Saturday, July 2, 2016

Weekend Runners

For the first time in aeons, we actually had a JRA runner in Infinity Love, although seventh was the best she could manage. In reality, having ran strongly and boldly (which was pleasing to watch), she would have done a lot better had Manabu Sakai not cut sharply across our path - I've seen drunks on a Saturday night take straighter lines than he did! All told then, a vast improvement since 'Infinity' left Yahagi, but I imagine she will only get one more chance, if that.

In Australia, All Rosie was a little disappointing yesterday, walloped near the start to destroy any chance he had, but at least Raining Dollars made up for it with a nice third place (Bonnie Thomson up) on the second day of the Oak Park meeting. The big fella might be going for a holiday after this, as he has a suspected slight tear in a leg muscle, while Jo will have to try and figure out another run in the near future to show what All Rosie can do. Blacklister came a handy fourth at Nottingham in the UK after that - a real fighter, if ever I saw one.

PS. Naturally, being Japan, Infinity Love is now going for an R&R session, with hopes pinned on Kokura for the next (I'm assuming final) run, which means somewhere between the end of July to the start of September. If the past is anything to go by, the horse will pick up a mysterious ailment at NF, and that will rule out Kokura anyway! For now, we can say we are down to two horses running out of a total of 18 in Japan (Shine Tiara and Trovao), which is frankly disgusting show. Seriously, I would get more fun out of sitting in a dentist's waiting room than I get out of Japanese racing...

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