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angrovestud

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I am Happy to report that yesterday our coloured racehorse Angrove rumbaba came 3rd in his national hunt flat race at Hexham, making him the first of his kind to be placed in the UK, it would have been better if we had more then 3 in the race but it was a feat in itself just to finish, there was 13 entered and four declared, as 10 pure TBs had to be pulled up yesterday in other races at the same course, the weather was appauling as we know for weeks.
We are very proud of him as he tried so hard and did do better then his first run where he was beaten by 74 L yesterday it was only 46L so one proud breeder /owner :)
 
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Thank you yes he will love his hols and then some sticks x
 
Congratulations - although to be fair he was last of three beaten 114 lengths - which is over quarter of a kilometre or a furlong and a half so he may need to up his game a bit!! ;)
 
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Thank you everyone EKW your yard did well yesterday Well Done:)
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Thanks. Both of those horses were due a win and the others ran ok.

I hope you don't mind me saying but given how your horse races, his action and the fact that he appears to like ground that doesn't turn him bay I maybe wouldn't race him in quite so much of a bog again. He did better at Sedgy where it was a much sounder surface. The plus side of having a horse that doesn't like heavy going generally means that you won't be out in the paddock at the races when the weather is vile!
 
photo_jo said:
Congratulations - although to be fair he was last of three beaten 114 lengths - which is over quarter of a kilometre or a furlong and a half so he may need to up his game a bit!! ;)
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I think you might find it was 46 lengths do you racing post?
EKW we only ran him as he was due to have one last bumper before he went for his hols he will never be run in heavy again. we were thrilled with his run at sedgefield he showed us he could beat 6 other horses.
 
how come then that his first race was 74 lengths then? and some in the same race were 187 lengths the horses he beat.
 
angrovestud said:
I think you might find it was 46 lengths do you racing post?
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Sorry I wasn't meaning to do him down and we all know how heavy going exaggerates distances --I was going to watch his run on the internet (didn't have Racing Post on Sunday) and on Racing Post site it had it down as 15 lengths and a distance (as EKW said they don't bother to record over so many lengths) and on Attheraces it had it down as 15 lengths and 99 lengths so I just added the two together!! :)
I remember reading some research someone did on arab and anglo arab racing-I used to work for a racing publication-and the increase in speed as more tb blood was introduced to the mix was quite marked so it holds sway with your boy too as in the further away from full Tb he is the more it is going to hold him back. Irish non TB register horses as such which is how many of the NH horses are bred are not so much non-TB more the breeding isn't strictly recorded a good few generations back (think I've got that right)-the percentage of what they would term hunter blood is negligible whereas your boy is less than 7/8ths TB-although I'm happy to be corrected my maths is rubbish! And I will be cheering him on if he wins a race :D Jo
 
Thank you :) its been hard work but lots of fun and we are breeding more and some people like them and are excited about this new attraction to racing it does get people coming to see racing so that no bad thing
Photo-jo he is 7/8th or 87.5% Tb sorry I did not men to jump down your throat thank you well he was 46l this time and 74l in his first race, thank you It nice to feel supported as we are so few in numbers and it does not help that everything coloured up till now has been at the back of the field
 
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as long as you are happy with the result that's all that matters,just out of interest if he was just a plain old bay TB would you keep him in training or would you have decided he wasn't up for the job by now?
 
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5:35 Castle Building Services 10th Birthday Standard Open Nh Flat Race Race 1 2m 110y 16/06/12 - Hexham

1st

2/1
Absolutely Bygones (IRE)
Karen Mclintock
B Hughes
4 11-0
tracked leader, led over 2f out, clear over 1f out, stayed on well



2nd

2/5

16L

P/31-

Next Sensation (IRE) (83)
M Scudamore
T Scudamore

5 11-3
led, ridden and headed over 2f out, soon beaten



3rd

18/1

99L

4-5

Angrove Rumbaba (17)
Micky Hammond
Miss R Smith (7)

4 11-0
tracked leaders, getting detached after 5f, tailed off final 8f
 
http://www.racingpost.com/horses/ho...=horse_race_record&bottomHorseTabs=horse_form


This is what I go on not the bookies
Thanks

If he had been born brown I would not have raced him as we breed for coloured racehorses, but he has talent for jumping and we have only just begun to see what he can do its a shame more owners bin end there horses if they dont win within a few races we happen not to be like that we are having a lot of fun with him:)
 
angrovestud said:
http://www.racingpost.com/horses/ho...=horse_race_record&bottomHorseTabs=horse_form


This is what I go on not the bookies
Thanks

If he had been born brown I would not have raced him as we breed for coloured racehorses, but he has talent for jumping and we have only just begun to see what he can do its a shame more owners bin end there horses if they dont win within a few races we happen not to be like that we are having a lot of fun with him:)
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There is no point going off the RP in this instance as when he finished last they will only put down the minimum for a "distance". The reason they counted up to 74l on another run is that horses finished behind him. They have to know distances down to horse that finished last for them to produce ratings. The official result is that he was beaten 115l and if you read the RP results properly you will see that it says 46+l ie he was beaten by a minimum of 46 lengths, the official result is 115lengths.
 
Thank you to Everyone who was kind and wishes Rummy well getting placed
3rd he will be back later in the year and we look forward to it :D
http://www.racingpost.com/horses/ho...=horse_race_record&bottomHorseTabs=horse_form
As you are so helpful could please explain why then this horse has no horses behind it but its lenghts are recorded thank you Rummy beat this horse twice it came last twice
Rebecca his jockey brought rummy home slowly as to not tire him
 
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