From the Racing Post website: FORM students were left scratching their heads after the 2.55 at Southwell went the way of the 23-rated Misu Mac, who was sent off the 66-1 outsider of four. Trained by Neville Bycroft, and having never made the frame in seven starts, Misu Mac was left battling out a finish with the second-favourite Thunderbird, with the odds-on favourite nowhere to be seen. While the sport is known to throw up shock results on a regular basis, few can claim to quite match the Southwell surprise, with the the lowest rated runner in the race having to give away weight to all of her rivals. A five-year-old mare, Misu Mac's best run to date was when beating five rivals home at Redcar in October last year to finish tenth of fifteen runners. The odds of her last three starts were 200-1, 150-1 and 66-1 and she has never been sent off less than 28-1. Joe Doyle, who picked up a spare ride on the winner, said: "It was a bit of a surprise. It's just one of those things, She jumped, she travelled and she hung a bit but she got it done when it mattered." Makin a Statement, the well fancied favourite with an official rating of 72 was receiving 8lb from the winner but could only finish 11 lengths behind. ************************************************************************* I would be interested in the first thoughts going through peoples minds when they read this. Mine were "****ty all-weather racing" followed swiftly by "bent nonsense", "state of the sport" and "too many crap races with crap horses". Any more for any more?
Yeah my thoughts were why the **** didn't I put it on this lunch time when I was in the bookies with my colleague who's nickname happens to be 'Mac' and who had a fiver on it. Asked me if I wanted to double up with him but I declined due to my self imposed 'no betting on horses through the week' ban. We'd only gone in Coral to have a look at footy coupon for tonight's friendlies, I spotted the horse and pointed it out to him. He wins, i don't but that's gambling!
I wasnt surprised. http://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30469133/southwell-info?liveView=0 Her best run was last time out and the drop back in trip in a small field looked ideal, trainer has had similar types in the past not doing anything until 5yo and the price of the fav told you the strength of the race.
Well we've officially got a fecking HURRICANE over Deutschland so I'm keeping my fecking head doooooooooooooooooooon
Nice one Smokey - my dad would tell you a similar story. In 1990 he went to the Cheltenham Gold Cup with a few blokes from the Sheffield area, one of them from Norton. Of course, said bloke insisted on having a fiver e/w on Norton's Coin, just because he was from Norton. My dad and the rest of the group laughed at him, the rest, as they say, is history.
That Misu Mac still had some way to go to break the record: The lowest rated horse to win a race in this country was Quakeress. She ran up a sequence of seventeen defeats before finally breaking her duck in a Wolverhampton seller in February 2000 under Jamie Spencer at the paltry odds of 25/1. She was rated just 16. She then went and won her next race – another Wolverhampton seller – at odds of 3/1 off a revised rating of 22. When she was retired in 2002 she had won just two of her twenty-nine starts and amassed a massive £6,400 in prize money. I thought some other anorak would have known that one because her name usually comes up as a quiz question.
