W Post 12-2005 25/9/07 4:53 PM Page 1 Memorable Quotes... Lester Piggott on his retirement from the saddle in October 1985 T HE REGULAR NEWSLETTER FROM H OMEBRED R ACING 1/2006 told the assembled press “Eating is going to be a whole new ball game - I may even have to buy a Know your rules: new pair of trousers!” Which tipsters Claiming get it right? and selling Did you know? races Snaafi Dancer is one of the The ideal job must be to be The Racing Post Naps most expensive equine flops of a weather forecaster - no Competition lists 52 tipsters and All horses which have come under all time.A bidding duel between one ever expects you to get their league table reveals no less starters orders in Claiming and Robert Sangster and Sheikh it right! Being a tipster must than 44 of them showing a loss to Selling races may be claimed at the Mohammed forced his auction be very much the same £1 level stake on their selections. period showing a profit of advertised price - excepting the Racing Post Ratings was the only £164.00 to £10 each way staked price to a staggering $10.2 although there’s a much winner of a selling race which is million for the yearling son of ‘industry’ tipster doing well (2nd on every selection.This follows offered for sale after the race by greater sense of expectation place) whilst Farrington of the on from results for the previous Northern Dancer. Sadly Snaafi attached to predictions. public auction. Rule 97 states that Dancer became a figure of fun Morning Star was the leader and quarters which provided a every claim must be made in Whilst putting a line under our - allegedly so slow on the gallops Bob Watts (Western Daily Press), £14.40 loss and profits of writing on the appropriate form website’s selections at the end of that the concept of racing was Paul Allen (Coventry Evening £76.00, £53.75 and £708.50 signed by the person making a the turf flat season we wondered ruled out. So he was shipped Telegraph), John Sexton respectively.Overall Inside Track is claim.A claim may also be made by how our own Inside Track off to stud but proved infertile! (Wolverhampton Express & Star), currently showing a profit of well the owner or trainer wishing to Stallion Profile: Septieme Ciel compared with the ‘experts’. Jeffrey Ross (Glasgow Evening over £1000 since 1st June 2004. retain their own horse.The claim The Racing Post monitors every Septieme Ciel was a top class Slew O’Gold, Slewpy and many, numerous Group 1 winners Times), Sam Turner (Shropshire Having said that it is, of course, form must be handed to the Clerk selection in the UK press and miler winning five group races in many more. including American Gypsy, Star) and Mel Cullinan hardly a fair comparison as we’re of the Scales not later than five Stud Open publishes a daily league table of France including the Group 1 Septieme Ciel’s dam is an equally Vivid Angel and Sixieme Sens. (Weekender) were the only others not under pressure to publish tips minutes after the ‘weighed in’ results in their Naps Competition Prix de la Foret. Foaled in 1987 successful line - Maximova being Additionally he should be in the black at the end of the every day.And it’s also clear from announcement.The horse will go Day 2006 which offers £4000 to the leading Septieme Ciel was bred in the a multiple group winner particularly suited to our season.Alarmingly the one the Racing Post’s table that those to the person submitting the claim tipster. It makes sobering reading USA and is the product of two including the Group 1 Prix de winning mare Snowy Mantle apparently closest to the action, sinking towards the bottom but if there are two or more claims and demonstrates precisely why of the very best racehorses of the la Salamandre. Maximova’s dam (dam of Snowed Under and Racing Post’s Newmarket Tipster, throw caution to the wind for the same horses the successful bookmakers ride around in big era - by Seattle Slew out of was also a winner and foaled 3 Divine White) as he reinforces languished near the foot of the hoping that a 33-1 shot might claim will be determined by ballot cars and can afford to winter in Maximova. Seattle Slew won 14 individual group winners whilst elements shared in their table having tipped no less than 152 transform their position. conducted by the Clerk of the the Caribbean. races and was champion 2 and 3 the granddam produced top pedigree tracing back to losers out of 200 selections! And The table also recently illustrated a Scales.The price of any successful pity poor