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15 hands? That’s incredible! Sooo cute – and sooo clever and tough!
And he’s still only a baby – I can see him becoming the next "nation’s darling" or "housewives favourite". Hopefully we’ll have him for years to come Katchit is tough but how he’s managed to win a Champion hurdle I will never know.
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And bridle rubbish at Cheltenham?Wonderful. I backed him ante post but couldnt care less about the account. Was absolutely thrilled with that and was superb to be there…
Well done to Katchit – what he lacks in class he really makes up for with guts.
And congrats to those that were trumpeting his potential victory on here, you were as persisitent as the winner!
I thought SE was cantering until falling into a hole….that could not have been his running though?
Already wandering if the real SE will turn up next year, gotta be the winner if so…
I fancied Osana and thought he ran a solid, if unspectacular race. Def didn’t seem to go overly quick. I thought he would be out of the money when headed but he knuckled down well against some horses that didn’t stay on the ground.
Zip
Apparently there is nothing wrong with SE… but the going was properly soft according to the jockey’s yesterday hence why they were going so slowly and I think the race just ran the finish out of most
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Katchit’s fine and almost certain to take a few months off… we’re elated and watching the race back he won in exactly the way you’d have expected him to, just not letting others past. The RPR suggests it wasn’t a poor renewal.
Osana and SE may come back next year but there is every reason to expect Katchit to come back stronger and fitter again next year as a 6 yo
Hi Katchit, are you a connection to little Katchit??? Wow i have to say i’m in awe. He brought tears to my eyes he really did, and quite pleased with the money i won on him too haha, 10-1!!!!??!! Ridiculous price. Good for us punters though! You must be so thrilled, congratulations once again brilliant horse he is!!
Hi Katchit. I too am interested to know exactly how you are connected to the little guy. Are you directly responsible for his care?
Here’s wishing him a well earned break
Do be careful if you turn him out with other, bigger horses – he just might bully them!! to those interested in my connection to Katchit – I’m part of the syndicate that you saw screaming and jumping around yesterday
Wow how AMAZING to own him!!!! You must be ecstatic, how very wonderful. I’m so very pleased for you, and you met Tommo! Even better haha. Again, congratulations and hope the gents Mum is better as she was in hospital think he said.
Nursing probably the worst hangover of my life I’d just like to offer congratulations to those who tipped Katchit. Never thought he had a chance myself but what a horse – very impressive.
Well done to Katchit – what he lacks in class he really makes up for with guts.
And congrats to those that were trumpeting his potential victory on here, you were as persisitent as the winner!
I thought SE was cantering until falling into a hole….that could not have been his running though?
Already wandering if the real SE will turn up next year, gotta be the winner if so…
I fancied Osana and thought he ran a solid, if unspectacular race. Def didn’t seem to go overly quick. I thought he would be out of the money when headed but he knuckled down well against some horses that didn’t stay on the ground.
Zip
What does Katchit lack in class? He has a high cruising speed, gains lengths at his hurdles, all the attributes of a classy hurdler IMO.
JohnJ
When pertaining to racehorses , what exactly is class?
Can someone please define what is actually meant by the word class in this instance .
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I am not 100% sure, and maybe I’m wrong (I’m sure I’ll soon be told!) it means an expensive highly-bred horse.
As an example, Desert Orchid was not a "classy" horse, and (dare I say it?) the great Arkle. That’s how I understand it anyway.
Himself,
As posted above, I think a classy hurdler is one who doesn’t break stride when jumping a hurdle and has a high cruising speed.I think Harchibald is a very classy horse, the way he travels and jumps, I suppose its in the eye of the beholder, probably a bit hard to define.
JohnJ
Congratulations to everyone involved with Katchit, he’s just what the hurdling division needs. I was screaming him home up the hill, not because I backed him (I don’t bet) but because he’s such a tough, honest little horse – and, more selfishly, because he’s in my Ten to Follow!
My understanding of ‘class’ is that it’s something quite elusive and hard to define. Racing tends to divide its top horses broadly along two lines: ‘class’ or ‘guts’. A ‘class’ horse will, generally speaking, have a turn of foot and win at least one big race visually impressively, ideally by a wide margin or without coming under the whip (NH example – Kauto Star). A ‘gutsy’ horse will fight hard, will run on when it looks beaten, will put its head down and give the impression of scrapping for the race rather than necessarily quickening away, e.g. Katchit!
This does not preclude ‘class’ horses not showing ‘guts’ (Kauto Star in the AON for example) or ‘gutsy’ horses not also having a touch of class (Katchit again!)
Hmm, interesting thoughts.
Though I think the venerable Mr. Van Der Wheil hit the nail on the head many years ago, when he said " When I ask racing people if they can define what is actually meant by class, they look at me, mouth open wide, humming and ahhing, and give me all sorts of weird and wonderful definitions. The simple fact is that class means nothing more than ablity. If one horse is deemed classier than another, all it actually means is that the horse in question has more ability than the other horse and is capable of winning more races. There is many ways to skin a cat ( if you’ll excuse the expression, just as there are many ways in which a horse wins a race.
I agree.
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Well done to Katchit – what he lacks in class he really makes up for with guts.
And congrats to those that were trumpeting his potential victory on here, you were as persisitent as the winner!
I thought SE was cantering until falling into a hole….that could not have been his running though?
Already wandering if the real SE will turn up next year, gotta be the winner if so…
I fancied Osana and thought he ran a solid, if unspectacular race. Def didn’t seem to go overly quick. I thought he would be out of the money when headed but he knuckled down well against some horses that didn’t stay on the ground.
Zip
What does Katchit lack in class? He has a high cruising speed, gains lengths at his hurdles, all the attributes of a classy hurdler IMO.
JohnJ
Good question!
I think it is very subjective. For me, Kauto Star is a good example of a "classy" horse – one that has a very high cruising speed, you can pretty much do anything with him in a race, and he has a serious turn of foot.
KS ia also a freaky and supreme athelete having won 2 Tingle Creek’s as well as the staying races.
Fair comment – I would agree Katchit is classy too – no question.
Perhaps he is just not as fashionable to my eye. I do like a scrapper though! (Persian Punch)
Zip
And he’s still only a baby – I can see him becoming the next "nation’s darling" or "housewives favourite". Hopefully we’ll have him for years to come 
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