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Friday night and another trip north. Just the 1 runner this week and after having our wings clipped last week it feels like enough. Touching on last week Indian Tomahawk pulled up sore after his run and was feeling sorry for himself over the weekend. He’s improving rapidly and was straight into his usual post race routine of a week in the field with his tiny pal Toots. 2 of the others never showed up and Alcatraz was eye-catching!! He runs tomorrow night and this could be the story again. If I had a penny for each of the remedies (some questionable) that have been suggested I could resurface Dundalk myself. The mile will lessen the impact of his slow break but the favourite could be a Stakes horse building up a head of steam. It’s an interesting race with just 9 runners. The turnout for these higher value races this winter has been low. 8 turn up for the €25k 10f race preceding ours and 6 for the opening sprint. Beach Bar cost £5,500 and Alcatraz cost £6,000gns. The argument that low grade horses are all some owners can afford just doesn’t add up. It’s crazy logic. If someone gave you a horse for free, it’s going to be massively expensive, very quickly if it can’t get in to races and be competitive. I didn’t find either of those 2 horses so it’s not some veiled compliment to myself. They’re there and there are people who can (for a fee) find them for you.