Weighed-In | The Gordon Glint – Footsteps To The Festival Week 6

Weighed-In | The Gordon Glint – Footsteps To The Festival Week 6

Hello good morning and welcome to latest episode of bf’s Wade in podcast coming to you our usual recording time of midday on Monday po the weekend and not so much for jam-pack show little bits and pieces to pick up on with the usual boys of Tony Calvin Brandon Duke and

Kevin Blake we’ll be going through the racing performances and some news stories to one in particular which is pretty shocking and doesn’t seem to have that much coverage so stay tuned for that before we go any further don’t forget Rachel Blackmore serial winners fund is building throughout the season

And is currently at 160,000 she would have added to it this weekend uh but unfortunately she’s been suspended she did miss out on a winner but as a result it stays at 160,000 she’ll be back in Action very shortly and hopefully adding to that fund which of course is for the

Irish injured jockies and the injured jockies fan over here in England and we’ll wrap up up on National Day at aning right before we get stuck into some of the big performances from the weekend let’s say hello to the boys Kevin I shall start with you today sir

Uh how are you how was your weekend did you enjoy the Super Bowl I did I did I did a weekend the two halves had some had had a funeral to go to early in the weekend but um yeah picked up last night uh tradition of mine to watch the Super

Bowl don’t follow it all the year but um tune in for the big one and enjoy that and I very much enjoyed us um great spectacle halftime show moderate um but yeah Patrick Mahones and the swifties come out on top magnificent magnificent I saw quite a few racing racing folk there on social

Media getting I did see that actually yeah yeah yeah would be it’d be so not easy to get in there now like I was reading I think you’re s you’re certainly looked at eight or nine grand to get any sort of seat there I believe

So yeah few jockies from uh all sorts of different corners of the world and a few owners as well enjoying themselves uh Brendan Duke I had a very wholesome weekend what would you describe your weekend as yes pretty aome I’m in again Belgium uh the this weekend so I’ve been looking

Around but you can’t throw stones for hitting the church around here so I’ve been looking around in some medieval architecture but um you just you just can’t turn your back on this game Vanessa can you I mean I I I look away for a weekend bway joins the 101 GL

Charles Burns have a handicap winners at 16 to1 and the 200 to W pop goes in I mean it’s just never stops the game never stops the great game can’t tell you about you’re right Brendan do forbid you should take a holiday is that a Valentine’s Day holiday

Darl Yes actually I didn’t think I guess it is a val day that’s exactly it so there’s no no for any greater expense for Valentine’s Day it’s on it’s on Wednesday Brandon maybe get her a car okay he’s just taking a little morning sip of his bka tonic he’s on his

Valentine’s Day get he’s living his best life TC what are you doing for Valentine’s Day now that we’re on the topic I don’t know actually but I like Brendan’s idea of getting in two days earlier when it’s ch yeah yeah nicely done uh did you have a successful weekend in terms of the

Racing TC yeah it was it was okay yeah come out come out mildly in front so we’ll settle for that hey will always take mly on front for sure TC let’s start with you let’s get stuck into the weekend review and we will look at shishkin winning of course

The Denman chase at newb good card at newb nice performances from some pretty big names as well he was probably the headline acto uh we spoke about it obviously on racing only better about what was his right price given his profile given the fact he’s going to win

The King George given the dozzy jump off issue and of course he put all of that to bed but it wasn’t a 10 out of 10 performance I think has been summarized by his trainer and others no he was really weak in the market um especially

In the morning he I think he hit 2.1 I thought I saw bet for tweet out so um 11 to 10 was obviously massive considering that the class ofage he had on there but obviously that had the factor in the fact that he might have jumped off but

Yeah it wasn’t a wasn’t a 10 out of 10 performance you know he’s niggled out you know Hitman was looked to be traveling all over him up one stage but as with shiskin does one CE he once he gets on a rooll then you know he’s ultimately very impresses now what to

Make of the form I’m not so sure if you think hitman’s return to his R air thir then it’s a decent performance but through protector at it’s you can’t rate it that highly but uh I Know Dan Barber’s been bashing the uh the shishin

Gold Cup drum for a while now uh and I just think U yeah he’s he’s got a live one is he I mean he’s 8 to1 with a sports book He’s a little bit bigger on the exchange win only but yeah I can totally see it and um you know they’ve

Done remarkably well to get that horse back didn’t they mean that from that champion Chase Run two years ago and an underwhelming tingled creep R afterwards and that obviously that refused to race ascar but um yeah um I’d probably have him as the the main British hope um in

Front of L press at the moment but uh yeah he’s obviously he’s obviously not totally straightforward but like I say once nio does get in roll and needs to he does respond well he’s unchanged off the back of that win at 8 to one for the Gold Cup

Kev and he certainly adds a bit of the proceeding doesn’t he in that race in terms of his quirks his ability his record his reputation yeah it’s going to be he he provides a lot of talking points coming into the Gold Cup he does yeah yeah yeah and fairness like Tony

Says hard quite put your finger at what he’s done here um but look at he’s been up a top class horse all his life um you know getting getting on in years he he has been creaking a little bit for a couple of years but Nikki seems to have

Him in a good place at the minute um seems to be behaving himself again after what I suppose is increasingly looking like a bit of a blip at ascus in November and yeah hopefully he gets there in good shape um because we um we need as much depth as we can in these

Big races and and he will add greatly um but my main takea away from the race Now Vanessa as a as a as as an old plotter at heart I did um I I I did pause in in in commiserations for the runner up and Paul Nichols who um Hitman had being not

In the best of form and um the British handicapper had sent him into one of his um now very common rating nose Dives and if um he’s been dropped on a four or five pounds a run and uh it’ll be interesting to see what the handicapper

Does with him here he seems to you know if you want to read it um the way it looks he’ll be getting the shot back up a bit after this and he would have um he would have been some chance in the festival plate if um if he if he’ done

Things a little bit differently where I think now he might be a little bit in all man’s land now with with a view to his jum targets interesting we’ll have to wait and see what the handicapper does do with them say TC points out you know came there traveling um intriguing for

Hitman keep tabs on him Brenda let’s talk about Edward Stone because if shishkin’s performance left us all a little bit like oh maybe not what we wanted Edward Stone’s performance left us all saying wow you know change of tactics from him Revelation type territory in the game spirit in terms of

