OCTOBER 2008 rac n ISSUE 50 £2.70g AHEAD It’s our Guide to 50th the new issue! jumps season WIN share in a horse Super WIN racing systems club package FERDY MURPHY EXCLUSIVE stable tour with top trainer! BDQ?LOGO?REVERSEPDF # - 9 FREE COPY OF OUR 50TH ISSUE #- PLUS: Our verdict on rugby’s -9 #9 — COURTESY OF BETDAQ #-9 + Heineken Cup in sport! inside this issue 05 WIN A DAVID PARRY RACING ADDRESS FOR ALL CLUB MEMBERSHIP 14 CORRESPONDENCE Get your hands on a 10% lease share in a Office 113 promising young hurdler! Imperial Court 06 FENMAN Exchange Street East He’s had his first day at the races since Liverpool L2 3AB Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister UK 10 PICKS FROM THE PADDOCK Please use email if at all Andrew Ayres with yet more horses that possible to contact us can pay their way Tel: 0845 638 0704 14 FERDY MURPHY INTERVIEW Paul Ferguson met the north’s leading Internet site jumps trainer and he talks us through his www.racingahead.net General email prospects for the winter [email protected] 18 TRAVELLING THE TURF Publisher Simon Nott goes all Bollywood on us Anne Grøndahl Editor 20 TIMEFORM GLOBAL Stephen Mullen RANKINGS Kieran Packman with the pecking order Advertising enquiries according to the form gurus Graham Wright on 22 IN THE STICKS 0845 638 0704 or email Jeremy Grayson’s latest report as he spots [email protected] top prospects for the winter 20 Editorial contributors 26 PAUL FERGUSON’S JUMPS Andrew Ayres ANTE-POST GUIDE Malcolm Boyle Our master of the form book takes his first Graham Buddry look at the major prizes of the winter game Joe Conboy 32 IRISH NATIONAL HUNT Mervyn Coulson SEASON PREVIEW Fenman Tony Keenan with all you need to know Paul Ferguson Peter Hunt 36 IRISH FLAT REPORT Tony Keenan We list the targets of the major players in Jeremy Grayson Ireland’s Flat scene Steve Hughes 34 TRAVELLING THE TURF Frank Mummery Simon Nott gets lost in the middle of a Simon Nott pop concert at Sandown and Ascot Colin Phillips 38 WESTCOUNTRY WIRE Dave Renham The mole brings us the latest whispers Peter Webb 40 DAYS AT THE RACES Photographs Colin Phillips had a day out at Hereford PA Photos 42 SYSTEMS SPOT Subscriptions and back David Renham with some methods that issue queries make the most of favourites 0845 638 0704 [email protected] 44 YESTERDAY’S HEROES Subs rates: UK £28 per 12 Graham Buddry remembers when racing issues clubs were born in the early nineties Back issues: £4 each 46 NEWMARKET STATS Newstrade distribution Malcolm Boyle’s Champions Day pointers Advantage 50 ON THE EXCHANGES Printed by Warners (Midlands) 52 RACING CLUB NEWS Opinions in Racing Ahead 54 WIN MEMBERSHIPS TO are those of the contributors CARRY ON RACING! and not necessarily the We’ve got five great prizes worth £99 views of Racing Ahead Ltd. each to give away! 57 SPORTS BETTING ISSN: 1743-551X Racing Ahead 3 Starter’s Orders Joe Conboy kicks off our 50th edition with his monthly report on horses that caught the eye for clock-watchers EDITOR’S LETTER Sir Mark can start off 50 issues - thanks to our Autumn double you all! THE autumn double is still a for the totesport Cesarewitch a on October 5. Clock On has no popular bet with punters so I fortnight later. speed figures to dispute this WHEN we were first planning will have a dabble! The seven-year-old stayer has and, going by my eyes, Alain de the new racing magazine Sir Mark Prescott’s MASTER been raced over hurdles as well Royer-Dupre’s unbeaten three- that was to become Racing OF ARTS (66) has the look of as the Flat and his last start year-old filly looks a superstar. Ahead back in 2003, issue 50 a stable handicap snip in the on the level was at Newmarket But, from a ‘value’ seemed a long way off! Totesport.com Cambridgeshire last year, when he won this race. perspective, we can side with But here we are, we have at Newmarket on October 3. His form on the Flat has six GETAWAY at around the 8-1 made it through the birth, the The three-year-old son wins from his last 10 runs, mark. difficult early years and we of Swain has collected the which suggests his class. Trainer Andre Fabre does are now standing firmly on our prizemoney in his last five Leg Spinner should be fit and well in France’s premier prize own two feet. starts, albeit at a lower level. ready to defend this. Johnny and this five-year-old, who We receive a lot of nice Three of the wins have been Murtagh was in the saddle 12 ran fourth to Dylan Thomas in letters telling us how much on the all-weather but the months ago, so take the hint if last year’s event, is in winning you look forward to getting ground was soft at a mile on form. the magazine each month. the other two. This true stayer That makes the late nights He is rated only 99, so he “Leg Spinner has the won a Group 2 putting Racing Ahead together gets into this valuable prize off class to defend his race at Deauville worthwhile. an attractive weight. at the end of We are glad to be a small Master Of Arts’ shrewd Cesarewitch crown” August. part in your enjoyment of trainer knows the horse, which That track, like racing and we have always has been scoring with plenty in Longchamp, is tried to listen to our readers. hand, has more to give. He is he rides again. right handed and he strides So if you have any worth a wager at around 12-1. Like Master Of Arts he is much better going that way. suggestions to make the next He has been well beaten Like Prescott, Irish trainer generally 12-1. 50 issues of Racing Ahead as According to the betting, by Soldier Of Fortune and Tony Martin knows what it strong as the last 50, we are Zarkava only has to go into the Youmzain at left-handed takes to capture the bookies’ always interested to hear your stalls to win the Prix de l’Arc courses this season but he can cash. thoughts. de Triomphe at Longchamp get his revenge now. As a result, try LEG SPINNER This month’s magazine is firmly centred on the new National Hunt season and Paul Noticeboard Ferguson has been his usual busy self. WE have had a few queries So I am afraid we cannot That works out at only £1.55 about Racing Ahead Weekend help with the questions. But rest which is about the price of half He’s been to see Ferdy newspaper from people keen to assured that Paul, Andrew, Tony a bitter in pubs these days, or at Murphy to compile an know why people like Andrew Keenan, Steve Hughes, Joe and least half a Guinness! informative stable tour, plus Ayres, Joe Conboy and Paul the rest are all key members But you’ll have to act quickly he’s taken his first look at the Ferguson no longer write of the magazine team and will because the offer runs out at the Cheltenham championship columns in the paper. continue to appear in these end of October. races. As of the start of September, pages. From that date, you will only Long-standing readers will we at Racing Ahead Ltd, the nTIME for a blatant advert now get 12 issues for £28, which is know how good Paul is and publishers of this magazine, but it is does help to save money still great value by the way. his opinions are always worth do not have any direct link to in these tight times. 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