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Interesting ( but not surprising ) to hear the girl who rides out Big Buck’s saying that no matter which of the other horses he works with at Ditcheat – be it Kauto Star or whoever – he can go any pace they care to set and then
he’ll look over at them as if to say, is that all you’ve got
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Big Buck’s is all class.
They didn’t tell you Kauto said "aye, but wait until there’s a fricking fence in the way, pal" !
Big Bucks is brilliant, what more can i say ? what an absolute power house of a horse. Ruby started to pop some questions two out, and he just kept finding more and more. Voller Le vadette was just brilliant as well, she’s obviously smaller, yet travelled like a dream and gave it her all. She travelled better than anything, but BB just out galloped the field.
I am no great fan of PN as a person but that is a massive training achievement. To get a horse to 4 festivals when he is straight forward is an achievement, but BB is a box walker FFS and he has won 4 world hurdles. The PN horses have been running like a drain off a favella all week, Richard Barber’s horse aside, so how good is BB? Think the horse will win 5, can he win 6????
Credit to connections for producing Big Bucks in such shape on so many occasions.
So happy for the superstar but I too wondered what could could have been if Quevega had turned up.
Surely Quevaga is superior to Voler and would have given Big Bucks a serious challenge?
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PLEASE
no more races at this festival – IMHO it has taken a long time to come to the boil. The Ryanair stared the proper racing.
Now for King kauto… *shiver*
Zip
I can answer that Zippy. Big Bucks would have kicked her into the next county with the rest of them
Voler ran a great race because the gallop was right up her street and she settled and never wore herself out in the first mile.
Quevega ran where she belongs as WM once said
When Big Bucks first won the World Hurdle (beating Punchestowns) i thought a chancer that wont beat Punchestowns again…….How wrong!!!………..ive grown to love this horse……even moreso when i saw him at thje Parade of Champions at Sandown when his whole demeanour was one of "im the best" a really superb animal and ambassador for National Hunt racing
This race was the race of the week for me. I had a big ante-post bet on Big Buck’s but I was screaming at the TV for Voler up the run in. I’ve followed her since her first run, and have backed her in 16 of her 23 runs, winning 12 of those 16 times. She’s a fantasic mare, who is probably unlucky to have only one Grade 1 to her name. I think she would have beaten Unaccompanied and Thousand Stars over Christmas but a dismantling of Mourad seemed the better option to Colm Murphy.
What emphasized this as the race of the week personally, were two superb rides, form Ruby Walsh and Andrew Lynch. Ruby kicked for home a fair way out, knowing that the likes of Oscar Whiskey were unproven over this trip, trying to run the stamina out of the them. At the same time, as Mourad, Thousand Stars and Oscar Whiskey floundered in Big Bucks wake, Lynch was cool as a cucumber on Voler, who he knew would take him there whenever he wanted.
They turn into the straight, Lynch now producing Voler on the far side, the opposite side of the track to Big Bucks. However, Ruby was aware of the danger, moving Big Bucks across to eyeball the mare, only for Lynch to rapidly switch across behind him to the rail. Having now criss-crossed across the track, Voler has the rail and gets to within half a length of the Champion (roaring in full flow at this stage), but Ruby edges Big Bucks back towards her and he pulls out another length.
Absolutely fantastic stuff to watch, and two contenders for ride of the week. I thought that was the closest Big Bucks has come to getting beaten. If or when he is beaten, it will probably be due to something similar, where a horse comes wide and late and doesn’t give him a chance to respond. However, on last week’s viewing, Ruby is alert to that threat.
I’d be amazed if PFN isn’t trying to persuade Andy Stewart to revert to fences. The trainer isn’t used to playing second fiddle in Gold Cups and BB is a horse that only has to stand up to beat current ‘top class’ chasers.
Synchronised made 6 mistakes in the race. Long Run made 4 mistakes when winning his. BB has such an engine that he could probably make an error at every fence and still win the Gold Cup.
Worth a speculative bet at 80 on Betfair imo
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