Owner-breeders Cheveley Park Stud enjoyed a 1-2 in this last year with Dance Diva and
Clubbable and this time rely on the David O'Meara-trained Astrologer, who has looked worth a crack at this level after victories at Beverley and Haydock.
Not that she's likely to abuse that freedom, being a
clubbable type who likes to get on with people: "I hate conflict, generally speaking".
Tim Easterby's three-year-old has had the misfortune to come up against two rapidly-improving types in
Clubbable and Sandra's Secret on her last two starts, but came out of both races with tremendous credit.
Charlie Appleby's AURUM made a pleasing return at Newmarket and can go a couple of places better than his third there in the Listed Investec Surrey Stakes (5.15pm); while the Richard Fahey-trained
CLUBBABLE has won her last two starts -- at Leicester last season and on her return at York earlier this month -- and can bring up the hat-trick in the Investec Zebra Handicap (5.50pm).
Charlie Appleby's AURUM made a pleasing return at Newmarket and can go a couple of places better than his third there in the Listed Investec Surrey Stakes (5.15pm); while the Richard Fahey-trained
CLUBBABLE has won her last two starts - at Leicester last season and on her return at York earlier this month - and can bring up the hat-trick in the Investec Zebra Handicap (5.50pm).
He was not
clubbable in the way that his partners were, and failed to bring work in off the golf course.
Can you really imagine him exuding raw, down-and-dirty masculinity or deftly delivering an arch quip or some playful innuendo?
Tonally, you'd expect his Bond to be closer to Roger Moore's than Sean Connery's: a
clubbable dandy who throws the odd well-timed punch rather than a violent brawler with pectorals that radiate power and aggression.
TODAY'S SELECTIONS York 3.15 Hoof It Newmarket 3.40 Endless Acres 4.15
Clubbable 5.25 Fidaawy
His election to Congress in 1946 against wealthy incumbent Jerry Voorhis was resented by Washington society, which found the "handsome, pipe-smoking" Democrat properly liberal and
clubbable. The same was true when he took down Alger Hiss, whom Nixon knew (and Farrell knows) to have been a Communist spy even as he was serving in the upper reaches of the State Department.
CLUBBABLE (1.50) can strike for Richard Fahey in 'Carrie Red' Fillies' Nursery.
He also comes across as a perfectly
clubbable sort of fellow who reciprocates that respect to everyone he works with unless they give him a reason to do otherwise.
The ruthless manner in which these circles stifled the alleged second-rate thinkers induced many to claim that they also discriminated against innovations (such as Jevon's marginalism and Cliffe Leslie's historicism), or settled scores (such as the way Cairnes belittled his TCD contemporaries) or favoured insiders (such as the favourable treatment of the
clubbable Fawcett compared to the shabby treatment of Hearn in distant Melbourne).
