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Franco De Port runs for Willie Mullins in a race worth €326,000 to the winner.
Not a single British runner. Do our trainers have nothing between them that is suitable to run or are they just being insular and unimaginative?
Royal Pagaille has an OR of 163, loves it bottomless and stays longer than Gladders at a sarcasm convention – you’d think he’d have had a chance in this.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I wouldn’t attend any convention, Chezza, being a complete misanthrope.
Franco faded feebly for fifth today. Agree that there should be plenty of British raiders for races such as this; there don’t appear to be any outstanding French champions around at the moment and the prize money on offer must surely merit the voyage?
Just when I think my respect for Gladders can’t get any higher, he pushes the bar still further skyward with this excellent revelation.
Misanthropy rocks.
Royal Pagaille would have won today’s race by half the beautifully-landscaped track, but anyone with an 80s mullet, a checked jacket and who wears shades either indoors or on a cloudy winter day clearly doesn’t know how to make sensible use of money anyway and deserves to miss out on all those euros.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"One would have to agree with CAS; I think our trainers, mainly NH are incredibly insular. The prize money on offer yesterday was incredible; £210,000 for a 3yo Hurdle.
And they’re all crying for decent ground – well it’s there in France…..Owners and trainers complaining about prize money do my head in sometimes.
I am not too bothered about the Schloer Chase only having three runners. It has never attracted a large field and arguably should be scrapped.
But Auteuil staged three Grade 1s yesterday with excellent prize money and soft ground and not a single British trained horse was entered.
I cannot believe British trainers have nothing between them they could run.
It is not as if Auteuil is a long way from home. Plenty of southern trainers have runners at Ayr and Perth which probably take almost as much travelling time.
Point taken, but…one of the Grade 1 chases was restricted to four-year-olds, so doubtless wouldn’t have too many potential runners from these shores. Mullins is finding out that there is a bit more to winning the big French chases than pointing a 160-rated horse that can raise a gallop on soft ground at a few oversized water jumps, and he has rather more suitable candidates than many British yards. That leaves the three-year-old hurdle, and again not too many British yards will have a viable contender for a championship hurdle in mid-November.
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