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Attention, all ye fellow ante-post brethren and (err, sisterthren?) this year’s Constitution Hill carol service will be held outside the great horse’s box on Christmas Eve at 11pm.
Just the one Carol (lyrics below) as realistically we’ll probably only have time for the one number before Nicky Henderson and Nico De Boinville call the Police and we all have to scarper, as my guess is they don’t do much of a Christmas Day Lunch for those held on remand down Lambourn way….
“Oh come, all ye faithful,
joyful and triumphant.
Oh come ye, oh come ye
to La-a-m-bourn.Oh come and behold Him,
Now threes on for the Champion.
Oh come, let us adore Him
Oh come, let us adore Him
Oh come, let us adore Him
Constitution Hill!Oh sing, ante-post punters,
sing in exultation.
Oh come, oh come ye
to Se-ven Barrows.Oh come and behold Him,
Well clear on Official Ratings.
Oh come, let us adore Him
Oh come, let us adore Him
Oh come, let us adore Him
Constitution Hill!O come, all ye faithful
O come, all ye faithful
O come, all ye faithful
to “The Hill’s” box.Oh come and behold Him,
The mare will surely swerve Him!
Oh come, let us adore Him
Oh come, let us adore Him
Oh come, let us adore Him
Constitution Hill!”I am "The Horse Racing Punter" on Facebook
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Biblical rainfall at Kempton Park won’t bother this Biblical hurdler.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Officially they had 18mm of rain this morning – Noah would have dismissed that as a passing shower.
Always nice to have a religious moment at Christmas.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Chezza I thought it would a near sexual experience for u
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“Oh come, let us adore Him
Oh come, let us adore Him
Oh come, let us adore Him
Constitution Hill!”I am "The Horse Racing Punter" on Facebook
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"AHEM
That Tuesday Cheltenham ticket I have is worth another 5 times the price just to see Constitution Hill in the flesh
Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
Im starting to worry how many are going to turn up in the Champion hurdle ….what’s the point
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Prize money.
Last season, the runner up got £95,400 and the third £47,745. Not to be sniffed at.
I know glad but you want to be in the winners enclosure
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Chezza wouldn’t turn his nose up at a £95,000 enclosure – nor a £47,000 enclosure, come to that.
That’s a lot of hob nobs.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I wonder if Honeysuckle connections will see the tiniest piece of light in that clumsy jump 2 out today? That and the 2nd prize money might push them this way, leaving Epatante with an easier task in the Mares.
As for Constitution Hill, what a time for purists of the sport to be alive! I read a piece from Geraghty the other day –
“The first time Barry Geraghty rode Constitution Hill in a fast piece of work, he was following in some very famous hoofprints. “It was actually on Jim Dreaper’s grass gallop,” he says, “where Arkle and Flyingbolt and all those horses would have galloped for years. There’s been one or two aeroplanes landing in that field.”
Constitution Hill was another. “I worked him over about a mile and six on the grass,” Geraghty recalls, “so you’re going at a nice even pace and then you quicken in the last half-mile.
“An average horse will quicken once and gallop away, the really nice one will quicken a second time, but this fella just kept quickening, kept quickening. Where you pull up, it goes into a ploughed field, so you’d like to have them pulled up before that. This fellow was in the ploughed field before we knew it.”
I know I’m biased but, Cheltenham left handed, Kempton Park right-handed, Sandown Park Heavy ground, smashing standard on quicker ground at Prestbury Park….the result is always the same: effortless annihilation.
He’s rising six next week and still lightly raced.
It will be a long, long, time – maybe even never – before any horse beats him on merit.
Full credit for anyone looking for value against him, but apart from a bit of each-way thieving place value if seven actually ever take him on, it’s futile exercise with this beast.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Always circumspect about morning glories; I’ve been hurt too many times before e.g Samcro, Shishkin, Envoi allen… But CH looks the real thing, reminded me of Faugheen the way he powered away between the last two hurdles.
Will he jump a fence? Maybe Nicko should consider aiming for a Gold Cup if he trots up in this year’s Champion HurdleChamp hurdle , arkle , champ chase , KG then Gold cup , on the day he wins the 2026 GC Chezza will be walking around Cheltenham like Gandhi , young women and Irish punters alike being told the story of he ” God ” , they’ll be a traditional ” breaking of the biscuit ‘ when he wins
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