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Should we feel sorry for poor Sun Des Mottes, she’s only 4yo, & has finished last on both attempts at hurdling since arriving in England. Both times travelling quite nicely, maybe a touch free, before seemingly running out of stamina. She will be in danger of getting a handicap mark of below 100 at this rate.
Is there a chance she will start to find some form around Jan/Feb time…as well as some reserves of stamina which will see her get up the finishing hills at Sandown, & maybe even Cheltenham ?
After another couple of novice hurdles, Sun Des Mottes still hasn’t shown any sign of seeing out a race. I was surprised she was tried over 2m4f & 2m6f though, I was thinking she needed a fairly sharp 2m on decent ground!
She now has a lowly handicap mark of OR75. I noticed she was entered in a h/cap at Chepstow during the week (I wasn’t even sure that 2m on heavy with an uphill finish would suit her).
I looked up the race that evening, I see the meeting was abandoned. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if she was backed? Or at least what her forecast SP was, & maybe what she was trading on the exchanges at?
Colin,
Fairly sure she was forecast as 2/1 favourite on the Post website. With a Spotlight comment about her being thrown in if she recaptured her French bumper form.
Can’t help with the exchange price,
AP
I think it’s reasonable to assume it was never supposed to come to four duck-eggs and a rating in the 70s for Sun Des Mottes.
She was acquired by / for Pond House from the same source as Ronaldo Des Mottes, namely the stable of Cyrique Diard, after a not dissimilar previous career in French junior bumpers (albeit a career that ended a year before starting in hurdles races over here, rather than a matter of weeks as Ronaldo had).
I think there is a race in her, and that she remains capable of appreciably better form than shown over hurdles to date, but she is helping herself and her pilots not one iota by racing with too much profligacy early on (regardless of whether that additionally manifests itself in taking too keen a hold or not – she’s noticeably done that twice (including once restrained in midfield), and twice not, but the outcome has been much the same).
What races from her French career do have comments in running seem to suggest that led / prom racing styles are her preference; and whilst that suited her well enough to win twice and finish within 1/4l of the winner four times more, the same predisposition is killing her over here time and again.
I await the day with interest that she’s dropped out early on and is happy to be so.
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Entered on Sunday at Hereford in a 2m 1f novice handicap hurdle.
22 entries for a dire contest – if she can’t deliver in this grade, there’s no real hope for her.
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Bare in mind it is a David Pipe horse there is probably a motive behind it coming last on her 4 runs this season, best to wait for market support in the future will find 40lbs then.
Refused a mark after 3 runs in Britain. Given a break of a week, this hard puller was then upped in trip and ridden by Gerry Supple (who has had 192 rides since his last winner 5 years ago) when falling a hole at Wincanton last time. Handicapper then decided had sufficient evidence to give it 75.
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