Versus the performance we saw him at over further obviously the drop back and trip the change of tactics the way in which he jumped and Tom Cannon’s face up the straight kind of said it all I loved it oh well I can imag that you would particularly love they all all racing F

Like what’s the point in following national race if you don’t get joy out of seeing one of the best Jumpers in training jumping talented horses into submission I mean because I understand why they’ve never adopted these tactics because he was a horse that used to be C

And then he ran up that sequence in being held up that ultimately be ended in in in winning winning the arle but his greatest weapon is his jumping and the best way to use that weapon is out in front but I mean this this was a

Ballsy show wasn’t it I mean he was ranking in in in Kempton so to them decide maybe they were after their wits end of course to then decide right I tell you what we’re going to do we’re just going to let him have his head and he relaxed beautifully in front just

Jump from fence to fence meber is a tough jumping track and H it was just superb stuff like Boot Hill okay maybe has an inflated rating of 158 got got it in handicap I take that point but he’s given him two rounds and he hadn’t beaten all ends up to fensive that I

Mean this horse really does add add an extra Dimension to the champion Chase because like if you were interested in in an each way bet now be top prend not NR MB I I’ll grant you that but I I don’t think I I think they will go for

The champion CH so I don’t think you need to worry about the Ryan Air entry I mean are there going to be eight runners in the right there maybe um competition for the lead I suppose you could Editor to geek gentleman to to make the May

When they even run um Elixir the nuts will run he might want to get on with it but whatever happens Edward S is going to go the pace he’s comfortable at now that pace that he went to Newbery at the weekend and just zipping around those

Bends on on the old course against a couple of horses who do have occasional jumping frailties he could put them in trouble like he looks a he looks a really good each way better around eight and 10 to one yeah I can totally see that that do do you concur with that TC

You’re sort of slightly nodding away there I can’t tell it’s a nod or a shake but it’s some opinion yeah um yeah top Rush 10s is is a bit too big it Compares very favorably with exchange win only price so the shape of the eway market uh

Suggests tens is is too big um it’s by default really is it me as BR said what’s going to rock up You’ be you’d be struggling to get eight there you’ve got you know Captain Guinness round okay last time you know gent to me really um

Yeah it’s I can fully see the each way case at 10 to one for sure even if it’s all in at the stage but like I said when the each way shape of the race is as it is and the price is similar to the win only price on the exchange it’s it

Normally equates to a bet interesting Uh Kevin last word to you on him just because I don’t know if you heard it but um in the aftermath of the race Alan King was just talking about how he sort of changed his training of late and mixed things up a little bit gone back

To how he kind of used to train bit of a different feeding regime as well and he’s just found that the horses have really hit a bane of form as a result and I must say when I was watching the footage pre-race obviously of Edward

Stone in The Paddock and I I yeah I didn’t have it on I had it on Muk for a second and I saw this horse and I thought my God what is that and it turned out to be edwardstone then laterally Alan King was talking about

The sort of Top Line he’s developed and how he looked and it definitely all tied together he’s a w who that day was just banging on money you could tell physically mentally everything yeah great to see because he’d obviously performed a long way below himself um

When s back up and trip at kempt in the time before so great to see him back I’d agree with Brendan like this looks the way to write him um and it it was interesting I foret who said it might have been fit here someone said it after

The race he said you know Alan King he just doesn’t like his horses is making the running um so I I just had a quick look there for the crack um at the at the last few years running Styles and haven’t had time to hammer properly but

Just as my base point it’s took Paul Nichols and L fences and about 23% of his horses made the running over fences in the last few years um Alan King 7% so there clearly is something in it he’s not doesn’t like it sending them that forward all that much but um that looks

To be the way to ride this F and um yeah look look you’re you’re you hate saying it because like a hores like Edward St like they’re they’re top of the you know one% he’s a 1center really like in terms of the national home population he’s a really

Good horse and you want to give a full credit for what he’s doing here but it’s hard the way we tend to review these things not to contextualize and say look can he beat Al fabiolo um or even John Bon you know probably not bar something

Goes a Miss with them um but he he is very very good and um yeah hopefully they write him like that um in the champion Chase he he’ll put on a good show for all indeed yeah hopefully those tactics and like you say it’ll be a good show

For all then um we’ll find out last couple of furong won’t we fascinating uh bef ad Brendon it was as competitive as we expected brilliant race um Pro probably an awful lot to take out of it in behind the winner but of course the winner was ibero Lord for that land

Hensen again in this race and what’s been T there’s an excellent ride by niiko De boinville but he did laterally say that he he he couldn’t really go much faster than he was going on aerico law but this is a horse I mean a great wood a bet Fair hurdle Rising all the

Time is there still handicap scope in him do you think Brandon or do you think it’s into deeper waters now no it’s I I’d say there is whether it’s a chelam handicap I’m not sure now I I do think the tempo of the race at the weekend

Soon them better than uh in asot they they didn’t go for handicap they didn’t go breakout in in in asot and he was a big ke and this seemed to bring his stamina into play and he’s a horse with a very good attitude still appears to be

Learning like this is the idea isn’t it the burg of a couple of big handicaps where their horse still learns things it’s he’s been very well campaigned my concern about him for a Chapman handic C would be ground preference there maybe he was just a bit too keen and last you

Could explain it the way that Way’s a scratchy L action and he clearly handled steep Brown well as we saw in then CH in November and and and at the weekend so whether he’d be as effective I mean he’s not going to get hammered by the

Handicap or five or six pounds so he he he could still have a legitimate squeak in a child C but I’m just not sure spring ground would be as bag okay little small warning flag there at TC in terms of the market obviously the market was shaped by this o Castle deot who

Went off 7 to2 in the end the French group for Willie melons all the talk beforehand and he didn’t fire he was obviously reshod that CA a delay to the race and not sure that had any effect on his performance but him and only a matter of time who was also punted just

Before the off went off at8 to one both well beaten in behind iico Lord the winner uh what we all sort of takeaways from the race maybe away from Iero Lord I I think the winners are very very good horse in his conditions like Brendan

Said if he gets if he only gets six P so to 140 I think he’ll be very very competitive in any any handicapped company um I wouldn’t be I’m always puzzled by all these these handicap prices for the festival we haven’t even got the entries for any handicaps till

February the 20th so it’s the ultimate tracker system isn’t it I mean like people just like very blink they they latch on your horse track a CH handicap they haven’t got the entries they haven’t got the weights they haven’t got the other horses they up against they

