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The best jumper of a hurdle around in my opinion. Sailed over them today, and showed serious flat speed at the business end, having been restrained once or twice during the race.
Not by any means done with as a champion hurdle contender in my book, and good to see him back to his best.
Harchibald’s was a very interesting performance, i was taken with the way he found a bit off the bridle. I also note his flat race at Dundalk; pushed and shoved and given the whip from some way out. The old Harchibald would surely have chucked it in but he ran on all the way to the line in a really (previously) un-Harchibald way.
I backed him saturday after seeing the Dundalk race, and think he is currently the likeliest winner of the Champion. A reproduction of his 2005 run would see a comfortable success in my opinion.
Great to see him back, never a dull moment in a race in which Harchibald runs, must be good for the game to have him fit and firing again.
Harchibald’s was a very interesting performance, i was taken with the way he found a bit off the bridle. I also note his flat race at Dundalk; pushed and shoved and given the whip from some way out. The old Harchibald would surely have chucked it in but he ran on all the way to the line in a really (previously) un-Harchibald way.
I backed him saturday after seeing the Dundalk race, and think he is currently the likeliest winner of the Champion. A reproduction of his 2005 run would see a comfortable success in my opinion.
Great to see him back, never a dull moment in a race in which Harchibald runs, must be good for the game to have him fit and firing again.
Have to agree with you on that as long as they ride him slightly differently.
Just give him his head after the last and he’ll get up the hill ok IMO
Very scared of katchit though.
Word was before the race they didn’t fancy him at all and he wasn’t right… He could be a value bet at current odds….loves the course too.
Harchibald was pretty impressive, looks like he’s gotten over his troubles from last season. He’s a racing certainty for another Christmas Hurdle should he go (and WBX’s £1M carrot suggests he will), but I’m leaving the CH well alone whilst this dark horse we call Sublimity remains in the shadows.
And as for Katchit, the late Detroit City showed us as recently as last March that hacking up in the Triumph doesn’t make you a CH shoo-in. There’s nothing to suggest Katchit hasn’t run his race on Saturday, and I believe he did. But on the evidence, he’s just a few pounds short of being good enough to win the big prize in March.
I’m quite sure FOF that if he "wasn’t right" he wouldn’t have ran.
Let me tell you just how right he was……i was told 3 hours before the race from someone with a runner in the race..never mind who that’s my business…the dogs were barking he would not win…..the local priest was going to give him the last rights before the race FFs…..he was so right a well known radio commentatotor according a friend said and I quote exactly what he told me " The vibes are bad about Katchit today and he just won’t win" "word has it the horse isn’t right and they don’t fancy him one inch"
That sounds pretty sure to me but hell what do I know?
Trainers run horses every day of the week who are not expected because they are not 100% right..you ever see horses drift in the market and wonder why?…..as PN would say they have to run somehwere.
Katchit will be back and be a different horse when he does.
Anyway I need a rest from here……….too many posts between working on my other interests…………..I sent an email to a business friend last night telling him he was all wrong and Denman shouldn’t be Gold Cup favourite………I was a little drunk and tired and thought I was on the forum……….he emailed me back and asked what the fook are you talking about
just as well he knows me Katchit ran a career best and was beaten by two very good horses – all this ‘not right’ stuff – as if Alan King would run one of his stable stars with a problem. Throw in the fact he was sent off a well backed favourite – hardly the evidence of a horse widely acknowledged to be suffering.
More guesswork, perhaps?
……………and if he wasn’t "right" would he have been running on so strongly at the finish?
Don’t know about guesswork but every likelihood of bollux!!
Colin
Hello,
I say what I see, Katchit appeared fit enough to me, running on quite strongly. But the other thing I saw was, how small he is!!!
Too young, too small.Harchibald just cannot be trusted!!!
So neither of them will be carrying my money next March…
regards,
doyley
An increased amount of comments on this forum simply require no attention.
Anyway to Harchibald, it was great to see him back at something like his best and come Cheltenham he’ll have to have a top chance. I wouldn’t write off Katchit just yet and as Friggo infers, the reappearance of Sublimity is eagerly awaited. The season is shaping up nicely!
Whatever it was, it wasn’t a "superb" performance – he was perfectly entitled to win in this manner, on form from two years ago.
Katchit ran a career best and was beaten by two very good horses – all this ‘not right’ stuff – as if Alan King would run one of his stable stars with a problem. Throw in the fact he was sent off a well backed favourite – hardly the evidence of a horse widely acknowledged to be suffering.
More guesswork, perhaps?
FoF knows someone with a runner in the race, Smithy. Surely it would be folly to query someone with that sort of evidence?
I trust the priest was also going to read him his last lefts too FoF?
just as well he knows me 
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