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Thursday 1 October 2009

2nd October 2009 Lingfield

1.35 C BREWER & SONS HANDICAP (DIV I) (CLASS 6)(3yo 0-65) Winner £1,706 10 runners 1m2f
100.6% Waahej 2nd 3-1
98.7% Queen Of Thebes
98.4% Transformer 1st 5-2

2.05 C BREWER & SONS HANDICAP (DIV II) (CLASS 6)(3yo 0-65) Winner £1,706 10 runners 1m2f
101.3% Rosco Flyer
100.5% Primo Dilettante
99.8% Molly The Witch Non-Runner

2.40 DOUGLAS REGAN MAIDEN AUCTION FILLIES´ STAKES (CLASS 6)(2yo) Winner £2,730 11 runners 1m
100.4% Charpoy Cobra 3rd 7-4
100.2% Folletta 2nd 7-2
95.0% Houda Non Runner

3.15 BUXTON BUILDIT SELLING STAKES (CLASS 6)(3yo) Winner £2,047 14 runners 7f 100.2% Ridgeway Silver
99.6% Thurston
99.5% Vamos

3.50 CHILANO MEDIAN AUCTION MAIDEN STAKES (CLASS 6)(2yo) Winner £2,730 10 runners 5f
99.6% Noble Greek 3rd 4-7
99.2% I´Malwaysright Non Runner
97.8% Bush Master 2nd 8-1

4.25 NATIONAL CENTRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY HANDICAP (CLASS 5)(3yo+ 0-75) Winner £3,412 12 runners 6f
101.8% Billy Red 1st 9-2
101.5% Hellbender 3rd 7-2
101.5% Musical Script

5.00 NCYPE HANDICAP (DIV I) (CLASS 6)(3yo 0-60) Winner £1,706 14 runners 1m4f
102.4% Arty Crafty 1st Eve
101.6% Honorable Endeavor
101.1% Flirty

5.35 NCYPE HANDICAP (DIV II) (CLASS 6)(3yo 0-60) Winner £1,706 14 runners 1m4f 100.7% The Saucy Snipe
100.6% Valkyrie 3rd 20-1
100.6% Largem
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2nd October 2009 Wolverhampton

5.50 LADBROKES.COM HANDICAP (CLASS 5)(3yo 0-70) Winner £2,914 12 runners 7f32y 101.5% Integria
100.6% Markhesa
100.5% Amber Sunset

6.20 GREAT OFFERS AT WOLVERHAMPTON-RACECOURSE.CO.UK HANDICAP (CLASS 6)(3yo+ 0-60) Winner £2,730 13 runners 5f20y
100.9% Monsieur Reynard 2nd 7-2
100.7% Metal Guru 1st 11-4
100.6% Cayman Fox

6.50 BET IN PLAY AT LADBROKES.COM HANDICAP (CLASS 6)(3yo+ 0-65) Winner £2,730 13 runners 1m5f194y
100.5% Dazzling Begum
100.2% Galiotto 3rd 9-1
100.1% Stormy Morning

7.20 STAY AT THE WOLVERHAMPTON HOLIDAY INN CLAIMING STAKES (CLASS 6)(3yo+) Winner £2,730 13 runners 5f216y
101.4% Charles Parnell
100.5% Come On Buckers
100.3% Fyodor Non runner

7.50 BET AFTER THE OFF AT LADBROKES.COM HANDICAP (CLASS 4)(3yo+ 0-85) Winner £5,046 10 runners 5f20y
101.2% Nickel Silver
101.0% Feelin Foxy
100.9% Dametime

8.20 HOTEL & CONFERENCING AT WOLVERHAMPTON HANDICAP (CLASS 5)(3yo+ 0-75) Winner £3,238 11 runners 1m1f103y
101.8% Supercast
101.5% Benedict Spirit
101.5% Quick Release 2nd 9-1

8.50 LADBROKESCASINO.COM MAIDEN AUCTION STAKES (CLASS 6)(2yo) Winner £2,730 9 runners 1m141y
100.1% Venutius 1st 7-4
99.3% Forshour
99.1% Magneto 3rd 22-1

9.20 LADBROKESPOKER.COM HANDICAP (CLASS 4)(3yo+ 0-80) Winner £5,046 8 runners 1m141y
101.6% Kildare Sun
101.5% Spinning 2nd 5-1
101.4% Spate River 1st 5-4
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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.