False favourite for Champion with next to impossible task?

[Sal]

For the anoraks amongst us ;) See You Then was retired for about a year, then tried for the 1990 Champion Hurdle. He had two runs before Cheltenham (6th and fell), finished 16th (last of the finishers) and then finished 9th in the Scottish Champion Hurdle before being retired again.  He started at 25/1 at Cheltenham.  Not really many parallels with Istabraq!

:wave:  

[Steve M]

Not yet perhaps… As one anorak to another, thanks for that Sal.

[remittance man]

Daylight,

While we’re on the subject of anoraks – don’t get me started!

This time last year Istabraq was big odds-on.

You may recall that all the usual rumours kicked-in just before the AIG, and yes a few days before the race he was eased in the market to a general evens; and yes, just before the race the Tote went 11/8.

But then he won yet another AIG unextended.  Everyone wondered what the fuss was all about (not for the first, and hopefully not the last, time) and that fleeting 11/8 was quickly rubbed off the boards.  From then on he was big odds-on.

Perhaps there’s a lesson here.  About taking rumours at face value?  Hope so, anyway.

[Author]

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