Wouldn't write off that tipster just yet, just out of the money at 20-1.
Horseracing s a murky business. I was in Newmarket earlier and the town is awash with rumours that Carlton House, the favourite for Saturday's Derby, is injured and may be withdrawn..the price, I believe has drifted from 7/4 this morning to 4/1 on Betfair in consequence.
But some remember the same stable put it about Workforce needed the run and think it's just bollocks to push the price out. If the horse was really fucked, they say, it'd be 50-1 by now as everyone scrambles to lay it. Best to await the official announcement.
And, while everyone chatters about bent or incompetent jockeys, trainers who order apprentices and stable-retained riders to lose and bookies dictating the results in advance, nobody mentions a subject close to every BLers heart. Cyclists do it, athletes do it, but horses doped on ingenious chemical mixtures that fool the testers? Shhh, it never happens, ok?
3 well fancied favourites went in at Nottingham today, seemed half the town had them in yankees with the 2nd fav to Godolphin/Dettori's latest joke their fourth selection. You look at the cars lining the High Street, they don't come from dungy's wages or 15% of a £2500 prizemoney. One drunken Scottish dwarf touched his broken nose after his second toke of the cheese and advised Frequency ew at Hamilton tomorrow. No idea who he was or of his connections but the size of his wad merited a little respect.