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Purple Moon thoroughly reversed form with Manifest, as predicted
Winner hardly mentioned anywhere!
Rite Of Passage will do for me, unlike Royal Gait, he’s never looked totally convincing over hurdles
Well done
Rite Of Passage will do for me, unlike Royal Gait, he’s never looked totally convincing over hurdles
Well done and fair play to anyone else who was on!
Another course record!
Credit to the front two, even the third perhaps, but barring these three this race has to go down as the race of non-stayers.
The field were seperated by seven or eight lengths with six furlongs to run; at the line they were seperated by two furlongs
Well done to everyone who backed the winner – from Novice Hurdling to the Ascot Gold Cup, quite an achievement.
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Congrats and thanks to the ardent Rite Of Passage fans around here who having been tipping him up for a while. Even convinced me to take a little saver at 26. Cheers!
I think a few got a nice trade out of Bannaby too who went 2.0 in running for about £2K.
Rite Of Passage will do for me, unlike Royal Gait, he’s never looked totally convincing over hurdles
Well done mate !
Congratulations Cheltenham Specialist; my Ballymore Proerties notes say Rite of Passgae, jumping [?]; Breathing problem…Melbourne Cup? Didn’t think to look at Cheltenham note for Ascot!
Yeats looked incredible in the footage before the race. I’m sure he would have danced to victory.
Age Of Aquarius, with another year on his back, will be hard to beat in 2011. The fancied, classy sorts – Manifest, Ask and Kite Wood failed to stay.
Well done, Rite Of Passage.
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Thought JM gave Age of Aquarius a fantastic ride but while he ran his heart out what they would do for him to just find one more gear.
Sad thing about it is the older you get the slower you get and he may never win a Gold Cup for that reason.
Right of Passage’s win was throughly deserved and it just goes to show what ahuge difference there can be between running on the flat and running in Group 1 races round Cheltenham. May well have been a breating problem but if he were mine he’d be jumping nothing in the future and be kept strictly for staying races on the flat.
Gladly like Big Buck’s I spotted Purple moon.. I never did trust Luca and ignored Purple Moon’s form…amazing 4.55 SP for a place keeps the wolf from the door.
Ask was very disappointing as was Kite Wood neither look as if they would get the trip in a bus.
Great race and great result for the Emerald Isles
Thanks to all those who congratulated me. I hope some of you followed me. He was of only 3 horses I fancied at Ascot and my nap of the meeting, (see my lays and plays for the other two Friday & Saturday long distance races)
Of course I don’t usually bet on the flat so I must thank Cormack for running the tipping competitions or I’d probably have missed him!Easy to be wise after the event but, had I had time to post, my summary included the observation that Weld had a sighter on Age of Aquarius (AOA). The Weld trained Profound Beauty beat AOA last time out at Leopardstown.
I don’t think it’s safe to say Ask didn’t stay. It’s certainly bred to do so. Ok it’s first time up record is good but I think there’s a difference going to a middle distance race first time up against a Group 1 staying race. If they tried again next season with a prep I’d not be labeling it a non stayer at the trip. Stoute’s charge finished ahead of Kasbah Bliss and you’re not going to tell me that one doesn’t get 2m4f (see Prix Cadran). 7 is a funny age for a horse.
I can’t write off Age of Aquarius for the future either. Getting ‘slower’ as a horse ages isn’t the way to look at it at all. More it develops it’s inbred stamina. Cecil warned us it might come a year too soon for Manifest.Just look at where the other 4 year olds finished in relation to the older horses. Getting ‘slower’ as you age didn’t stop Rite of Passage. Or, of course, Yeats.
Only two 4yo winners this Century and of course whilst Yeats didn’t take in the race at 4, it is true to say it didn’t win it until aged 5.
Easy to be wise after the event but, had I had time to post, my summary included the observation that Weld had a sighter on Age of Aquarius (AOA). The Weld trained Profound Beauty beat AOA last time out at Leopardstown.
Precisely why I made him my Ascot banker, he had a much easier entry on Saturday where another NH horse RINGAROSES now looks the one to be on.
Check out Weld’s ALBURJ who has good form lines through Unity to top grade Irish form (Grace O’Malley)Well done if you backed Rites of Passage. My friend took 33/1 EW straight after for the World Hurdle – we’ll see.
Manifest was pants, even so he didn’t stay.
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Weld mentioned the Champion Hurdle would be the likely target I think he said, dunno why there wasn’t a few NH trainers fancying a shot in an open Gold Cup, would be great to see more NH horses competing in the big Flat staying races.
I was also massively impressed by Age Of Aquarius, you had to feel sorry for him with him being a young horse giving his all like that and just coming up short, could take a lot out of him that run.
Well done if you backed Rites of Passage. My friend took 33/1 EW straight after for the World Hurdle – we’ll see.
Despite Dermot Weld mentioning The Champion Hurdle my gut feeling is it may be some time, if ever, before he goes hurdling again, he’s never looked a natural jumper to me but I wish your friend good luck on his bet, should he run he’ll start closer to 3-1 than 33-1.
I wonder where Dunguib would have finished today, judging on his bumper form with Rite Of Passage he would have won comfortably. I did suggest after The Supreme that, if he were mine, I’d have gone to Ascot rather than PunchestownIf he was mine I’d probably keep him to the flat, he doesn’t seem to show the same spark over obstacles. Nice to have a potential top class dual purpose star though
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Check out Weld’s ALBURJ who has good form lines through Unity to top grade Irish form (Grace O’Malley)Yes, in The Queens Vase. Just having a look at the race now.
Very little to go on with Alburj there in that the Hamdan Al Maktoum owned steps up from maiden company to a Group 3. Save of course breeding.
I note they had it in the Derby still at quite a late forfeit stage (my printout 3rd May). Same can be said of Chink of Light, Mikhail Glinka and Theology though.
If you want to extend the ‘sighter’ theory Unity is trained by Wachman who has Icon Dream in the Vase.
It’s not that off-topic to discuss the Vase a little here as, it being 2m for 3yo, you’d probably want something bred like it might contend the Gold Cup when 4 and older. Although if I discover anything worth writing about I’ll start a separate thread.
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