Underhand of the very blank Tuesday when not one year old in the USA winning flight racehorse and multiple Nasrullah and Nearco. We’re very flattered that requests for claim must be paid to or secured to Newcastle Journal who endured 36 of the 55 tipsters managed to find the Kentucky Derby,The Group 1 winner Nonoalco. He initially stood at stud in the date of our Open Day at the the satisfaction of the Clerk of the consecutive losers - a record nearly a single winner amongst all the Preakness,The Belmont Stakes Septieme Ciel’s appeal as a Kentucky for a fee of £20,000 stud get earlier every year! Snapshot Scales within 30 minutes of the matched by the ‘best tipster’ runners from 4 meetings. and the Marlboro Cup to name stallion is not just his exceptional before transferring to France This year it will be Sunday 16 July - It’s smiles all round in the ‘weighed in’ an announcement. Farrington who also managed a And a final interesting fact, for but a few. breeding but his serious where he raced so successfully. and we hope that as many as possible winner’s enclosure at Lingfield Where an owner successfully losing run of 31. So in the light of those that like to stick to the His success continued at stud as racecourse ability at 2 and 3 Septieme Ciel has his first will be able to make it. Everyone Park with Homebred Star who reclaims his own horse the claiming such carnage we’re pleased to the sire of over 110 black type years over distances of up to a season in England this year will be receiving a personal invitation romped home an easy 33/1 favourite in every race, is that the procedure is regarded as being races including many Group 1 mile. He has also proven himself standing at Dairy House Stud in due course together with more winner of the Betdirect Stakes report that by comparison Inside stats show you have less than a one recinded and the horse simply winners such as AP Indy, at stud having already produced in Wiltshire. details about the day. over 1 mile in his comeback Track did rather well over the same in three chance of collecting. remains the property of the owner. race. Martin Pipe has been very successful at improving horses out Course factfile: Newton Abbot Let us have your ideas of sellers and claimers and it can and views... prove a very economical route into Newton Abbot is a small, flat, oval Location: London 220, ownership.The horse is race fit at course of just 1 mile 2 furlongs, Exeter 15 and Plymouth someone else’s expense and its with a very short run in, suiting 23 miles. ability to race is proven - which is very often not the case if buying a nippy types who can slip their Telephone: 01626 horse at one of the recognized sales. field around this turning track. 353235 Going often turns soft very Trains: From quickly even for their early Paddington and via bus summer and autumn jumping Did you know? to course cards. It’s a particularly happy Pregnancy does not necessarily Celebrations: Office: inhibit racing performance. hunting ground for champion Grattons Court, Grattons Drive, Notable wins include trainer Martin Pipe who Thatched Cottege Pound Hill, Crawley RH10 3AG Tel: 01293 884433 Fax: 01293 884201 The Princess (1844 Oaks), monopolizes many of the novice at Kingsteignton Glass Doll (1907 Oaks) and Stud: events.Always allow plenty of (01626) 365650 Prengwyn, Llandysul La Flèche (1894 Ascot Gold time to get in as traffic queues can Cott Inn at Darlington Cardiganshire SA44 4LS Cup and Champion Stakes) who were all carrying foals at (01803) 863777 email: [email protected] be exasperatingly long! www.homebredracing.co.uk the time of their successes. W Post 12-2005 25/9/07 4:53 PM Page 2 back a well-beaten third, four emptying of the lungs so a sudden lengths behind his own barn 500 years explosive expiration is involved; companion Angle Light. the horse coughs. ‘He’s a non-stayer, like all the at a gallop! Infection is often associated with other Bold Rulers’ the know-alls The first recorded racing was at discharge at eyes and nostrils and declared - and even some of Chester in 1540 which today is signs of a sore throat appear, Secretariat’s most ardent followers Britain’s oldest surviving racecourse. causing difficulty in swallowing feared that to be the case. Racing got the Royal stamp of and a soft cough. Obstructions to In fact, trainer Lucien Laurin had approval when Elizabeth I attended the inward air flow will sent the champion into the Wood races at Salisbury in 1580 and invariably produce a noise e.g.