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Terrible for connections but has opened the Champion Hurdle right up
Really hate the month before Cheltenham with horses having late setbacksGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
It’s very unfortunate but ATR are really giving it the Princess Diana treatment, with Sean Boyce saying that “we have to carry on” with the day’s racing.
Maybe a book of condolence or several minutes’ silence at Chelters?
Mike
Ruby Walsh: “It’s like someone whipping the ace out of the pack and handing you the rest of the cards.”
Get over yourself Ruby.
This will have a long lasting damage to bookmakers with ante-post betting, so high profile that many youngish punters will remember this and steer well clear of shorties for a long time as did I with several not so high profile punts that never made the race.
One thing though, it will not put a dent in the odds of Mullins Inc. cleaning up come next month.Feel bad for punters who’ve backed Faugheen, but it’s not exactly a bad result for most ante-post punters. Those who’ve backed any other horse got double the price they are now.
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Ginge, you missed out the word ‘brave’ that backed against this machine and yes it’s a big result for them come early.Feel bad for punters who’ve backed Faugheen, but it’s not exactly a bad result for most ante-post punters
Ruby Walsh: “It’s like someone whipping the ace out of the pack and handing you the rest of the cards.”
Get over yourself Ruby.
I like to think that even if the ace was still in, there’d have been a joker in the pack to mess things up ;)
Sorry he’s picked up an injury but the Champion Hurdle has now become a lot more interesting. Credit to Willie Mullins for getting the perspective right and saying it’s worse for those like Gary Moore.
This will have a long lasting damage to bookmakers with ante-post betting, so high profile that many youngish punters will remember this and steer well clear of shorties for a long time as did I with several not so high profile punts that never made the race.
One thing though, it will not put a dent in the odds of Mullins Inc. cleaning up come next month.Both punters and bookmakers have little appetite these days for ante-post betting, even the Ladbrokes PR chap said this the other week on RUK. Can’t imagine hordes of youngish punters itching to back horses ante-post only to be later disappointed by them being withdrawn. Why would they? Surely they would be NRNB anyway?
Ante-post betting has a tiny percentage of the day of the race betting these days and is not really a factor in the greater scheme of things.
Getting on is a much bigger factor in putting punters off betting on the sport.
yeats,your last sentence is bang on. I was in a coral betting shop a couple of weeks back(trying to get a boxing bet on) and a young lad,had £50 on a corners bet.Me being nosy was listening to conversation.he was called back by the cashier and was told he had to change the bet as the maximum for that bet was £40 at 12/5 for over 12 corners.
The lad couldn’t understand why,he said he just wanted something to be interested in while watching the game.Obviously a shame to see a potentially great horse pick up an injury,but it doesn’t sound too serious and it has turned the Champion Hurdle into a viable betting proposition,albeit one short on a bit of quality now.
Can’t say I have that much sympathy for ante-post punters in these circumstances as lumping on short price favourites months before an event is asking for trouble and a lesson all of us have to learn sooner or later.
This will have a long lasting damage to bookmakers with ante-post betting, so high profile that many youngish punters will remember this and steer well clear of shorties for a long time as did I with several not so high profile punts that never made the race.
One thing though, it will not put a dent in the odds of Mullins Inc. cleaning up come next month.Both punters and bookmakers have little appetite these days for ante-post betting, even the Ladbrokes PR chap said this the other week on RUK. Can’t imagine hordes of youngish punters itching to back horses ante-post only to be later disappointed by them being withdrawn. Why would they? Surely they would be NRNB anyway?
Ante-post betting has a tiny percentage of the day of the race betting these days and is not really a factor in the greater scheme of things.
Getting on is a much bigger factor in putting punters off betting on the sport.
Yeats is absolutely spot-on.
Surely ante-post betting is for those searching out a springer, in which case it still has traction in the Guineas/Derby etc rather than in the shape of exposed 2/5 shots weeks before the event.
The unfortunate absence of Faugheen will make no difference whatsoever to the steeply-declining ante-post markets, in fact it is likely to give this particular event something of a boost.
I would generally suggest ante-post quotes are regarded by most punters merely as an exercise in (albeit quite interesting) opinion.
Mike
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