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| Horse | SP | [EST] | LB | Run | Wnr | Shp | Trainer | Dw | Hf | LBL | Run Notes | ||||
| 1 | Show Stealer | 3.5 | 18.0 | - | 1 | N | R. Guest | 2 | 0.0 | ||||||
| 2 | Auxiliary | 3.5 | 21.5 | 0.5 | 3 | N | W. J. Haggas | 5 | 0.0 | Drift 3/1, | |||||
| 3 | Whitman | 2.75 | 15.5 | 2.5 | 1 | M | M. Johnston | 1 | 0.0 | Supp 10/3, | |||||
| 4 | Raj To Riches | 1.5 | -5.5 | 9.5 | 7 | P. D. Evans | 4 | 0.0 | Supp 7/4, | ||||||
| NR | Tazaayud | M. P. Tregoning | 3 | NR = Self Cert (Knocked Joint). Declared 09:15am. | |||||||||||
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GGF in early am as on Decs. Watering but no details given. GStick reading from 06:30am and 12hrs before the race. Rail Out by 3 yards from 6f to 2.5f out. Not estimate given of the extra distance covered. === Pre Race === Whitman a Darley owner bred out of a Group class dam who ran for Godolphin. Like, what seems, a good number of such types for the owners she has produced little ar stud to date. Not that many foals and just 2 x mior winners. Picture of Whitman on MaJo website makes him look about smaller medium. But, deep bodied and strongly made as you would hope would come down from the Dubawi-Poet's Voice side. Trainer Rae Guest has a very good record with his 2yos in the last few seasons from smaller sets of runners. Getting FTO wins and places a regular and a profit backing all his 2yos FTO in the last 3 years. A number of those wins haven't been highly tuned and have been better types, in context, able to win and perhaps assisted by the race falling apart a bit. Given the way RTR & Auxiliary reduced themselves to walking in the last 1f here previously (in tough conditions) then some chance for Show Stealer to get behind and be able to come through for a win? The filly that did that to RTR last time here sold for £340k without being asked to show anything else. Breeze Video for SStealer show a smallish (smaller medium?) and compact one and typical ready looking type of sire. Ok deep and strong and interesting to compare her to Whitman in PRev. Seems a bit leggy for her body size and set-up and used that ok. Probably just a medium cadence and looks green at times and gets unbalanced. Suspect just a so-so breeze time. See how she compares for size here but seems an average prospect to be staying on past the standard set here if the Colts run in such a way they cannot see out the final 0.5f uphill. === Post Race === Raj To Riches 6/4f from 7/4. There must be better ways to fritter money away. RTR hasn't stayed 5f properly in any of his races and back here to a 5.3f course with an uphill finish and a roller-coaster section to a sharp downhill to encourage him to over-race. Which he did and gone soon inside the last 2f. Looking in ok condition and TP early and clm. But the narrowest of the 4 and probably wighs the least. 60s if he stays and lacking scope. Vulnerable to many things, including himself. Auxiliary looking like he had bulked up a bit but not looking like he was handling the track, or some negative attitude. A bit adrift in 4th inside the last 2f and rolling about going nowhere. Finally consented to run forward abit and closing on the tiring newcomers by the last 50yds. Show Stealer up to the standard required to plug on to a win in 'Guest FTO success Style' without looking tuned or a 'bigger one'. With RTR collpsing early for him and Auxiliary unco-operative until too late SStealer left with the task of staing on past the smaller but ok built Whitman as he faded inthe last 0.5f. Another one of those low level BTON races which are grimly fascinating because nothing is good enough to 'just WIN baby'. Treat the four horses as 'Top Trump Cards' and fiddle with the going, wind direction, race pace, greenness, build, fitness, etc etc and any one of the 4 could win. Would not have taken much to go differently for any of the first 3 home to have won. A bit too much 'minor chaos' intervening to really 'like' this sort of event. Other than for what it can teach you. |