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My Xmas racing will be Haydock this Saturday and the After Xmas meeting the following Wednesday although if that gets abandoned then i could think about Wolverhampton or Uttoxeter on New Years Eve.
Haydock should be good meeting on Saturday Neil, fingers crossed for the weather.
My Festive racing is somewhat varied with Bangor, Ludlow, two days at Ascot and Musselburgh before the holiday.
After the break is possibly day two of Kempton, then the Welsh National,Taunton and Warwick.
I positively avoid the Boxing Day meetings – they are just too crowded to move around properly and I only end up being even more irritable than usual.
LOL Paul. Would still like to fit in Carlisle this weekend before Wetherby, but I couldn’t be overly hopeful. Let’s have some proper snowfall and then put on some St Mortiz-stylee snow racing on around Huntingdon instead…
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Just found this on Sporting Life if you do go to Kempton on Boxing Day
MEADE SWEET ON TRIPLE CROWN BONUS
By Keith Hamer, Press Association Sport
Champion Hurdle 2010- A.Post: Go Native 10/1
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Noel Meade reports Go Native to be on course for the williamhill.com Christmas Hurdle as connections seek to keep alive dreams of a £1million WBX Hurdling Triple Crown bonus.Go Native sprang a 25-1 surprise in the WBX.com Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle last month to put himself in line for the extra cash.
Last year’s Fighting Fifth hero Punjabi came unstuck at Kempton on Boxing Day but then went on to claim the third leg, the Champion Hurdle, at Cheltenham in March.
"All has been OK since Newcastle with Go Native and although he has not worked too hard, he has done everything which has been asked of him and he has done it very well," the Navan trainer told http://www.wbxtriplecrown.com.
"Davy Condon will ride him again at Kempton and I expect him to be saddled by (the suspended stable jockey) Paul Carberry as he was ahead of the Fighting Fifth.
"When a horse wins at 25-1 there is always a danger that they don’t receive the credit they deserve for the victory.
"I think the price was down to his defeat by Colm Murphy’s mare, Voler La Vedette, but we should never have run at Down Royal where the ground was completely against us."
Go Native is 24-1 with WBX to complete hurdling’s triple crown.
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