious pace? As I said EW would've went a crawl and tried to nick it. The furious pace set up what IMO is the best performance of the week so far.

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posted Jun 19, 2009

i said after newmarket that i would follow ghaanati under similar conditions and she didnt disappoint,2nd course record on the trot as well

elusive wave set slow fractions in the french 1000 and sprinted clear to win ,but was found out today i a true 1 mile test and she couldnt handle it,simple as that.

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posted Jun 19, 2009

3 records in 4 years actually, pretty sure Nannina set one too.

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posted Jun 19, 2009

Thought this was how pacemakers should be ran, unlike The Derby which was pretty farcical having pacemakers employ a slow pace.

The only thing that they could do is couple them and allow thee pacemaker to come over and let others do battle or there is going to be arguments.

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posted Jun 19, 2009

A side point....Ghannti was very impressive today.

Cant believe it won so easily....

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posted Jun 19, 2009

I have one simple question for the advocates of pacemakers. Why should a horse that can only be ridden from the front be massively disadvantaged by these pacemakers?? Horses such as Attraction and Shamardal could only be ridden from the front end so realistically their careers could have been ruined by these pacemakers??

Also don't horses have a person called a jockey on board who should be allowed to use their superior riding skills i.e correct judgement of fractions off the front end which should figure in the art of horse racing and jockeymanship??

Why should horse racing only suit horses that want to be held up off the pace?? A horse should be able to win from any position in the field but this pacemaker today Chintz vastly reduced Elusive Wave's performance. Ghanaati was the best horse in the race today but Elusive Wave could well have finished second without the pacemaker and that is unaccepatble on the owners and trainer of Elusive Wave.

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posted Jun 19, 2009

Ghanaati is a front runner too.

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posted Jun 19, 2009

Ghanaati is clearly not just a front runner and Elusive Wave clearly is a front runner as all could see with how both horses ran today!!!

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posted Jun 19, 2009

Well you should know now that Coolmore use pacemakers to see their horses have the best possible chance of winning and also try to get other horses beat.

In The Derby it led to their best chance to win The Derby affect his chances in order to help Rip van Winkle, Coolmore can do it cause they are rich enough to pay the fee.

But sometimes with no pacemakers you get muddling slow races like The Prince Of Wales Stakes, with all these course records being smashed that race made a farce of the clock.

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posted Jun 21, 2009

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