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Something wrong surely , first horse beat , I hope anyone backing the winner didn’t take a price
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
“But I honestly hope that City of Troy gets stuffed at Newmarket next Saturday”
Wish granted Gladiateur 😂
Don’t think he has trained on but time will tell be interesting to hear the PM. Last year they had the excuse of the going for Auguste Rodin.
The more I know the less I understand.
A touch of the Auguste Rodin’s about that non performance in that he travelled well but then when he was asked………he found less than didly squat, he got a little worked up just before the stalls opened but he was last in so I can’t see that being the issue.
Maybe they need to start giving them a prep run
So who’s going to be this year’s Paddington now the wheels have come off this year’s Auguste Rodin?
To be fair Auguste Rodin was top notch, well every other race he was.
The more I know the less I understand.
Auguste Rodin was very good in the Derby and breeders Cup and pretty good in the Irish Champion Stakes. Seamie nearly had to take a pull on the boat Adelaide River to avoid beating him at the Curragh and he bombed a couple of times.
Interesting that he has been kept in training, I will eat humble pie if he turns out to be hardy and consistent and “a very important horse for the thoroughbred breed” as Aidan pompously put it, somehow managing to break Coolmore’s own hubris-ometer; rather than fragile and unreliable.
“Seamie nearly had to take a pull on the boat Adelaide River to avoid beating him at the Curragh”.
Nearly?
To me AR is simply not a horse to be trusted – two lamentable performances in his last 4 runs and 3 in his last 7.
Will be interesting to see if Aidan can work the same magic on COT for the Derby (assuming he is stil on course for it) even though I have doubts he actually wants 12F – at this stage you simply have to put a line through the run and hope he has trained on.
Racing post article and mentions he was beaten before the bushes lol
maybe he was looking for the first fence in the national insteadVF x
Kris, it was still a brilliant spot from miles and miles away to get that price about a horse that started odds on. I know I’ve been aftertime mocking connections for hyping him but they still thought enough of him to send him as their only runner and finding Coolmore’s #1 Guineas horse that early is some going.
He looked like he hadn’t grown much and looked light compared to the likes of Rosallion, Ghostwriter (very powerful looker) and Night Raider. It’ll be interested whether they find anything amiss as that was too bad to be true. He was relaxed enough beforehand, walking around on his own a good five/ten minutes before anything else appeared in the pre-parade ring. No sign of sweating or anything that may have pre-empted getting worked up spooking in the stalls as Moore reported (he wasn’t in the stalls long either so I doubt that was an issue unless he knocked himself).
As our Scottish bard Robert Burns once said, “There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
maybe he was looking for the first fence in the national instead
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