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When looking at form figures ahead of Aintree, what do people think is a similar track to look at?
If you mean the National course, nowhere!
THe Mildmay course is flat and sharp, with fairly stiff fences, so take it from there. THere is no substitute for course form.
If you mean the National course, nowhere!
THe Mildmay course is flat and sharp, with fairly stiff fences, so take it from there. THere is no substitute for course form.
No I dont mean the National course.
What other courses are flat and sharp with stiff fences that are comparable?
not sure didn’t some trainer used to compare haydocks stiff fences, but they chaged them i think
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Of the gd1 tracks, Kempton form probably translates the best as, though it’s larger and RH, it’s flat, has stiffish fences, and similarly sharp bends.
The ‘new’ Haydock circuit is probably the next nearest gd1 in configuration, though the fences aren’t nearly as stiff as they once were, similarly the ‘new’ Wetherby.WT
Of the gd1 tracks, Kempton form probably translates the best as, though it’s larger and RH, it’s flat, has stiffish fences, and similarly sharp bends.
The ‘new’ Haydock circuit is probably the next nearest gd1 in configuration, though the fences aren’t nearly as stiff as they once were, similarly the ‘new’ Wetherby.Thanks Reet.
I always had a feeling Kempton was similiar but right handed so dont know how much that form can translate across.
I think the changes Haydock have made dont really make it a suitable comparison but Wetherby is interesting.
Thanks.
Irish tracks might be (more) relevant.
One of the homes of horses! There, and Kentucky …
Just funning.
If you mean the National course, nowhere!
You say that, but I can genuinely confess that one of the reasons I’ve piled into Christy Beamish in successive Aintree Foxhunters is his form around the Point-to-Point course at Eyton-on-Severn.
Perfectly flat, left-handed, galloping, and nearly 2m2f per circuit. Sounds like anywhere we know? Certainly more than Haydock does, at any rate – Christy had admittedly won the Walrus at Haydock just before obliging at Aintree in 2008, too, but the former had already been converted to its shorter, sharper line by then.
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