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Ok, own up, hands up all those who had to wipe away a little tear when old Kauto came home!
I don’t shed tears often, but had to wipe my eyes after that.
One word: EXHIBITION.
He jumped all of them into submission. Long Run came at him and Kauto said "You ain’t as good as me yet, son. And just when you think you are, you’ll be too old."
It wasn’t so much a case of Long Run not being as good as Kauto Star yet, it was a more obvious case of one top class jockey ( Ruby ) making Sam Waley-Cohen look like the amateur he is.
Good luck to Kauto Star in the future but a fully fit Long Run will take all the beating at Kempton and Cheltenham. Remember that he lost his comeback race last season at Cheltenham before going on to complete the big double.
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Thank goodness nobody listens to me as i was retiring him a year ago!
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Amazing!
Very emotional right now. It’d be great if he was retired but although he beat a not at his best Long Run, he’s destroyed the other pretenders showing he still has it. I’ve never cried so hard through happiness, amazing cause I never used to like the horse.
Great day
Amazing stuff. Safe to say I’ve never seen one as good, to still be giving performances like that with so many miles on the clock is truly mind boggling. I must also admit to welling up a bit!
He’s still The Star.
BEST. HORSE. EVER.
The King. End Of.
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So don't run, just like the others always do
I saw 7/1 about
Kauto Star
earlier in the week and thought then,his supporters will have a field day at that price! He’s returned the biggest price he’s ever been today in all his 38 runs at 6/1,incredible!
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I had to, just had to, say something about this. I have NEVER felt like this after a seeing a horse win, Dessie et al included. Just fantastic, I really can’t think of much else to say. For such a classy horse to have such guts and heart is something we hardly ever see. One of THE great moments in NH racing, certainly in my lifetime.
I had my £10 bet this morning, as I do on a Saturday – Grandouet/Oscar Whiskey/Long Run win treble, and I’m not sure I’ve ever felt so confident of collecting on a bet like that. When OW fell I was initially disappointed but it then gave me the chance to watch the race wanting KS to win, which wouldn’t have been the case otherwise. In hindsight, it wouldn’t have made a jot of difference – £70 or whatever I’d have won was never going to make or break me and I’m sure I’d have cheered Kauto all the way home regardless.
I know I’m rambling – I just don’t have another outlet. My wife and boys don’t give two hoots about racing. I just want to tell the world that Kauto Star is a mother trucking legend, I’ll never see another one like him and I’m fairly sure watching a horse win will never make me feel like this again. Love him, love him, love him
I’ve no doubt Long Run will go on and retain his KG and Gold Cup, but this was Kauto’s day. Unbelievable
philiplecornu; that’s exactly how I am about him. I think it’s perhaps the fact that I wanted him retired last year that has made him so precious to me now. I’m a bit slow on the uptake sometimes, and it has taken me a long time to acknowledge how great he is. My one gripe is that I think he still should be called L’Extraterrestrial..because he is just that. Amazing speed, bravery and constitution. Annoyingly I’ve just missed the re run on Ch4+1 because I didn’t watch them jump a fence after the first circuit.
franklymrshankly; know just how you feel as well; when One Man won the QM I only had one racing friend that I could share it with.Just wanted to run down the street screaming about it at the time. By the way, there should be a blow by blow account on the Big Races section later tonight by our ‘man on the spot’. Check it out.
I saw 7/1 about
Kauto Star
earlier in the week and thought then,his supporters will have a field day at that price! He’s returned the biggest price he’s ever been today in all his 38 runs at 6/1,incredible!
I so nearly bet on him (6/1? Never seen that before!), but did not cos I was really scared of tempting fate and putting the mockers on him! Was reward enough just to watch him run like that. Tear-jerking stuff!
Long Run has (hopefully) many years to be King of Gold Cups. Can we arrange to have him kidnapped for the rest of this jumps season so Kauto Star can wear the crown for what will probably be his last at the top?
Best. Horse. Ever.
Four King Georges, two Gold Cups, two JNWine Champion Chases, two Tingle Creeks and now four Betfair Chases.
To put it into perspective, he’s won a Grade One for seven seasons on the bounce.
I don’t think any horse has ever come close to that. I don’t think any horse will ever get close to that.
The King. End of.
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So don't run, just like the others always do
Well unlike some I found reason to back him. Mind you at the beginning of the week I wasn’t even thinking about doing so as I had given up like so many others.
Being a die hard fan I was looking for an excuse to back him and eventually found the answer in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, which I explained in detail on another thread.
I am chuffed to bits to be honest for keeping at it, but I’m 1000 times more chuffed for PN. I’ve never in my life seen him act like that. It was like he had just seen Santa for the first time and been given a huge bag of presents full of everything he’d ever wanted.
Kauto Star is one fantastic chaser who put up an amazing performance against all the odds but a huge amount of the credit must go to Paul Nichols.
He brought Master Minded back from the dead , then Denman when they said he’d never be the same again and now Kauto Star who half the nation were demanding he retire.
Do some thing like that once and you’re a first class trainer do it twice and you’re a great trainer but do it 3 times with 3 different horses and you are right up there with Dr Vincent O’Brien himself.
Amazing horse and an even more amazing trainer.
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