Juliette's Weekly Frolic
Juliette is on holiday, basking in success and probably in sunshine. So, perhapi, are those of her followers who went along with her reading of the stars and the form-book in Ayr's Burmah-Castrol Gold Cup last Friday, when a bonny bay named Swinging Junior came swinging down the centre of the course and frolicked in at 14 to 1.
The upward surge in her assets went straight to her head, of course, and by nightfall she was making for the Channel ports en route to Italy. Not entirely without regrets. She was sad to be missing the promised reappearance of Brigadier Gerard at Ascot this week (although, even though he has lost his unbeaten tag, his odds would be unlikely to make him a betting proposition for longshot-loving Juliette); and there are those big two-year-old tussles at Newmarket next week, the Middle Park and the Cheveley Park. Can Sky Messenger keep his unbeaten record in the former, and do we have a filly good enough to hold Francois Boutin's French challenger, Croque Madame, in the latter?
Since her balance sheet is looking so rosy, N !re sure she won't mind us suggesting ' Yes ' and ' No ' as the respective answers, and risking £2 to win on each of the two youngsters named; plus a further £2 on Thornton Fire in the Bracknell Nursery at Ascot this Friday.
Assets: £137.08 (with £3 of it already laid out ante-post on Red Power in the Cambridgeshire on September 30).
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