07-07-2017, 09:35 PM
Backing the Win.
I’ll take a flutter on Statesman – to win, please. Glossy coats, manicured hoofs and fancy accoutrements may impress the mugs down in the ledger; but class, pedigree, blood and staying power is needed to win this round. Statesman is nothing if not a working horse; no pumped up ‘work out’ muscle there; just the steel and stamina of a stayer, used to doing the hard yards which produce the flat, strong muscles of a true winner. It is a distance race needing real power, not some contrived, artificially produced pretence of real power. Trained by Xenophon, ridden by Fawcett, owned by O’Sullivan and Sterle – what else could you think of backing; when push come to shove. – Go with strength – horsepower – of the real law making kind.
Two choc frogs and a Tim Tam – Statesman.
I’ll take a flutter on Statesman – to win, please. Glossy coats, manicured hoofs and fancy accoutrements may impress the mugs down in the ledger; but class, pedigree, blood and staying power is needed to win this round. Statesman is nothing if not a working horse; no pumped up ‘work out’ muscle there; just the steel and stamina of a stayer, used to doing the hard yards which produce the flat, strong muscles of a true winner. It is a distance race needing real power, not some contrived, artificially produced pretence of real power. Trained by Xenophon, ridden by Fawcett, owned by O’Sullivan and Sterle – what else could you think of backing; when push come to shove. – Go with strength – horsepower – of the real law making kind.
Two choc frogs and a Tim Tam – Statesman.