Haven’t got that weight of the other horses they’ll be up against yeah they form an opinion I find it very odd that there’s any B for handicaps myself but I think ler s always promised to be um always promised to be uh the well handicapped horse of

129 um you know they must gutted to obviously see that you know that the Biro law come on his inside and yeah I think you would give the favor a pass because of you know being reshot Etc but uh you know they they they pulled well

Clear of the first so perhaps the hander will hit the first two harder than the bare form suggest but I think IO Lord’s a very very good horse when he gets string only two miles in soft ground okay conditions for Su um Kev Alan King

Had a had a winner earlier on the card with Emon who’s now been cut to 20 to one the sort of Veteran can you call the 10-year-old a veteran I think so uh for the protemps Emon so it’s a good day for him do you have anything to add on

Anything else for the new card bet or that Emon performance no would not really um not really looked the protemps has kind of changed in character recent years this horse is qualified for merer in the season um i’ look would would you fancy him for no not really like it’s become

More a more challenging race for the Irish to get qualify for because there’s only a handful of qualifiers and it sound the first four and you know as we’re seeing you know a fair few Irish horses are being sent to the UK for the qualify which um which can often be

Quite small field events compared to um compared to the Irish ones like I personally I think the time for the qualifying system is probably is probably gone you know like not just fake it open Tre My Land to up hdle and kind of stop a lot of the missing the

Qualif make it so much fun Kev it’s not as much fun though when it’s first four and there’s hardly any qualifiers you know and look we we all we’ve all had fun over the years with the perms but you know come on that what what the many

Things you could you could pick can poke out and make it bit better I think in the the old program but with Emon winers um I’d be pretty surprised myself fair fair uh let’s bounce over to is we are going to cover a few other performances in footsteps of the festival segment

Coming up shortly where we’re covering the May’s races and of course we did see some decent be performances over fences and hurdles this last week so stay tuned for that but just to pick up some other um noteworthy efforts Brendan American Mike got back winning ways in the 10up

Nov’s chase a hor who of course has the form with my beloved Factor file so you can you can guess that I was intrigued I’m I’m sort of keeping tabs on this horse going forward but of course back to file is now sh up into the statos fit

Well indeed did you know a thing or two uh but American bik yeah so I mean he’s interested of course he has a point to-point background so it’s probably not the biggest shop in the world but his problem was jump and hurt he couldn’t do

It he couldn’t make a shape over her at the top he makes a great shape over fences couple of slight mistakes at at the weekend but it generally was quick and accurate and really seemed to attack his fence has traveled supremely well well through the race now Gordon said

Afterwards that the the horse baffles him uh which which I thought was interesting and he said he he slightly tweaked his training regime to not get as much work into him that maybe this was looking at his record he has a really good record off of break so a

Slightly different training to try and keep him a bit fresher I mean Nick rocket is is a useful horse granted you’re talking about probably a national un chased horse so not a factor file or a top-notch novice Chaser but I thought he was Valu for more than the winning

Margin American Mike sort of looked around coming down to the second last having sauntered into the lead and then went away when Nick rocker came to him again I thought it was a really good performance it’s just so he was obviously very good the first time to be

Backed by but it’s just what the hell happened in nrich now that was a very good race um by De NRI Warrior beating elte Tom but he was beaten I mean he was probably beaten 20 L American M it was a desperate performance but if Gordon discovered something which I’m not even

Sure he has because he says he’s battle but if he did discover something and he’s learn him how to train this horse I mean he’d have no problem traveling away in the Turners H he clearly has a big engine he’s a very good jumper he could

Even run at a brown visory I mean he stayed three miles and in in naum whether what Gordon’s going to decide after he sits down and has to think about it because he even mentioned the Irish National so this horse is all over the place but he’s definitely going

The right way and if he could back up if he could back up that performance in Sheldon he’d be a lurker in one of than I was chases I’d say okay well for a bit of context American Mike is 22 on from 33s for the Turners has entries in that

And I think the AR doesn’t he bizly but obviously he this is a horse as outlined by has confused this trainer and as a result he’s got all these different options Irish National being spoken about and the horsey B Nick rocket is a five to one shot for the national hunt

Chase off the back of that effort so yeah a bit of confusion about trips and targets for American Mike but the ability remains and couple of other horses to chat about before we get Festival cev the bumper tan is 6 to one from 14th big market boover and the bumper for Paul Nicholls

Um this was off the back of an impressive uh performance at the weekend and not unprompted or um not unpredicted I should say by someone you’ve recently been speaking to yeah I’m Che the m b a couple of weeks ago we had Tom Malone who who bought this horse for

Connections and he was effusive and a really really strong on him and put him up for the the champion pumper um as well as if what what at the time was his intended day debut with sand down they obviously delayed a little bit came to

Exitor and he was weak in the batting on the day um went off close to even money in what I’d say wasn’t the hectic race But ultimately won very well and I lookas the champion bumper um you know took took some bit of shape at the Dublin racing Festival but still to me

Has has a pretty open look to it and um tan yeah not not a race that I ever get too bullish about for obvious reasons but um he looks a lovely Prospect he um like I think the the gist of the case for him is he won US point to point by a

Million lengths but um the time of it was like substantially faster than any other race on the card um which is what Drew um connections to him and yeah good start from him you see did you see it was eight grand to that the guts of eight grand to

The winner of that bumper I thought they ran for a Tanner and a satum man English bumper wasn’t wasn’t exit a premier race day ah you go oh lovely for gotten about Premier isation keep forgetting about it damn it keep off yeah exactly that’s the issue at the

Moment um TC let’s move on footsteps to the festival shall we because as I said we’re covering the May’s races May’s 30 and May’s Chase and May’s no’s hurdle as well we will kick off with the May’s hurdle TC where we have an 8 to 11

Favorite and of course losty mou this is her intended target despite the police for to go down the champion hle route they having none of it down the mle route and she is basically dominating the market and behind her are her stable mates Afra Diamond 4 to1 and GW so 15-2

In the befest sports Market 14 to one bar that so footsteps to the festival we won anti poost views here boys TC if you are playing the May’s hurdle and I know you’re not before you roll your eyes at this day no no no no we’ve got I’ve got

Yeah what is what is the way to play at this stage come on tell our viewers I think ly m is very very similar to dino blue is the clearly the best Philly in the race well actually on official ratings she’s not that far clear I mean

