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I’ve gone for Gin Coco and N’Golo. Gin Coco is unexposed a showed good form in all of his races. N’Golo was back at his best level at the end of last season. Quite a high mark now, but he is a big price.
Gin Coco 10/1
N’Golo 33/1 EWIf no horse was ever plotted up for a handicap – and found conspicuous improvement on the day – and instead every horse simply ran to form N’Golo would be a gigantic price because he won well at Haydock Park and looks good value for his hike up the weights.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I’m surprised by the drift on Dads Lad, and it may be a worry in itself, but I’ve taken the 8-1 anyway
Gin coco looks progressive , similar profile to Sonigino , he,s up 10lbs but could be improving , is rather go with the younger rather than the exposed , saying that Cormier should be fit from the flat
Gin Coco
Sonigino
Though Gin had him covered but the winner dug in well , imagine the stewards will be asking for answers on the fav , big drift and stopped like shot ….doesn’t look great
I would’ve liked to have seen all the hurdles being jumped to see if ILTMI could’ve still held off Gino Coco in a normal hurdle race with them coming down to the last. The sun ruined the race.
Might as well have renamed it the Greatwood Bumper, I backed the winner but took no pleasure watching it, absolute farce of a contest. Great ride on the front from STD
Yeah was a good ride indeed, I wonder if the front-runners (and those ridden more prominently) have a higher win % in hurdle races that have a large number of hurdles omitted. Could be a good little angle if so.
You’d think that because they have hurdles omitted they’d go quicker, I think I read something Simon Rowlands wrote once that at 2M it should take 5 seconds longer to do the distance with the hurdles than just doing the distance and yet bumpers are rarely ever quicker than hurdles races and a lot of the time are miles slower and some of that will be ability related but a lot of it is tactical. Considering in bumpers they remove the hurdles so you still have plenty of room, having the hurdles still there like today makes space at a premium in some parts and it gets even more tactical.
Just watched a replay and Sam Twiston Davies interviewed after the race on RTV. He said something like “We were thinking of running him at Kempton last month, give him a canter around and get a blow into him.”
Doesn’t that sound a little bit too close to saying “We were thinking of running him at Kempton last month and schooling him in public”?
I expect we are all long enough in the tooth to know this sort of thing goes on – but maybe jockeys should think a little bit more about what they are saying? It could easily be misinterpreted.
Of more interest to me is Thousand Tears being 4/1 favourite morning of the race, starting 29 at Betfair Exchange, never travelling and being pulled up at, what, halfway?
Maybe it was guesser money in a weak ante-post market midweek that forced him down to 4/1, way too short on what he’d done.
But to drift to 29 in a strong market for the big handicap hurdle of the day I’d suggest that someone must have pretty confident he wouldn’t perform and backed (or rather laid) their opinion with plenty of cash.
Was there an inquiry into this conspicuous drifter who didn’t even complete the course?
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Didn’t bet on Thousand Stars myself Ian but it’s absolutely rancid when you back a horse only to see it drift massively before the off and then run no sort of race, really does feel like you’ve been robbed and I seriously consider giving up punting whenever it happens to me! Sadly not seriously enough though as I always come back lol.
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