The 2025 Hurst Park Handicap Chase

[simmo]

I'll thank you. Nice one smart arse

 

[Euronymous]

It's hard to bet anything where Skelton has a runner now. Calico on form was badly handicapped in that, would have been almost the last horse I'd have backed.

 

[Ian_Davies]

I'll thank you. Nice one smart arse

Thank you - much appreciated.

 

[Desert Orchid]

After it won at Cheltenham Skelton went on at length about how that was the horse's long-term target so I reckoned today was about starting to get its mark back down a bit.

I backed Martator and was disappointed with the ride it got. Maybe it needs to see the fences but did it really need to be ridden from so far back and so wide?

 

[ReggieM]

After it won at Cheltenham Skelton went on at length about how that was the horse's long-term target so I reckoned today was about starting to get its mark back down a bit.

I backed Martator and was disappointed with the ride it got. Maybe it needs to see the fences but did it really need to be ridden from so far back and so wide?

Agreed, I was on him as well. He made up so much ground from a wide trip, if he was a bit more prominent he would have pissed it

 

[Jayhawk]

After it won at Cheltenham Skelton went on at length about how that was the horse's long-term target so I reckoned today was about starting to get its mark back down a bit.

I backed Martator and was disappointed with the ride it got. Maybe it needs to see the fences but did it really need to be ridden from so far back and so wide?

Looks as if it would be another try at around two and a half miles for Martator bearing in mind how he ran on after the last fence today. Plenty of those races at Cheltenham, and he ran disappointingly ( stable out of form ? ) in one at Ascot in January.

 

[Desert Orchid]

If it

a) needs to be held up, and/or
b) needs to see its fences

then it's maybe wasting its time in big handicaps unless it learns to front-run. Running wide from the back in soft ground is a huge ask.