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The sun was frighteningly low when we drove back, too. Race was a week later; clocks have changed and the new stand might, perhaps, make a difference with regards problems with low sun.
It will be interesting to see whether Bristol De Mai can maintain his form this season, he is a year older but still rather young for a series of gruelling top class staying chases on testing ground and it does appear that 3m on Soft and a LH flat track is ideal.
Reading all the accounts it does seem as if low sun was a problem so I wouldn’t write off Cue Card and Coneygree yet. Its very uncharacteristic of Coneygree to jump like that and only a matter of months since each produced excellent performances. They will both go off at bigger odds than they should be next time out. Cue Card’s falls are becoming a habit, perhaps he would benefit from an aid to concentration.
Brennan saying horse couldn’t see for low sun. Certainly looked like he was blind the way he pretty much didn’t take off.
They’ll keep making excuses until they kill him on a course.
Someone needs to have a serious word, and get CC retired.
Connections of Coneygree also blamed the sun, and someone who was there has told me they thought the race should have been ran at a different time because of the low sun.
Low sun can have that effect for sure – but if this was the case why didn’t the jockeys raise concerns on their way to post? I’m sure I can remember something like this happening at Cheltenham’s November meeting, with delays to the start of a chase whilst folk endeavoured to sort out which fences were to be omitted. Personally, I wouldn’t entirely put the blame on the sun. As I was watching the horses milling around down at the start I wasn’t totally convinced that Coneygree was 100% sound behind, and then remembered how he had been pulled out at the start by a vet as a novice (much to the annoyance of the Bradstock’s). In the race itself, Cue Card never looked to me to be his normal bouncing self – and reportedly the Tizzard’s had him fit for this after the mistake of last year. He’s been lucky to walk away from three falls like that now – if he were mine that would be enough.
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