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Hexham’s Cheltenham-week Marathon Chase is held tomorrow on likely heavy ground and it will make yesterday’s National Hunt Chase at the Festival feel like an AW sprint.
Take your pick as for the winner, but somehow I’m not envisaging five-in-line over the last. Tune in to see tough guys on tough horses. All very Northern.
Mike
One of my favourite races of the year! Morozov Cocktail was second to an Irish raider last year. Maybe he will go one better.
The 4 miles is going to take some getting on the heavy ground and in the wind. Most of them were finishing legless in the 3 miler.
What a tremendous race, providing the finish of the week so far!? Shame we lost a couple early on.
If I’ve read his stats correctly, winning jockey – claimer Patrick Wadge – is on a quite staggering run of seven winners from his last 10 rides, all for Lucinda Russell.
Mike
9 years ago Outlaw Tom, in whom myself and a couple other TRFers had a share, finished third in it.
He had won a 4 miler at the November meeting at the course a couple of years earlier. His form figures at Hexham were 311P3124. Good days.Yes, I remember Outlaw Tom running in those four-milers & other Northern staying chases. You must have had such fun with him. The ones at Hexham at that time always seemed to contain a combination of him, Almond Court, Matmata de Tendron and the fantastically-named Esme Rides A Gaine!
Mike
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