2.05 Kempton Autumn Spirit went out in the betting to 7.6 and I duly lumped on--- was running such a great race was watching like a mouse in a bottle and was brilliant until she fell at the last. The winner of both her starts in similar company this season, she was up another 9lb but responded well to a really positive ride. Prior to the final obstacle her jumping was good,getting most of her rivals in trouble from some way out. She simply knuckled on landing ---
Lesser grade race at Plumpton by a long way 4.05 was taken by the improved form of Hawk Gold who was clean and mean at the hdles under a decent ride by the conditional David Bass who got it wrong methinks - held up looking totally happy made good headway to challenge, but his effort flattened out and his rider will no doubt be wishing he´d held on to him for longer.They will have learned from this and it will go in for sure
but those were all I saw that were positives --
as to the two races we discussed this morning First Avenue looks a total bridle horse on this showing and looks a BTL - he jumped sloppy and may have been given too much to do by this claimer travelling well into contention to show nothing when let down - can do better but needs a canny Jock
My each way selection Points of View travelled strongly till 4 out which he decided to eat and faded... -
another interesting ride came from Conor O´Farrell, The Stewards held an enquiry to consider whyrider of Laustra Bad, appeared to stop riding shortly after the last hurdle. Having heard his evidence and viewed recordings of the race, they found him inbreach of Rule (B)59.3.2.1 and guilty of failing to ride out on a horse that would have finished sixth. They suspended him for two days. ummm David Pipe horse and one to watch
did you see anything worthy of a note or two?
Bob
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The race with First Avenue was from my point of view maybe to much pace for the horse. When watching the race, i see that the horse finishes really strong, but it was too far away from the rest. Mayb needs a step up in distance?
To My mind he needs a jockey with experience - certainly he want to get away from the lad and became unbalanced - travelled strongly and yes he did the distance well and out of Montjeu will certainly benefit from a step up but its a classy jockey will be looking for because he will def go into most notebooks as a bridle horse
What is a bridle horse? Looking at the personal history of the horse, he always is off the pace and finishing just in the places, because its just a bit too far away.
Im not from england ;)
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