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Ashforth's Angles: Ozzie so simple but Brighton a puzzle

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Brighton 03/08/2011

Brighton: first meeting of the year and jolly difficult too

  PICTURE: John Connor Press Associates  

 By David Ashforth 5:44PM 18 APR 2016 

IT IS a pity it’s not running because I feel sure it would have won at a cracking price. Obviously I can’t tell you its name because that might ruin its price next time. Mum’s the word.

Still, there’s always tomorrow. Actually, that’s not true, which is why it’s so important to find a winner today. Pundits who say don’t chase your losses, there’s always tomorrow, have never crossed a road while reading the form for Windsor’s evening meeting and been knocked over by a car whose driver was looking at the racing results on his iPhone.

No, there’s always the chance that if you don’t recover your losses before bedtime, you may never get to bed. Admittedly, in that case it doesn’t really matter where you stand with Paddy Power when the 10 o’clock News starts, although it’s nicer for your relatives if there’s something to come.

My grandfather, who was a miner at Bentley Colliery near Doncaster, was reputed to have left very little apart from a winning betting slip. I think it reflected well on his end of life punting judgement although rather poorly on his propensity for saving.

Rather like Mastermind’s opening question, Ludlow seductively begins with an easy novices’ hurdle (2.10). Ozzie The Oscar whizzed in at Taunton on soft ground before whizzing in at Newbury on better ground and if any man or woman know cause or just impediment why Philip Hobbs’ promising hurdler should not defy a double penalty and whizz in again – well, what is that cause or impediment?

What’s going to beat him? Eamon An Cnoic could eventually show himself to be something or nothing. Nothing would be a disappointment because a year ago, after finishing second of five finishers on his only point-to-point appearance, in a maiden race for four-year-olds, he was promptly sold for €175,000. This spring two bumper appearances have been muted but time is a great healer and he’ll probably be winning staying chases next year.

I can’t help feeling that my grandfather would have put his wage packet on Ozzie The Oscar. Evidently he did have a habit of doing that although in those days it wasn’t Ozzie The Oscar or Paddy Power but something else and a street bookie.

Ludlow is splendid but it’s Brighton’s first meeting of the year and, the going being as it is, jockeys won’t know whether to come up the far rail, the near rail, or neither rail. There is a strong likelihood that the relevant jockey will make the wrong choice.

Needless to say, the card’s jolly difficult and it’s best just to savour the Streamline Taxis – Official Transport Partner Handicap (Class 6) at 6.50 when we get another chance to see Megalala, now aged 15.

The elderly will remember the enormously popular Le Garcon D’Or, who scored the last of his 34 wins in 1972 at the age of 14. Megalala has won 19 races, eight of them at Brighton. It would be wonderful if John Bridger can tease one more victory out of Megalala.

 

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