Melbourne Cup Odds: My Ambivalent Injury Scare
November 1st, 2014 by Pom de TurfShe’s apparently a pretty spirited horse, My Ambivalent, and you won’t catch her doing things that she doesn’t want to do – like setting off for track work at the scheduled time, or following her gallops partner Red Cadeaux when she’s supposed to. But those high spirits will be a relief for trainer David Eustace to see, because My Ambivalent has been through something of an injury scare this week – one that has seen her bobbing in those Racing odds – and if she wasn’t her usual self, he’d have real cause for worry.
As it stands, though, it looks as though things will be fine for the feisty English mare, who will be looking to take on the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday, and who will now have to overcome a slightly disturbed preparation when she does. Eustace, to his credit, hardly sounded fazed at all, though, when he spoke to the press, and he was even happy to talk about her apparently erratic behaviour: ‘I keep telling everyone and no one really believes me, but that’s how she is. If you saw her every day at Newmarket she would be doing exactly the same. We’re quite happy with how she’s behaving because it means she’s in quite good form. If she was flat and quiet I would be worried. That doesn’t bother us nearly as much as it bothers everyone else. Red Cadeaux was there to help us trot around and she goes when she wants to go. If she wanted to go when Red Cadeaux went … great. If she didn’t … we’ll get her off in her own time. It was a stone bruise and it’s like us stubbing a toe. We had two or three days off and she did pull up lame once, and she must have just banged a joint again. Apart from that, it has been smooth, which sounds ridiculous, and thankfully the other horse, Farraaj has been much smoother. I think she is underrated in her ability in she’s probably got the best international form in the race being third to Gentildonna and Cirrus Des Aigles in the Sheema. I can’t find a piece of form better than that really. They’re champions all over the world and if she runs up to that mark and stay two miles, you would like to think she would be able to have a hand in the finish.’
So those of you who have already got behind My Ambivalent for Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup can rest easy with the news that she seems to have shrugged off the injury worries – and those of you who haven’t got her backed might want to have a look out for her in the Racing odds we’ve got for you if you hit the link…
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