The Godolphin runner Abydos ran 3rd in this race.....

Just thought it would be fair to mention that.

Those awful people at Darley...can you believe they took out full page adds in the brochure for the New York Turf Writers dinner last night thanking all their staff and the horses who got them there? :rolleyes:

Congrats to Kerrin on his 100th win for Godolphin! :)

I wish they would sack Frankie and give Kerrin the main job. He doesn't cry off sick like Frankie has been doing all season.

Surprise surprise he got "flu" straight after he rode Authorized to victory on Tuesday. I thought they called it a hangover, not flu??

Good Lord, Measured Tempo was 8th today.....

Shocked.

Even i thought she would win yesterday.......... so much so i actually bet her today. I didn't see the race, but heard commentary and she never even got competitive.

Another horse ruined?

Can you say that with confidence? A supposed Gr1 horse finishing out of sight in a listed race??? Coming back from an injury??

Like you said 1. she was coming back from an injury and 2. she had Frankie up. :D

Next time she destroys the field.

She better. Last year i thought she had Gr1 winner written all over her, and so far nothing.

I hope they didn't train her too hard as a 2yo.......

Heard that Scriptwriter is no longer pointed to Melbourne.....

Never realized he was! :D

I think they ummed and ahhed about going over there with him, but he would never have been good enough.

Best Alibi is working really well, or so I've heard.

Typical.......

as soon as i take him from one of my seven stars lists.

I will see what i can find out at the weekend.

Try to find out if they retired Ashkal Way and Great Britain.

There are rumors.... I can only ask so many things at a time and I now need to focus on begging for Caradak info.

Isn't Ashkal Way a gelding?

Yeah. Could be related to that injury he had in April... not sure.

Would seem like there would be no point in formally retiring him. Let him heal and then determine whether or not he will ever return.

I will ask over the weekend (if i can). I know Great Britain suffered an injury, so maybe he never really got over that.

I will have to email someone about Ashkal Way

I remember when he got hurt.

Killybegs..... he's the one who is the big mystery to me.

I can't find out what happened.....

If you can, let me know.

I'm hearing Caradak is doing well.:)

"Caradak is ready now." :)

So, if he doesn't run in the Supreme something isn't quite right.......... hmmmmmmmm :confused:

They are all big mysteries......... Killybegs was a nice consistant horse, who had never had any injury problems before he was bought by Godolphin. Since he has been there, he has been out of training at least twice, i think. It annoys me so much.

I can usually find out about most of the English horses (depending which yard they are in). The American horses are harder to find out because he takes forever to get back to me.lol

No that'll just mean that Bygone Days will run there and he'll go to Veliefendi on the 9th. :)

Okay I'm hearing he's set for the race in Turkey and looking really good!

Let me know if your connections are saying the same.

Turkey??????????

Why are they sending him there??

Having said that, i did a project on Turkish racing and in relation to the size of their racing organisation, they have the most amount of prize money in the world.

I will send someone a text later. But if you have heard he is set for the race, i imagine he has already left.

they have the richest mile race in Europe I believe. http://derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10507

Banknote, Dubai's Touch and Traffic Guard will also join Cadarak!!

Just spoken to my friend. He said the last he heard was that he was going, but he's working in the pre training yard at the moment, so he doesn't know if he has left yet or not.

I would have thought he has.

It's the same race that Willie Haggas sent Brunel to run in a few years ago, which i remember now.

We had a Turkish racing 'guru' come to speak to us at College in my final year, we were all expecting him to be a kebab eating eastern european...... he came in and it turns out he was a poiceman from Liverpool :D who just had a lot of racing contacts in Turkey. It was very interesting though. Apparently the amount of gang land corruption there is in racing over there is unbelieveable.

Got a message from my friend in the States. He said that Ashkal Way has been retired and apparently a girl who works for TVG has got him to be a riding horse.

That's all he could say though, he didn't know who it was from TVG.

This is what he said:

"Hey, how ya doing? Yeah he's off to be a girl from TVG's pony. As far as I know she was gonna start riding him just the other day. "

That's exactly what I heard... that he went home with Jeannine Edwards.

Thanks for the update, Brock. Banknote... isn't that the Queen's horsie?

Yes, Banknote is owned by The Queen.......

Hey where IS Brunel anyway?

I can't access the link.:(

I really don't know.

It wasn't until i remembered this Turkish race that i remembered about him.

By the way, no hard feelings for Caradak, but i'm going for Traffic Guard...... i've followed him since he ran so well in the UAE Derby behind Asiatic Boy.

Caradak said he understands and forgives you. :p

Two that were mentioned as having disappeared.....

Kirklees is entered this week and Short Skirt is back in training.

Can you ask around..... what happened to Mathematician????? Was he hurt during that race at Saratoga on the 25th? Crap.

Will ask for you, but he doesn't usually get back to me until the early hours because of the time difference, and i will be gone until Sunday. I will ask, but you might be quicker if you email the track or something.

Saratoga is closed and my connection is in Dubai and never seems to get excited by the ones who are here.

Rumors he was hurt.....

Sightseek should know, shouldn't she?