You’ve got love eny and Maurice Rocco over here who are rated I think four pound and5 pound just shy of respectively um I think so like Dino blue ly mouth is in the May Chase Dino ly mouth is the best horse in the race andly there’s an argument you know

Should should be in the race but the problem with lossing he is as with Dino blue we don’t know about the 2 m four trip do we everyone assuming because she finishes off so powerfully over 2 Mile and 2 m one that she will get you know

The extra three or four furlongs it’s it’s never given um especially if we do get soft ground on the days so I think the Exchange price just under four to five is probably about right but I think there’s a bit more depth to the you know

The the you know the the racing that price suggests you know with that stamina doubt I mean I love boy second as honey second last year Maurice Rock um you know won the race in 2022 um I i’ probably leave the race alone because I think lossy mou does

Kind of like cast a massive Shadow over the race but the trip would worry me when you’re back when you’re back in odds on you don’t want any question marks and I think that’s an obvious that’s obvious one okay well that leads us nicely on then to ask brenon du does

Do you have the same trip concerns in regards to L not particularly a four-year-old two an extended two miles on the new course in Chapman very strong at the line and the Triumph I think if if if anything she’ll be more effective over a trip she she she’s a mayor of some

Substance um no is is the answer um and I really can’t see any great reason to oppose her um proven CH the performer she probably should be unbeaten since joining Willie Mullins setts beautifully travels beautifully jumps well I mean I’m not telling you anything the market

Doesn’t out she’s ODS on but I wouldn’t even try and put up something each way against her because I only bet each way if I actually think the horse can win the race and I think ly will win okay so this is just the start of

The lossy m bar being created at Shelton then basically um Kevin do you have anyone you want to mentioned maybe at a bigger price we’ve covered losty mouth we know the credentials of ashro diamond off back what she did the last day but is there anybody else in there who we

Missing it’s remiss of us to talk about um not right there for the are few but look at the um like like glass M does cast the shadow um like asess Tony says like the the margin of her um how far clear she is of the field isn’t huge but

Like you just do get the impression that she is on the match and that she could well prove to be Beyond a 155 may now whether she can do that here whether she did this will give her the opportunity to do that I don’t know but you know

What she’s put into back in back into open company against the boys it it’ll probably give her a better opportunity to advance herself um but look at it I like I think this will be quite a lively BET Race I think there’ll be plenty that

Will want to take on at the trip um I probably won’t um will it be her very best trip I don’t know I’d be probably inclined to think that’ll be two miles but I don’t think two and a half um will be enough to to to Soper really um like

There are some lovely like there’s plenty here that are being a bit shoehorned with regard to trip like I’d say like Astro Diamond gam Maro Eko and Rain they’re all probably going to be again at their best at Charter but can get away with mid-range and you have

Love envo and marce rock who we know loads about no trip outs and um are being traded for the race and they they will set a bar for L him out and the rest um and like look if this was a handicap you you’d be making a case for

Um magical Zoey you know maybe even telling me something girl um but look at at the at set weights they’re just going to have a big old task um getting seriously involved um so look at I’m sure to be Lively BET Race I think she’ll be a big opinion horse um she’s

Going to go off odds on you’d imagine but probably not super short um and yeah there it is I would I wouldn’t have a like it’s one of those like like like would like would meet many times in the Shelton Festival um Vanessa like that she’s going to be short you’re every

Instinct in you would tell you take her on but she’s probably G know sort of way there’s a there’s a heap of those CH this year and um I’m going to I’m trying actively not to fall into the Trap of tipping something for the sake of doing

So at a bigger price um and I think she’s probably going to be one of those you know she well that was a relatively unexciting chat from all three of you just gonna flag that up as the leader of this shift that wasn’t our best discussion we’ve ever had so let’s

Try I play the race program Vanessa I don’t play play The Race Pro if was 150 a b race yeah it really would I mean before to won the field it’ll be class yeah was running the champion Hy race yeah uh let’s try ramp up the interest levels a little bit more

Because the May’s novice is hdle now again like let’s not get down sort of race plan race um scheduling discussions here because let’s just focus on the fact that this is a wide open betting market and lots of intrigue here and we had performances from the week just gone

That have really affected the market not including Jade the grui who’s your 152 favorite up at the top of the market she’s put um her credentials out for all to see back in January but brighter days ahead W really well at Navin at the weekend is now three to one second best

In the market then you’ve got daos on this rber O’Brien at 4 to1 well campaigned then fun fun fun came over to exitor and she won that well small field beat favor favor and fortune that day is now 8 to one and then of course for

Jeremy SC golden H lay down her um credentials as well this week at Taunton and she is a 12 to one shot so this week has seen this Market have a bit of a switch up uh Brendan I’ll come to you first here mix it up myself uh tell us

Something more interesting than Jade the Gru’s decent please uh well okay well the the most interesting thing for the weekend was I remember we talked about Brier days ahead after de Roy and you said well what what you make that what couple of ways to take it I mean she won

Despite jumping poorly and being too Keen so you could say well if they could fix that H how much higher C can she go but I mean are these issues going to plague her throughout her career so L beh old G puts her away for the mid-season break brings her back to lav

Now she was still a touch team but not nearly as ke as she was in in Devon and she did see a lot of data but I thought her jumping was a revelation jump really well they’ve clearly been working on that in the interim and she she’s

Obviously a big Runner a m May with a huge engine um fun fun funs Lo for fun fun FS I thought my had concerns about her getting over te them I thought it might be like when you go on those spare ground rids they say no you’re too small

That they wouldn’t let her on would let her on the bo but very decently they did and she’s she’s all hard that there but I think that the market not to tell you anything you don’t know probably has this ride in terms of being down to a

Three hours race but what a three hours race I mean I love that Jade thei the way she goes through a race and she’s so she’s such a quick jumper H if anything if she has a tendency and it’s it’s minor she slightly leans to her left

Over over the hurdle so she probably be even more effective on on a left-handed track for not a huge amount of substance I do rate that Penny 100 that she beat fairy at house but you can definitely pick holes in the form and then you have do sardinos who of course people are

Saying well what she beaten I mean that’s true or she hasn’t beat much but that’s my design so that she didn’t get a penalty so she’ll be getting 5 pound off the two Irish Mayes so typ the captain Burg o’ bride uh for that and of course she does have some substance to

