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Ebadiyan would hardly be able to lead them for too long … Celestial Halo is a small horse and seems to jump better when he is clear of other runners.
I can’t forget Khyber Kim dogging it out the back in last years County off 144 and can’t have him at a shorter/similar price than those who fought out the Champion a few days earlier.
Celestial Halo is a huge price for me at 16’s …. looking back at last year’s race he travelled and jumped best all the way down the back … maybe the scrap he had with Osana softened him up for Punjabi but he never flinched and was only five last year … Punjabi’s good run as a five-year-old steeled him for victory last year.
With no other obvious front runner Walsh may have it much easier this year.This has been available for a number of years mainly on the Grade/Group 1 Sundays. A reciprocal agreement began on Arc Sunday this year I think.
With plenty of rain due for the rest of the week and a wet day forecast for Sunday Notre Pere looks a big price.
Snowy Morning has a history of getting beat in small field conditions chases going right-handed.
The Fonze likes Tramore and although he would prefer better ground is reasonably priced at around 8’s.The best thing about going racing for me over the last two decades has been the opportunity to watch Kinane ride …… many times I left the racecourse thinking I will never see a better jockey as there simply couldn’t be one. Thanks for all the thrills and the memories MJK.
The story goes that Arazan was given incorrect medication by a vet at Currabeg around June time and was very sick for a long-time afterwards. He wouldn’t have been able to race this backend even if they had wanted to.
He worked with Sea the Starts at Leopardstown on easy ground over about 7 furlongs a fortnight before Newmarket with Kinane up and ‘finished’ a head in front.I backed AoA in a double with Fame and Glory for the Arc last week with Ladbrokes ……. I wonder if that now becomes a single?
I like Age of Aquarius and have backed him at a reasonable price. A concern is that he has tended to some back underneath Johnny each time he has come under pressure this season. He can be forgiven Lingfield but did the same at Longchamp although he did knuckle down towards the finish in France. I would tend to give him the benefit of the doubt (even at 3’s) and put it down to greeness rather than unwillingness.
He travelled beautifully in the Longchamp race and it looked set fair until the pacemaker died halfway up the half straight and it ended up being a sprint.
He worked after racing the last day at the Curragh with Moon Indigo and seemed to go very well although his work companion is a slow horse.
Interestingly, Johnny rode him that day while Heffernan rode Yeats in a separate piece of work which raises hopes that Johnny may go to Doncaster although if Moore is free there is an obvious alternative.The RTE coverage of racing is dreadful. Ted Walsh’s form analysis extends to reading the last three runs word for word from the card and Piggott’s interviews are cringeworthy – she is justifiably patronised by Weld, Bolger et al when she shoves the microphone in from of them.
It is obvious Gleeson was schooled at the BBC, among his many other faults as he loves to trot out the ‘professionals are backing this’ line beloved by Loughran even when there isn’t a bean being turned-over in the ring.Fozzy Stack was leaning away from this race when interviewed after she won two weeks ago reasoning that it may come too soon for her.
The threes that was available about the colt earlier in the week looks big now.
