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I think it might be running at Chepstow on Saturday.
The horse is called TUANKU.
Choc is booked to ride and the last 2 winners of this race were Katchit in 2006 and Franchoek last year.
Could be worth checking out and one for the notepads me thinks.
Maybe.
Tuanku has of course already run once, winning at Plumpton on Sunday 21st September.
The good news about that performance is that it wasn’t perfect – he nudged one or two on the way round, and might be expected to improve again as his jumping does.
The bad news is that the close second that day, Tayarat, didn’t do a right lot for the form at Fontwell last Saturday, even allowing for a slightly slower surface.
I’m keen to see how stablemate Cosmea takes to the winter game in what doesn’t look a one-horse race by any means at Wincanton this afternoon. She was mentioned a few times in this parish on the strength of her progressive Flat performances this last summer (including when I saw her win at the Windsor meeting reviewed in the Flatastrophe feature).
I couldn’t really discern from King’s comments on her in the new One Jump Ahead (“I’m looking forward to seeing her over hurdles”) that he fancies her significantly more or less as a hurdler than Tuanku (“I hope he makes into a decent juvenile hurdler”); so I’m minded to see a little more evidence on the track before singling out any one King horse as The Triumph Winner, as if catching lightning in a bottle like that three times running is quite so easy anyway.
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Last couple of efforts of Cosmea on the level have lacked a bit of zip and this isn’t the time of year that I’d be backing a filly to be bouncing back.Physically the Nicholls horse looks the sort to be at least as good over hurdles than on the Flat whilst Hobbs has also made positive noises about his horse who is seemingly of similar ability to Cosmea on the Flat. Interesting race oday.
To be honest I wouldn’t have a clue until I see them run but I suppose there is a clue in the fact he ran Tuanku in the same race as Katchit and Franchoek.
I honestly don’t know how he does it as on bare flat form I couldn’t have fancied Franchoek to do what he did over hurdles and both Black Jakari and Tuanku have similar form.
It would be a tough call to say which if any prove good enough but he is certainly someone to take seriously no matter what he sends over hurdles.
Cosmea did the job very well, I thought.
Very nice run that.
King is 3 out of 3 in that race now.
Despite the presence of horses from just about all the big yards, that form looks far weaker than the race at Market Rasen the other week IMO. I’d have fancied Indian Groom or Black Jacari to have won that today without much hassle.
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