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2025 Ultima Handicap Chase

Desert Orchid said:
I still haven't backed KD yet but I have backed something else - Malina Girl (w 14/1). Her form became inconsistent after a bright start last season but early on she hacked up at Cheltenham off 135 for which she went up to 146 and then was hacking all over a better field in a £100k handicap won by Broadway Boy (who went up to 150 for the win) at levels when she came down three out. I reckon she would have won quite easily and gone up to at least 150. I wonder if the fall affected her confidence because it was after that that she lost her way. She had over eight months before returning just in January there and took a big step forward next time at Exeter in a fair Mares' chase. If that was her on the way back and she can come on again for it then she has the winning of this on her best form although she will be vulnerable to younger improvers. I just wanted her onside.
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Ran well enough but the winner was in another league and she couldn't even get second.
 
Ian_Davies said:
I quite like her other one, Myretown, actually. 😂
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Nice call, mate. Jumped like the proverbial stag; NH at its best. Some of those leaps were prodigious. What a spectacle. Looks like an eventual National horse, to me.

That starter is in need of some training, don't you think? I thought he made a right Horlicks of it.

It's very frustrating for me because, first time round, Whistle Stop Tour had a great pitch and was clearly looking to keep out of trouble from the front (just like the winner). Then, after all that, he gets badly hampered by the faller at the first: race over.
 
Desert Orchid said:
I'd be sanctioning the jockeys. They think they can do what they like at the start of the races.
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From what I could see, they had approached the tape at a lovely pace and in line too. For some reason he doesn't let them go. After that it was a shambles by comparison. No?
 

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