The Market Man

LFC, horse racing, antiques specialist.

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@irishracing Be a good name for Nico's autobiography - Against All Odds.

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@Fitzwilliam__ At what point is Charles Byrnes issued a warning or serves a suspension for totting up ?
That's three significant incidents in a year

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@RebelDevil71 @stableeye @LydiaHislop Still think a comparison with Friendly Soul is pertinent

BC was hammered out of sight on Saturday and yet declared a non-runner due to the stalls issue.
Friendly Soul had far less chance to recover and that incident forced them to change tracks !

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Lydia and Nick are absolutely priceless to racing. Not just the best in the sport but any sport I watch.

[Nick Luck @nickluck]

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🏇 @SimonNott - Chaos in betting ring post Derby
🏇 @WilliamHaggas - Maltese Cross
🏇 @GraffardRacing - Calandagan
🏇 @DanBarberTF - Christmas Day/@Timeform
🏇 Adam Mills - Belmont Stakes/@TPDZone
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Insight @LydiaHislop

https://t.co/kIDQ3Ur6xB

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"Right by the rules. Wrong for racing?"

Lydia Hislop dissects the decision to declare Derby favourite Benvenuto Cellini a non-runner after crossing the line in tenth:

https://t.co/jEauzh5GFi

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@IanMcKellen Would have loved to have seen this

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@davidjohnsonTF @Stewarding101 I've always thought NRs should be included in form shown on websites like Racing Post, Sporting Life etc.

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@LydiaHislop If all stalls had cameras and each start was reviewed, imagine the delay to results being declared and bets being settled.

T'was a bad day for the sport on a few levels.

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@itvracing @WhelanRonan Farcical days racing.

Some of the jockeys....persisting with coming over to the stands rail and getting hammered.

Fav in the Derby deemed a non-runner...

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@Ben_1885 £2m for a Sioux Nation filly... should've banked it.

However, horse is with the wrong trainer. 24 winners in a year and a half is a poor strike rate and he's 1 from 26 at Epsom.

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What the hell was that ?

Well done Laura Pearson, the others should be shot

#epsom

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Even got a place from Principality

Won't make this mistake tomorrow
( Watch them all lose ! )

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Four winners at Epsom and all frigging singles. The one day I don't do multiples at a big meeting

Ah well. Royal Cornwall Show party vibe so enjoying the day !

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@RacingPost Given his form with Where Love Lives, the form of his sire when upped to 6f, he's the value of the favourites

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@racingtips Problem is he was outridden in the second, which made him lose the third by committing too early.

Still doesn't have the patience and intelligence of Geraghty or Walsh and not even in top five current jockeys

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That's a shocker from Burke at Fakenham. Allowed his mount Dancing Dame to be used as a buffer by eventual winner who kept adjusting right.

Woefully out thought and out fought by Worsley

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@premierleague Clickbait by a 23 year old

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@SimonHolt3 @RacingPost And inexplicably changed the stats page, so you have to toggle between trainer form and their course record

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@RacingPost Looks like being abandoned given the state of the ground in that one place

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@JamesPearceLFC He’s deluded.

His tactics are muddled, substitutions are bizarre and counter productive and his selections and utilisation of players at right back is worthy of ridicule
And this started last season so the mitigation he talks about isn’t as relevant as he believes it to be