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Flared Nostril - Get Tiddly in sun at Cartmel's summer feast
Posted on 10:17am Thursday 14th July 2011
THE TIDDLY Tadpole looks a fair prospect for a winner at Cartmel's meeting today (Thursday).
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Flared Nostril - Best barbie competition at Cartmel's Thursday meeting
Posted on 10:16am Thursday 7th July 2011
THIS year’s Barbecue Race Day at Cartmel next Thursday wil feature a new competition. Cartmel is offering a special prize for the most stylish barbecue or picnic on course.
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Flared Nostril - Spark up your 'Barbys' for Cartmel prize
Posted on 3:08pm Thursday 30th June 2011
IT'S ONE of the most popular days in Cartmel’s racing calendar and this year Barbecue Race day will be even more memorable.
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Flared Nostril - Manighar can fill Yorkshire Cup bill
Posted on 8:53pm Thursday 12th May 2011
YORK'S magic will be savoured at first hand tomorrow by Flared Nostril and here's hoping the grey cloud wings it and the coffee's piping hot in Betty's.
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Flared Nostril - Carlton can lead them a Dante dance
Posted on 9:36am Thursday 12th May 2011
NOT a great start to the Dante meeting for us, but Delegator winning the sprint with Frankie Dettori up offered a welcome ray of light on the tipping front.
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Flared Nostril - Diescentric to give Cecil a flying start
Posted on 9:16am Wednesday 11th May 2011
IT'S the first day of York's Mecca Dante meeting and I'm in a quandry.
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Flared Nostril - Jacko tribute act to get Cartmel bopping
Posted on 1:28pm Monday 9th May 2011
LEADING Michael Jackson tribute performer Navi will be the headline act as Cartmel’s 2011 season opens with a feast of pre-racing entertainment for the many fans flocking to the evening meeting on Saturday, May 28.
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Flared Nostril - Hurricane can go down a storm at Lingfield
Posted on 10:40am Saturday 7th May 2011
ON a visit to Middleham on Good Friday, Flared Nostril had a tour of Mark Johnston's stables - what a spot of horse heaven for the racing enthusiast.
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Flared Nostril - Go in Zain after savouring Frankel show
Posted on 9:41am Saturday 30th April 2011
IT'S 2,000 Guineas day at Newmarket and Frankel is "expected" to carry all before him in the first Classic but he is not a backable proposition at long odds-on.
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Racing - Outstanding Flat annual from Mark Howard
Posted on 10:55am Thursday 28th April 2011
KIRKBY Lonsdale racing expert Mark Howard comes up with another fascinating offering with his new publication 'Ahead on the Flat 2010'(£7.99).
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Flared Nostril - Shanballa can shake up Cartmel hotpot
Posted on 10:19am Saturday 29th August 2009
LOOKING for a value bet at Cartmel today (Saturday) will pose racegoers be a real Bank Holiday puzzler as there are several strong favourites on the card as well as the presence of top jockey A. P. McCoy.
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Flared Nostril - Hafawa's profile fits bill at Ripon
Posted on 9:54am Saturday 15th August 2009
YORK's Ebor meeting which starts next Tuesday looms over today's racing, and it is worth looking out for nice types who are bypassing the big prizes next week for less exacting tasks.
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Racing - Rosy outlook for Duncan at Haydock
Posted on 10:17pm Friday 7th August 2009
THE North/South divide is never better shown than by tomorrow. While south of the Trent most attention will be on Ascot which stages The Shergar Cup, in which a host of international jockeys do battle, northerners are looking to Hadyock Park.
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Flared Nostril - Make it a Man's world on Ladies Night
Posted on 10:38am Monday 3rd August 2009
IT'S LADIES Night at Carlisle Races tonight (Monday) but it can be a man's world when LAKEMAN is fancied to go well in the £10,000 Edinburgh Woollen Mill Handicap, the showpiece race on the card.
