Chit Chat about Mac

[clivehumphreys]

A disappointing run from Mac, thought he had a very good chance of winning last night, lack of races must have a very negative effect

[aderek]

richardc said:

Looks like he found a lot of trouble. Last win in December, I agree he needs to be given a chance.

RICHARD
what do you mean by given a chance?

I hope you are meaning a chance to race somewhere else,because Jim Reynolds, the Racing manager,Romford track and Dave have all had enough chances wiith what inspite of his poor record is such a promising dog.

Surely even the most loyal ,longest serving members of our syndicate must agree that its now time to move the poor dog somewhere else if not for how hes running then for economic reasons after all we moved Peggy Carly Lucy and Joe when they were all running better than Mac is now.

Its a shame that a dog that showed so much promise and still shows the potential isn't having the opportunity to fulfill it.

[Dave]

aderek said:

Macs dilemma

.I think we might have been better off when the Racing manager thought(lol) that he had only to run at the bags meeting on Saturdays.

And you wonder why i don't bother posting now,its with sarcastic comments like above that pisses people off,i've told you all UMPTEEN times that it was a mistake by the racing office,NOW give it a rest,Macs had 5 runs since beginning of April so can't see any reason for complaints on that score,as for a move,as we are down to 13 members,struggling to meet payments,the last thing we need is another dog off the card trialling into a new track.

[Dave]

Derek

Please tell me HOW Mac is not getting a chance to show his full potential,i'll tell you in simple lay mans term.

ITS BECAUSE HES NOT TRAPPING,Simple As,Macs game is all about early pace and hanging on,if he does'nt trap hes going to struggle,as he won't see out a 480 trip he would need to go to Crayford,Crayford demands you need to trap so if he does'nt trap he does'nt win there either.

[richardc]

By 'give him a chance' I mean downgrade him. He has not won this year, to me graded racing means that dogs who don't win in one grade after a number of runs get a down grade.

To be fair I haven't watched him run recently and I accept that his downfall is his trapping, but
I still think that a dog that can't win in A3 deserves to have a chance in A4.

[aderek]

Mac is out again on Wednesday trap 2 in the 9.25----A3.

[aderek]

I wish I could agree with you more often Dave
You say that Mac is all about early pace and hanging on well if you have to wait for him to lead up we will all get skint backing him because the truth is he has only led up a handful times in his 32 races and he didn’t win them all.
If Mac leads up tonight he wins but it will probably be a long time before he wins again because he isn’t consistently good enough at the traps to do it repeatedly
I think that Macs trouble is very much like Joes he isn’t fast enough to the bend consistently enough but when he does he puts it all in and does a good run and the grader then has to grade him on what he’s done but 9 times out of 10 he like Joe will find trouble especially round Romford and that’s what is preventing him winning more, than him not getting a flyer
I think that Mac will win in A3 from behind if he gets a clear run and tonight he could get one.
The one dog (J.Reynolds) looks a good bet it is the Racing Post NB and will probably lead Mac up but so will the 3,4,5and 6 on recent sectionals and if Mac runs as he has been doing he will be LAST to the bend BUT I think that will help him because if he is he will get round the bend with space and then If he doesn’t find bother after that I think he will be in the shake-up.
I shall have a few quid on him tonight and I usually don’t back him because everybody has said he needs to lead up to win and in most of his races there is no way he can lead.
Getting a clear run is the most important thing in a race and if Mac can do the time tonight’s race is run in and he has a trouble free passage I wont be sickened if he loses because I know be will be there a bout’s

[aderek]

Well the only consolation I have is that he had to do his best ever sectional or winning time to give the winner a race. I don’t know how it was run other than the comments in the results and I didn’t hear the commentary but I will download the video when it becomes available.

[aderek]

MAC FLATTERED BY THIRD PLACING

Dave said that trainer was frustrated by Macs trapping well if he has been trapping as bad as he did in his last race I can understand it because he didn’t trap he did the classic "fell out” and was several lengths and last behind the leader as the traps opened but to his credit he was back in amongst them by the bend checking again before taking fourth position and eventually going third but only because the 1 dog was badly hampered.
I must admit we have a problem with Mac because one of these days he’s going to get it right at the boxes again (probably just for the once)and he will be on the bunny with nothing but daylight in front of him and he will be gone.
The trouble will be that he will clock his best time and be up in grade and he will probably have a spell at falling out again and it will be a while before he is on the podium again.

[aderek]

Mac for me ran a very good race and to me his trouble was he got out a bit too quick a little bit slower to the bend and he might have gone round without any trouble which might have made the difference.
I can see him wining now either from the front or the back

I sill think he ought to move track

[knockout]

OI OI MACCY BOY IS BACK IN THE GROOVE

Ran well in my opinion, will try and post a link for all to see the race soon if it recorded properly

[aderek]

Well you wouldnt believe he could miss the lids so badly so often.
He is cerytainly gouing to win but we all moight have got fed up of backig him before he does.
I think the move to trap 1is a great move for him as he has more chancer of getting a run round that damn first bend .

I wouldnt like him to ping the lids because he will win that easily and do such a good toime that it will be A1 next and he will probably miss the break again because ne will be unlikely to hit them twice onthe trot.

I also wouldnt like to see him in A3 because he would be a short price favourite and he still has to get out somnething like.

[aderek]

The betting told you there was something not right with this race as far as Mac was concerned just as it had done with Peggy earlier and it warned you to be careful and although I was a bit disappointed with his run whilst I was watching him I soon got over it when I saw the time of the race because he couldn’t do the time fast enough to win this race or hasn’t doe yet

This wasn’t an A3 race and the winner isn’t an A3 dog and if you had been flapping you might have been sweating on getting the red light for winning this race.

So nothing is lost with Peggy or Mac they have both done about their times and I reckon the grader owes us after those two races.

[gazzaa10]

Problem is Derek when you get a text saying Julie says this and that what are you supposed to think, i for one no longer take any notice of these, this is not a criticism but an observation.
I havent backed any of the dogs for a while now as they are not running particularly well, for whatever reason, in my view. In fact i would probably have homed them, Peggy has gone down the grades and any chance she has is lost at the 2nd or 3rd bend by her going too wide. Mac just isnt at the races in my view and seems to have lost interest.

[aderek]

You could be right gazza and it desrves some discussion but how do we acheive that?