June 2008 – Page 3

Bankable and Bukit Tingii were winning selections on Saturday, and there were other good runs from horses featured in the day’s preview, notably from Basalt. Dhaular Dhar was a 16/1 winner from my lust to follow but I am afraid I didn’t give him a glowing write up!

I will cover the various meetings for Monday and Tuesday this evening, starting with Carlisle tomorrow, where Ann Duffield saddles a couple of 2 year old newcomers in the 2.15. The filly Hell’s Angel is by first season sire Pyrus and is pictured below (Picture by kind permission of Ann Duffield Racing).

There are a few that interest me on the 3.15. Salsa Steps makes her handicap debut for Julie Camacho. This half sister to Dancing Bay has shown bits of form and a mark of 65 does not look too bad. Princess Maria has not shown a lot so far but she is related to plenty of winners and may be capable of better. Midnight Mystique was runner up in a Newcastle maiden last time out and the front two had pulled well clear of the remainder. She could be capable of landing this sort of race.

The 3.45 doesn’t look the greatest of races. Piverina and Scanno have possibilities.

Leicester next, and in the 2.00 Michael Bell’s Battle of Hastings is so named as he was lot number 1066 in the catalogue. I thought you might like to know that!

In the 3.00 my selection is Wing Play trained by Hughie Morrison. This son of Hawk Wing won a Wolverhampton maiden in good style last November and looked a horse to follow.

In the 3.30 I am keen on the chances of Danae. She beat subsequent winner Melodramatic at Newmarket and her trainer Henry Candy has his team in good form.

I am going for a bit of a speculative one in the 7.15 at Thirsk. La Fortalesa, trained by Kevin Ryan has run over a mile on his last 2 starts but drops back to 7 furlongs here which might suit him better.

Moving on to Tuesday and the 7.50 at Folkestone, course and distance winner The Fifth Member should have come on for a recent run and is my each way choice.

Earlier, in the maiden at 6.50 the speedy Tropical Paradise should be on the premises based on her recent 3^rd at Sandown. (Picture by kind permission of British 2YO Racing)

Keisha Kayleigh was ridden by Graham Lee in a flat race for jump jockeys last month. Not a world beater certainly, but she has an each way chance in the 3.00 at Ripon where she is a course and distance winner. She is probably best on good ground.

Valery Borzov goes for a hat trick in the 3.30. He is going up the handicap but has been in great form and I am going to stick with him.

Inspecter Clouseau shaped with promise when 2^nd at Thirsk last month and is my selection in the 4.00.

"Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regain
consciousness until the next morning. I was horrified to
discover that I had been ruined, and for some days I was inconsolable,
and cried like a child to be killed or sent back to my aunt."

–Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor

Even so distant, I can taste the grief,
Bitter and sharp with stalks, he made you gulp.
The sun’s occasional print, the brisk brief
Worry of wheels along the street outside
Where bridal London bows the other way,
And light, unanswerable and tall and wide,
Forbids the scar to heal, and drives
Shame out of hiding. All the unhurried day,
Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

Slums, years, have buried you. I would not dare
Console you if I could. What can be said,
Except that suffering is exact, but where
Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic?
For you would hardly care
That you were less deceived, out on that bed,
Than he was, stumbling up the breathless stair
To burst into fulfillment’s desolate attic.

Philip Larkin

Month: June 2008

Diary: June 2 & 3 2008

Deceptions