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Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning! Extremely flippant comments…
No, this is just me
Binocular beat Khyber Kim 3 1/2 lengths. If people wrote that instead of ‘Binocular won the Champion Hurdle by 3 1/2 lengths’, people wouldn’t overrate him. What else has he ever done? Put in an incredible run in the Bula Hurdle at Ascot as a 4yo and managed to replicate that run once in his next 11-odd starts. Fantastic. Great horse.
If people wrote ‘Long Run was off the bridle 4 out and beat 2 11yos & What A Friend by 7 lengths after still being behind at the 2nd last’ instead of ‘Long Run won the Gold Cup by 7 lengths’, people wouldn’t overrate him.
We have this obsession with race names in horse racing. People read ‘so and so won the Champion Hurdle or Triumph Hurdle or whatever’ & disregard the form completely.
Punjabi won the Champion Hurdle. Hurricane Fly won the Champion Hurdle.
See what I mean?
But calling them both ****? Bit disrespectful I think…. A 50 race maiden in class 7 company is ****, not Cheltenham Festival winners, despite whatever below average form you think they exhibited…
Were you named ‘Big Buck’s’ in a previous lfe? I seem to remember him making very off the cuff comments as well!
You make quite a few sweeping statements, like your friend Hurdy. You say that about Long Run, yet you backed him for the King George and Gold Cup. You also said Peddlers Cross won’t be able to chase because of his jumping, yet you backed him for the arkle. Now you’re slating Dildar despite backing him. Maybe you should wait before placing some of your bets. If Binocular and Long Run are both crap as you put it, then what rating do they have to attain before you say anything decent about them ?
I don’t officially recognise racing below pattern class or potential handicap good things running in handicaps.
I wouldn’t get out of bed to watch a Class 2 race.
Class 7, jesus. Would rather do snow angels whilst naked. Face down.
No, I was not Big Buck’s in a previous life. Why would I want to be? I am Zarkava. Never whipped once, only came off the bridle once. Won the Arc by 2 1/2 going away from Youmzain (didn’t see Dylan Thomas or Sea The Stars doing that) & beat Goldikova in the Pouliches.
Peddler’s Cross I haven’t backed in the Arkle. I included him in a 5-fold for very small stakes because I didn’t want all my eggs in my basket labelled ‘Al Ferof’. He was a dreadful hurdler of hurdles, truly awful, so I was absolutely stunned he was able to jump fences as fluently as he has done – bar one.
I don’t recall ever stating an opinion that the other stayers Long Run has faced or is going to face are good.
And Dildar I backed before he’d run. He ran to 104 on his debut. It’s just such a bad debut run that it’s not true. 104 ffs. Even Penzance debuted with 113. Detroit City debuted with an 81 but finished 8th.
I was lucky enough to witness ZARKAVA’s Arc win, breathtaking performance, was just a shame that the so called French Bookies took over an hour to pay out, giving the reason ‘we az no money!’ – they well and truly took a bashing that day when the great French horse won at 13/8!
Not surprised given how much I won that day. Lived in Paris for 2 months just to see her run in the Pouliches and Prix de Diane. Broke down in tears halfway from the stand to the parade ring after she passed the winning post.
You and I must’ve only been a few yards away from each other probably! I lived in France for a year in 2007, Nantes to be exact, made me appreciate this great country of ours!
Yes I was in Chantilly to be precise & I couldn’t agree more. The Europeans only have a 35-hour working week. No idea how the French manage it cos the shops in Chantilly are only open 20 hours a week!
Good to see that reliable yardstick Countryside Flame running againt his Irish counterparts at Leopardstown tomorrow.
With him running we get to see how the likes of Hollow Tree, Grumeti and Pearl Swan compare to the best of the Irish in Ut De Sivola.
Not very often we have tangible form in the 4yo division between horses from both sides of the water going in to Cheltenham.
Because they’re all $hit. Grumeti is a certainty to place and Pearl Swan, Dildar and Ranjaan have no chance. That’s all I know.
Grumeti has a very fine chance for a 10/1 shot…when he fell at Newbury he ran the others so much into the ground that the rags came through to catch them. His ride at Cheltenham was neither one thing or another…close to a fast pace but then waiting to commit when the leaders folded rather than pressing his strength on the New course.
10/1 has to be taken given the paucity of opposition.
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