Our Joan of Arc's ecstatic ownersKW's paternal half-sister, Fleeting Spirit was the centre of controversy when she was left in the stalls when her gate refused to open at yesterday's Longchamps meeting. The race was re-run some five hours later and at this time I have no idea if she was one of the three non-starters in the re-run. She knocked her head several times in her attempt to take part in the first race. In any event she failed to fill a place. However if you backed her the NSW TAB refunded bets on the original race so don't throw away your tickets.
If you backed the other runner at Longchamp with which KW has a connection, then I'm sorry, German Derby winner, Kamsin, also failed to fill a place in the Arc. If you backed him then, like me, you did your dough.
However our luck came good with the other runner this weekend with which you can claim, if only a tenuous, connection. Our Joan of Arc, the filly my friend bought a share in because I extolled her virtues after being invited to a Darby Racing Open Day by Graham, won the Gimcrack Stakes at the juicy odds of nearly 30/1 (winning dividend was $29.90). She'll never start at those odds again.
[We could be onto a system here. If a horse related to Khamsin Warrior and another with a similar name to KW, are due to start at the same overseas race meeting AND we personally know someone here with a horse whose name derives from that same overseas country and with a part of its name the same as one of the races that one of the aforementioned horses is competing in, then put the house on the local starter. eg Fleeting Spirit (by Invincible Spirit, KW's sire) leads us to Longchamps, France where Kamsin is running in the Arc de Triomphe which leads us to Our Joan of Arc at Randwick because Joan of Arc was a French heroine and Geoff advised his friend to by a share and Geoff has a share in KW. Simple really.]
Anyway you find them, a winner is a winner and they are few and far between, especially at long odds, so I hope like me you finished the weekend in the black.
Put it in under the bed and save it for KW's first start (in December?).
If you backed the other runner at Longchamp with which KW has a connection, then I'm sorry, German Derby winner, Kamsin, also failed to fill a place in the Arc. If you backed him then, like me, you did your dough.
However our luck came good with the other runner this weekend with which you can claim, if only a tenuous, connection. Our Joan of Arc, the filly my friend bought a share in because I extolled her virtues after being invited to a Darby Racing Open Day by Graham, won the Gimcrack Stakes at the juicy odds of nearly 30/1 (winning dividend was $29.90). She'll never start at those odds again.
[We could be onto a system here. If a horse related to Khamsin Warrior and another with a similar name to KW, are due to start at the same overseas race meeting AND we personally know someone here with a horse whose name derives from that same overseas country and with a part of its name the same as one of the races that one of the aforementioned horses is competing in, then put the house on the local starter. eg Fleeting Spirit (by Invincible Spirit, KW's sire) leads us to Longchamps, France where Kamsin is running in the Arc de Triomphe which leads us to Our Joan of Arc at Randwick because Joan of Arc was a French heroine and Geoff advised his friend to by a share and Geoff has a share in KW. Simple really.]
Anyway you find them, a winner is a winner and they are few and far between, especially at long odds, so I hope like me you finished the weekend in the black.
Put it in under the bed and save it for KW's first start (in December?).
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