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Gm Equinauts
You have no idea the stress I’ve gone through the last two days to get the newsletters out.
I killed my phone off Sunday morning and had the Royal Ascot review to get out Monday morning knowing full well I wouldn’t have a replacement until after the 10am deadline, the only time I’d be able to get to the Apple store. How did my phone die? Well, Saturday night I nearly blew up my Weber BBQ. I was cooking some very expensive, juicy ribeye steaks with friends to celebrate the end of Royal Ascot and mustn’t have cleaned out the fat drip tray underneath. One thing led to another and basically the whole thing ended up on fire, as did nearly everything else in my garden.
My Mrs thinks I have a warped concept of money and the value of things (which I imagine has an element of truth in it when one is conditioned to moving size daily, clips equal to the notional figure of the BBQ cost), and so Sunday’s penance was cleaning my mess. Nothing a big bucket of hot, soapy water couldn’t fix. 30mins of scrubbing and giving it a good bit of elbow grease (no pun intended), the bucket of water was looking dirty af but the BBQ was looking triple A rated.
I was quite proud of my efforts ngl and, naturally like any man would, I wanted a little recognition for my efforts but my Mrs’ attitude was that I shouldn’t have nearly cooked the BBQ in the first place and that I was still an idiot. Which is fair enough because right there and then, I proved her right by emptying the manky water out on the lawn and out with it came my phone. Fuck knows how it got in there, but I reckon it must have been in there for about 20 mins. I think the only way it could have possibly happened is I took a call, probably about a horse, whilst scrubbing and thinking it was a sponge, just chucked it in the bucket by mistake. To save a thousand-pound BBQ, I wreck a thousand-pound phone, funny how things work out. I needed a new one anyway, but I could have done without the ball ache and cost. Which brings me back around to the concept of value of money.
Trading, whether its spreading betting stocks with leverage or putting risk on a handicap plot at Newton Abbott on a Tuesday morning, can quickly normalise the abnormal and desensitise you to the true value of the money you’re risking. A good reality check is to bet with cash for a week. Physical paper in store. Clicking a few buttons on your phone screen without seeing the money leave your bank (either incumbent or betting bank) is all too easy and using cash – holding and feeling the cash, might just make you think twice about your betting habits.
Anyway, this intro is already too long so need to wrap it up but if you want me to write more about psychopathy and risk, leave some feedback on Twitter and I will. Let’s dive in.
Headline roundup
Backing off Baaeed
Now the dust has settled post-Royal Ascot, trainers and racing managers have provided clues as to where some horses might be heading next.
REAL WORLD, who finished close in behind BAAEED in the Queen Mary, is set to step up in trip to the Coral Eclipse.
Don’t forget, REAL WORLD clocked the fifth fastest final two furlongs of the whole meeting and his trip to Sandown would be his first race away from Baaeed in the UK season. Is this his chance!?
The Godolphin five-year-old will be joined by the French Derby victor VADENI, who will be supplemented for the race and following their battle in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes, State Of Rest and Bay Bridge are both well, but connections are still undecided about their immediate future.
Inspired?
Cheveley Park’s racing manager, Chris Richardson, has floated the possibility that their star mare, INSPIRAL, could take on the colts soon than we think.
Speaking with Sky Sports, Richardson told Sky Sports: “It’s pretty much up for discussion, I think. Obviously, that (Falmouth) is the logical next step, but there are other races to consider and we haven’t yet had the conversation. We’re still just reflecting and enjoying the moment.
More: https://www.attheraces.com/news/2022/June/20/brilliant-inspiral-has-cheveley-park-on-cloud-nine
That’s a dive, ref!
Honestly, if someone told me Adam Wedge took a dive off CAPTAIN IVAN for the bookies yesterday, I’d believe them. Now, he may well have just been unbalanced but going by the footage, it looked suspect, if not just incredibly weak! Don’t get me wrong, Adam Wedge is a good jockey…when he’s trying, (‘when he’s trying’ being the operative here) but everyone knows he’s as bent as they come and more often than not, rides to owners’ instruction, so Wedge diving off a horse is more than believable.
CAPTAIN IVAN, who was sent off as the 11/10 favourite in race two at Southwell yesterday, and Wedge was dismounted at the first. Check it out yourself and watch the whole thread, the loose horse goes on to cause a bit of chaos and it's quite funny.
Thread to watch:
Gay away again
Since the start of this newsletter a month ago, we’ve been helping Gay Kelleway raise funds for her Ukraine horse campaign. She’s off to Eastern Europe again this weekend, this time taking a small team with her. Former champ, Willie Carson and Hollie Doyle’s dad, Mark are two of the volunteers going out to feed the animals.
I spoke to Gay this morning and she’d like to thank every single one of you who has donated. In the first week of fundraising, we raised about 10k for her cause and she said every penny of BGP donations went on bedding for the horses out there.
Gay will be at Brighton today where she has two runners with EW chances and will be interviewed by Racing TV about her upcoming trip. We’re going to do another fundraiser this weekend too so we best find you some winners.
Risk On
17.45 HILL STATION
I’m sure this is a plot. Moore won this race last year with a flat horse of a very, very similar profile – several crap runs on the flat for a basement flat mark and crucially, get track fit. Queally was last to sit on both horses ahead of hurdle debut and if you want a horse looked after, he’s your man.
It’s an incredibly speccy play at 6’s as I wouldn’t like to guess Gary Moore, he’s the master of disguise, but this looks laid out for it and he’s got the best pedigree for jumps in a bad, bad race to boot.
18.00 A TASTE OF HONEY
Short but should win for inform yard and jock after a good debut.
18.20 GENTLE CONNECTIONS
Short again, but this should just be leverage.
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