OH THAT KNOCKOUT HORSE!Brian refers to a different kind of knockout horse. Mine are those ###***!!!%%'s that come along and blouse your Trifecta, or your First Four, or, worst of all, the final leg of your promising Quaddie or Big 6.Take Saturday.Three city winners had not won for yonks and yonks.DIPLOMATIC FORCE had been beaten at his past ten starts and had been trying to win a race since 2009. In all fairness, he'd run some top races and been a bit stiff more than once. But the figures were t
OH THAT KNOCKOUT HORSE!
Brian refers to a different kind of knockout horse. Mine are those ###***!!!%%'s that come along and blouse your Trifecta, or your First Four, or, worst of all, the final leg of your promising Quaddie or Big 6.
Take Saturday.
Three city winners had not won for yonks and yonks.
DIPLOMATIC FORCE had been beaten at his past ten starts and had been trying to win a race since 2009. In all fairness, he'd run some top races and been a bit stiff more than once. But the figures were there for the statistically minded.
OFFENDERS did win the Sale Cup, after all.
In 2009, that was.
And that KO job, the one that ruins your perfect plans and sends your ideas of an early retirement out the window?
Yes, LOCKMAR.
He'd been beaten at his past 15 starts since Canterbury just over a year back, but he managed to turn the corner yesterday and blow virtually 99 of every 100 Quaddie/Big 6 tickets out of the water.
The Quaddie is one thing, but that Big 6 blowout must have left a few punters weeping real blood.
As my close punting pal put it, "It was the last leg, always the last leg!"
The last straw too.
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Follow-up hoofnote: That bet on One Last Dance was in fact refunded today. Congratulations to the large corporate concerned for a significant step forward in punter/bookmaker relations.