River Spirit came home in third at Warwick, which keeps her record simmering away nicely - a 1-1-1-3 statistic is definitely something to build on. There is still plenty of potential is this little lady, and being a part of the Channon family enterprise is a real pleasure regardless of what happens on the track - the racing is almost incidental when the approach is fun from the off, even though the professionalism shows through as soon as the chips are down.
Porthos Du Vallon was well fancied, but screwed up badly in Beverley, making the Musselburgh result seem fantastic by comparison. The jumps schooling was supposed to resume on Monday with a Junior Hurdles race planned by the end of the month. However, a horse that finishes seven lengths down in a flat mile is going to struggle jumping over twice that distance, so I doubt very much whether it will ever do what it was specifically bought for. No fun attached to this one either, with money seemingly being the driving force, so a bad investment all-round.
On the subject of bad investments, Dinner Bell runs in the JRA race at Fukushima tomorrow. Teaming up with Keita Ban, they compete in the second race of the day (1200m turf). With a few half-decent nags in there against them, it's ironic that I'm looking forward to the retirement notice as much as the result itself - at least the cringing and unnecessary drain on finances will stop. After that, ditch Glint Moment before it races and the list at the foot of the page starts to look reasonable...
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