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Soft bugger I am…stood here tears rolling down me cheeks….greatest moment i’ve witnessed in racing…its what the game is all about…winnings mean nothing today…
What about that? Absolutely awesome! I’m hoarse with yelling at the screen. That’s the blessing of not having a bet, you can just sit back and enjoy it. So glad Mullins didn’t flipping well win again
Great to have the fairy tale come true
It was a true “Changing of the guard” race, with the three horses with arguably the most potential to progress finishing 1-2-3. Silviniaco Conti was disappointing. It seems clear enough that the track is just not for him.
Bobs Worth looks finished and Lord Windermere was goosed from an early stage. Holywell ran well without ever looking quite likely to win.
Hopefully Many Clouds will head to The National.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Glad I kept the faith with Coneygree. Cracking result for connections’ who are as honest as the day is long, and really put their necks on the line today.
What an amazingly brave horse – the Mullins horse tried to “spoil” but Coneygree was just to gutsy for them. Had a very hard race mind.
Fingers crossed he stays sound and can come back for a few more years.
I said all along if he was trained by Mullins or Nicholls everyone would be saying he is the second coming.
Glad I kept the faith with Coneygree. Cracking result for connections’ who are as honest as the day is long, and really put their necks on the line today.
What an amazingly brave horse – the Mullins horse tried to “spoil” but Coneygree was just to gutsy for them. Had a very hard race mind.
Fingers crossed he stays sound and can come back for a few more years.
I said all along if he was trained by Mullins or Nicholls everyone would be saying he is the second coming.
I really thought he would have a job keeping that gallop up but he kept finding more. I briefly thought my horse, Road To Riches, might come through and then my Ten To Follow horse Djakadam might do it but he was too tough out in front and may have ended a couple of careers in the process.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Phenomenal performance by horse & jockey and brave call from connections. Commiserations to those who backed him for the RSA, albeit he wouldn’t have got his ground. It’s been some meeting for brilliant displays. Well done backers.
I leapt to my feet punching the air as Coneygree crossed the line. Just a storming performance to put up such a searching gallop and to jump so cleanly. It’ll be interesting to see the time for the race.
Full marks to the Bradstocks for such a brave call and I can’t wait to see him take on Don Pioli, Vautour and Silvianaco next season.
I’m thinking more about Coneygree V Silvianaco in the King George with hopefully Vautour thrown in. Kempton is Silvianaco’s course but Coneygree’s performance in the Feltham suggests that he should be headed to Kempton on Boxing Day.
Can’t see Silvianaco turning up there again. They’ll save him for Aintree imo.
I think Paul Nicholls more or less ruled out Cheltenham for Silviniaco and who could blame him really. The horse’s best performances seem to have come when he’s the one forcing the pace and you could say he was outdone by a horse who did the same to him, as he had done to those who couldn’t get keep with him previously. Sort of “hoist by your own petard” today.
Of last year’s 1-2-3 there were two PUs and a 5th, completing the Trifecta/Cryfecta reversal predicted.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
It’ll be interesting to see the time for the race.
Official time reads 6’42″50. I went back to 1994 and I couldn’t find a quicker time on a ground described as soft ground. Most of the renewals were run on Good or Good to Soft ground
Long Run holds the record time when he won on good ground in 6’29″70.
I hadn’t realised what an amazing achievement this is for the Bradstocks, and what they have to contend with on a daily basis. Sara lives with a tracheotomy, Mark only has one kidney (you only have to look at him…) and their daughter battles gallantly with a damaged leg. What an example of mind over matter and determination to live life to the full.
I'd like to live in a place where they cordon off swans...I had no idea about that. Probably wny they have a ‘do it now, don’t put if off’ attitude. Thank godness it paid off today. It was amazing. Just wish I had the bottle to actually watch these races properly when they’re on and not rely on the replays.
And to think he started the season being withdrawn by a vet ..much to connections disgust
Although I’d had a small consolation bet on Coneygree after Newbury, I’d never say I fancied him and thought him awful value today. I hate getting the championship races so badly wrong, and I thought Many Clouds would win that, and that Bobs Worth would have done much better. I also fancied Sam Winner to run a race, so appalling calls from me. And I ended up screaming on Djakadam because I’d stuck him in one of those daft fiver accumulators, and the other three had won. All in all, a dreadful Gold Cup for me. The only saving grace is that, with Holywell’s performance, my @ass is safe from the view of TAPK
I suppose that’s worth a lot, really!
And to think he started the season being withdrawn by a vet ..much to connections disgust
I was just thinking about that! It’s a long way to go from there to where they’ve come. I remember reading a quote from the Bradstock’s saying he was ‘The best we have ever had’ and thought to myself ‘oh he’ll probably place in a Hennessy one day or something…’ I was excruciatingly wrong!
I also feel rather fooling for fobbing off his Feltham win as ‘luck’ rather than ability. Even when i was on him i didn’t give him the credit he deserved!
He showed me. And how. Terrific stuff.
A brilliant front running performance. Hopefully, as he has been lightly raced there are a few more big races in him, although we have seen before a Gold Cup win can massively affect a horse the season after and are never the same again. A great decision from the Bradstock team to run him this year as next year could be one of the toughest ever if all potential horses turn up in A1 condition
I’ve known for ages the potential of this horse….I’ve talked him up at every available opportunity, both on here and other places I discuss racing…
I always loved him as a hurdler and just knew he would make a top, top chaser, just love his style of running…
Aswell as the vet episode, just look how far he’s come in terms of performances! On his comeback run he had Dell Arca ranging up alongside looking like he would go past him easily but he fought back to win going away. His next two wins, although questioned by many were absolutely tremendous performances on the clock, two very, very good times for a novice, and again today the time was phenomenal.
I just hope and pray he comes out of that gruelling test today well and we see him winning top races for years to come…I still think he’s got a fair bit more improvement in him yet, it certainly looks that way to me anyway on his performances….an outstanding chaser…a joy to watch!
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