Looking forward to a good week, hopefully. An interesting start today and plenty of interesting races on the cards. First race looks tricky but the rest looking like they have something in them.
Good luck this week!
Royal Ascot 2011
I don't quite get that. Kingsgate Native is sweating so much the jockey has to stay off until the last minute and they need a towel for him, yet he doesn't drift. Do the bookies keep prices on betfair down on certain horses in order to keep SPs down on those they've had big SP bets on?
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there was quite a big move on Prohibit just before the off - shame I stuck my profit on Star witness ...
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I agree. I kept trying to lay him but there was no support at all. 'was tempted to let it go in-play.hgodden wrote:I don't quite get that. Kingsgate Native is sweating so much the jockey has to stay off until the last minute and they need a towel for him, yet he doesn't drift. Do the bookies keep prices on betfair down on certain horses in order to keep SPs down on those they've had big SP bets on?
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The plan was for him to go down early and then get off. He and plenty others were sweating and I think that is the norm for him. Reason for towelling them down is always on the neck as it makes the reins ungripable if they have sweat on.hgodden wrote:I don't quite get that. Kingsgate Native is sweating so much the jockey has to stay off until the last minute and they need a towel for him, yet he doesn't drift. Do the bookies keep prices on betfair down on certain horses in order to keep SPs down on those they've had big SP bets on?
So I think the market just thought that it wasn't too out of the ordinary more so given the weather.
Also the oncourse market is extremely strong so you won't see the market react quite as much to the TV pictures as we normally do imo.
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Can not wait to see Frankel, just hope he wins, sitting this race out and watching the whole thing on BBC HD 

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£210,900 just went through to lay Frankel at 1.36!!
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Can't believe the BBC haven't got this on HDandyfuller wrote:Can not wait to see Frankel, just hope he wins, sitting this race out and watching the whole thing on BBC HD

