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Won a hunters chase at Hereford just now jumping like a stag.
Absolutely brilliant to see the old boy in top form
I’m sure Gaz (who tipped him up here yesterday!) will be pleased – as are we all, I think.
EDITED TO ADD: Just seen the replay, some fabulous jumping, and a pretty good ride from his jockey, too.
What price him for next year’s Foxhunter?
EDITED AGAIN TO ADD: Just realised that it was Bosranic who tipped him up. Oops.
BlueSky @pghenn.bsky.social
So don't run, just like the others always do
A pleasing result, and it was great to see how easy it was for him.
Hope you won a few quid off him Gaz!
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Great to see the old boy win again, although it is such a case of "what might have been" with him. I must admit that I thought that My Way had gone sour and that he’d never win again at any level; all credit to the Mahons for getting the horse happy and enjoying himself once again.
He was brilliant today!
Travelled really well, was great at his fences, and really enjoyed himself.
Great to see.
Fantastic horse, a horse i hold in very high regard.
Lovely to see him back enjoying his racing. Really did look like he could have been truly great before the head went on him.
Lovely to see the old boy win again, and perhaps more importantly, to see him really enjoy his racing.
I would also like to give a bit of credit to his jockey Mr. Mahon, who I know little or nothing about.
I thought that he gave him a peach of a ride, kept him nicely balanced and well presented at his fencesGreat to see the old fella jumping to well and his owner, Jerry Wright, said "This is very much a hobby for him now but it’s always been on my mind that he could go to Aintree forthe Foxhunters if he performed well today so we’ll have to wait and see."
Fingers crossed
I’ve seen him referred to as ‘old fella’ in quite a few places yet he’s only the same age as Kauto Star.
Sounds like the owner just wants to have a bit of fun with him which is fair enough, but what’s to say this win wouldn’t be the start of a resurgence?
He’s currently listed as a runner for Thursday’s John Smith’s Fox Hunters’ Chase. I look forward to watching him, if he runs – let’s hope so.
Ryan Mahon is a very good, young amateur Coggy – rides primarily in the South West in points and works for Paul Nicholls, I believe he’s riding one for him in the National though I forget which it is (possibly Ornais).
Pretty sure Gabe Mahon (trainer of MWDS) is his dad hence he rides the horse.
Good luck to them at Aintree
Martin
I think he’s riding The T’Other One, in which case he’ll need to be a good rider. I hope he is, as I quite fancy the horse, who would be a serious Aintree contender..if he could jump. Superglue please, Mr Mahon.
Pretty sure Gabe Mahon (trainer of MWDS) is his dad hence he rides the horse.
Correct. Ryan also has two younger sisters (twins) and I think there’s an even younger brother, too. All ride.
Although it was met with some disappointment in some quarters, it’s probably the watering that we have to thank for MWDS’s participation at Hereford the other day as connections will absolutely not risk him on rattling. I’m not sure what prompted his relatively early defection from the Aintree Foxhunters, though – maybe a belief that the good to soft wouldn’t be very good to soft even as early as Thursday? Someone on
Jumping For Fun
could doubtless advise.
I wouldn’t have thought Gabe Mahon has an especially long list of targets for him in what’s left of the hunter chase season hereafter. It was always the contention of the ever-splendid Zoz (like myself a progressively rarer visitor to this corner of cyberspace) that as a lengthy gelding MWDS’s training setbacks may well have had something like the onset of a kissing spine as their root cause. Nothing about his campaigning in Points and hunter chases to date, which has solely taken in flat tracks, would necessarily disabuse me or her of that belief.
As such, the chances of him turning out for anything at the Cheltenham hunter chase meeting next month must rate slim, notwithstanding his previous form at the course and two options in short events should he be regarded as a sub-3m horse under Rules nowadays.
Rather, I imagine the Mahons could be hoping underfoot conditions permit a return to the historic (est. 1909), long, flat, galloping Upton-on-Severn Point-to-Point circuit on Easter Tuesday, given the relish with which their stable star attacked it in winning a WMAC Conditions contest there in 2010.
Splendid to see him happy, healthy and in form, either way.
gc
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