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Why hasnt anybody asked O’Brien if yeats would jump a hurdle in the future. Surely it is a question that any pundit worth his salt would ask.<br>Or has that been ruled out previously?<br>Now, that would be exciting!
i dont know if its been ruled out previously, though its getting a bit late now, he’ll be a seven year old next year. but hes so good on the flat i dont think they felt the need.
On top of that hes got the bloodlines to be a sire, maybe not massively commercial because he’s a stayer but he won a derby trial before getting injured and a coronation cup, maybe donet want to geld him.
why on earth would you put a fence in front of a good horse like Yeats, in any case He’s going to be a sire
in actual fact most horses to make the step from flat to jumps arent stayers as you might think anyway. they usually have theyre best flat form over bout 10-12f. though dont ask me to explain why.
It’s because jumpers are generally slower and therefore ‘staying’ becomes easier.
I would imagine Yeats will be too busy siring jumpers alongside Westerner and Vinnie Roe to actually be one himself.
If you can jump fences it does not matter how slow you are. But you need speed to jump hurdles successfully and competitively.Hurdling at speed is the secret.Jumping safely for fences.
Alistair Down asked him and actually pleaded with him last year to get him gelded and send him hurdling.
Quote: from benbdb on 4:16 pm on June 21, 2007[br]in actual fact most horses to make the step from flat to jumps arent stayers as you might think anyway. they usually have theyre best flat form over bout 10-12f. though dont ask me to explain why.<br>
Why dont we ask Oxx to send Kastoria over hurdles while we are at it. She had the beating of yeats over shorter. Is she retired now?
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I think Geordieland will make a good hurdler. Lets hope his future owner is also a geordie. I am talking about Graham Wylie. I can just see Geordieland running in a future Champion Hurdle race. On another note, I think the 3rd place horse of todays race, Le Miracle I think that will make it over hurdles too. Lets hope Le Miracle gets trained for hurdles by someone like Paul Nicolls.
My right idea of the perfect flat horse to go over hurdles was Westerner, i would like to have seen the horse to get him off the bridle over 2 miles.
SHL – Kastoria is indeed retired, assuming everything went smoothly she’s currently in foal to Gone West.
He’s still out there extolling the virtues of all things Ballydoyle….
Westerner was still good enough to finish second in the Arc, as for O Brien & co they have so many horses, that they have the luxury of stepping them up in trip if they fall short at the top level. Yeats a prime example, Mahler today, ran like a hairy goat in the derby.<br>To be honest, O Brien and co, are starting to bore the sh-it out of me, the so called super trainer hasn’t got a f-ucking clue how good his horses are, or what trip is their best, ie running 8 in the Derby.<br>If smaller trainers had half of the bloodlines, he is priveliged with they would do just as good a job, who knows even a better job.:angry:
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