Deep Pockets Required.They fell over themselves to tell you of the certainties racing on Saturday.Manhattan Rain at blood-red odds (jumped in the air and found yet another way to lose his race), How many times is that he's let punters down?Nicconi (couldn't be beaten, they said- ran an awful race... probably off to Europe after this... now what's in store for him? The Newmarket?)Alverta creamed the mares again. Hindsight, that wonderful sense, struck again as I sat in the gloom of Randwick. My g
Deep Pockets Required.
They fell over themselves to tell you of the certainties racing on Saturday.
Manhattan Rain at blood-red odds (jumped in the air and found yet another way to lose his race), How many times is that he's let punters down?
Nicconi (couldn't be beaten, they said- ran an awful race... probably off to Europe after this... now what's in store for him? The Newmarket?)
Alverta creamed the mares again.
Hindsight, that wonderful sense, struck again as I sat in the gloom of Randwick.
My goodness, that mare stretched Takeover Target - was it early last year?
And she was in proven hard form, and she was being offered at sevens in some quarters.
A Randwick duck put me off (none from three, but one was that run behind the champion). I wonder when I'll learn about class...
Speaking of class: top-class mare Zarita mashed the ordinary lot at the Valley. Now that was expected.
The Jackal was again slipped north and again beat a decent field. He did it last year.
Henry Ford once said "History is bunk".
He was wrong, of course, and, in the case of racehorses, very wrong.
They'll go on doing what they do. The winners will repeat, and so will the losers most of the time.
Those words of Steve SImpson (Always Back Winners) so many years back should haunt us after yesterday:
Back a horse to do exactly what it has done before. Winners will continue to win and losers... well, we know the rest.