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What a cracking first race. The front three all went for it. Now that’s much more like it.
Agreed but if the same two horses that fought out the finish been trained by Mullins would thoughts of the day be different?
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100% Nathan.
Ginnys Destiny and Monmiral indicating Nicholls hasn’t gone down with a nasty case of the Hendersons after all!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Proper handicap win, no messing about with running it when it wasn’t trying earlier this season either.
Pauling and Jones have been brilliant in 2024, and it’s great for them to get a big winner. Good trainer interview by Rob Nothman on BBC radio. They have provided very good coverage on 5Extra this week, I’ve had it on in accompaniment with the TV pictures and they have really captured the occasion so well.
Not good (for me).
2024 Festival is turning into my worst for many a year.
One winner from the first day, no each way returns (unusual for me over the 3 days).
I’m ‘out of it’ for the last 2 today.
Tomorrow is another day, but it looks super competitive.
Ciao.Highs and lows.
Sharjah and Mill Green probably ran the worst races of their careers. There have been too many false starts and Mill Green looked like he didn’t want to go, and went on to bungle virtually every hurdle. Envoi Allen then looked like winning before horse and jock found nothing on the run in. I think he would have had too many gears for the winner on a quicker surface. Swings and roundabouts as the ground helped Slade Steel in the Supreme. That’s my 100% losing record maintained with De Bromhead runners. I backed two Skelton runners ante-post; Latenightpass who chose to have his Aintree prep in a hurdle rather than the Cross Country, and Let It Rain who was pulled out of the bumper five minutes after the trainer said it was all systems go. I can’t get excited about any of his winners. I think Fact To File would have beaten Grey Dawning, and I doubt the winner is near Gold Cup class. The race only ever involved those on the front end. Monmiral was a pin job. He has shown nothing since his juvenile season. The first leg of a double for the Old Codgers Club. Thankfully, Paisley Park has been retired. Teahupoo, the best of a medoiocre bunch of stayers. Not been a good division for a few years.
Shakem Up’arry and Golden Ace represented the high at 16/1 and 35/1, leaving me unable to lose on the week. I have championed Ben Jones from the start so really pleased to see his breakthrough crowned with a Festival winner. Several stables have preferred to use lesser jockeys over him, most notably Hobbs and Lavelle. Curtis has tried her best to support, but hasn’t had the ammunition. Golden Ace won despite her jumping, but at least she got the last right. No given that Dysart Enos would have confirmed the bumper form. Where It All Began landed the each way in the last. Dom Of Mary isn’t very big, and didn’t really cope with the big field. Winner a plot job.
At the start of week if I could have had three wishes it would have been Ballyburn bolting up, a winner for Jones, and Gidleigh Park winning.
It will probably be a case of two out of three ain’t bad.
OK, the form of the Henderson stable has to be taken into consideration. But is this the meeting where the young pretender Dan Skelton takes over the mantle of Britain’s preeminent trainer? Four winners with one day to go in the Mullins era is a great return, even with two handicap plot jobs.
Win or lose that was a great day of proper competitive festival racing whether graded or handicap races. I’m slightly down but don’t care, a great day.
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Yes much better racing, far more exciting to watch competitive races and close finishes.
I’m a little hoarse as my nap in the trf comp was collared close home
Thought you’d be flying into Cheltenham on your private helicopter today RtB after the amount of points you got in the comp yesterday
Illavim it was sheer fluke those points I amassed. Last two races I didn’t even bet on they really were pin drops and the names (my other half calls me a Git so had to do Git Maker). Talked myself out of backing Protektorat in the end, the woes of a punter
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