horse

[zxDaveM]

I see that a horse called 'Vadream' won at Newcastle this evening, at 6/1. And no, I hadn't backed it....

[Balletfanp]

Darn, if I’d known I’d have been tempted to back it! 😂

[Guest oncnp]

4 hours ago, zxDaveM said:

I see that a horse called 'Vadream' won at Newcastle this evening, at 6/1. And no, I hadn't backed it....

 

[capybara]

The owner is a huge fan of the RB and of Vadim Muntagirov.

He and his family regularly travel abroad with the company on tour.

 

(Just to add that I know who the owner is by chance. The horse is news to me but, given the family’s enthusiasm for ballet, it’s name cannot be simply coincidental. 🐎 )

 

 

 

Edited November 18, 2020 by capybara

[Guest oncnp]

19 minutes ago, capybara said:

The owner is a huge fan of the RB and of Vadim Muntagirov.

He and his family regularly travel abroad with the company on tour.

 

(Just to add that I know who the owner is by chance. The horse is news to me but, given the family’s enthusiasm for ballet, it’s name cannot be simply coincidental. 🐎 )

 

and very kindly gave her (Vadream is a filly) a distinctive hashtag #vadreamcf so she won't keep turning up on my IG feed. 😀

[zxDaveM]

I see Vadream (slightly misnamed, I feel, as she is a filly) runs in the Fred Darling Stakes (a trial for the filly classics coming up) at Newbury tomorrow (Sunday). 33/1 if anyone interested! 🙂

[zxDaveM]

ran on well in the last furlong, to come 3rd at 50/1

[LinMM]

Now if a horse named Vadream had been in the Grand National I would definitely have picked that on name alone! 

[zxDaveM]

I see Aiden O'Brien's colt 'Bolshoi Ballet' is 2nd best in the betting at 8/1 for The Derby in early June. Fill your boots!

[zxDaveM]

One of the syndicated horses I'm involved with won at Yarmouth yesterday - at 20/1!! Niiiice! Interesting pedigree - his mum was Lilian Baylis!

[AnneMarriott]

2 hours ago, zxDaveM said:

One of the syndicated horses I'm involved with won at Yarmouth yesterday - at 20/1!! Niiiice! Interesting pedigree - his mum was Lilian Baylis!

Good Grief!

[zxDaveM]

Vadream lines up for the first fillies classic of the season, the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday. An outsider, at about 20/1

Another ballet connection (sort of) - Lazuli is fav for the Palace House stakes at Newmarket tomorrow

[Fiz]

Go Vadream! You have an illustrious name to uphold. 

[Guest oncnp]

On 30/04/2021 at 06:15, zxDaveM said:

Vadream lines up for the first fillies classic of the season, the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday. An outsider, at about 20/1

Another ballet connection (sort of) - Lazuli is fav for the Palace House stakes at Newmarket tomorrow

 

Not her day - she came last

[zxDaveM]

40 minutes ago, oncnp said:

 

Not her day - she came last

 

not last, she was 6th, ran on from the back quite well (shame the jockey had positioned her so far back really). Perhaps 10 furlongs, rather than today's 8, is in her future. Shame my bookie only paid the first 4 home though (each way)

Lazuli won on Saturday though

[Guest oncnp]

8 minutes ago, zxDaveM said:

 

not last, she was 6th, ran on from the back quite well (shame the jockey had positioned her so far back really). Perhaps 10 furlongs, rather than today's 8, is in her future. Shame my bookie only paid the first 4 home though (each way)

Lazuli won on Saturday though

 

Thank you. That's great. Must have read post position instead of result. 

[zxDaveM]

I see Baryshnikov is going for a spin around Chester this afternoon (in the 3.45)

[LinMM]

There’s quite a lot of ballyhoo around at the moment 

[zxDaveM]

7 hours ago, zxDaveM said:

I see Baryshnikov is going for a spin around Chester this afternoon (in the 3.45)

 

and wins at 5/1

[zxDaveM]

Aiden O'Brien's joint fav for the Derby, Bolshoi Ballet, runs in the big Derby trial in Leopardstown this afternoon. If he wins (well) he will be a very short price for the Derby at Epsom Downs early next month!

[zxDaveM]

15 hours ago, zxDaveM said:

Aiden O'Brien's joint fav for the Derby, Bolshoi Ballet, runs in the big Derby trial in Leopardstown this afternoon. If he wins (well) he will be a very short price for the Derby at Epsom Downs early next month!

 

...and in he went, at even money - and very impressive he was too. Now Bolshoi Ballet about 2/1 for the Derby itself on the first Saturday of June

[Ian Macmillan]

And right now he occupies 6 out of the top 10 slots on my Google page for Links!  Seen a lot of him in recent weeks.

[Ian Macmillan]

4 hours later - 8 out of 10!

[zxDaveM]

continuing on the dance related horses, even if somewhat tenuously at times, Project Dante runs at York today. His first run (he is a 2yo) today, and is currently the race favourite at 3/1. Wonder if Wayne having a fiver on...

[Jan McNulty]

3 hours ago, zxDaveM said:

continuing on the dance related horses, even if somewhat tenuously at times, Project Dante runs at York today. His first run (he is a 2yo) today, and is currently the race favourite at 3/1. Wonder if Wayne having a fiver on...

 

Going back in time ... when I had my horse phase my favourite famous horse was Nijinsky.  I hadn't discovered ballet then but I read the biography of Vaslav Nijinsky because of his equine namesake.

[zxDaveM]

7 hours ago, zxDaveM said:

continuing on the dance related horses, even if somewhat tenuously at times, Project Dante runs at York today. His first run (he is a 2yo) today, and is currently the race favourite at 3/1. Wonder if Wayne having a fiver on...

 

and we have another winner, at 7/2

[zxDaveM]

Johan is running in the 2.40 at York today

[Fiz]

Does he know?

[zxDaveM]

28 minutes ago, Fiz said:

Does he know?

 

I think 'our' Johan is in staging abroad, so probably not. Saying that, the horse probably doesn't either, until about 30mins before the race...

[zxDaveM]

A horse running at Yarmouth today - Zen Dancer (after our Zenaida?).

Bit of an outsider, though has been backed from 40/1 into 20/1

[zxDaveM]

12 hours ago, zxDaveM said:

A horse running at Yarmouth today - Zen Dancer (after our Zenaida?).

Bit of an outsider, though has been backed from 40/1 into 20/1

 

Sadly, it went back out to 100/1 and was tailed off (by about 2 furlongs!)

[zxDaveM]

Derby Day - and Bolshoi Ballet is a short order for the big race (at about 7/4)

[Jan McNulty]

As a Links person can I just say that people should be banned from naming horses after anything or anyone to do with ballet - horse racing is most of what I am getting in my news feed!!!

 

(I exempt Nijinsky from this statement as I wasn't doing the links then and because his name led me to reading a biography of Vaslav Nijinsky and sparking my gradual interest in ballet!)