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Puerile drivel from Millington in the Racing Post in support of the fifth day.
It’s clearly going to happen.
If it does happen then the Gold Cup must move to the Saturday. It would bring the race to a wider audience, thus maximising the extra revenue sought by extending to five days, whilst any other contest moving to the Saturday, the Ryanair has been suggested, would be anti-climactic.
Why would anyone think a 2m 4f hurdle race is a good idea? It will only dilute both the Champion and the Stayers. This year’s renewal of the Champion is looking threadbare. Why would anyone want to make it worse?
It would also have a knock on effect to Aintree. The 2m 4f Hurdle there gives it a point of difference to Cheltenham. I think that should be retained.
I agree, but some (daft) people love the Rynair (the Chasing equivalent), which robs the QMCC & The GC. As for the Mares, someone even put up Quevega winning a load of the them as the racing highlight of the last decade…
Terrific stuff from Nicky ‘Unibet’ Henderson today – “The QMCC is the only race that matters”.
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The its “all about one day in march” is the biggest curse on this great sport. Its the one advantage that flat has over jumps that we don’t get horses trained in the manner of Absenting Percy.
The same trainers who, very publicly, extract the urine out of other terrific races, will be up in arms when sponsors think- “hang on they are making mugs of us here” and prize money dried up…
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Don’t get what Millington was on about,when suggesting a Saturday Gold Cup would give a chance for people to attend who don’t want to use valuable holiday up in the week.
They can’t be that interested in racing,ive never worked Cheltenham week and never will.I don`t think the Gold Cup would would hold any special allure to the casual Saturday viewer, not enough of a spectacle in itself, half the field Irish, rather like a Saturday Derby getting lost in a wider sporting spectrum.Considering the place is so stuffed to the gunwhales I wouldn’t entertain going anyway, where would the benefit be? Millington is about 50 years out of date if he thinks people can’t get leave if they really want it. Additional Monday or nothing.
Additional Monday or nothing
Nooo…not the Monday: those long-established three cards at Plumpton, Stratford and Taunton are a tasty aperitif
Slightly playing devils advocate here.
What is wrong with a championship to decide who is the best at each discipline? It happens in swimming and athletics.
I know a lot of people who cannot understand exactly how the different meetings work and fit in with each other so to have a final championship with the other meetings leading up to it would perhaps catch the publics imagination.
I believe even Ruby Walsh, before there clash, was bemoaning the fact that Cyrname and Altior were meeting to early in the season and not at Cheltenham.
100% certain. Hobbs, Henderson, Tizzard, G. Moore support it and there will be a lot more to come.
BUT, that’s not going to end there. One day, it will be a SEVEN DAY FESTIVAL……….
Got a horrible feeling we might end up with Defi Du Seuil in the Rynair. Which would be a real sickener.
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Trainers are lining up behind it and so long as its 6 races and no more, then its a goer
The one concern is the gap between races. I go with same faces every year but we no longer bother drinking so i quite like a reasonably swift turnaround between races. If it starts getting Royal ascot like when some are 50 mins (?) then it could get draggy
As for those that propose it should be “all about one day” then why not just cancel top level racing throughout the rest of the season and just have schooling sessions (No doubt Absenting Percy would duck those too) If thats Rubys view then (not for first time) he’s talking bollocks.Many of us think the KGV is the very best chase of the season anyway and not won by freaks like lady windermere and that welsh thing years back
Also nothing wrong with millington point. Leave is easy for me as is freedom to do what i want, but for plenty (especially with young families) its a very different matter
Asking trainers, jockeys and owners whether they want races to be easier to win and have six more extremely valuable races… is just plain daft.
Three odds-on favourites today.
Anyone wanting a fifth day should take note!
Spreading the good horses even further would be even worse. Making Cheltenham just another Festival.Value Is EverythingMeh. My husband asked me if Tiger Roll was racing today. I said yes. He said “Oh I didn’t know the Gold Cup was today”. Ask any of the general public to name a gold cup winner and they would probably say Tiger Roll. Maybe a few would come up with Dessie and fewer still Kauto. Unless a new star with a pretty head (or a grey) and a nice name wins it a few times in a row like Kauto, or wins everything else and finally conquers his nemesis after years of trying (like Dessie) people won’t give a stuff about the Gold Cup- and then only about one horse. They don’t give a stuff about what won the RSA last year or the Betfair or the Savills and how they get on. In fact I could have shown Tom the RSA today and told him was the Gold Cup and he would have believed me.
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