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  • in reply to: No one’s died, Kevin #1686033
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    Great day’s racing and the apocalyptic uttering of some are looking like the insular racing bubble overreaction they were.

    Roll on tomorrow!

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    in reply to: Is Willie Mullins’ domination boring? #1686032
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    He hasn’t had a winner today and he’s losing in the Mullins v GB market – but there’s a day to go and I don’t find it boring at all.

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    in reply to: Day Three Thoughts #1685915
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    100% Nathan.

    Ginnys Destiny and Monmiral indicating Nicholls hasn’t gone down with a nasty case of the Hendersons after all!

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    in reply to: No one’s died, Kevin #1685897
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    Throughout this thread, you’ve been spectacularly patronising, Gladders.

    Your point might not be the point of others – your priorities might not be the priorities of others.

    Despite low prize money, they will still be just about racing at Fakenham tomorrow and all the other smaller tracks you don’t seem bothered about.

    This is the area much nearer meeting the definition of a genuine crisis than a lack of British top-yard success at the top end at the Cheltenham Festival.

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    in reply to: Turners 2024 #1685894
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    How can anyone think races like the Turners shouldn’t exist?

    Epic contest.

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    in reply to: A Day At The Races #1685876
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    Have a great day, CAS!

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    in reply to: A Day At The Races #1685783
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    Really glad to hear you enjoyed the day, Richard.

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    in reply to: No one’s died, Kevin #1685764
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    Show the average racing purist snob a Class 6 Handicap at Kempton Park, tell them it was a pattern race and if they didn’t have a race card to hand they’d believe you.

    Racehorses are racehorses – as stated, a bunch of rich owners supporting Irish yards are doing better than a bunch of rich owners supporting British yards.

    So

    effing

    what?

    No one’s died here – there’s really no need for all this wailing, gnashing of teeth or the racing media soul searching cringe fest I guarantee is coming after this meeting ends.

    It’s a cracking Festival – and the exciting thing is for me the cream are young novices – Gaelic Warrior and Ballyburn.

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    in reply to: No one’s died, Kevin #1685747
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    I actually think the main issue with British racing is the low minimum prize money at the bottom end – I am really not fussed whether the top British yards are winning at the big meetings or not and what prize money they and their owners are getting.

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    in reply to: Topic closed – for what reason? #1685746
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    Matron’s on it like a car bonnet!

    Thank you for the clarification.

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    in reply to: Is it always like this? #1685697
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    I always thought a Keeper was the UK Pointing name for a trainer – shows how much I know about relationships!

    Great to have Ben back, makes this place even more human, somehow.

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    in reply to: Day Two Thoughts #1685695
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    “I am talking through my pocket and I still can’t believe I didn’t do the TC in the CC.”

    A friend of a friend did the Tricast combo all five bar Fabiolo – paid over two grand for £12.

    Edwardstone handing third place to Funambule Sivola obviously bumped up the pay out big time.

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    in reply to: Ryanair 2024 #1685649
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    I think the ground is worse than last year when Banbridge was taken out.

    I’ll be surprised if he runs tbh.

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    in reply to: Brown Advisory 2024 #1685646
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    I agree, Nathan, I really like the horse, but 7/2?

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    in reply to: Brown Advisory 2024 #1685639
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    P6PP00 – the form figures for Nicholls’s last six runners at SPs of 6/1, 4/1, 9/2, 6/1, 16/1 and 66/1.

    I won’t be waiting for the market.

    Fact To File is a lovely prospect, but today’s performance is nowhere near Cheltenham Gold Cup standard and a stone below what Gaelic Warrior did in the Arkle by my reckoning.

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    in reply to: Prestbury Cup – how many will UK get? #1685607
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    I think it’s hilarious – the 1/9 Ireland to win this was the four-day bank interest rate beater of the year and the 4/6 Ireland -10.5 on the handicap is looking good too.

    Ditto the 11/8 with one firm Mullins to beat GB on his own – current score six-three.

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    in reply to: No one’s died, Kevin #1685605
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    I don’t remember all this fuss at the demise of the northern powerhouse stables at the Cheltenham Festival, spearheaded by Peter Easterby, and the subsequent southern domination for years.

    What is the actual difference?

    You just know the Racing Post is going to launch into an excruciating year-long post mortem into this fake “crisis.”

    But I think the likes of me and Nathan will instead be focussed on identifying next year’s ante-post bets – no doubt mostly Irish trained.

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