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Let’s see how many Cheltenham Festival winners in 2022 will have had a last time out run on 1st January 2022 or later.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Skelton’s words should be seen as a little less literal.
He has a point.
Number of winners with 50+ days off has increased massively in recent years.Suggesting to me there is something that most successful Cheltenham trainers do to their horses nowadays that needs at least 50 non-racing days in order to get their horses spot on for the big day.
Value Is EverythingWhy should we not take his words as he said them GT? He didn’t say what you have referred to.
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It’ll never happen, but it would wake the season up no end if it was a condition of entry for the championship races at the Festival that the horse had to place in a handicap during the current season.
Sounds like Dan has just found the key to having a winner at Cheltenham. Maybe he has just put two and two together and realised all of his previous Cheltenham winners last run was in the previous year.
A dog once crapped on my doorstep and I didn’t get burgled that night. Putting two and two together, is that now the best intruder protection around?
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Bregawn won at Hereford, yes, Hereford, in March, yes, March, before winning his Cheltenham Gold Cup.
The only thing Dan Skelton can provide an answer to is: “Who Ate All The Pies?”
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Who did eat all the pies?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysWhen I turned the page of my calendar to March earlier this morning, was it wrong of me to think “It is Cheltenham month” and have a sense of anticipation?
Not at all – I’m looking forward to it too.
It’s just that I haven’t been thinking of nothing else since the 2021 one ended.
Silver Buck carried 12st7lb to victory at Market Rasen first Saturday in March in 1982 btw.
Purwell – me tbh.
Pot calling kettle black there.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"You’ve got Cheltenham bookended by the final two weekends of the Six Nations. That’s definitely something to look forward to.
I’m going for the first time this year and will be meeting up with a couple of old friends I haven’t seen since before covid so even more reason to get the next fortnight out of the way.
This winter, for the first time in many years, I’ve been a bit ‘meh’ about racing generally. But the closer Cheltenham gets I can begin to feel the old excitement and anticipation building.
I always see Cheltenham as heralding the arrival of spring. I always book the week off work and attend on Champion Chase day; can’t wait for the roar as the Supreme Novice runners are sent on their way.
Glad to hear a few of us are going this year, hopefully heading there on the Friday to cheer Vauban home, Gold Cup looks a proper minefield as it often is. Just realised we’re only 2 weeks away now!
“I always see Cheltenham as heralding the arrival of spring.”
Agree Glad. The opening day of Cheltenham is the first day of spring for me.
In my calendar, summer starts with the first day of Royal Ascot, autumn starts on St Leger day and winter with the Cheltenham November meeting.
Much less excited that I used to be; less white-hot competition, too many races, too many impenetrable handicaps, the mares allowance, the cross-country, the Ryanair, the 3 mile novice hurdle ete etc
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