Perfumer came last, which was hardly a superb advert to get me back on the side of JRA racing. The trainer is blaming the jockey, and the jockey is apologising - in the end, it doesn't change the result, and I wasn't really expecting anything much different regardless of what the jockey did. Oddly, I kind of enjoyed the mad burst of positive front running - at least it showed some spirit, and if you're going to finish at the back of the field anyway, you may as well go out with a bang. Of course, he will now be going on holiday rather than racing again soon now the cobwebs have been blown away, or retiring, which is the only real option for a horse like this, destined to never do anything more than burn money and make up the numbers...
Just to rub salt into the wound, Belle Plage's race for the 16th is - wait for it - oversubscribed! Well, if they can squeeze two horses into each gate, we've got a chance, otherwise the role of the trainer is once again made into a joke. The sad thing is, unlike the majority of JRA's dead wood, Ogata-sensei is a real trainer, and timing and the right distances become critical (as they should, although this is a point lost on JRA folks). Well, let's wait and see what happens. In the meantime, we have some proper racing in England and NAR, with something running virtually every day this week.
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