Mellanie Surprise is in this sunday.
Crossing my fingers that nothing will happen in the meanwhile other than the usual stuff.
Track turf will be firm, when it does not rain before sunday.
Distance 9 furlongs. Left handed. Our hometrack. 3yo fillies, weight 58 kg. (our quineas).
Mellanie is in this Sunday
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Mellanie is in this Sunday
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The problem will be more or less, she is a hot favourite on the tote, and she will be pushed by the others to make the running by herself.
Only 5 runners in the race.
So Iam afraid that it will be a race without a proper pace, and a sprint finish in the end, which I don,t like at all.
I like to see a race with plenty of pace, and then gearing up towards the end.
Only 5 runners in the race.
So Iam afraid that it will be a race without a proper pace, and a sprint finish in the end, which I don,t like at all.
I like to see a race with plenty of pace, and then gearing up towards the end.
Result 3rd due to a slipped saddle, extremely disappointing.
The positive thing is nothing happened and she did not have a race at all.
The race wen,t 2 seconds above the track record
Next start 27st of May in Baden-Baden (germany)
The positive thing is nothing happened and she did not have a race at all.
The race wen,t 2 seconds above the track record
Next start 27st of May in Baden-Baden (germany)
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You hate to let the other bettors down 
. At least she got a paycheck to help ease the disappointment 
, and she didn't use herself up 
. She can get right back on track and try again 
.
I saw a nice filly Mellanie running at Cologne some weeks ago in a listed race where she finished unchallenged on 4th place on very heavy going.
Two weeks ago Almerita, the winner of that race, was favourite in our 1000 Guineas and finished 2nd of 14 after a late run.
Mellanie’s rating at Cologne must have been around 81. The horses in front of her on Sunday in the Dutch 1000 Guineas have actual ratings of 70,5 and 69 in Germany. So she had had 20 lbs in hand against the very lucky horses that “beat” her after her saddle slipped.
What an unlucky looser! At Baden-Baden she is going to meet Lasira, 3rd in our Guineas and rated at 87. I hope Your next picture is "in the frame"!
Two weeks ago Almerita, the winner of that race, was favourite in our 1000 Guineas and finished 2nd of 14 after a late run.
Mellanie’s rating at Cologne must have been around 81. The horses in front of her on Sunday in the Dutch 1000 Guineas have actual ratings of 70,5 and 69 in Germany. So she had had 20 lbs in hand against the very lucky horses that “beat” her after her saddle slipped.
What an unlucky looser! At Baden-Baden she is going to meet Lasira, 3rd in our Guineas and rated at 87. I hope Your next picture is "in the frame"!
Here are some impressing pictures from Baden-Baden racecourse. The racetrack is situated at the feet of Black Forest, so you have a marvellous panorama - especially at days of indifferent weather conditions as theres were on past weekend:
http://www.rr-fotografie.de/iffezheim.htm
http://www.rr-fotografie.de/iffezheim.htm
I think today happened something unique in the history of the PQ message board:
Members of this internet forum from different European countries met and shared good companionship in a tour to the races. Let me give you a report:
In last autumn Benb, Erins Isle and I learned to know thanks to this message board and we exchanged many emails and PM since then, but up to now we have never met personally. Benb was so kind to ask me to accompany him on his tour to Baden-Baden to watch his 3yo filly Mellanie Surprice running in the Festa-Rennen (a listed race – stakes race - for 3yo fillies over 1 1/8 mile). Off course I saw the big opportunity of this offer and accepted it thankfully. So at 5:15 am on Saturday morning Benb started from his home near the Dutch coast, arrived at my hometown Aix-la-Chapelle (at western boarder of Germany) just before 8:00 am where I and Reseda, another German racing fan who lives and works at nearby Dutch town Maastricht, joined him on his further way to Baden-Baden.
As You might imagine, dear readers, we had much to talk about. We did it exhaustively but not boring in a jolly mix of different languages (German, Dutch, and in cases of common lingual problems of course in English). We arrived at Baden-Baden (round about 360 km from Aix-la-Chapelle) without any difficulties at noon. As I knew a short-cut of the way, some miles of this tour were passed on French territory – so small, but open is Western Europe!
In German horse-racing meetings at Baden-Baden are something special and race there are very competitive – everybody here is eager to win at this race track – it’s a German version of “Royal Ascot”.
Our equine heroine of the day, Mellanie Suprise, had already arrived the day before. She seemed to be a little bit nervous entering the pre-race paddock, but as it was warm with much humidity in the atmosphere – old saying: no weather for fillies – we didn’t bother about it.
In the race she had not the best start, but as the pace was not set very fast, that wasn’t a severe disadvantage. Nevertheless entering the straight to the finish she didn’t accelerate – as we had expected – and trailed in as ninth of nine horses.
