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Antiphony gave Richard Johnson some trouble at Kempton in January

  PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By David Ashforth 6:00PM 9 MAR 2016 

SOMETIMES HORSES about to run make you look forward (Douvan and Antiphony), sometimes they make you think back (The Giant Bolster) and sometimes it’s a bit of both (Somersby).

Richard Johnson has been riding long enough to know all about the disappointments that are part of a jockey’s life and he will not let missing the ride on Antiphony at Warwick on Sunday (waterlogging permitting) upset his mental preparation for Cheltenham.

Antiphony has been entered for a conditional jockeys’ race and Ciaran Gethings and Conor Smith will doubtless have been arguing their case with trainer Philip Hobbs. The loser will be obliged to take the ride.

Expressions such as “raced keenly” and “pulled hard” do not do justice to Antiphony’s approach to racing. If the five-year-old is as frightening at home as he appears to be on the racecourse there must be keen competition to get someone’s else’s name next to his on the work rota.

On Antiphony’s latest appearance, at Kempton in January, Johnson and Antiphony engaged in a long grappling match. It would be unfair to say that Johnson (140lbs) lost the battle with Antiphony (1100lbs) but quite a lot of the race was over before he could claim a draw.

I expect a lot of work’s gone into calming Antiphony down and whoever rides him next will be hoping that it hasn’t been work in vain. To look on the bright side, he jumps well.

Old Knock A Hand brings back memories

It’s important to have something to look forward to, cashew nuts for instance or Dr Thorne on television but it’s difficult to avoid seeing some horses’ names without feeling a tinge of regret for the past.

Knock A Hand’s off to Carlisle again on Thursday for another slog through the mud, this time over hurdles (3.05), which Kerry Lee’s 11-year-old hasn’t tackled for over two years.

I remember watching Knock A Hand, a lovely strapping horse, win two hurdle races on heavy ground at Chepstow in 2011 and thinking what a fine staying chaser he’d make.

Richard Lee thought so too but although Knock A Hand has put up some grand performances he hasn’t quite reached the promised land and has failed to finish in six of his last eight outings, one of which he won, at Carlisle just over a year ago.

We often say that a horse likes soft ground when what we really mean is that it copes with testing conditions better than most other horses; that it performs relatively well. Four of Knock A Hand’s seven successes under Rules have been on heavy going and two more on soft.

He is a good example of a horse that performs relatively well on heavy ground but do even dour stayers “like” racing on it. Do they eventually get sick of it?

This is no criticism of Richard or Kerry Lee. You aim to race horses on the surface that gives them the best chance of winning races and I hope Kerry manages to work her magic on this old favourite of mine, Knock A Hand.

 

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