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I have to take my hat off to trainer Chris Gordon for the best placing of a horse “King Edmund” I have ever seen.
King Edmund is a 11yo with a RPR chase rating 146, and in the past 3 days has picked up 2 novice hurdle races
I have rated Thousand of meetings, and I cannot recall a better placement of a horse before, when I noticed King Edmund entered in at Lingfield on the 13th, my initial reaction was WTF
If a rule change is needed for novice hurdle races, this is it, and how the official handicapper is going to react to this, I’ll wait and see.
QUOTE: Chris Gordon, trainer of King Edmund: I could have ended up with egg over my face running him twice in three days on heavy ground but older horses cope better with this ground. His pedigree says he will stay all day as well. We might find another novice for him under a double penalty and then back over fences there is the new veterans series next year – isn´t the final a £100,000 race? That would be exciting!
Mike.
Nothing wrong with what Chris Gordon has done here. He’s just taking opportunities the horse failed to take 5 years or so ago.
Grand old horse who got his trainer going. Remember standing round the paddock at Ludlow with a couple of good judges before he won his bumper, all agreeing he was the standout on looks. Nobody knew the trainer and so he was left alone. Won at 80s IIRC.
A rare horse, and one of my favourites. Never missed a season since that debut win in 2008. 54 runs: 9 wins, 16 2nds, 4 3rds. Thoroughly consistent and genuine in the main. I’ve probably lost more on him than I’ve won, but you’re always assured of a run for your money – usually from the front.
His type are the horses the experts should be studying, not the bluebloods. What is it in horse like KE that keep them going so hard, so long? I’d like to think the trainer has something to do with it, but I fear it’s not that much. CG on a good run at the moment, with 4 winners and a 2nd from last 6 runners. Good luck to him – he’s at that end of the spectrum where it must be nothing but hard graft.
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