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Henderson hinted a few weeks back that they might have a look at this.
CH could feasibly run both at Kempton and in the John Porter on 18th April.
Suppose it makes sense to have an all weather option, in case we get a dry spring.Can’t help feeling 12yo Edwardstone will be retired now, after a win in those sad circumstances. Yes or No?
Maybe, but he doesn’t appear to me have a top miler’s acceleration. Still reckon 10f will ultimately prove to be his gig.
Still not convinced FOG would have quickened like some on here seem to think, even if KS had got after him 10 strides sooner.
The only shocker is the inevitable pile-on of snark and spite GM23. There was nothing of Ruling Court’s class in the Craven. He quickened better than Field Of Gold and won fair and square at a mile. FOG looks like an Eclipse horse and I hope Shoemark keeps the ride.
Bit of a grenade here, but here goes…
I’ve never really liked the Gold Cup very much. It’s probably something to do with losing some of my very favourite horses in it down the years – Ten Plus, Monsieur Le Cure, Gloria Victis, now Corbetts Cross.
But it’s also that I hate seeing a proper ‘Rolls Royce’ three miler get outstayed by some high-class plodder up the hill – (Pendil by The Dikler in ’73, for example).
So I’d reduce the distance to 3 miles, or 3 miles 1 furlong tops.Unless the Cheltenham festival and St Patrick’s Day actually coincide with each other (which this year they don’t – by at least three days) do ITV and the racecourse really have to make such an embarrassing fuss over it in the preliminaries?
Bit harsh, CAS & Yeats. The Group 1s he won on Lady Bowthorpe & Dreamloper may not have been star-studded, but he rode them perfectly. Gosden horses haven’t been firing either (Audience excepted…)
Gosden had been fretting about stall 1 for days – think KS was always going to try to get to the near rail.
7/10. Still a captivating spectacle, if now more of an extended cross country event than a Grand National. Doesn’t seem quite right to have GN with fewer runners than a Cambridgeshire, though… CAS, completely agree with your comments about the horse lost at Chepstow, seemingly unnoticed by the once-a-year crowd.
Which four G1s Ham? The Fighting Fifth was lost & the International is a G2. So the Christmas Hurdle plus three separate trips to Ireland before Cheltenham? Really?
Some hard hearts out there in Forumland. Whatever the rights and wrongs, Henderson hasn’t looked a well man these past few months.
Yes, just received the same email from Coral. Sad news. Their racing club is a nice initiative to engage casual fans with the sport – hope not too many are put off. RIP West End Boy.
Just idly checking – I notice the number of signatures now stands at a smidge under 99,500, so it looks like the 100k target will be achieved. The pace to this point hasn’t exactly been meteoric though. Perhaps general public lack of awareness (or even apathy) is to be expected. But comparing this with the shrieks of “over 200,000 of you have already entered the ITV7”, as Ed Chamberlin gushes each Saturday, it’s a little disappointing too.
Giant’s Causeway’s sire and dam were both dirt performers, while Auguste Rodin’s parents were turf runners. Okay, AR’s grandsire was a BC Classic winner in Sunday Silence, but it’s still much more of a leap to get him to switch surfaces than it was for the Iron Horse.
Agree with your earlier post LD73 (13 Nov). The Japan Cup would be a more logical target in every way for a son of Deep Impact, except that Japanese breeders don’t need any more convincing about DI, just as Europe is already thoroughly convinced over Galileo.
Maybe Coolmore think a BC Classic win would open up a lucrative revenue stream in America to go alongside demand from Europe & Japan. Just can’t see him winning it though.
