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What was he doing really? i just cant believe what I’ve just seen that was a disgrace! no getting away from it!
Lads the horse had every chance coming round the home turn but yorkhill just got to top speed quicker. Not the best ride but not everyone can be on the inside and ruby probably got the rub of the green with the run up the inside but yorkhill was just better on the day. Another mad price English horse to go with the New One yesterday.
yorkhill was just better on the day.
No: Yorkhill received a better ride on the day. As I wrote in the Cheltenham forum, you can’t argue with the laws of mathematics. Yanworth was beaten five metres, or thereabouts, but has run at least fifty metres further than Yorkhill.
I backed Yanworth ante-post.
Had Popham done his job properly and not let Ruby up the inner around the home turn people would be saying the exact opposite of this thread. In percentage terms in a slowly run race with plenty of horses in front of you – chances are gaps don’t come. Ruby was “lucky to get a run” although would’ve been “unlucky” had he lost. Going around the outside you’re guaranteed a run albeit going further. Barry played the percentage call, it didn’t pay off.Still think the best horse won.
Value Is EverythingI suspect that Geraghty was under trainer’s orders to go wide to give Yanworth a good look at his hurdles. The instructions have almost certainly cost him the race.
The instructions have almost certainly cost him the race.
Can’t see how you can say that tbh.
It’s possible Yanworth was the best horse, but I’m around 80% certain the best horse (today) won. Although at current prices (I hear he’s twice the price of the Irish horse) think I’d rather be on Yanworth for next year.Value Is EverythingCan’t see how you can say that tbh.
As already stated, it’s basic maths. Yanworth covered more ground than the distance by which he was beaten. Yorkhill may well prove to be the better horse in time, but today Yanworth was beaten by the extra distance travelled through the race.
Couldn’t it simply be that Yanworth was not perhaps the superstar many thought he was?
My take is that Yanworth would have been more at home with plenty cut. On that ground Yorkhill was much the better. I suspect he’d beat Yanworth on any ground
As for Ruby getting his gap, he could have roamed from rail to rail to get one and still won
I have to agree with you Joe.
The winner was pulling himself up in the last seventy five yards!!
Yanworth would have been better suited to a bit of give.
Seen many horses ridden that way, stays out of trouble, less chance of being interfered with. When they win they’re praised; just an excuse today; YorkHill won with ears procked
Running the extra mileage around the outside certainly didn’t help Yanworth’s chances. Had it happened in a class 5 round Hexham you’d have put it down as a non trier !!
Then ruby does that dear lord !! well done sprinter tho!!
Does what? :lol:
Value Is EverythingPersonally don’t like him and try to avoid him. I think he is over rated and those with long memories will recall that before he got the Henderson job there were question marks about his ability.
I agree he gave it a poor ride and Yorkhill may be the better horse but I think if the jockeys had been reversed or AP had been on Yanworth it may well have been a different resultIn a hypothetical scenario try to imagine Yanworth travelled on the inside rail a length behind Yorkhill for much of the race. The gap still opens up on the inside and Geraghty angles Yanworth wide to make his run in the home straight. Are you telling me that Yanworth would have still lost by the distance he did? Now, I understand there are plenty of imponderables in this type of discussion but it’s surely a scenario that many would have liked to see happen (as the consensus is that he was too wide, be it by instruction or poor judgment from the jockey).
Yanworth gave away more lengths than the distance he lost by. Yorkhill might well be a better horse and I suspect he had a bit more to give should he have needed it but Yanworth wasn’t given the best chance to win the race.
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