Off course, a win in this race would have been a dream come true – it would have been the first victory of a thoroughly Dutch bred, owned and trained horse in a listed race in Germany – but that result was few than expected: “realistically” we had had some legitimate hopes for fourth or fifth place on her running in a similar stake race at Cologne in April – but that’s racing, we must accept the result. During the race there were no excuses – she should have liked the soft going (turf) and there were no interferences with other horses in the race. Her rider, who had already partnered her at Cologne, agreed: well below standard compared to her former race. At the moment, we have no answer but weather conditions – but these were the same for all the fillies in the race – she might have been amiss. Fortunately no injuries occurred and she passed her race sound. Let’s see what the horse “will say” during the next days.
Nevertheless and in spite of this little disappointment, we enjoyed the day out. After watching three more races of the card we started our tour homeward bound at 5:30 pm (in due course we passed the van with Mellanie on board on the route) and arrived at Aix-la-Chapelle at 10:30 pm after much rain during the last 100 km of the tour.
Although our hopes were not fulfilled completely, we had had a realy great day – BenB and Reseda visited Baden-Baden race track for the first time and I recalled my memories of many good and some bad experiences from earlier days on that track. And most important we made friends – if we haven’t done before.
Dear Benb, I hope, You have reached home happily in time while I was writing this report.
Many, many thanks for this exciting day – Reseda and I enjoyed it very much and there will surely be more to come in one or another way. Sooner or later Mellanie will find her race too. After she had drawn to bad cards in a row now, there will probably be some better cards in the remaining stock. As always future will tell.
Members of this internet forum from different European countries met and shared good companionship in a tour to the races. Let me give you a report:
In last autumn Benb, Erins Isle and I learned to know thanks to this message board and we exchanged many emails and PM since then, but up to now we have never met personally. Benb was so kind to ask me to accompany him on his tour to Baden-Baden to watch his 3yo filly Mellanie Surprice running in the Festa-Rennen (a listed race – stakes race - for 3yo fillies over 1 1/8 mile). Off course I saw the big opportunity of this offer and accepted it thankfully. So at 5:15 am on Saturday morning Benb started from his home near the Dutch coast, arrived at my hometown Aix-la-Chapelle (at western boarder of Germany) just before 8:00 am where I and Reseda, another German racing fan who lives and works at nearby Dutch town Maastricht, joined him on his further way to Baden-Baden.
As You might imagine, dear readers, we had much to talk about. We did it exhaustively but not boring in a jolly mix of different languages (German, Dutch, and in cases of common lingual problems of course in English). We arrived at Baden-Baden (round about 360 km from Aix-la-Chapelle) without any difficulties at noon. As I knew a short-cut of the way, some miles of this tour were passed on French territory – so small, but open is Western Europe!
In German horse-racing meetings at Baden-Baden are something special and race there are very competitive – everybody here is eager to win at this race track – it’s a German version of “Royal Ascot”.
Our equine heroine of the day, Mellanie Suprise, had already arrived the day before. She seemed to be a little bit nervous entering the pre-race paddock, but as it was warm with much humidity in the atmosphere – old saying: no weather for fillies – we didn’t bother about it.
In the race she had not the best start, but as the pace was not set very fast, that wasn’t a severe disadvantage. Nevertheless entering the straight to the finish she didn’t accelerate – as we had expected – and trailed in as ninth of nine horses.
Off course, a win in this race would have been a dream come true – it would have been the first victory of a thoroughly Dutch bred, owned and trained horse in a listed race in Germany – but that result was few than expected: “realistically” we had had some legitimate hopes for fourth or fifth place on her running in a similar stake race at Cologne in April – but that’s racing, we must accept the result. During the race there were no excuses – she should have liked the soft going (turf) and there were no interferences with other horses in the race. Her rider, who had already partnered her at Cologne, agreed: well below standard compared to her former race. At the moment, we have no answer but weather conditions – but these were the same for all the fillies in the race – she might have been amiss. Fortunately no injuries occurred and she passed her race sound. Let’s see what the horse “will say” during the next days.
Nevertheless and in spite of this little disappointment, we enjoyed the day out. After watching three more races of the card we started our tour homeward bound at 5:30 pm (in due course we passed the van with Mellanie on board on the route) and arrived at Aix-la-Chapelle at 10:30 pm after much rain during the last 100 km of the tour.
Although our hopes were not fulfilled completely, we had had a realy great day – BenB and Reseda visited Baden-Baden race track for the first time and I recalled my memories of many good and some bad experiences from earlier days on that track. And most important we made friends – if we haven’t done before.
Dear Benb, I hope, You have reached home happily in time while I was writing this report.
Many, many thanks for this exciting day – Reseda and I enjoyed it very much and there will surely be more to come in one or another way. Sooner or later Mellanie will find her race too. After she had drawn to bad cards in a row now, there will probably be some better cards in the remaining stock. As always future will tell.
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