Equinties - the weekender

Gm Equinauts

Yesterdays Young Blood highlighted some really favourable pedigrees on display, four of which featured in the Newmarket 18.00, filling 1st and 2nd.

And nooo, this isn't a flex, we’re telling you to watch the race back and make notes!

MACDUFF is by SEA THE STARS and o/o PRESENT TENSE who wasn’t good herself but is a half sister to KINGMAN (KINGMAN is a half brother to OASIS DREAM’s dam) so its from a very good Juddmonte family. He took a long while to get going, so much so the books were offering 20’s in play, but he stayed on powerfully to win comfortably by half a length.

BROADWAY ACT represented the Godolphin stable, he’s by first season sire TOO DARN HOT o/o a Listed winner who is a full sister to Irish 2000 Guineas winner RODERIC O’CONNOR. He followed MACDUFF home but had the race been any further he’dve been left for dust. That said, the Godolphin yard have been a little off with debutants this year so he could be anything next season.

SUPERPOSITION is a nice horse by STS and o/o a Gr3 winning dam. He works with HAUNTED DREAM at home already at 2yo… The only trouble is they're all trained by Ed Dunlop who, lets be honest, gets a lot of smart horses but not the results. If Shaggas had this horse, he’d be a max next time out.

Anyway, that was yesterday and todays Saturday so let's dive in.

BGP FANTASY LEAGUE COMP

We’ve been hyping up the TOTE’s new Fantasy game since we found it. Why? Simply because there is nothing else out there now which can help people cage the betting chimp while maintaining an emotional interest in the big races of the day.

People bet way too much and the Fantasy allows you to get limited risk on, fill your brain up with the dope it craves and still be in the mix for a big win.

If we hit 300 stables today, top of the BGP private league comes golfing with BGP Capital - we’ll run the comp until someone wins!

HEADLINE ROUND UP

The Brighton nightmare

Concluding our trilogy of Brighton Racecourse news, yesterday got plenty of attention for all the wrong reasons due to stall handlers not getting out of bed early enough and foggy weather constraints.

Beginning with the first race, a 5f race full of experienced sprinters, a flip start was required to send them on their way as the stall handlers were stuck in traffic.

Flip starts for sprint flat racing need to go in the bin. Wtf is everyone thinking allowing this?! It’s just so mind-boggling stupid.

As you'd expect when a load of wound up flat racers get closely grouped together, one of them (in fact, it was a Tony Carroll runner who people would gave backed) didn't want to play ball spun around when the flag came down which caused multiple others to miss the start.

After the farcical opener, there was no more racing to be had at the seaside track as the stewards held three separate inspections over two hours until they decided that it should be abandoned due to poor visibility.

With a sight like this, no surprises really. Brighton and the BHA need to take a long hard look at themselves after yesterday. An utter joke to everyone connected to the horses and the punting public.

Anyway, that’s the Brighton news done for a year.

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