”GM champion chasers are horses that can jump a fence at a speed , are you saying Altior/Sprinter Sacre/Viking Flagship weren’t top class horses , if thats your argument then staying hurdlers are better than champion hurdlers , are you saying for instance that Teahupoo is better than the hill …”
Obviously they are top class horses but if they stayed 3 miles, they’d be in Gold Cups. Kauto Star could’ve won multiple Queen Mothers and Tingle Creeks, why did Nicholls prefer the Gold Cup and King George.
One Man could’ve dominated the 2m division for years but instead Hales dreamed of the Gold Cup.
The Gold Cup is the Blue Ribband and while the Champion Hurdle and Queen Mother are great races also, they still don’t come close to the Gold Cup.
The stayers hurdle is just a race for horses who can’t jump a fence and don’t have the speed for 2 miles. Do you think Big Bucks would’ve been sent back hurdling if he could jump a fence, not a chance.