Angus McNae
Captain’s Blog - Racing looks set to be blighted by the weather for a few days
2 February 2012
During the Kempton show last night Dave Nevison and myself expressed an opinion or two on the Triumph hurdle. We both agreed that Grumeti may just not be quite good enough to win the race, but may be able to run into a place. This opinion garnered a good deal of comment on Twitter some of it constructive and some of it less than complimentary. I do not get involved in in the world of twitter, but Dave alerted me to what was going on and it lead my to think about the whole issue and it made me wonder why many people in Horseracing get so worked up about other people's opinions.
It would seem that when people become connected to a horse they become over protective and over sensitive to the opinions of others which is bizarre because in life listening to the opinions of others is one of the best ways to learn and develop your own mind. I can understand people getting upset if their horse is slagged off unfairly by someone but to rear up when others simply express an opinion is madness isn't it? Either that or they have an awful lot of time on their hands.
Anyway for the record Grumeti is a lovely and talented racehorse who has been well bought off the flat to go jumping. He is sure to run a fine race in the Triumph Hurdle but I do not think he will win, this is just an opinion of course and is not meant to upset anybody. If he wins, and he might, I will be the first to admit that I got it wrong. You cannot say fairer than that.
Racing looks set to be blighted by the weather for a few days yet and it may be the case that Meydan wil be flying the flag for our coverage on Friday with Catterick set to inspect today for that meeting. The Meydan card though is a cracking one and I am looking forward to presenting it with James Willoughby as my guest. The action from Dubai this season has been the best we have ever seen at Meydan and I would urge you to tune in from 11.00am tomorrow.
All the best for today folks.
Today's Selections
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i argee with you angus you take a view you pay your money if a viewer dont like a pundits view then dont watch the program i find the discusions in between races on wednesday nights very informative and useful keep it up lads
Mike Robinson | 3 months ago