Her form because she beat Queen scamble who’s a a talented mayor in a bumper in Mark rays and getting a bit of we out grant that but what we have seen OB be she’s been beating inferior opposition Hollow in in their in her in her run

Soos is that she can jump and in reced a fight and she’s a big Runner as well out so I I think as the market says it’s probably down to the top three and I would have a preference for Jade deui because I just like the way she

Rolls okay so we’ve got one odd to the market leader the five to2 market leader thank you there but but a detailed look at the others to be fair uh Tony I I know what you want I know you want me to regail you with that brilliant fun fun

Fun story again but I’m not going to do it okay just not going to do it you don’t get that treat this week I can’t I can’t remember what it was actually that’s surprise that’s the issue here all right um yeah I I I we we don’t officially get the interest for this

Trace until tomorrow February the 13th so that’s a consideration but we’ve kind of know how the Field’s going to going to pan out and for for reasons I think I I won’t Ste Kevin’s funer about the penalty structure I let I’ll let Kev wax

On about that but yeah I I think I I forgotten how good D Enos is over it was in bumpers you know anry and you know Brendan mentioned that uh that Queen’s gamble form as well um I didn’t rubbish dice Aro I did rubbish the fact that you

Know an English horse could win the mayor’s hurdle but um yeah the the top three of the market I think dcea fors uh is probably the way I’d go if I was heavily heavily pushed but I’d probably wait until the uh the entries are out tomorrow to get a better hand on what

Will’s going to throw at it and all the other R trainers I suggest they’ll chop the Lots kitchen s at it but we won’t probably learn a great deal but Di are Enos for me at the top of the market okay di Enos um as TC said currently

Four to one and yeah as Brendan says Kev obviously she’s being campaigned so that she is going to be car carrying considerably less than the likes of the graded winners in here um so yeah you can expand actually on the penalty structure yeah I’m G to try and get

Answers on that because um I’ve never cared enough to ask the question but um it does like seem massively perverse that they have this like this is a grade two and you can pick up a five pound penalty for winning like a grade tree any class one wait for a hardle and like

Unless I’m mistaken like isn’t the whole point of the May’s National program to examine the the fairer sex and you know find out which Mayors are best would have you to getting them to the breeding shed Etc and here you have a race on the biggest stage of the sport where

Trainers are essentially incentivized not to win graded races with them before CH them so they get to carry less weight that just seems nuts a bit pointless like why I I I I don’t get maybe there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation I will seek one out and um I will reveal

It um hopefully but anyway um back to the matter at hand I I think I do have something remotely positive and and potentially useful to add here um in the in the style of you know a chelton preview you know one of one of those lines that that

We all here in the coming weeks but um I I will highlight the Gordon glint here with uh with brighter days ahead um because I’ve said it before in the podl I think I have a good enough read on Gordon Elliot at this stage and when he

Really likes one and I I very much got that off him like last October about brighter days ahead like he he was really Punchy about her and you you always tell with Gardon because he he has a natural inclination it’s bubbling under the surface and he doesn’t want to

Let it out but little little bits of it come flying out and almost like you can’t control them and and I I very much picked that up a brighter days ahead um and you wouldn’t get loads off him now like you got it off from a mighty Potter

Before he ever J the hurdle and um and Don kasac and a couple of those like so it’s they wouldn’t be throwing the old Gordon glinter on willly nilly and um and he was at again after she won the other day when you look at the quotes

You know brighter days ahead as a proper mayor she’s very very good and I don’t say that about too many he said um and I’ve been really impressed but I’ve been watching I like I like the dramatic flare you put on Gordon there as well really nice nice

The always said the S not the sausage not this uh but yeah like i’ I’ve been watching it very closely it did very much prick my ears the way he spoke about her at the start of the season and um I thought her jumping was particularly good it was

Better than it was the last time we’d seen her like low fluent um look she jeez if she had the one who would have been really upset but the style of it was impressive I nothing all against sh the guui um she was impressive as well last time and made a good progression

Start to start in terms of professionalism but at the prices I I do find myself thr to brighter days ahead um you know there’s clearly plenty of salamina there as well which I don’t think is any harm for this race um straightforward right and yeah like this

This this will be this will be a Nifty little beton race if the if the big three get there I suspect and um and I’d be siding with bright the head yeah I well wasn’t this three years ago when you had the Henry GL when you tell me

Some girl at 20s possibly yeah yeah you did you you I think I think you went for a lab tall throughout the races and you got the Henry glint and yeah I think what happened there I think I tipped their anti poost and because that

Because of that I was going I was going extra hard on him and I wasn’t because Henry could be Wicked evasive um especially pre-race and I kind of kept going with him and I eventually got the glint out him but uh the guard the garden Clint is

A thing uh famously a few years ago I think I think what it might have been his first run in the cross country tiger role um before he became what he became and he he gave me like the ultimate line of all time there something along the

Lines of he he had another one in the race a big one and he also had tiger roll and he said that the quote was something along the lines to tell you be honest to God truth he’s absolutely in flying and I think he’s gonna win um and

And and he jely did he had like the fa in the r tiger R might have been second fa and um yeah that that was that was a was a a very cordable one the from the main I like that is you what did you summarize it as remotely positive and

Interesting something remotely positive the G the Gordon glint I’ve never described it as that so we might have coin something there this morning yeah the guys let’s to the uh the Bear’s Chase please obviously two and a half miles um Bren I shall start with you here TC’s already

Sort of discussed Dino blue in terms of being much the best in this and obviously price up accordingly she is even money favor at the top of the betting and of course she brings in in open company against the likes of el fabiolo and others algori de bassi

Won the op nce at the weekend under a good ride turning the form round with Rivier Dell she’s now bounced into second spot Market at 9-2 Li l in there at sixes Brides Hill at 8 to1 harmonia maker there can’t see her winning this at 16s I mean this is a weak enough

Looking race with Diana blue a strong favorite I think yes um I thought allegory deasi did well because I think she was traveling particularly really well through the race watching it the watching it back at at n she was jumping out her right now that’s something she

Does you know you’re going to get to get it with her but on the back of an abysmal effort previous time in fairy has I I I had some I would have had some concerns but I didn’t know the result I should say um so so so that was

Encourged I’ve never totally convinced that she was out battle last year now by a right May In fairness I that’s the that that’s good form if she if she can repeat that effort she should be there or there abouts if the market tells you second favorite Roy Hill a likeable May

