Countrywide City - 3.30 Brighton

A friend's just acquired an interest in this horse.

It looked half decent as a two-year-old with Petter Chapple-Hyam but its form nosedived when it was trained locally by Jane Southcombe.

It's now with Alan Coogan - does well with other people's cast-offs and a first and a second with his only two runners in the past seven days - and they're hopeful, if not confident, it will return to something like its old form.

If it does the 20-1 forecast price is absolutely massive.

Hope they didnt pay too much for this interest ..

finished last by 30 lengths in a 6f race .. so it was either deliberately ridden slowly or it was useless ..

http://horses.sportinglife.com/Full_Results/0,12493,388416,00.html

Northants Grecian said:

Hope they didnt pay too much for this interest ..

finished last by 30 lengths in a 6f race .. so it was either deliberately ridden slowly or it was useless ..

http://horses.sportinglife.com/Full_Results/0,12493,388416,00.html

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Its finished last on each of its last 5 starts and 12/13 the time before that. Not a betting proposition IMO.

Perhaps Egg's friend owns a glue factory.

Like I said, they were hopeful rather than confident - as Alistair rightly pointed out, the horse's recent from was woeful - but he'd been beating a stable companion who'd finished first and second in better races than this one on the gallops at home. And Alan Coogan is a better trainer than Jane Southcombe.

Egg said:

Like I said, they were hopeful rather than confident - as Alistair rightly pointed out, the horse's recent from was woeful - but he'd been beating a stable companion who'd finished first and second in better races than this one on the gallops at home. And Alan Coogan is a better trainer than Jane Southcombe.

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Trouble is they don't gallop them flat out at home and when they are really under pressure on the racecourse any problems come to the fore. This horse seems to run as though he's got a problem. Or else he's worked out he gets fed whether he puts it in or not.

I once had a share in a two year old who could work upsides with a group class older horse but he never produced it on the racecourse. Several gambles went astray on him. :S

or this could be a VEEERRRYYY long con when he finally wins at 100/1 and all involved get very rich ... alledgedly ...