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There was no stopping him today was there?!
I think we’ve all had money on a horse that goes off great guns only to get reeled back in a couple of fences from home. I waited for it to happen… and waited… and waited & he just got further & further away.This is my first post, it’s probably not important enough for it’s own topic but I was very very impressed. Walsh falling on his backside, Thornton nearly going the same way & then a winner like that one.
It’s what NH racing is all about isn’t it?
PS: It’s been a good week. The Williams/Treadwell combination putting money in my pocket again!
Yeah quite agree, thought the tother one was sure to pick it up going into the straight, but the horse really stuck on well, looking forward to cheltenham next week, always been a good meet for me!
Absolutely; just what racing is all about and everyone in tears in the paddock afterwards, even granny. Great stuff.
Was a superb front running performance. The best chase I’ve seen in ages. Well done to Raceform as well, their post race comments after his run at Bangor last time included…..
He looks well worth a try going the other way around given his tendency to jump to his right, and there must be a strong chance he can win a handicap chase off this sort of mark.
I was very much reminded today of Hello Bud at the Scottish Grand National.
I will say this though, I think Totherone may probably be the better horse but Ellersie George caught them all by surpirse. I think he caught himself by surprise!
One regret, I wish I’d not tried such a lame joke for the name of this thread!
I backed Ellersie George mainly because I backed Tempsford when he ran at Bangor with Lysander in 2nd who i backed to win at Aintree in the Vets Chase and now EG who was 3rd at Bangor and has now won the Badger Ales.
Cracking ride from the front but i think The Tother One could be a usefull National horse judging by the way he was staying on and will be worth saving for the back end of the season.
I kept on looking at him, but kept on thinking about him being beaten by McCoy at Bangor. I was also looking at his price on betfair, when he went out to 25 with a circuit to go, but I still avoided backing him. Rather annoying really, as usually I don’t take any notice of jockeys.
As I mentioned on the horses to follow thread, he has the same sire and damsire as Denman, and was born within a couple of days of him.
I thought that it was easy to spot that
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took a false step after landing over one of the fences, but it took another couple of fences for the horse to be pulled up. I suppose the jockey kept on going because it wasn’t so noticeable from his position, and perhaps it is a bit similar to a sprained ankle, where one can keep on going on adrenalin.
edit: don’t worry about the thread title (apart from the typo), as it is obvious it is tongue-in-cheek and a reference to some of the other threads we had a month or six weeks ago.
I backed Ellersie George mainly because I backed Tempsford when he ran at Bangor with Lysander in 2nd who i backed to win at Aintree in the Vets Chase and now EG who was 3rd at Bangor and has now won the Badger Ales.
…to say nothing of the fifth placed horse, Silver By Nature, romping to victory at Carlisle last week as well.
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That Bangor race is a fine example of how form students can learn the game.
Cant wait to see what Tempsford goes for now.
It’s funny you should mention him because I was watching young Henderson riding yesterday and was thinking how well his horse [whose name escapes me] was jumping for him.
That’ll be Newbay Bob, Moe – not dissimilar to Ellerslie George in the sense that both like to get on with it from the front.
I’m not sure what to make of Robbie Henderson’s ride on that gelding at the weekend, to be honest. This is an animal that can stay 4m when front-ridden, yet it seemed a more conservative effort on this occasion – setting just a medium gallop at best, and not even kicking on again when Noel Fehily and Noakarad De Verzee tried to goad him into so doing by joining him before halfway.
Maybe the fear was that the Smyly inmate would benefit from a too-strongly run 3m (he’s looked in need of one the previous thrice) and so Mr Henderson was keen not to gift him one such; however, the slower the race, the more likely he was going to be to get done for toe late on himself.
In identical circumstances, I think I’d have preferred Newbay Bob to have blasted off harder in front and tried to stay there, as precious few were coping effectively enough with the ground on Saturday. It’s no given that anything would have reeled him in.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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