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Have a read what Ruby Walsh says about his jumping , makes a lot of sense , err Ruby you may want to reread that last post …
Have you got a link to that?
Can you imagine the pressure on Henderson and Nico if he did run … Why would they want that , compared to the positive energy of last night , it’s a no brainer
No , he also mentions it on a podcast , basically the horse has his jumping style , a certain physical muscle memory he adapts at a hurdle , he’s 9 and they are going to struggle to get him adapt , to back to Pubchestown , those first hurdles he jumped like jumping beeches brook , it’s not as if they haven’t tried before
“But, what will the tactics be at Cheltenham?
Hold up for sure. Probably partly why Murphy was at pains to keep him amongst horses at Southwell too. As you say, if he tries to lead something will try to get upsides to goad him him and even if they don’t, a wide open space in front of him might encourage him to let fly at them and risk getting it wrong. I think he’ll be kept under a tight hold for the first mile and a bit, then creep a bit closer, and then hope to let rip after the last and pass what’s left like he came past those Flat maidens last night.
We’ve got another two weeks of this to go, Ruby, or until a final decision is made. HDLG is just worried about losing all his bets on The New Lion and will be getting his knickers in a twist until the day itself.
Glad you’ve just spent God knows how pages arguing this with me … And still refusing to answer my closed question …
Yes, HDLG. The horse clearly won’t be able to erase that memory. But connections already have and that’s why they think he’ll be o0kay to run. Especially with a weaker than usual field.
They might as well employ Yogi Bear to sort out his jumping. He struggles to judge the white padded hurdles and tragically at Kempton today we saw some others taking off way too early with tragic consequences. Get rid of them.
Not at all Glad , I have other bets in the Champion , The Lion is my main one , are you on the hill ?
We’ve got another two weeks of this to go, Ruby, or until a final decision is made. HDLG is just worried about losing all his bets on The New Lion and will be getting his knickers in a twist until the day itself.
I think he layed The Hill for a place….
If you could read and assimilate information, you would know who I have backed. I opened the Champion Hurdle 2026 thread.
It doesn’t matter if Just So was the opposition if he can’t jump he won’t win , are we forgetting how bad that Newcastle fall was , they were crawling and he still fell , it was plater at Hexham stuff
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