Constitution Hill wasn’t 100% when beating Lossiemouth at Kempton either. He was just returning from injury which caused him to miss the Fighting Fifth and Nicky said they had to push him really hard at home to get him ready for Christmas.
He should’ve gone straight to the Festival afterwards as he was always best fresh.
Lossiemouth was brilliant today and deserves all the praise. Constitution Hills jumps career is over and he’s been handled terribly this past couple off seasons imo.
This is all hypothetical obviously but in my opinion, he’d have beaten Lossiemouth today with a clear round of jumping.
He may not be the horse of 3 years ago but as we saw at Southwell, he’s still pretty damn electric. There’s no way Lossiemouth beats him on that nice quick ground today.
Regards State Man, I’m probably one of his biggest fans on here. I’m pretty sure he was 100% when CH thumped him and there’s no disgrace in that. CH is lb for lb the best hurdler in his prime most of us will ever see.
Willie has always been sore on the subject of CH and I feel he’s always been jealous of the horses high praise and huge following.
I’ve said it a few times but I’ll say it again, State Man faced Vauban 4 times that season. He never beat him further than he did on Champion Hurdle day when runner up to CH.
CH was just untouchable.