BRITISH 2yo RACING - 2015 Season Race Result
	Race 332 : Sat, July 18th Newbury 3:45, 5.1f Novice (2), "The Supersprint"
2015 Season Home 2015 Results	[Est] is the B2yoR Rating. Green indicates a 55+ level, Cream between 30 & 54, Pink less than 30. Wnr = previous/LATER 2yo Winner. Letter is Race Type. Hf = Position at Halfway. Green indicates making places to the finish. GOING TIME RcPc Video VP GFG 60.76 [Compare] 1 Link None

SUMMARY

GFG from GGF on Decs. Stalls Centre. Medium WSW Wind = 3/4 Headwind. === Pre Race === Full quotes from Fahey & Hannon at the bottom of the Result Summary below. Too lengthy to put at top. === Post Race === Jk Hamilton interviewed afterwards blaming himself for Lathom's poor run in the Windsor Castle saying he made a mistake in trying to go the pace with Ruby Notion Fading off a too fast pace. This repeating Fahey's point in his SLife piece. Fahey also blaming the jk for pressing Lathom on to race too early STO. Jk Hamilton saying the hold up tactics here allowing the horse to show what he can really do. In a version of the race lacking obvious Group types then Lathom is presumably not far away from his OR88 which he came into the race with. Will he go up for this? Hamilton seeming to suggest he would have ridden Lathom even if he were not Fahey's best propsect in the race. Suggesting he would have been loyal to owner Armstrong (given he has a good number of the btter horses in the yard). Picture above shows the position after about 1.5f run. As often seems to happen at NWBY there is a 'Strong Side' Group on the Far Side who broke well together and got taken along by Hawatif (another MaJo runner going too hard in a big field) in yellow on the Far Side. Hawatif attended by Great Page (light blue near side of Hawatif) & favourite Excessable (White & Red Far side). The Centre Track runners are a bit behind the Far Side Leaders then there is a 'Weak Side' group towards the Stands side who are spread back with Force Awakens (light blue, yellow Cap) one from last and perhaps 5 visual lengths down on the leader (if Hughes were riding he would say he was 10-12L back). Imagine a See-Saw placed on its side witht he Pivot Pont in Centre track about wher winner Lathom is (all red). The long plank making up to see-saw is then Down where the Far Side runners are leading and up where the Stragglers are on the Stands Side. Keep that Visual in mind and during the rest of the Race you see the Too Strong Pace Pressure on the Far Side causing those runners to fade late on and the Centre & Stands Group start to Close up. As it does so you can imagine the See-Saw plank coing down to be Angled roughly level staright up the track. Saying that the Centre track runners were on a 'Good' Pivot Point and a Usable pace. Those Far Side went too Hard and the Stands Side runners perhaps were a bit too cautious with their Pace. The 'Pivot Point' of where Usable Pace tips into 'Too Strong' is very smal and probably not much more than 1-3L visible in a 5f race like this. As an athlete the point where you go from running hard but 'within yourself' and then up the pace to be 'Too Fast & into-the-red' and your final performance starts to lessen is a bit wider than a single point but not much more. You don't degrade gracefully once put intot he red. Witht hat background where did the first 3 comefrom and what can you infer from theri performance by how they ran relative to the horses around them and versus the others Group. Lathom is in red in Centre Picture on the Picot Point, Field Of Vision is about 0.5L ahead of Lathom and to his immediate right (in front of the lime green colours. Mr Lupton does best of the Weak Side Closers is 2 from last in the Green & White. The Leadign trio on the Far Side where 3 of the 5 shortest SPs including the favourite and Excessable got to a clear lead but folded in the last 0.5f. Wrong Place on the Pressure See-Saw but mor 'Minor Chaos' which means that inr acing the best horse often doesn't win. Which is what makes horse racing a good betting medium. Mind you, if jks knew how fast they were going and 'ran their own race' rather than reacting to those around them things would be a bit different. Just need someone to invent a 'Power Meter' for galloping horses that the jk can look at. Or even just a Speedometer and the figure could be put on screen for viewer entertainment. etc, etc.. === Pre Race Quotes === Fahey SL quotes = "Tony Hamilton rides Lathom, who looks our strongest contender. He won on debut and was a little unlucky at Beverley next time when he got racing very early. We took him to Royal Ascot for the Windsor Castle but like any horse that tried to lay up with the American runner that day he paid the price in the final furlong. He’s a horse we like. Powerallied won early in the season and we put him away for nurseries but the handicapper could have been kinder as he was given an initial mark of 78 for winning a four-runner race. There’s been nothing wrong with him, he’s as fit as a lop and ready to run. He’s a likeable, tough horse and it would be nice to see him finish in the money. Mr Lupton ran well at York last week when finishing third in a nursery. The race happened away from him a bit that day and he’s another who should be in with a shout of picking up some prize money. Sunnua has run to a nice level of form. She was green on debut at Hamilton and then beaten by a nice horse of James Bethell’s at Pontefract. She’s by Dark Angel and they usually improve with time and racing and I hope there should be more to come from her. Jessie B Goode doesn’t show a lot at home but improved from her Pontefract debut to finish third at Carlisle next time. We were pleased with that run and she’s entitled to take her chance here. David’s Duchess is a filly we like, we think she’s better than her form to date suggests. She didn’t get the trip first time then did everything right at Ripon only to be denied in a photo finish. She’s another likeable sort. Force Awakens is a nice filly by Raven’s Pass. She was touched off at Hamilton last time and while she may appreciate further in the future, this is a big pot and there’s money down to tenth so she must take her chance. Back To Bond is a homebred horse who had his first two starts at York. He then finished third in a Thirsk maiden and is a tough sort who will always give his best.". Hannon quotes from his website = "The race looks a bit short on quality this year, but there will still be a full field of 25 so we know it won't be easy to win it again. Great Page looks the one with solid form. She was trying what we now know was an impossible task in giving weight to Illuminate at Salisbury, but she bounced back to win a Listed race at Naas and she was then not disgraced when fourth in a G3 at The Curragh, where the first three slightly got away from us and she never really got a crack at them. She won at Windsor on fastish ground, so the conditions are not a worry and she missed the July meeting to wait for this. Receding Waves won't mind the ground either. He improved from Redcar to topple the hot favourite at Chepstow, so he is going the right way. Similarly, Belvoir Bay won in good style at Windsor and looks a filly who is on the way up, while Racquet, though disappointing when favourite at Salisbury last time, had earlier won well on the same track, so [s]he, too, would be in with a chance of getting in the money".

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