Done a good job with her her jumping has improved Li lace Progressive but again like I’m just going to go three for three on the Fabs here the straights up is the um but Dino blue whatever about the job they do br bu an exceptional job

Of D of blue shoes inclin to be cane uh for season over fenes her jumping was hit and miss but this season she’s hardly made a mistake she’s settling better at her races which of course uh would would would would give you encouragement uh for for for the trip

And um yes I thought she’d win okay just as FY Brandon are you doing any child professional previews H I I I I I I might I might be doing two but I just got a new job so I don’t know about my availability um in terms of whether

Whether I’ll be able to do them so um congratulations on the new job I hope that’s not going to affect this show you know Mondays are a working day for many what do you mean a new what do you mean a new job well I a job a job oh no I had

A job I had a job but I said to people oh I have a job they’d say yes a job at last Mar an hour so and so so I’ve now done another job but I told them I C two Monday such as my commitment to getting paid by Beth

Fair well done well done well the only advice I was going to give you is like obviously on those preview shows they they were winners yes but you will also get heckled if you just keep dipping up the they don’t they don’t like that I think Brendan I think brendon’s a tour

Guide of churches in gink from Tuesday to Fridays what a beautiful job that would be are there no pet watching the weekend if he’s going to move out there PR would you you would make a great tour guide now I go that tour I I wouldn’t

Care where we’re going or what you were to what you were giving me a guide too but I I think you’d be a good guide to whatever the task was a had but this is usually encouraging because my new job is working as a draw

Guide so let There we go that you’re all correct lovely God you’re such a mystery Brandon I always feel like after a conversation with you there’s more questions than answers like I have more questions but we are in the middle of the footsteps segment so I’m going to

Plow on forun fortunately for you um Kev Blake can nvp gu no it’s same again like she should be in the champion she should be in the champion Chase she’s good enough I know FAO got her the last day but um we know what Al fabiolo is like and I just just

Doesn’t give me the any impression of being a a two and a half mile but look when you when you come down in company you can get away with things and it it’s one of those you know is there something good enough to to D to drag her into the

Trenches there and expose any potential um issues at the trip I don’t know if there is but she’s very very good she’s very good um I really they’ve taken her out of the champion Chase as well which and we we fully we fully get it but I’m

Little bit like lassy M like she she is a bit too good for this really um but the again there’ll be loads of people that’ll want to take her on closer to the time for the exact same reasons they’ll take on LY M um but again in an

Effort to keep it simple and not get too stressed about half a mile either way she is the best horse and the best horse by a margin for me by a bigger margin then lot is the best horse in the mayor so um on we go okay well TC then final

Word to you on this section of the show in regards to Dio blue obviously you flagged up the fact that the prices the trip was a concern in regards to LY mou at the prices is the drip a concern in regards to Dio blue here yeah I think

The only way to play it is on the day isn’t it you want to stick in an in running late um so I can’t tell you to do anything now I mean the way I would play now if I was going to do maybe there is a bit of opposition to where on

The exchange I think she’s around about six to four Mark as opposed to the even M with the sports book and I can see where the opposition comes from but I think it’s a very boring I’m sorry but I think it’s more of an if you’re want a

Opposer probably be in running in the final couple over the couple of last couple of fences okay uh that wraps up then footsteps of the festival quick to Vanessa just on the subject given the nature of the conversation we’ve just had um what do what do what does the

Panel think of this um Willie M versus Britain in terms of number of winners that’s priced up around um like like a match at the minute I would go with us i’ I’d back Britain I think I’d back Britain I’d back Britain as well yeah I think the

Hand the handicaps are now been I would like the berer CH wolf for the last couple of years now but I do think the balance is is I think that the British will win a good packet of handicaps which will make Woody’s job a little bit more difficult but um jeez it’s some

Array of rock out of Fabs he has isn’t it do you have the what is the bet on that the Cs you have it in front of you it’s a match essentially yeah yeah yeah um like even is that’s depressing but but good market for

Someone to come up with a bit bit of imagination because Edens is the brightest price of all it’s like bet with an Australian everything everything’s evens with an Australian who was that always who was it you know what when it was was it the Press spr cup or what oh yeah who was

Who was that Irish gee who did it with Phil TFT was it hect to Hector yes indeed yeah a radio guy yeah he he he has the most popular podcast in Ireland and a radio television presenter big racer fan genuinely like um far far more knowledgeable that than he might

Give you the impression and fairness to him but yeah he got he got a good gig there didn’t he I met him I met him at cheldon that year I think I bed into him and bet him he seemed like a thoroughly nice guy yeah poor tough he got an

Absolute Hospital there didn’t he that was a shot that was a shot Phil CH was being being replaced by genius this year so for is not lost God you just love that don’t you this is just a last thing but I know you don’t want to many say wa but did you know

That Hector hon Dylan Moren and Tommy all went to school together is that incred at the same time I think yeah yeah imagine I don’t know who any of those people are you know they tell me t i yeah probably probably quite an Irish phenomenon In fairness yeah very Irish

Comedian TV presenter um yeah but Dylan Moren is just a comedy phenomen he’s the funniest man in the world so I’m very bad with famous people’s names they’re just people to me yeah well we we always like to give our our listeners and viewers a bit of a steer if you’re if

You’re British and you don’t know who Tommy Tian is he does this talk show every week in Ireland where he doesn’t know who the guest is before they walk out and so like and obvious some of the times they obviously famous people most of the time he know who they are and

Know where to go but sometimes he has no idea like no idea who they are and he has to kind of start like H know how are you that is so clever I like if you look up Tommy tier in the show and Roy Keane I listened to it myself there recently

Was from a little while back but it it was very good good good a good watch okay well we’ve gone off course there but that makes up for basically very little of the M RAC so on content you know on content uh let’s talk about a couple of news stories guys

Wrap the show up before Barry or jumps on there b um this one was a shocker right Kev you threw this story Into the group so this is the former police officer Michael Stanley who’s been charged with defrauding thousands of investors into failed racing and betting Syndicate now the Racing Post have done

An article on this and the details are on there regards Michael’s Stanley who was a sergeant for Kent Police and then he set up L easy racing um which is basically uh it need in sort of back in 2010 and it was a hobby to start with it