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Racing - Nostrings can pull off a Scoop interest
Posted on 10:49am Saturday 18th July 2009
THE TOTESCOOP 6 is a big pot today and I'll be having a crack at it. Going through the form for the races, it's hard not to think Jono O'Neill has the answer to the final race in NOSTRINGSATTACHED.
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Lashes worth a Royal flutter
Posted on 9:45am Wednesday 17th June 2009
RARELY are top-class fillies kept in training after proving themselves so we shoudl be grateful LUSH LASHES is still on the scene and runnng at Royal Ascot today (Tuesday).
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Flared Nostril - Armour can be sweetheart for Royal Ascot punters
Posted on 8:53am Tuesday 16th June 2009
OUTSTANDING sprinters don't come along that often but Henry Candy's AMOUR PROPRE looks cast in the mould and after Royal Ascot we should know if he's top drawer material.
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Racing - Force can be with us in Hennessy
Posted on 10:33am Saturday 29th November 2008
AIR FORCE ONE looks set to give Lambourn trainer Charlie Mann a big-race winner in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury today (Saturday).
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Racing - Cartmel's Chief back at Sedgefield
Posted on 3:09pm Monday 24th November 2008
CARTMEL trainer Jimmy Moffatt gives his stable star Chief Dan George his first outing of the season at Sedgefield tomorrow (Tuesday).
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Racing - Bantu looks a Gosden special
Posted on 4:15pm Tuesday 18th November 2008
WE'RE back in business after a summer break.
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Racing - Cartmel's Festival feeling
Posted on 10:03pm Sunday 24th August 2008
THERE will be a festival atmosphere at Cartmel Races' Bank Holiday Monday meeting and FESTIVAL KING (n.b.) is chosen to give top jockey Timmy Murphy a winner at the Cumbrian track in the Cengiz (Gus) Sadik Memorial Handicap Chase (4.05), writes Flared Nostril.
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Racing - Apostle can sprout wings
Posted on 12:03pm Saturday 23rd August 2008
KING'S APOSTLE has been waiting in the wings for a suitable opening since was looked an unlucky loser in the Stewards Cup and a Newmarket Listed Race today does not look beyond him.
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She Scoops to conquer....
Posted on 12:51pm Monday 11th August 2008
HERE at the Flared Nostril we are going to concentrate our minds on trying to land the Scoop Six this Saturday.
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Dun and dusted in the Guineas!
Posted on 10:17am Saturday 3rd May 2008
<p>A CRACKING race looks in prospect for today's 2,000 Guineas and IBN KHALDUN is selected to floor the favourite, Jim Bolger's New Approach.</p>
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Spencer is Chief pointer
Posted on 11:26am Saturday 12th April 2008
<p>A CLUTCH of horses that were trained specifically for the Lincoln meeting at Doncaster last month are out again and the most of the talking is about DON'T PANIC, who sensationally hacked up on the Town Moor mile.</p>
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It's simple - it's Simon
Posted on 9:42am Saturday 5th April 2008
<p>EVERYONE wants to be on the John Smith's Grand National winner and there's no doubt the majority of punters will fancy favourite Cloudy Lane to show Donald McCain is a chip off the old block.</p>
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Soapy to wring them out to dry
Posted on 9:50am Saturday 29th March 2008
<p>MARK Johnston's powerful Middleham string looks set to snap into action and SOAPY DANGER can clean up in Doncaster's Shield Conditions Stakes at 3.35.</p>
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All Yea is the Lincoln news
Posted on 11:50pm Friday 21st March 2008
YEAMAN'S Hall is fancied to land the William Hill Lincoln when the race returns to Doncaster tomorrow after it was switched to Newcastle last year while refurbishment work went ahead.
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Tricky, but Magic is special
Posted on 8:25am Thursday 13th March 2008
<p>ON a spectacular 10-race card at Cheltenham today, there isn't time to weigh up all the pros and cons, so gut instinct has to play a part in selections and TWIST MAGIC gets a chance to prove himself out of the top drawer in the Queen Mother Champion Chase.</p>
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