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Why not try cheekpieces on him??
I’m not a great fan of blinkers but cheekpieces can often have a dramatically positive affect on a horse.
Changing the jockey seems like a last desperate throw of the dice to me. There seems to be a strong bond between Henderson and De Boinville and I cannot see it happening.
If you change the jockey now it will take some time until everything fits. He’d need a confidence booster under his new jockey and one better prep run before Cheltenham. Then you could still decide whether to run or not.
The horse is nine and badly needs to rebuild it’s confidence, just a new person on his back won’t perform miracles. You also need to question his stamina right now even for a 2 mile contest. The last time he ran a true race was over 10 months ago. I don’t trust Nicky, no matter how much he tries to tell us about his fitness and wellbeing.
The first step remains a confidence booster on a racecourse, no matter if under Nico or someone else.9 years old in January with three falls in last four runs, Barry Geraghty said in the Racing Post that, “Constitution Hill has developed indecision and it’s a really difficult thing to un-train out of a horse”.
It is surely time to retire him. So far, he has escaped lightly, but just say they continue and in his next few runs he falls again and this time is severely injured, a horse so in the public eye it would look unbelievably bad for horse racing.
Outside of racing is he really in the public eye?
The more I know the less I understand.
Probably not, RTB, but if (heaven forbid) something were to happen to him you can guarantee that the anti-racing media would make the most of it.
Glad there’s no way the hill beats Lossiemouth at the moment , I really can’t see how you can argue it , he fell yesterday at the second , the race hadn’t even started , do you really think Nico has the confidence to throw him at a hurdle … Lossiemouth is fav for the champion , The hill 10s , are the bookies wrong …
“Glad there’s no way the hill beats Lossiemouth at the moment”
There’s one obvious way: he doesn’t fall.
On all known form, including last year’s Christmas Hurdle (where Lossiemouth had a fitness advantage), Constitution Hill is the better horse.
Yes, he has fallen in three of his last four races. But anyone backing him would surely be aware of this.
As Ginge never tires of telling us, value is everything. If a peak-form Constitution Hill completes, he’s a certainty. Admittedly, it’s a big if.
There’s one obvious way: he doesn’t fall.
I don’t know Gladders, he looked tired yesterday when he fell.
😂
He’d probably stayed up all night reading all 120-odd pages of this thread, causing his tiredness.
Yes , have you , you say on all known form , so if he ran like he did at Punchestown he,d beat Lossiemouth ? , Glad the form is getting worse not better ….
He’d probably stayed up all night reading all 120-odd pages of this thread, causing his tiredness.
F*** me, son.
You do understand what the word “form” means, right?
Show me any single run by Lossiemouth which represents a form rating as high as Constitution Hill’s Supreme win.
Or his 2022 Fighting Fifth.
Or his 2023 Champion Hurdle.
Or any of his three Christmas Hurdles (including the one where he … whisper it … beat a race-fit Lossiemouth even after a year off)
One of the problems with modern life is that people ignore black and white facts.
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