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Punchestown has to step up for the festival as its clear NH is the crowd puller(bigger than i thought) or maybe just Galway is unique
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The one truly talented horse at Galway all week and he hacks up easily.
Hi did look obvious, especially with Luska Lad absent. Looks a Champion Hurdle contender, BTW he won’t be the only talented horse on show this week, The 2010 Ebor winner runs tomorrow.
Natural High?
It just goes to prove my point Joncol. The one truly talented horse at Galway all week and he hacks up easily. I doubt McCain can believe his luck. All he had to do was keep a reasonably talented horse that likes good ground in training through the summer. Bring him over the water and then lead the other ponies around the track for a 120K.
A reasonably talented horse? A winner of the Northumberland Plate, Scottish Champion Hurdle, runner up in the Swinton. I would say he is a little better than reasonably talented. And judging by how you measure the talent of horses, you must be a close relation of the Wildensteins or perhaps the Maktoum family.
Nice after timing btw…
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How do you fancy setting up a syndicate and winning the Galway hurdle next year???
Apparently all we have to do is get a reasonably talented horse who likes good ground and keep him in training during the summer. Then we will pocket 120k next year ?? Its thats easy….
Easy money yeah
Just remarkable how Bhigg27 under rates the achievments on McCain and his team. As you rightly pointed out this horse has been on the go for a long time winning some big pots and will probably now go up another 10 pounds and rightly so. Great training performance..
Oh yeah and even though it will be the obvious choice he wont go off favourite and will be available at 6/1 so we can land a punt too
Quantity and Qualuty go hand in hand at Galway and i think it is a brilliant festival and would rather go their than Glorious Goodwood anyday.
The best thing is that horses of any ability can find a race at Galway and it gets owners of horses of both codes together which is a good thing.
Ffos Las has its three day meeting coming up next month with one day being mixed and i hope it all goes well.
The one truly talented horse at Galway all week and he hacks up easily.
Hi did look obvious, especially with Luska Lad absent. Looks a Champion Hurdle contender, BTW he won’t be the only talented horse on show this week, The 2010 Ebor winner runs tomorrow.
Natural High?
Correct, he needs a penalty to be sure of a run in The Ebor, missed an easy opportunity to get one 10 days ago.
Jeez I never knew it was that simple.
Why dont you buy yourself a "reasonably talented horse" and keep it "in training through the summer. Bring him over the water and then lead the other ponies around the track for a 120K."
If it was that easy why don’t you get involved. Do you not want 120k?? If its that easy…
I would love to get involved but I was warned off last year but when I’m allowed again I will!
I know its crazy how more English trainers haven’t cottened on to the fact there is massive prize money available at Galway for reasonably talented horses if they just kept them going for the summer. They would only be running against horses that usually do most of their training in riding schools on a Saturday.
It reminds me of a similar meeting in Victoria Australia which was also hugely popular in the past. Like Galway it was a mixture of Flat and Jumps racing but sadly the PC saddos have seen Jumps Racing banned in Oz. Not sure what will happen to the Warrnambool fixture now.
That’s surely far less to do with "PC saddos" (speaking as one such
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Goodwood expect 100,000 people through the gate for their festival.
Galway expect 200,000 people through the gate for their festival.
Considering Goodwood has several Group One events and Galway is limited to handicaps.
Fairly obvious people going racing want more than quality racing, they want a good day.
Don’t disagree entirely. We can tend to be too guilty sometimes of assuming the quality of animal on show matters as much to hardcore / professional and casual racing fans alike, and that a dearth of quality would utterly undermime the racing experience for both equally. The enormous patronage of Galway (if the projected figures above are true) suggests otherwise – people are still happy to flock to the place regardless of its inability to produce a programme of wall-to-wall Group, Graded or even more minor conditions events.
Put it another way – if there was a correlation between quality of race and ability to attract a paying audience, then that’d be Cartmel well and truly b*ggered. As it is, even the brand new fixture there last Thursday evening, muck’n’nettles fare and all, enticed around 4,000 through the proverbial turnstyles. And many UK pointing venues’ propensity to draw huge crowds in spite of even more modest fare has been expounded at length on these pages already this summer.
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