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There’s a decent prize in him Jeremy that is for certain, where that may be i’m not sure
A decently run race at Aintree looks ideal for him
Not much to take from that performance for me. I thought Blythe Knight was travelling all over him but found nothing when asked. Amaretto Rose pulled up mid race, so I dont think wed have learnt a lot from Katchit.
He is a better horse at Cheltenham though but when Sublimity, Sizing Europe, OSana and the boys get asked the question, I think they will find a lot more than Blythe Knight did today and I would be very surprised were Katchit to prove good enough.
I will probably be accused of being a troll for not agreeing with the majority but that run told me nothing.
Katchit. Four-from-five at Cheltenham, operates on anything from good to heavy ground, a ferocious desire for victory, hurdles immaculately and boasts solid form.
Quite simply, will be hard to keep out the first three in the Champion Hurdle and will take some beating.
Initial indications would suggest that Katchit has once again run to his usual mark of 160 or so, so on that front little learned today apart from the fact that he’s able to run near his best away from Cheltenham. He may place in the Champion, but that really looks to be his ceiling for the time being.
Blythe Knight perhaps needed the run, as you’d expect a Lincoln winner to have possessed a little more gas at the finish and he just needed a run in the spring to set him right for Aintree last term. However, to be placing in a Champion Hurdle you should be giving a horse of Katchit’s level a little more to do even at a few pounds below your best, so for me any forlorn hope of stealing some each way value on him is gone.
He’ll run his heart out, but i’ll be surprised if he places and even more surprised if he wins
Initial indications would suggest that Katchit has once again run to his usual mark of 160 or so, so on that front little learned today apart from the fact that he’s able to run near his best away from Cheltenham. He may place in the Champion, but that really looks to be his ceiling for the time being.
Blythe Knight perhaps needed the run, as you’d expect a Lincoln winner to have possessed a little more gas at the finish and he just needed a run in the spring to set him right for Aintree last term. However, to be placing in a Champion Hurdle you should be giving a horse of Katchit’s level a little more to do even at a few pounds below your best, so for me any forlorn hope of stealing some each way value on him is gone.
I agree with you on Blythe Knight but he had an excellent chance to prove he could win at this level. I still say King has been taking his time with Katchit and he will strip even fitter at Cheltenham. He won better thanI expected to do today but he ran the race as I thought he would and has put 5 lengths bewteen him and a very good horse. I can see getting a perfect lead from Osana who I don’t rate, slip the field just after 3 out and play catch me if you can.
IMO Sublimity will not have a thing left to offer by the last, there will be no doddling around this year and Harchibald? what can I say?………..Sizing Europe will win IMO and is his only real danger and the Joker in the pack is Afsoun who really impressed me the other day and could spring a surprise if there is to be one………I still say Katchit is one of the best EW bets at Cheltenham and if luck is on his side who knows. Still 11/1 available which surprises me.
How do we rate Katchit’s performance?
Ammaretto Rose pulled up and Blythe Knight having his first run after a lay off. BK travelled well (like he should being a Lincoln winner) but seemingly blew up. Anyone know if BK usually carries his head that high? Was something hurting?
Was Katchit running against unfit rivals? Take BK and AR out and there was nowt to beat.
Have yet to look at the time, does that tell us anything?
I do not dismiss Katchit’s chances in the Champion, just do not think Wincanton told us anything new.Value Is EverythingCertainly isn’t going to change anyone’s thoughts on Katchit’s Champion Hurdle chances.
Those that thank he has a good chance will take encouragement from the run, whilst others will say …"what did he beat?"
Fans of Blythe Knight and Amoretto Rose will not be happy.
He wont be winning any Champion Hurdle this year. He has had to be dropped a long way.
How do we rate Katchit’s performance?
Ammaretto Rose pulled up and Blythe Knight having his first run after a lay off. BK travelled well (like he should being a Lincoln winner) but seemingly blew up. Anyone know if BK usually carries his head that high? Was something hurting?
Was Katchit running against unfit rivals? Take BK and AR out and there was nowt to beat.
Have yet to look at the time, does that tell us anything?
I do not dismiss Katchit’s chances in the Champion, just do not think Wincanton told us anything new.He always runs like that Ginge… he was fairly straight you know……..little horse beat him purely on merit…….what it did tell me is that as thought AK has been taking it easy on the horse……….takes a good one to beat a good flat horse in these small races who are famed for cruising up to you and going past…..He’s taken 5 lengths out of the horse….There will be a lot of discussion between John and his son Sean at Bellwwod Cottages over the next few days and I don’t think John will run the horse in the CH if they think it’s a waste of time … he’s a good horse and wont run him just for the sake of it, he’s a realist……too many other good races for him this spring and it would surpise me oif he doesn’t run………these small races can be the most difficult to win I think I said earlier……Katchit has done really well IMO and at lest we know he’s very likely to be at the top of his form at Cheltenham and that as we have seeen in the Triumph can be devestating.
Everyone knows Katchit is going to win the Champion Hurdle. Some of us have been telling you so since last October
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OK… I’m back from Wincanton and not at all surprised to see the mixed views on today… but didn’t the boy do well?!
tough race on a track better suited to a speed horse like Blythe Knight but Katchit is back to his best and we’re going to Cheltenham with a real chance! He’s as fit as a fiddle, jumped brilliantly again and despite having to go early to keep the pace up found more than BK could muster
I’ve said it before (although never with this much booze inside me) the others (Harchibald excluded) have only run to a better mark than us once! We’re regularly running to 159+ not 135 then a 170… I think they have to run to their best – if they do they’ll beat us.. not on their best form or have a bad run and they’ll be behind us – first 3 calls
yes I am a little drunk
Ok I’m back from a night on the beer also
Have to say Katchit did it really well today and I’m delighted. This was a race with a lot of ifs and buts about but little Katchit did it well.
Honestly guys, I can’t see how this horse can be out of the first three in the Champion Hurdle. You know me by now – show me a thread where I’ve ever been bullish about a horse – you won’t find one. This is the first, this is the only horse I’m confident about for Cheltenham. I don’t go on times, I don’t go on ratings and I admit I’m nowhere near the best judge.
I go on visual evidence. He’s already beaten Sublimity, Afsoun, Blythe Knight and Straw Bear 10L plus, he loves Cheltenham, he jumps well, he never gives up. He will do for me.
Mike
Mike, the doubt about Katchit lies in the Bula run. Osana has beaten him at his beloved Cheltenham, and I believe will beat him again despite the Great 10 Length Swindle watching the way he ran on. Sizing Europe is handicapped to beat Osana on the Greatwood run, and himself improved beyond belief in the AIG. A fit Sublimity tanked the field last year, and would have beaten Katchit (if not Osana in many an opinion) in December had he not turned up to the Bula looking like a darts player. Katchit is as game as they come, and if there is a horse at Cheltenham not carrying my money that I want to win it’s him, but he’s nigh on half a stone short of winning a CH to my eyes.
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