Then involved family and friends the group expanded in 2012 it had 6,000 members but crucially um it’s been revealed that creditors were owed 100 and 58.7 million million d English Pounds 158.3 million English Pounds apparently Stanley was basically operating a bonsy scheme um with the funds that he’s

Defrauded and it was on The Daily Mail that the article that you sent in Kevin uh that had much more detail and really sad sad I mean as with all of these fraud cases but really sad reading I thought you know people who had lost their life savings to this lazy racing

Who have now obviously filed for bankruptcy 2019 um and this guy I mean Michael Stanley just like I don’t understand how it got to a position he was able to do this or how he thought that he wasn’t going to be CAU or where 158 million has

Gone at the level they were involved at I just don’t understand you’re gonna have to help me out yeah amaz this wasn’t picked up more race supposed to the story on it but hasn’t really been CH talked about him the da ma the grve work in this fairness they did an

Investigation of Their Own before the the excrement hit the fan a few years back and this this is just phenomenal this was essentially a guy that started telling friends and family that he had a system and like we’ve actually got details of what the system essentially

Was he he was basically saying if you blindly lay every second favorite in every race you’ll make x% in the long term and it was essentially guaranteed it was foolproof and the friends and family started putting a few quid into this Syndicate so that he could bet on

Their behalf and they’ share the profits 50/50 the friends and family then started talking to their friends and family and it was seemingly all like geographically in in a relatively small area but 6,000 people got stuck in and 158 million pounds and he seemly like in reality he wasn’t betting at all

He he like very very early on he just stopped betting and was just taking the money in and operating it like a classic Ponzi scheme if someone happened and he was telling people that oh you know your returns for this mon or plus 15% plus 20% you know you’re you’re you’re you’re

Absolutely flying well done let’s keep going and if someone asked to to get their money out he’d use the the the the the overall fund to pay them out and like all Ponzi schemes you wonder the the logic behind these fellas how they ever thought it might end well but um

They kept it going for quite some years and at 158 million pounds like like John Dan is in the news at the minute for For What appears to be again a gigantic Story the figure there is 80 million I think pounds which again is a substantial amount of the money but this

Is LLY double that you know with a huge case of tals and an unpaid bill of 20 million again huge money but this is way more and it’s just getting no pickle and um what a trade of Destruction this absolute scumbag is left after him like

Oh my God 158 million the 6,000 um from what it seemen is you pretty Ordinary People all of the same that Woods friends and family like wow I I just like look and there there’s of course greed is is is is a contributor on both sides of this equation but only one side

Will scammer the other unfortunately and um yeah I I I just thought it would get more pick up the number the number it’s such a big number I know it’s it’s mental it’s almost like when you first read it it feels like it must be a typo someone you’ve never heard of they’ve

Got horses in training with um John best Amy Murphy Rebecca Benes and Ivan fard so you know relatively small fried trainers I think that came relatively late like I think the beting Sy good was the thing and then then I read it that that was like a front like a or maybe

Not I don’t know I think it kid the racing came relatively later you look up the the ownership and like they didn’t have a whole lot of Runners I think they they he spent over a million on horses seemly in a short space of time but I

Think the the the aention next it hit the fan quite soon after the racing started so I think that was just basically him spending finding a way to spend money and have and enjoy it I get the name of the the fund out there but the fund was the Tain rather than the

Racing yeah um and again just just the scale to me is just absolutely mind L really is TC have you heard of anything like this on this sort of scale in the past no no I I I saw the story uh when the mail ran with it I think I follow

Matt Lon at the mail might be the times out but he used to work there and yeah it’s astonishing as Kevin said it’s people there’s people’s kind of like naivity and stupidity when it comes to betting or things like that it’s it’s just mindboggling isn’t it so it’s not

It’s not stupidity if you if you just if you don’t you know I don’t know that’s that’s why I said na naivity isn’t it as much well is sorry to interrupt but is it stupidity when it comes to investment now I mean like obviously I have SE for

People losing their their life savings absolutely but I mean I know lot of about money so I can see why the Temptation I mean there are there there are the onzi schemes on the even greater scales Alan Stanford in America he was some operator I mean so they can get out

Of hand because of the way they’re structured but if someone said said to me well I don’t know anything about money they said I can get you return on your money I go Grant I’d invest some of my money with them you know what I mean like I mean diversify your portfolio I

Don’t know a huge amount about investing i’ Frey admit that but who puts all their eggs in one basket and if they do doesn’t go to someone who they know knows a bit about Bing and saying what do you think about this like just laying every second back does that sound

Reasonable to you I like there is there is a bit of stupidity there no yeah it’s it’s human nature is is it like like I don’t know if you’re familiar with the one coin thing that uh incidentally has some racing connections itself but similar thing like when when you believe

That a return is being made like this substantial return that’s growing exponentially you know you know greed and naivity can get the better of you and and you just lash in you think you’re well ahead you’re playing with puppy’s money to to to to roll out that

Line and and it Flash in yeah I mean like just to give listeners and viewers an example of the sort of emails that this guy Mr Stanley was sending to potential investors so imagine you’re some lady you’ve got a bit of cash he said that you’ve got a bit of cash you

Don’t have any idea about bedding at all and you get an email that reads I must admit I’m writing this piece feeling rather smug because I know that I have found a missing link by Holy Grail that is a winning system I’ve worked out a definite way of beating The Bookies and

Then it goes on to real off numbers he started with ,000 now has 10 million I mean like all was the numbers yeah are just completely Bonkers yeah I’m lucky in a spreadsheet for the last six years it shows an opening Bank of, pounds there have been

6,733 lay bets and that is an 86. 72% my divide basically goes on to say this closing balance is over 10 million I mean I I think he might have been settling on SPS uh rather than beair SPS it’s just like it’s just B it is boners

Call it stupidity call it naivity I don’t know I just feel like you’re you’re a certain type of sick to go to people’s friends and families and say you know I heard that your husband died and you got a insurance payout give it to me to piss up yeah Fair yeah but it’s

Just the mindset like imagine he’s sitting there towards the back end of this thing right and he’s got aund like he’s probably lashed some away he’s got 120 million I sitting in his bank account right there in front of him 120 million like like where are you going

What are you doing like Barbados is calling budy you know yeah I know it’s bizarre I mean where when is enough enough that’s the age-old question right we need to move on because a couple of other points to finish up the show with um bit of a shake up at

