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Added Appreciate It 16-1. In case he takes care of Ballyadam and connections re-consider.
He was coming here as soon as FH was injured i would assume mark, id say that just confirmed his position in the pecking order from the irish angle
Cashed out my Ballyadam Cheltenham bets. Wasnt exactly running on in the closing stages.
Mike he looks like a chaser , missing the hurdle at he end didn’t help , the hillwillgelp but I don’t see him beatingthe winner and the festival
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
He wins whichever race he runs in
I’m on for the ballymore so hope its that
It may depend on the ground
“Cashed out my Ballyadam Cheltenham bets. Wasnt exactly running on in the closing stages.”
Given the stable form i wouldn’t have done that personally, doubt that was his true running
The winding back of the Elliott runners could’ve come at the worst possible time for Magic Tricks. I’d pencilled in the Moscow Flyer on the 17th as his potential next outing although that may be in question now depending how they’re all getting on at home.
Anyone else impressed with Metier? I know when a horse wins by a wide margin on deep ground there has to be a possibility he is ground dependent – but if this horse was trained by Mullins, Elliott, Henderson or Nicholls, I reckon it would be shorter than the 8/1 available.
Yes definitely – I wasn’t a believer pre-race since Metier was a bit of an empty tin on the flat and Harry Fry I regard as a fairly poor trainer for the ammo he gets, but you couldn’t knock that really. Impressive, dominant, classy.
He’s slaughtered some 140ish or high 130s horses. And it’s a thin market behind Appreciate It with Dusart out and Ballyadam blowing out the other day. 8/1 felt a reasonable reaction post race (there was even some 12 and 10) but wouldn’t be surprised if that gets chipped down towards 6s in the next few days.
Metier seems to have got the best of both sides of his pedigree as far as his ground preferences go – handles the mud like most Authorized progeny and skims the turf on better ground like most Mastercraftsmans.
Fully agree with you, Corky. I even think that he hasn’t stopped improving. He travelled very strongly and even a slight nod on landing at the last didn’t seem to imbalance him. Full of running in such gruelling conditions makes him a proper bet for the Supreme, at least at 8s.
It’s a terrible renewal at present in terms of quality but then it’s been a strange season – the lack of a representative from one of the big stables in today’s Tolworth summed that up for me.
How you can label a horse who’s unbeaten in 3 career hurdle starts a ‘mud lark’ is the strangest thing I’ve seen. Good horses win on any ground and seeing as he’s unbeaten you have nothing to justify he’s a mud lark other than heavy won twice on heavy ground. That is not evidence he’s a mudlark. He’s by mastercraftsman
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