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Wow any Champion Hurdle hopes, not a chance. Connections must be so dissapointed with this horse. Looks a poor standard handicaper now considering the horse who beat it just there. What a shame, had such promise before Johnson go it.
Howard Johnson for me is the Bin Suroor of the flat. Ruins good prospect horses….
Surely now this boosts Starlucks Christmas hurlde chances? Best 2 mile hurdler on a flat track?
Red Moloney was always a bit of a hound for Kevin Prendergast on the flat. I don’t see how anyone can say that JH Johnson has ruined him.
Perhaps I was wrong to say ruin him.
What I meant was what a waste in terms of cost. i.e Connections seem to p money up the wall for some of the hounds they either buy or end up being (You can have your thoughts on wether they were hounds before or after) Either way they are hounds….
Howard Johnson didn’t exactly ruin Inglis Drever!
Red Moloney basically doesn’t like to scrap and his jumping can let him down on occasions. He is obviously a talented animal but now out of the comfort of the novice ranks it looks like he may well struggle. Where they go from today is anybody’s guess…..
Ben you are right with Inglis obviously, but how many Inglis has he had, when you consider how many Inglis type price tags they have bought? I know money cannot buy you success but surely you must consider their operation to be of a poor standard?
Best 2 mile hurdler on a flat track?
I think you might be forgetting a horse by the name of Binocular…
No, I don’t actually consider the Howard Johnson operation to be of a poor standard. In recent years the have trained many top class horses such as Grey Abbey, Inglis Drever, Tidal Bay, Arcalis, No Refuge and Lord Transcend, to name but a few. Admittedly a couple of these did not sustain their form but there are 4 Cheltenham winners in that list alone.
It could be that some horses from the flat just do not take to hurdles, regardless of who trains them. This is not always something that is evident before the owners buy them.
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