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I firmly believe JB would have won regardless if IEP stood up or not. He stayed very strongly and the distances he put between protektorat and Pic D’hory, he’s probably still improving or peaking.
I find i can get lost in trends so just go with gut in this sone. Served me well,not backed winner since comply or die (used the eider as his trial,those were the days!).
Backed marble sands.
Planning on backing grangeclere west and panic attack, problem is i’m in florida and cant get a bet on.
Could be trappy. Think jango wants to be coming off a strong pace, which wouldnt be guaranteed. IET must rate a danger, good aintree record.
Could only be 4 with spillanes tower left in national. Strangely, ground considered ok by same connections who puled him out of gold cup.
Hughesie has 3 months to get back to his riding weight to ride CH in the Northumberland Plate! But not Jamie Spencer, the poor horse has been through enough without being asked to conjur up a final furlong of 8 seconds flat, whilst weaving through 18 horses on the inside rail.
Random thought, but i’d loved to have seen Richard Hughes on board! Just missed out by the odd decade or so!
Not much to say but genuinely devastated by this. We’ll never know but he looked like he could do it all, very easily.
Marble sands i think will run into a place. Probably still looks a bit unexposed as never ran over marathon distance, but got the 3mile 3f at cheltenham really well.
66/1.
Probably unrelated to this incident but james bowen seems to be getting a much bigger split of rides now, from Henderson.
Nico still clearly No1, but i wonder if that might change soon? I’m a massive Nico fan (brilliant big race jockey) but he has had some bad days (awful on Khrisma yesterday).
James has got a couple of monkeys off his back recently and should be banging down the door.
This might not be your thing but a couple year back we looked at staying at Craig Tara caravan park. We could rent a static caravan for 3 days for something like £190. We ended up not going in the end but its definitely a cheap alternative. Its only 4 miles form the course.
I had been on a family holiday years ago, the caravans are all good standard.
Contradicting myself a bit but could easy see Jango Baie winning the Bowl. Quite often thats won by horses on and off the bridle. Shiskin being a prime example.
Usually theres a good stayer kept fresh for aintree, but i think they all took there chance this year. He’s a consistent sort.
Agree Cork, IL etait temps and lossiemouth whilst clearly very good, were winners in pretty average renewals.
Even the Gold cup itself, will probably prove to be no more than a std renewal. GC was in a class of his own.
Jango Baie in 2nd, still not convinced. He obviously stays very well over any trip but he just doesnt travel like a top class horse.
I think you always need to let the dust settle on the supreme before you know if it was any good, but it was a real mess after the last so i dont know what to make of old park star.
I hope he’s another altior (or even shiskin).
Dont think he is a 2miler, so probably done well to win.
Ultimately the good for me was that the positivity and feel good factor seems to be back.
For the most part, very competetive racing, loads of good betting heaps. Overall, hugely entertaining.
The bad, apart from the ongoing boring mullins domination, is that there wasnt many performances which blew me away.
Gaelic warrior was very good,as was lossiemouth and IET. Novices, both hurdles and chases didnt look exceptional. I think without FTF, Sir Gino and CH there was little wow factor in the actual races.
I always feel theres a sense of inverted snobbery at play with Nico.
And i feel it gets his shackles up more than it should and he reacts.
Mind, declan crying to matt chapman, what was that about? Surely keep it in the weighing room. By all means make an official complaint. Also the “i’m an amateur card” nice day out with the wife and kids, its the bloody pinnacle of the sport. Everybody deserves respect, but its also a level playing field.
The racist aspect will be interesting. Cant for the life of me think what he has said thats racist. If he’s made anti-irish slurs or whatever, thats gonna make him very, very unpopular. Sure his best mate is gavin sheehan.
Anyway, hopefully it gets sorted through proper channels and we can avoid the pile on.
Not sure what to do here? Last night i put on an e/w trixie with irish panther being the third leg. Checked this morning and i have accidentally hit Quilixios.
Could go one of two ways. If i was a betting man (which i am, although clearly inept!), i reckon irish panther will romp in. Cant change my bet, cos then Quilixios will romp in.
Quandary.
Wont be watching live either so wont know my fate until around 7pm tonight!
