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Thursday 3 September 2009

4th September 2009 Kempton

5.45 CELTIC CONTRACTORS NURSERY (DIV I) (CLASS 5)(2yo 0-70) Winner £2,267 11 runners 6f
85 Candyfloss Girl
85 Point To Prove
75 Precious Coral 2nd 15-8

6.20 CELTIC CONTRACTORS NURSERY (DIV II) (CLASS 5)(2yo 0-70) Winner £2,267 11 runners 6f
83 Fasilight
69 Do More Business
69 Wigan Lane 3rd 5-1

6.50 LETCHWORTH COURIERS EBF MAIDEN STAKES (CLASS 4)(2yo) Winner £5,181 9 runners 1m
60 Slasl

7.20 MIDLAND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT EBF MAIDEN FILLIES´ STAKES (CLASS 4)(2yo) Winner £5,181 12 runners 6f
No All Weather Ratings

7.50 CELTIC CONTRACTORS EBF FILLIES´ CONDITIONS STAKES (CLASS 3)(2yo) Winner £7,477 8 runners 7f
No All Weather Ratings

8.20 WEATHERBYS PRINTING APPRENTICE HANDICAP (FINAL ROUND) (CLASS 4)(3yo+ 0-85) Winner £4,985 11 runners 1m
91 Bomber Command 1st 7-1
91 Buddy Holly
90 Laudatory

8.50 CELTIC CONTRACTORS HANDICAP (CLASS 3)(3yo+ 0-95) Winner £7,353 9 runners 1m3f
94 Safari Sunup 2nd 8-1
92 Jabal Tariq
88 Bugaku
88 Sounds Of Jupiter

9.20 EVENTMASTERS.CO.UK BOOK CORPORATE HOSPITALITY AT TWICKENHAM HANDICAP (CLASS 5)(4yo+ 0-70) Winner £2,590 13 runners 2m
89 Warrior Conquest
88 Mista Rossa
87 Colourful Move
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4th September 2009 Lingfield

2.20 WITHYHAM MEDIAN AUCTION MAIDEN STAKES (CLASS 6)(2yo) Winner £2,730 12 runners 1m
89 Rare Malt 2nd 13-8
75 Taper Jean Girl
69 Primrose Bankes

2.50 COLEMANS HATCH HANDICAP (DIV I) (CLASS 6)(3yo 0-55) Winner £2,388 14 runners 7f
88 Jonnie Skull 3rd 13-2
79 Artesium 1st 16-1
79 Elusive Ronnie

3.20 HOLTYE MEDIAN AUCTION MAIDEN STAKES (CLASS 6)(3-5yo) Winner £2,730 8 runners 5f
77 Chantilly Jewel 1st 7-1
65 Chenin
52 Little Lost

3.50 BURSTOW HANDICAP (CLASS 3)(3yo+ 0-95) Winner £7,771 12 runners 6f
94 Jaconet 1st 8-1
94 Street Power 2nd 11-10
90 Fault

4.20 COLEMANS HATCH HANDICAP (DIV II) (CLASS 6)(3yo 0-55) Winner £2,388 14 runners 7f
87 Come On Buckers
85 Fitz 1st 10-3
80 Commandingpresence

4.50 FELBRIDGE HANDICAP (CLASS 3)(3yo 0-90) Winner £7,771 9 runners 1m2f
90 Brett Vale
87 Mutamaashi 2nd 85-40
82 Fullback

5.20 HARTFIELD HANDICAP (CLASS 4)(3yo+ 0-85) Winner £5,828 9 runners 1m4f
94 Becausewecan Non-Runner
93 Brief Look 1st 4-5
73 Evident Pride 3rd 20-1

5.50 NUTLEY NURSERY (CLASS 4)(2yo 0-85) Winner £5,181 9 runners 5f
92 Six Diamonds 3rd 5-2
87 Lucky Mellor 2nd 14-1
84 Six Wives
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Horse Racing - Trip Down Memory Lane

As there is no AWT racing until Monday 13th I decided to do some research and while thumbing through some old racing books found an old page from Raceform which bought back a great memory from my past carefully folded within the pages.

How attractive a proposition was Pipssalio. Still a Maiden after 4 outings, its 3 outings as a 2yo read beaten 16 lengths in Class 5 3k Novice, beaten 16 lengths in a Class 6 2k Maiden, Beaten 14 lengths in a Class 4 3k Maiden. 1 outing as a 3yo beaten ½ length in a Class 4 4k Handicap. Looked to be way out of its depth being entered in a Class 3 14k Handicap. Pipssalio was 10lb out of the handicap and the jockey (Francis Norton) was putting up 2lb over weight.

My speed figures told me a different story. In fact I can remember being so bullish I was nailing my colours to the mast on all the forums and to the Raceform. This for me was the outstanding bet of the following day, the outstanding bet of the week and of the month. I went to bed unable to sleep with anticipation for the following day fully confident I would be making a lot of money. As soon as I got up on the day of the race I started checking the prices to ensure the tissue given the evening before was correct. Pipssalio was still 20-1.

The time of the race had arrived and in horror I watched as Pipssalio fell out of the stalls. By the time they had reached half-way in the 1 mile contest it was flat to the boards well adrift of the rest of the field with Franny Norton rowing away and beating the horse to death!

My feelings at the time were partly embarrassment due to the comments I had made on various forums , partly anger and all confidence in my ability to create meaningful speed figures gone in 60 seconds but being the eternal optimist still a slither of hope.

With 2 furlongs to go Pipssalio started to reduce the gap. With a furlong to go the rest of the field started to paddle and Pipssalio appeared to have sprouted wings and was closing on the leaders at an unbelievable rate. As they flashed passed the post Franny Norton had driven Pipssalio between the two leaders to make a three way photo finish. Even though I believed Pipssalio had got there it was going to be on the nod. Pipssalio got the verdict beating 2nd Everest by a short-head who in turn had beaten 3rd Tumbleweed Tor by a short-head.

That is the margin of winning and losing. The difference between the feeling of abject failure and believing you can walk on water.