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Tomorrow (Saturday) at 4pm EDT/8pm GMT, live streamed at https://nationalsteeplechase.com/live-streaming/
A good field of 9 to race https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/GLN042625USA1-EQB.html
Ground likely to be good to firm.
Last year’s surprise winner Blackhall is in again, but my pick would be Goodoldtimes who finished 3rd last year and was a fast-closing 2nd in last week’s Maryland Grand National.I’ll take you on with Withoutmoreado Miss Woodford.
Not that I follow the racing down there, but he stays and should handle the ground, so if he keeps the jockey aboard I’ll be interested to see how he goes.The big handsome gray Maryland-bred Road to Oz beat out Withoutmoreado and Goodoldtimes in the stretch. For being an American flat-bred horse he reminds me physically of the big NH runners of yore, looks like he easily stands a day’s hunting.
It was interesting, with a late run from Road To Oz to take it up halfway up the run-in.
It’s basically a 4m Point-to-Point, but over wooden post and rail fences, where the top rail appeared to simply fall off if hit and easily demolished if hit harder…….and there were some far from fluent jumpers!!
All carried 11st 11lb.
All but one in the field were on Lasix.Besides the ‘fences’, the main difference to a UK Point-to-Point would be the prize money of £75,000. I think the total prize money for the Lady Dudley Cup is around £1,500!!
I think the starter had been reading the Robbie Supple book on how to start a horse race, because it was very much in keeping with what we witnessed at Cheltenham.
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