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He was already beaten approaching the hurdle he fell at, Glad. That was 2 out. When has he ever looked in trouble that far out before?
To be fair when he went down plenty of them were still full of running because of the pace they’d gone. I’m not sure he’d have picked Lossie up. He could have got himself out of trouble if he was going that much better than everyone else
Not sure why Nico is holding CH back for another half stride before the hurdle, he had been long-ish but was fine, just let him jump the hurdle.
Buckley looks fuming stood behind Hendo
Henderson is blind by the way I go 4/5 Buckley 1/1 HendoGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
He needs a trip or fences or both. If he was mine I’d be looking at middle distance novice chases with a view to making him a stayer. There’s clearly something not quite clicking with him and hurdles at that sort of speed now.
I don’t believe he was beaten at the time.
I cant work out why they dont just let him go and run, instead of holding him up, joining in the ‘cat and mouse’ tactical stuff.
He just looked much better (before) just running ’em ragged, instead of this hold-up stuff.“He was already beaten approaching the hurdle he fell at, Glad.”
Again: he hadn’t been asked for any effort at that stage.
I’m not going to go around in circles on this; we’ll have to agree to disagree.
“Nico made a bit of a pigs ear there”.
Agree Nathan.
If I was an owner, who would I rather have a horse in training with? Mullins when it will be ridden by Townend, or Henderson when it will be ridden by De Boinville? That is a bit of a no brainer.
4 races, 4 Mullins winners.
2 horrible falls in a row and Hendo is mister Hand wringer,
I wonder if they’ll retire him?Glad the horse and more importantly the jockey are ok,but that is an absolutely delightful result
Hopefully lulamba can tail off out the back now
“I’m not going to go around in circles on this; we’ll have to agree to disagree.”
Fair enough Glad but in my opinion he had clearly lost his position.
He looked much better before whatever they did with him. He’s not the same horse, traffic today but the CH at his peak would have got himself out of that pocket because he was so much better than them. For me he’s not done anything of note since this race 2 years ago. I know he beat Lossie at Kempton but she must have been miles off it to only beat Burdett Road 6.5 lengths. Indeed he only beat Burdett at Kempton himself as far as Golden Ace did at Cheltenham.
Nico stated he was happy tracking Lossiemouth suggesting he had her covered. I don’t believe at that point he was beaten at all.
The more I know the less I understand.
I don’t think he was definitely beaten either.
It was a horrible fall, and it is very lucky that Constitution Hill is still with us. I would say that regardless of the location and timing of the race, but it applies even more so at Aintree not long before the National.
Given the kamikaze nature of those 2 falls, would you run him at Punchestown? Or anywhere?
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