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The whole thing is a bit vulgar.
I’d be using the woozy sounds of Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite as the pre race soundtrack.
Perhaps our equine hero could become Konstitution Hill for the night as he is the beneficiary.The Hendersons will dance and sing
As Mr K flies through the ring
Don’t be late.Let’s hope he doesn’t do the ‘summersets’.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for 5s for Daddy long legs so I can go e.w , evens a place makes much more sense than win on the hill , I get the feeling Mullins and Moore would love to beat him
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
Square Necker looks promising as a late maturing flat horse, but market has cottoned on at longest price 15/8.
Noble Way has now come out due to a ‘temperature’ so after the fuss about the ballot there’s 13 runners, 11 having been balloted out.
The one I like in the race is the Dan Skelton trained Gambino. He finished a neck ahead of Puturhandstogether in a Gowran Park handicap in August last year. The latter went on to win the Irish Cesarewitch only two starts later.
15/2 and Hollie Doyle riding him might not be a bad combination.
Well the day is finally here , C day , and Mannering aka Henderson is sending the hill to war , let’s hope Murphy isn’t a stupid boy …
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
If anyone has read a bigger piece of nonsense by a racing journalist than this by Tom Park in the Post, I’d like to see it.
“Whatever happens, we must remember that nobody cares about their horses more than Henderson. Whether Constitution Hill turns up next in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham or at the Brigadier Gerard at Sandown, he is in the care of a master trainer, who will make the right decision. Flat or jumps. Win, lose or fall.”
Saw an article headline yesterday something along the lines of constitution Hill is exactly like Sprinter Sacre comeback. I thought no can’t compare, as Sprinter Sacre didn’t fall three times he had a heart issue
So after tonight if he wins then what? If he loses then what?
Come Saturday itv racing etc will we get to see Saturday’s races or will it all be about chVf x
It almost comes across as sycophancy. Perhaps a better article might have been, where does racing go if Constitution Hill takes a fatal fall in March or God forbid brings down another horse fatally?
Hendo, nor any of us can have 100% confidence that CH is going to clear all the padded hurdles at racing speed in March.
Playing Russian roulette with a high profile ex-champion horse does not make you a ‘genius’ whichever way you look at it.
“we must remember that nobody cares about their horses more than Henderson.”
They’re not ‘his horses’, they all belong to an owner that has employed Henderson to train them.
If anyone has read a bigger piece of nonsense by a racing journalist than this by Tom Park in the Post, I’d like to see it.
Joe, this must be top three of the worst articles in the history of the RP.
Just think of great racing journalists like Alistair Down, Sir Clement Freud or Jonathan Neesom….. None of them would have written such crap. 90% of the RP articles are complete nonsense.It was a sad day when the Racing Post took over from the Sporting Life. The reality is that Tom Patk’s article was totally irrelevant. Whether Henderson is a master trainer or not is a matter of opinion (I don’t have an opiion on this either way). The point is journalists should report the facts and can make judgements (for examople, ‘I think the horse was unlucky’) but we can all do without their opinions.
What got me was Park’s instistence that no matter the outcome, Henderson will have made the right call – even a fall, and, presumably possible death.
The man can claim to love his horses beyond imagination, but he has no idea if Constitution Hill will fall or not. Recent evidence would have him convicted on ‘the balance of probabilities’ I imagine, should the horse be killed.
As for the ‘good for racing’ balance, it’s no brainer, surely even for the man’s strongest supporters: the horse must not run again over obstacles.
“Come Saturday itv racing etc will we get to see Saturday’s races or will it all be about ch”
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“If anyone has read a bigger piece of nonsense by a racing journalist than this by Tom Park in the Post, I’d like to see it.”
I’ve just read it. Good grief. I think I’m stupider now than I was ten minutes ago. What absolute rot. That unfortunate cub reporter they made do a live blog on the morning of declarations did a more considered, sensible job considering the subject matter he was given to work with.
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