Equinties - Amo keeps firing

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In the next few days, I will be releasing more detail on BGP Capital – the investment syndicate, and give all the opportunity to register their interest.

Let’s dive in.

Headline roundup

Racing League WEEK FOUR

This year’s Racing League is over the hill and enters the second half of the season today, this time they take a trip to Windsor.

Unfortunately, today’s fixture seems to be the worst week for declarations as no race has attracted a maximum field of 14, this is due to the poor showing from some of the sides…

Team Ireland has managed to better last week’s low total of eight runners by only sending the seven to the southern track, but at least they have horses in six of the seven races tonight, something that can’t be said about Leonna Mayor’s Yorkshire side – they are represented by five runners in just THREE races, a real kick in the balls to owners and organizers.

I’d suggest introducing penalties for incompetent managers doing shit like this, but then again they’re only shooting themselves in the foot by giving up potential winnings.

Runners and riders (a two-part thread):

Both of the top two sides, London & The South and Wales & The West, send a full squad to Windsor tonight with just one point in it at the head of the leaderboard – Matt Chapman has brought back leading rider Sean Levey for four rides:

Hannon takes a few L’s

Last month we broke the news that Amo Racing had ditched their retained rider, Rossa Ryan. Rumours are now emerging they’re pulling several high-profile horses from the Richard Hannon yard.

Stock including JUST DASHING, CHEEKY MAXI and DAZZLING GEM are supposed to be heading over the road to Alice Haynes’.

No offence to Alice Haynes but she hasn’t proven it to me yet. Hannon will be annoyed, but he won’t be losing any sleep over it. In fact, he’ll be drunk tonight and probably have a laugh about it knowing the boxes will be filled tomorrow morning.

Amo is given the bad news

More on Amo now. The boys in purple appeal against THE RIDLER’s Norfolk Stakes victory at Royal Ascot was dismissed by a panel yesterday, despite the appeals committee has called for the interference rules to be changed.

THE RIDLER caused notable interference to both CRISPY CAT and WALBANK at Royal Ascot, but no action was taken in the Stewards’ Room after the race and that has remained the case following an appeal by the owner of both horses, Kia Joorabchian (owner of Amo Racing).

The panel concluded that the interference was there for a “very short bit of time” so there was no way to tell what the horses in purple could have done – a bit of cop-out reason as you can clearly see how well CRISPY CAT, and even BRAVE NATION, were going before the incident.

Cleveland to miss the Melbourne Cup

CLEVELAND will not make the trip down under for the Melbourne Cup in November and will instead be aimed for the Irish St Leger or the Long Distance Cup, confirmed by Joseph O’Brien. 

Speaking to the Racing Post yesterday, O’Brien said: “He could run in the Irish Cesarewitch at the Curragh or the Long Distance Cup at Ascot after [the Irish St Leger], but he won't be going to Melbourne."

This is ANOTHER horse from the JOB yard that has failed the vetting. Wtf is going on?

POINT KING, a rapidly improving three-year-old by ZOFFANY who was last seen winning well in the Listed Roe Stakes last month, is the one horse being considered for Flemington’s highlight race by the yard.

More:

Oh bee-have

The intern broke his first bit of news yesterday, probably the only good thing he’s done for a while. A swarm of bees forced Worcester Racecourse to bypass multiple fences down the home straight in the first two races of their evening card yesterday.

Two fences were omitted from the opening race, whilst half of the eight flights were also skipped for the second contest of the night 35 minutes after. Tbh this was probably the right decision as some racing is mad enough without bees involved, that said I’ve backed a few horses who might run better with a sting on the arse. And jockeys tbf.

Normality resumed when the bees fucked off. Apparently, the racing was so bad, they got bored.

Risk On

15.20 IMMORTAL BEAUTY

Has been ridden held up the last twice and become more street-wise now, finishing off her races nicely. Her form lto with SUNNINGDALE in second looks strong. Small ew at 5’s.

13.30 MASTER MALACHY should just be good leverage for any trade today.

Note: 14.00 SONNING

Gambled lto before being made a nr, harder race today which is annoying but he’s getting pumped in the market again. Worth a small play to follow the money, owners seemed to have been layering in from 13’s.