The Racing Post’s Sunday headline. Looking back on a remarkable day’s sport at Ascot…
“Everything” for some – a long way from “everything” for many. I am referring, of course, to the equine and human protagonists. Those who paid their money and clicked through the turnstiles will have been royally entertained amidst those royal acres….
200/1 followed later on by 100/1….
You take your chances, and sometimes those Racing Gods dispense a left field favour or three…
Fantastic that those other Gods of influence, the Weather ones, played ball this time around. And there was no laboured squelching through ground that had gone…
A time of year when it is no shock to see a shock or three. Long seasons under the saddle. Very few sit down in front of their Programme Books in the spring and map a path to Ascot in October. Hard battles have been fought along the way and through High Summer, and so no surprise that plenty have done their running before this Championship card…
A mighty last hurrah for some. The tell tale signs that a long season has taken its toll for others…
Compelling. Dramatic. Great fun. Well done Ascot…
And that baton now passed through sweaty palms to the National Hunt boys and girls as pretty much every road now leads to the Cotswolds in March…
We have a few still to run. And torrential rain right now is welcome for sure…
MASSIMO BLUE a little unlucky on Saturday not to notch his second win in three days. The gap appeared in the wrong place and the winner had flown. But a horse in good order who looks set for a decent Winter campaign…
DANGER ALERT to Bath later. Charlie Bishop up. He’s fine on rain softened…
Nick Luck and William Haggas looking back on Champions Day. Worth a watch…
