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What odds will you give me Gigginstown!?!?!? I’ll happily take your money. He won the Stayers’ once. Whoop di do. He truly is one of the all-time Cheltenham greats. Why not keep going and try to get three on the bounce. He may well have won it in 2005, would certainly have won it this year. That equals three.
Jackane , i’m on your side here. I hope he wins. Have you to turn everyone against you??
(Edited by Gigginstown Man at 10:50 am on Feb. 9, 2006)
I’m 18 – turned 2 months ago. been into horse racing for just over 3 years.
Gigginstown – sorry, i thought you actually wanted to take on iris’s Gift. The way you were talking about why lester shouldn’t go for the GC, i thought you fancied his chances.
Well, robert lester looks a bit too butch to cry :biggrin:
How is it EC, that i could post 25/30 posts, yet in one simple post, you sum up EXACTLY what i wanna say!!! teach me, teach me!!
Interesting to hear people musing that Robert Lester "isn’t short a few bob". I don’t want to embarrass roblester or irisgift1 here, but my impression was that the opposite was true. The Lesters are just fairly ordinary folk who bought a horse cheaply. In fact I would go so far as suggest that it might just be a financial hardship to stump up a supplementary entry fee. Perhaps the surprise is that JP’s bought a half share. You heard it here first.
In fact I would go so far as suggest that it might just be a financial hardship to stump up a supplementary entry fee
I would doubt that.
While I don’t agree with those who are saying he’d be a certainty to win the stayers, if I remember correctly from something Apracing said last year, the summplementary fee would be in the ballpark of 3rd prize for the stayers.
Even if the Lesters don’t have that money burning a hole in their pockets (not many do!), I don’t think they’d have to look for too long and too far to find someone who’d be willing to stump up the money for a share in the winnings.
Steve
JP was giving three hundred grand for Iris Gift when he was a novice hurdler.Rob Lester wouldnt sell him.Any one who turns down that money for a horse can’t be short of a few quid.
oh chill ya boots mate, it’s our problem and i believe he’s got a great chance as does jonjo, if we thought he had no chance we wouldnt run him.
EC – ‘the next offer will be £1500 if they keep going over fences’
Grasshopper – ‘I’ve got a goldfish, but I’m not planning on running him in the Gold Cup’
You 2 makes me laugh!! Grasshopper, at least your fish has a SLIGHT chance of getting over the first!
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