You have to take it day by day but all being well he will have some fast work at
Posted in General on 20. Jul, 2010
You have to take it day by day, but, all being well, he will have some fast work at the weekend and we still hope to make it for the big race.”Godolphin also have the unbeaten Mick’s Love stored away for Epsom, and a further bulletin from the gallops yesterday suggested their Predominate Stakes winner, Don Micheletto, will be supplemented for Sunday’s Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) at Chantilly. Another son of Sadler’s Wells, he was seen stretching his joints yesterday in a three-quarter speed gallop, following his recovery from lameness.A further recent inmate from the sick bay, Mark Of Esteem, emerged from his box yesterday and will resume fast work this weekend. The damp weather in Albion had to get to the Dubai-wintered horses eventually and Godolphin’s 2,000 Guineas winner succumbed on Tuesday, when he was running a high temperature. A quick shake of the thermometer later, though, Mark Of Esteem seemed to be back in business. “He had a normal temperature this morning and is fine in himself,” Simon Crisford, Godolphin’s racing manager, said.”We opted to give him another easy day today, so we gave him a lead out. He appeared to be very bright and we hope to have him back in tack tomorrow.
When asked to display his qualities Double Leaf swept past Mellaby, and when the useful Desert Shot challenged, Double Leaf went 12 lengths clear.Despite this virtuoso offering, word from Freemason Lodge still has it that Dr Massini, the Glasgow Stakes victor on the Knavesmire, remains Stoute’s principal Derby hope. Double Leaf was the name of the colt that mobilised the bargain hunters, and by the end of the day his Epsom price had contracted to 20-1 – from 33-1 – with Ladbrokes.
Michael Stoute’s horse won on his debut as a two-year-old and his best performance – on the racecourse at least – was at York last month, when he was fifth, beaten less than three lengths, behind the Blue Riband favourite, Glory Of Dancer, in the Dante Stakes.The son of Sadler’s Wells will be partnered by Ray Cochrane, who has yet to ride him on the racecourse but was in the saddle yesterday on a Newmarket morning which opened with this year’s trademark drizzle.Double Leaf was sent the Derby way, left-handed, on the Limekilns round gallop, in company with his lead horse, Mellaby, and Desert Shot, whose rider, Greville Starkey, has a mixed scrapbook when it comes to the Blue Riband. Work-watchers scrambled away from their hides and towards their car phones following a hugely impressive trial by a horse that will run in the Derby in nine days’ time. The bushes were trembling violently on the Newmarket gallops yesterday and that was even after the wind dropped. The 10-year- old veteran Hard To Figure heads the 84 entries with 10st.. Yeast, who won the Victoria Cup over Ascot’s straight seven furlongs in April, has been alloted 8st 6lb while Victoria Cup runner up Master Charter has 7st 9lb. The three-year-old Missile has 7st 8lb, while Tregaron has 7st 12lb.
Tarawa is top weight among the 84 entries with 9st 10lb.
Jayannpee and Pivotal are the Tote’s 14-1 joint-favourites for the six furlongs Wokingham Handicap at the Royal meeting.Jayannpee, a recent winner at Newmarket and York, has 9st 7lb, while the useful three-year-old Pivotal has been given 9st 1lb. Master Charter, Missile, Yeast and Tregaron are the Tote’s 14- 1 joint-favourites for next month’s Royal Hunt Cup over the straight mile at Royal Ascot, the weights for which were released yesterday. Fortunate, then, for cricket’s public image that David Boon is to retire before next year’s Ashes tour.. No chance: it might scupper their latest modelling contract.Indeed when Gazza goes, we may well have to look to another sport to find a fool to vilify.
Worse, England’s new generation of leading lads show little sign of even trying to emulate him. Potential successors like Jamie Redknapp, David James and Steve McManaman, who call themselves the Liverpool Hombres and spend unfeasible amounts on smart suits, smarter cars and even smarter entertainments, would never allow themselves to be photographed wearing a pair of false breasts while standing on the top deck of an open bus. Why? Because they believe, and Martin McGuinness has said this publicly, that Unionists may resist, that there could be a backlash, but it would be fairly easy to “put down”.There cannot be real peace in Ireland until Irish nationalism stops trying to undermine the very existence of Northern Ireland. Adams, and the Provisionals in general, have never had a single “idea” beyond nationalism
By “ideas” Adams simply means strategic awareness. He is not seeking to persuade opponents (Unionists) that his “idea” is best, but is seeking to enlist nationalists in a broad strategy.
It is within what is broadly and somewhat lazily referred to as nationalist Ireland that the battle of ideas will be fought.
Unionists are not stupid and are well aware of what is going on. Pan- nationalism, or the nationalist consensus, call it what you will, is the single most dangerous “idea” in Ireland today. The Provisionals in their own internal document said that they were prepared to opt for an unarmed strategy because they had got Fianna Fail, the SDLP and Irish America to agree to their basic republican principles Of course they still held on to their guns and Semtex. When Adams starts talking about “ideas”, I have to work very hard to stop laughing These guys are not interested in “ideas”.