HDLG – Overall I do agree but although it is hard to lets also not forget the great weight carrying performance of Favori De Champdou under 12st in the Glenfarclass, Ma Shantou bursting onto the Stayers Hurdle picture with his impressive Cleeve win and the great finish that Donnacha and Jagwar produce in the Handicap Chase.
All of those horses will likely go to Cheltenham in March with good to strong chances in their respective races, sadly all of that was totally overshadowed by Sir Geno’s injury and the total lunacy of the last race being run in/under farcical (and potentionally dangerous) conditions which ultimately will be all the day is remembered for.
On the Sir Geno front it is interesting to note that the RTV pictures picked up that jumping one of the hurdles down the back you could clearly see that he had an oddly high tail carriage (something I hadn’t noted him doing before), which may have been an indication of something being not quite right even at that earlier stage of the race.