Champions Season ?

Now that all the buzz about the July meeting has gone, I checked to see what Gold Circus has in stall for us next - lo and behold, the next meeting of any substance is the Gold Cup Meeting on Saturday 31 July (4 whole weeks after the July - and here I thought it was 'Champions Season' :ohmy:

Also run on the day, is the Champions Cup - a race at set weights; now I know Rainbow Bridge ran below form in the July, but if all is back on track with him and he is entered, he will surely take a power of beating; I see that there is talk about running Got the Greenlight - don't think he can smell RB at level weights; interesting also is that there was talk before the July about Belgarion going over further - so maybe an entry in the Gold Cup ?

As far as Mac's darling She's a Keeper goes, I'm wondering where they will go next - I don't think there are any races for her in 'The Province' before Gold Cup day - maybe the Gold Bracelet is an option, but that's also a race a set weights, where I think she will have to carry an extra 1.5 kgs courtesy of her win in the 1900 - so that's not ideal as I would have thought that the connections are looking for handicap, where she can take advantage of her ridiculous rating dished out for her July run - I guess time will tell

Eric Sands reported RB had swelling post July.

Some years ago, the operators decided that lumping all the feature races for the season onto the few big days was a better idea than the tradition of a feature or two each week throughout the season. Not only does this make programming more difficult, it results in these dead weeks with mediocre racing between the big days. Personally, I much preferred it when the features were more spread out.

I think July Day saved Champions Season, the rest has been pass marks at most

There was such a Buzz, then horses started to be scratched (Summer Pudding, Malmoos, Captain`s Ransom etc) and it took away some of the anticipation