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What a stupid, horrible, pointless race that was. God knows why anybody is reading anything substantial into that. Could have called it a Class 3 event and nobody would have known the difference.
What a horrible market. Take out Fingal Bay & it’s wide open with a case to be made for practically anything. Neither Fourth Estate or Oscar Magic have even had a run yet they’re in there at 20/1.
This race is wide open as surely Fingal Bay will not get his required ground and that would lean me towards an Irish winner, step forward Mr Mullins and whoever you decide to send to this event, simples
Monksland was good today, and could have won by much further, but obviously a little quirky. Has previously run out and today flashed his tail.
Didn’t look like an obvious winner of the Neptune though
Yeah throw in the name of his trainer & he’s not exactly an attractive Festival prospect.
Irish Hurdlers never look great until they get here.
Year after year we assume ours are better year after year they prove is wrong.
A lot of their hurdle races seem to be run at a crawl then it’s a mad dash to the line and you wonder if the form is suspect.
Nice horse the winner although I liked the second who was let down badly by some real bad jumps at exactly the wrong time. The 3rd was highly thought of so the form might just be a bit better than ok.
Well i’ve been thinking this
Fingal Bay
was going to be the fly in the ointment to my
Sea of Thunder
in the ‘Albert Bartlett’ so was hoping he’d go for the Neptune,after that performance in a Grade 1 Challow i fear him no longer so he can run where he likes as he wont win!Simple as that!
Reminds me of that horse of Alan Kings Celectial Halo kicked into touch. I’m with you I reckon he’s a massive lay for chelters
Irish Hurdlers never look great until they get here.
Why make such ridiculous statements ? Hyperbolegurdyman.
Nothing personal, but i think this contributes to many arguments over relatively little.
I have taken a chance with Mr Hendersons
The owners bought this lad for chasing and from his size you can see why, however he ran a nice race at Sandown (i like my ante post bets to have a run here if they do not go to Cheltenham beforehand!!) and as he won in France over 2m 2f i think the Neptune will suit better than the Supreme. Short with some firms however 365 are still 25s and that was worth £20 of my hard earnedThe horse can only improve for the run and BJG had never sat on him until Saturday. It is likely that Colour Squadron may have beat him had he ran straight but he didn’t so……….
I’ll have a proper look tomorrow when I’m not restricted to using my mobile to research, but as far as I can tell 5 fancied FR bred horses have run in the Neptune since 2002; Nicanor, Mikael d’Haguenet, Karabak, Reve de Sivola & So Young. 11223.
Sous Les Cieux? Looks like Boston Bob could be the Mullins Neptune runner though.
For those who haven’t seen it Hobbs has now confirmed this is the target for Fingal Bay. On a personal level good news for me (and I would have thought for most ante-post backers) and more so for the race.
Silly decision IMO. Winner of a stamina race like the Challow (14 winners tried winning the Neptune and all failed, Denman included), not a strong traveller and going to go to the Festival without a run for 2 1/2 months.
This will end in disappointment and a lot of hindsight as something will do him for toe up the hill.
Nicky Henderson has at last found a race with the right ground for Trozulon. I treid 6 different major bookmakers to get a decent ew bet at 50/1 on him for for this without luck and ended up having to go through another bookie to get the bets on with yet another bookie
David Bass rides as BG is off to Ireland. He’s a late developer but has a touch of class and might just prove good enough to take his place in this race. It would appear this is where he will go if he turns out to be good enough and not the Supreme as was first thought.
Be interesting to see what price he is on Monday which he should do easily if he has improved at all during his time off. Not the end of the world if he loses
) Chin Up!!!Nicky Henderson has at last found a race with the right ground for Trozulon. I treid 6 different major bookmakers to get a decent ew bet at 50/1 on him for for this without luck and ended up having to go through another bookie to get the bets on with yet another bookie
David Bass rides as BG is off to Ireland. He’s a late developer but has a touch of class and might just prove good enough to take his place in this race. It would appear this is where he will go if he turns out to be good enough and not the Supreme as was first thought.
Be interesting to see what price he is on Monday which he should do easily if he has improved at all during his time off. Not the end of the world if he loses
) Chin Up!!!Nicky Henderson does have a shocking record in this race though HGM.
That won’t bother Fist. Henderson’s gonna win every race at the Festival according to him.
That won’t bother Fist. Henderson’s gonna win every race at the Festival according to him.
) Chin Up!!!
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