News has just filtered through that Vertice, on the week of what should be its debut, has picked up a leg or hoof problem of some sort. Northern Farm strikes again! I cannot believe the incompetence of this place. So now, of my 11 NAR horses, we are down to just Shine Tiara (not running well), Another Door (doing awful) and Trovao (going okay). All the others are either fully injured, slightly injured, or walking wounded (I think we can include Phosphorus in this category given that it is going to be sent away on holiday for "mental rehab"). This is simply not acceptable!
On the JRA side, of the seven left, only one is 'running' - I say running, because it's at the racing stable, but then it has been since the start of May, and we've had one run in which it came tenth. It should be out again on the 2nd July, but - assuming the race isn't oversubscribed - I can't see anything spectacular happening other than another bill for upkeep. The others are either on holiday or injured, or being "retrained" - can't forget that classic proclamation. There are rumours that JRA is looking for foreign investors - we are suddenly welcome having been shut out for decades, which means they must be struggling. Whatever, from my bitter experience, my advice to anyone thinking of giving it a whirl would be to forget the idea completely...
PS. Yesterday's big race had me in stitches when it finished. Why? Well, we know the way things work now, and my wife had a theory that it was time for a Carrot Club win with the new catalogues due (the Shadai ones have already been released, of course). She was right! And naturally it was a Deep Impact kid to keep the flag flying and take attention from the multitude of Deep also-rans; a nice touch was a Miho TC stable, to stop folks keep looking at Ritto-based stables first to spread the wealth around. Oh boy.
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