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Willie has achieved £/€10m in one season. Skelton just needs to do what he’s done this year and then double it.
Skelton appears set on complete domination at any cost. 264 individual horses ran last season so that doesn’t include his unraced stores, juveniles etc. He will be pushing 350 over the next five years and then who knows where he goes from there?
He can see the numbers Elliott (325) and Willie (295) have run and clearly wants what they have but I suspect he wants much more than that still.
Skelton’s is not a stable, it’s a burgeoning horse farm and he’d probably milk them if he could.
His nearest rival in terms of horse numbers in the UK is Murphy with 192 last season with perennial underachiever Fergal O’Brien next with 158. In comparison Hendo and Nicholls ran 105 and 126 individual horses respectively.
Dull times ahead domestically it seems.
I agree. Looked a poor ride today. Needed to make more use of his stamina as he was clearly on the slickest hurdler in the field. Opportunity wasted you feel.
That said and with hindsight, the stable has not exactly been firing recently. 2 from 38 this month. Both favs beaten today. Wadge only rode 5 of those 38 but he did win on one of them.
That last run by Aworkinprogress was too bad to be true and it just got the cogs whirring in that was it ever the intention to run well in that race!
I’m not the biggest fan of the Soldier Of Fortune’s per se but I still think off his mark there’s damage still to be done. 33/1 seems a very fair price.
Denise got her Bet Boost spot on there. Writing was on the wall before the race for Eldorado!
A negative (at the moment) for a horse like Mr Vango is that all the winners of the changed race since 2013 have been by stallions from the paternal Northern Dancer line. Ocovango is from the Monsun line so therefore not although Northern Dancer is in Ocovango’s maternal line. That said Pleasant Company went very close to bucking that trend.
The Montjeu lines record in the Grand National reads
9 horses
11 runs
4 wins @ 36.36%
3 places (incl a 5th) @ 63.63% w&p
LSP £47.00
Form figures: 1415U8P0121I just took the opinion that this was Nells Son’s target once again with a slightly different prep to last year. Maybe the year’s will have caught up but could be one last hurrah.
I see Denise has put Mr Vango as her Bet Boost. Not surprising I guess.
He becomes the first Ocovango to run in a handicap off a mark of 150+
Gaboriot the percentage call but since 1997 only Earth Summit has won wearing blinkers, which is not ideal. That said only 43 have run in them in that time with a further 3 runners up but Coko Beach was the first since 2001.
The pundit on this afternoon just made me miss Neesom. Very knowledgeable, I confess, but my God, haven’t the pundits become so encyclopaedic to the point of I have to wonder when they find time to eat. They can relay fact upon fact, just not with the acerbic or mischievous delivery of Neesom. Everything is so bloody clinical now.
I never really warmed to Nevison but with the passing of time and the introduction of this new crop, I find his flying by the seat of his pants appearances on the channel rather comforting.
Shanbally Kid’s win last season was one of the most ridiculous, perplexing and questionable things I have seen in recent years. He basically ran nearer five miles and still bridled it with a subsequent Troytown and Cork National winner labouring behind.
The thing is, he’s going to have to do it again to even stand a chance of running in this.
Have to agree that De Legislator looks, on the face of it, a bit of a shoe in for this but Lucinda’s jockeys have been known to floor one!
Neo King could be interesting. If a claimer goes on again running off 9-10 or thereabouts will be a big plus. You can see that when he runs off a featherweight he tends to go close. He’s finished 223 in his chases when carrying less than 11st.
A willingness to fight at the business end is the issue as it can be with some of the Coastal Path’s.
I think Jango is the better of the two and going forward I see TJM as a Ryanair horse with 26.5f around Cheltenham’s new course being a step too far. Jango on the other hand is bred to stay a lot further through his dam. Kempton , I feel, is TJM’s best chance of beating Jango over 3 miles to be best of the UK horses but that may become moot anyway.
That’s exactly what they’re doing. This is putting him in the shop window for UK and Irish breeders. Great idea if it works. Not sure if it doesn’t.
They just know what they’re about in France. I see Nietzsche Has who finished runner up in a Grade 1 on his final start has also gone to stud (even though bookies have him in the betting for the Triumph).
Both the stallions Goliath Du Berlais and Beaumec De Houelle actually raced against Pic D’orhy which seems incredible given that he is still winning Graded races.
The sample size is small but since 1998 only four of the races have been run on soft or heavy. In those four races 36 French bred horses have run, with their best finish a remounted third in 2001 and Anibale Fly’s 4th in 2018. The likelihood is that at least a third of this years field will be French bred so statistically speaking it seems more likely they will trouble the judge in some way this year.
