No time for returns. Time for racing. Some day I’ll go to Europe for Boxing Day. Some day. Decision time. Where would you go? Limerick, Leopardstown and Down Royal in Ireland. Aintree, Fontwell, Kempton, Market Rasen, Sedgefield, Wetherby, Wincanton and Wolverhampton in England. Pau and Pornichet in France.
Low sun at Aintree. The last King George at Kempton? Mydaddypaddy scything through rivals in the Grade 1 William Hill Formby Hurdle to lower his price for the Supreme…until he doesn’t. Idaho Sun hanging tough for Harry Fry and Bryan Carver. Good to see Carver back after falling with Sherminator two weeks ago. A punch in the air.
“That’s what the sport is all about,” Fry says. “We’ll dream big for March.”
Paul Townend dishing and doling on Kitzbuhel in the Grade 1 Kauto Star. Like throwing rocks across a river. Long. Longer. Longest.
“Best horse in the race,” Townend says.
The Christmas Hurdle, the King George VI and so many other still to come. The crowd goes wild with a circuit still to go at Limerick. Tourists. Konfusion continues his spree at Wetherby. And look at that, Birmingham Alabama just finished second at Down Royal.
