| 20 Apr
| While we are thinking about trainers' types lets consider
Alan Jarvis. He's not a 'build' guy and prefers taller, rangier types and
can live with them being a bit light-framed (try looking at Wise Dennis
to get a handle on this). His filly here was Right
Price and she was the best physical type in the group. The link
goes to her picture and she's the polar opposite of the very slightly chunky
but short Kyllorien. Taller, mature but narrow bodied although ok athleticism.
You could almost think about betting on her until you think about the trainer's
inability to get them mentally straight for debut. In the same way that
trainer's buy physical types they produce them with characteristic attitudes
on debut. Hannon turns out happy, relaxed sheep for the most part and this
contributes to his below average FTO record (ok, we know his first three
runners won in 2008 but that is a clue to think about why that happened
rather than him changing his methods).
Jarvis turns out wilful, prancing nuisances on many occasions and Right
Price plays that role well. She is worth following but she's going to be
too wilful and stupid today. She loses 8 lengths at the start and never
gets into it having had a long battle with the stalls handlers to even
go in. The trainer doesn't have a smooth record of converting these better
types into winners unfortunately but she's on the 'Track' list. To make
the point further about trainers Mr Jarvis had two other debuts during
the week with Free To Choose causing an incident in the parade ring at
Newmarket and being mounted on the walk to the course on the way to giving
trouble at the start. At Kempton his Fasalee dragged two handlers around
the pre-parade ring on the way to blowing the start and general minor mayhem.
Keep the picture of Right Price in your mind and try looking at this one
of - Picture-
of Fasalee at Kempton. He's a colt so he's a bit bigger and stronger but
the same taller, narrow bodied physical set-up. The same wilful prancing.
We really are going around the same neighbourhood each year with the locals
doing the same thing with different 'toys', but still the 'same' ones nonetheless.
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