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He’ll never stay a truly run 3m2f GC with the mistakes he makes and with so many horses taking him on.
As already mentioned, there will be no more racing in splendid isolation for him, unless he goes to Limerick again or runs in a 6-runner race. The only logical race at Cheltenham can be the JLT. Trip suits, field rarely bigger than 10 runners (not in the last four years) and ran over the New Course (with the longer straight).
“Because he would have absolutely no chance of even hitting the frame in the gold cup”.
Well if he does go for it (I very much doubt he will, mind you), you won’t minding place-laying me some 999/1 then? Free money for you, as he has “absolutely no chance” of placing?
BUY THE SUN
Just leave a back in running on him, you’ll get your 999/1 at some point in the race no doubt
Some of you must have been watching different races to me as he has only made one actual jumping mistake (in his first chase at the first ditch he ever faced) other than that he is very clever at these bigger obstacles (never gave hurdles as much respect for sure) and he looked a hell of a lot more fleunt jumping round Leopardstown than Kemboy did.
Also lets not forget Al Boum Photo has fallen at Cheltenham in the past and is known to clout a fence or two as is Delta Work (who you could say may have won the RSA with a better round of jumping) and Santini has his moments too. The one thing that would put Faugheen at a disadvantage is his inexperience and racing in a big competitive field but all of this talk is rather redundant as there is no way connections will run him in the race.
For me the best/safest jumper in the race is Native River (Newbury proved just how clever he is when on the wrong stride at a fence) and you could do a lot worse with your money than taking a price on him as I can’t see the race being run on anything quicker than good to soft and if it gets more testing I could see him running a huge race and no horse will see out the trip better than him.
I didn’t fancy the thought of him over fences at all, I would have been in the “why are they persevering” camp, but he’s been very good to my eye.
Find it hard to crab what he’s done so far, I suppose at an absolute push, I’d say it was the weakest Flogas for a good while, but off the back of it, I hope that’s enough for him to have booked a place at Cheltenham, as he still did it well.
LD, completely agree on Native River, his jumping gets better year on year.
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