HRI Brendan I’ll bring you in here Jonathan Mullen has been appointed director of racing and Richard Pew has been appointed to a newly created Ro looking after race planning fixtures programming and scheduling now um Richard will report in to Johny Mullen so a bit of a shake up there but Richard

Pew for anyone who knows him he’s actually an avid listener of this podcast and he’s a very big fan of the three blokes but he is a particular fan of Brendan Duke so be careful day well on a serious note we uh he’s been at the C for a long time heavily

Involved Irish point point scene and he’s an absolute gen I must say he’s a pleasure to work with the tels there’s nothing he doesn’t know about those pointers and that Irish point to point scene and the sort of Sal scene when it comes to National hunt horses I can’t

Help but feel he’s going to be a huge loss to tatal but he’s going to be a huge gain I hope anyway to HRI Brendan well I I I I hope so and I’m glad because I was going to have to reveal a bit of a conflict of interest when it

Came to Johnny Mullen who I meet occasionally at the at the races I’ve had launch with on and he did me a solid in chelon before around the ticket like he’s just an absolute egg so I’m well disposed to Johnny Mullen as it is and

Now that I know Richard Pew is is a fan of the show uh what am I going to say so I me I’m in Fanboy tery how could I ever criticize any of these ad but as you say he has that background of point to points Richard Pew he has the uh

Experience uh with the sales companies as well so they a lot of tribes under Racing’s umbrella so he seems to having a good position to say to them but you can’t have everything you want but at least I knew what you wanted I know what these people want and of course what

What we all want is uh ideally more competitive racing in in graded races and it it sounds like these two Lads uh we’ll do their best to deliver that uh quick line from you Kev a positive appointments essentially yeah really really much very much so I think um

There’s been a good old reshuffle in HRI there lately a few um really good people moving around into different roles and Shane do there is someone over regard for he’s moved into a new position Jason Morris has been moved as well um Johnny Mullen like we most people in the racing

Media will know Johnny he was the editor of the the Irish Racing Post um for many years great fella has been on the communication side for a few years with h now and um now is is is back in the midst of the the racing brief and Richard Pew um couldn’t speak more

Highly Richard think he’s an excellent appointment um I’ve sit I’ve known for years obviously but I’ve sat on a few um programming committees and price money committees and a few itba functions Etc seminars and I’d always find him a bit of a kindred’s birth he always comes

Like super well prepared um like myself like he he likes to lean on on data and um and evidence-based theories and like we need more of that and the one thing I’d say about Richard that that makes him a particularly good appointment in my opinion is he he’s just he’s super

Passionate about racing lives breeds it I I’d imagine he thinks about nothing else like like most of the rest of us and and these are the people we need in um positions of influence in racing we need passionate people that live and breed a skin in the game um to to drive

The thing forward and that that we can hope and hopefully can rely on to make decisions that are for the greater good of the sport and in Richard I think we have we’ve someone that fits that bill beautifully so I was particular ularly on a personal level very very happy to

See him get this job and I’m sure he’ll be a big success well we obviously wish Jonathan and Richard rest of luck going forward forward to following their progress AT progress at H and seeing what they can do to improve the product of course uh TC last word to you on this

Show because of EX yesterday we had a 200 to One winner absolute steal beating a 4 to9 shot uh in the novice’s hurdle there what can you flesh out on this particular story in terms of prices yeah I refer to our notes here because there’s a lot of numbers involved um

Here we go we had a 2001 R absolute steel um someone alerted me to the fact there could be a story in this because the actual when you get tote returns now it’s it’s the toe with the guarantee you don’t get the actual pure return but the

Pure return on the toe was only 10490 and that’s against the BET RSP of 83.5 6 so clearly there was a situation whereby with the tote guarantee they have to they have to kind of like uh make up the shortfall between the actual return and the guaranteed price so

That’s basically a 95 to one shot and what made it quite fascinating was that there was a student day exit yesterday where there were 3,000 people in the uh in the middle of the track serviced by six on course book makers and it sounds like um the course book makers uh took a

Bit of a took a bit bashing in cash anyway I imagine theyve any money they took on course they had it back on BET for about eight about eight times bigger but apparently that did send more money to the uh center of the course so people

Can pay out and it sounds like some students got very lucky as well because I think there were about 70 quids worth of win bets uh on the tote that had to be topped up so if any student had a tedar on on the tote they’ have got an

Extra 950 quid for their money and it sounds like some some did so yeah I it’s just a very interesting story because obviously everyone just thinks the tote is is the place to go for for big price uh returns but that’s not the case here because like I said a pure return of

10490 against the bet for us be of 8815 so um it’s a it’s a big one so yeah 800 83.5 six to be precise that 200 One winner was the BET Fair very interesting indeed absolutely still providing the shop but some lucky students they’ll

Have had a hell of a day why they right on that note I think that’s about it boys thank you very much as always Brendan good luck with the Valentine’s trip good luck with the new job how exciting thank you can’t wait I just if I didn’t like if I didn’t like dislike

American football beforehand I do now i’ literally just got a text saying cuz someone I’ve had some big Tech issues around my house um last week so the guy this specialist who was coming to do it just text and said I I’m hung over didn’t get to bed till 5:00 watching

That can I can I postpone um American football has got a lot and the Super Bowl got lots of answer for that that’s why I’m that’s why I’m downstairs on my laptop on my phone as opposed to my PC but you are a Taylor Swift fan so that

Makes up for it I literally I if you like apparently I if I wouldn’t know wouldn’t know if you put to put a picture up it someone said to me this morning oh ush should was brilliant at half time I honestly you can give me a million goals at identifying Asha and I

Wouldn’t vaguely heard right okay just behind the time CC you’ll get there um look boys thank you as always we will of course be back on Thursday with racing only better uh but for now everyone have a good week uh enjoy yourselves get stuck in but do it responsibly please

And join us again on Thursday but for now that was waigh in

Week 6 of ‘Footsteps To The Festival’ the mares take centre stage.

It’s generally accepted that Lossiemouth is unopposable in the ‘Hurdle’ but Kev’s not 100% in, yet.

Attention then turns to the ‘Novice Hurdle’ and everyone was impressed with Brighterdaysahead on Sunday in Navan but Brendan likes Jade De Grugy, because that’s how he rolls.

In the ‘Mares Chase’, the question posed is ‘does anything beat Dinoblue’?

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