Had forgotten how much I hated the vagaries of the racekit until this week................
Flat - Tough to find entires now the handicaps are on the cards in anger, lot of good horses in the barn this week.
Burn Hollywood Burn - 8th - Soundly beaten and heading to the cut bin for week 6.
Vanity - 4th - Looked to make a challenge before dying a death in the last half a furlong. Not sure any of my 1.4m class are all that good.
Tarasque - 3rd - Solid enough but did not show her usual turn of foot in the closing stages, has remained consistent though.
Shade - 2nd - Likely about his level, little extra weight probably the difference between 1st and 2nd today.
John Wayne - 1st - Back to his prefered distance and just manged to sneak this one, good performance that help makes up for a disappointing day.
Werewolf of London - 4th - No repeat of last weeks heroics but giving weight to all this was still a decent performance.
Chain of Causation - 8th - Not a good performance and restores my previous doubts about this girl, cut bin possibility.
Jump - Broadly consistent accross the board, notwithstanding magic tricks and vanishing fecking horses.
Messy Conclusion - 2nd - With only 5 finishing the race hard to say what this performance was, curse of the 2nd place today started here.
Snowstorm - 1st - Good run, finally showing what I saw at trial, lacklasture performance will likely follow.
Sky High - 2nd - Cannot really fault him, beaten by one of those snatchy runners where it all works out perfectly.
In Estate of Madness - 2nd - Would love to tell you how he ran today, up until the last furlong I would have said romping it, it looked in the bag, and then poof aliens abducted him to join shergar and lord BEEP lucan on venus. Taking my ball home and BEEP off at this point.......................
Ground Pounder - 13th - Died under the weight, simple.
Pursuit of Magic - 5th - Snatchy run, faded, least he did not vanish.
Kingdom of Ireland - 1st - Looked asleep in both previous races, ran a blinder today, go figure. She may survive to week 6 afterall
In Estate of Shock - 4th - Jumped a little slowly, but was nicely positioned to challenge, before she spied that flying saucer and opted for descretion as the better part of valour, fading to fourth.
Kingdom of Beasts - 3rd - Not enough respect paid to the others today, too little too late.
Shesa Animal - 4th - Did not think she would travel well on the ground, but good and consistent run against sound opposition, always nice to actually see them finish too.