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I have no idea how it is good to soft. It has pissed it down for months around here. This week has been drier but still been wet.
Watching the handicap hurdle that just finished they were very well strung out. Ground was flying all over place.
Think its more testing than official description.
Double again today. Lower key races bug first ride was very good.
Cliched but horses do jump for her.
I’m hugely conflicted. Last night showed us (reminded us) what a racehorse he is.
He can obviously be a very good flat horse but it would have a ceiling. Where that is i dont know but you’d say short of group1.
As a hurdler, there is no ceiling. Winning the CH would be ultimate in the discipline, and if he could jump the way he once did (its not a guess, we know he can do it as he has before), he’d piss it.
Really i want him in the CH. But at same time, I wouldnt watch it.
Anglers crag. Previous winner and ran really well last time out. Could actually do with it being more testing but i think it’ll still be a slog.
On a side note, prize money is shocking. 41’000 to winner. Less now than 5 year ago. Newcastle is really the poor relation when it comes to ‘grade 1’ jumps. Only gets two meetings a year of note and apart from the ff and rehersal chase this is the best they can offer.
Jonbon is quite the contrary to rest of Hendos string though, he just turns up everytime. He’s had 4 hellish hard races this year but i do think they’ll chance the Ryanair, especially with ftf and majborough seemingly headed to the championship races.
I’d still give him a chance and would be certain he’d be placed (2nd more than likely)
I’d love a decent trainer to take a chance on her and get her back to Britain. I enjoyed watching her ride and always thought she was great in interviews. Maybe i’m a sucker for over romantics in the game as i also love listening to Hendo and think he’ll be a huge miss when gone.
There was a time when i thought she had a case for stable No1 at Nicholls on merit. Thought she outrode Cobden on occasion. She isnt better than cobden, he is far more versatile but i do think she’s a great watch with a good chaser.
Nicky often waxed lyrical about constitution hills constitution early in his career. Jonbon was thought to be a bit of a lad and flighty.
Would have been hard to envisage jonbon would be a model of consistency who fights every fight and CH would be a headcase.
Tbh if CH had not presented himself when he did, jonbon would have had a supreme and very possibly a champion hurdle.
My word how i love this horse.
He has cheered me up no end on countless saturday afternoons.
I dont care one jot that he hasnt won at the festival, he’s a legend.
He’s just all class and engine. If the 2m4 was still a grade 1 he’d be in it.
Tbh quite a few of this years arkle horses dont look like 2 milers.
No henderson horse!
Handicapper never seems to relent on go dante but he likes the track, handles the ground so at 20s i’d have a bit each way.
Getting to the point where the most we can hope for is a healthy horse, but a healthy racehorse is seeming a stretch.
Maybe a hail mary coneygree type of effort in the future but its got to be unlikely he’ll see a racecourse again.
I’m not so sure fact to file would be the absolute certainty, ryanair or GC.
He’s starting to look like a horse who struggles with consistency. Often his best displays seem to be followed up by an underwhelming performance.
At his best he’d be untouchable in the Ryanair, but he’d be backing up for the first time since he was a novice.
Kotmask win for me. Some form on soft ground, c&d winner. Moore at sandown always a plus. Good run last time out.
Keep hearing an argument from experts that Majborough would be better suited to a step up as he makes too many mistakes jumping at 2m. Not sure I agree in the slightest. Surely an extra 4 obstacles would provide him more chance for error. I understand the logic that his jumping would improve for the slower pace, but not sure bad jumpers win Ryanair’s and it’s not as though its ran at a dawdle. I would imagine at times, the fractions are often comparable to a CC.
I do think he could improve for a longer trip, but that’s because he looks like he would stay further than 2m.
Fran Berry was making the case that he is just a bad jumper of a fence. Doesn’t use his back end to make the right shape. In that case, is a career in hurdles not more suitable (al la El Fabiolo!)
Anyways, I haven’t given up hope (against hope) of him being a CC horse, just because I need one to get Barry Connell beat.
Great news that Sir Gino is stable.
Selfishly, i’d love to see him run again, but any sort of recovery woukd be welcome.
As for Henderson, i still hope he has a great festival. Lulamba, old park star, act of innocence, jonbon, impose toi, jango baie. Might have no winners but he still represents britains best chance in the grade 1s, considerably.
