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The 2025 King George VI Chase

They did look to be going a touch slow early on, but they wound it up from a long way out and obviously paced it perfectly. Some performance from The Jukebox Man, he's just so talented and there's still more to come from him. Cracking race.
 
The Fortune Teller said:
The horse must have had some proper back form for you to back a Harry Redknapp horse, DO! Well done.
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I can't stand HR and hate when his horses win (or even run) because you just know the TV people are going to be all over him.

The horse didn't have the form for me. The bet was because it had been well touted in a number of early-season articles and stable tours, with this race reportedly the aim. It was 16/1 the morning of its prep and I reckoned that would probably be halved if it won - which it was entirely entitled to do so - so I really just wanted it onside at that stage.

To be honest, I had just about written the bet off, merely clinging to the hope that its home reputation would be vindicated and even then I wasn't convinced it could actually go and beat them.

Better to be lucky than good, etc.
 
Euronymous said:
Am I missing something here? Crawl and sprint, shit rides a plenty. I thought it was a bit meh honestly.
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I haven't seen the sectionals but it looked to me like they started fast then eased back a fair bit but they seemed to be churning out 14s furlongs in the final mile. That struck me as quite fast and they did apparently break the track record.

It was a finish worthy of the Wokingham :p
 
The question is whether Gaelic Warrior and Fact To File are overhyped, or if the John Durkan took too much out of them.
 
Has the race thrown up a few overrated horses? The first four finished in a heap, in record time.

GDC and Iknowetc are still a way ahead of them, as far as Cheltenham is concerned.
 
Frankel said:
Why? What has he done to trigger you?
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Not sure. Just could never take to him when he was being interviewed in his football management days and then once he started those dreadful TV ads.

They say Luke Harvey is a nice guy and I've never had any dealings with him but I could never take to him either.

The chances are they wouldn't like me either. (Not many do.)
 
Desert Orchid said:
Not sure. Just could never take to him when he was being interviewed in his football management days and then once he started those dreadful TV ads.

They say Luke Harvey is a nice guy and I've never had any dealings with him but I could never take to him either.

The chances are they wouldn't like me either. (Not many do.)
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You do like your toast well done don't you Sand!
 
I have good reason to like Harry Redknapp and I'd rather see him in the winners' enclosure than some bloke born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

And, like just about everyone who ever went Jumps racing or to a Point-to-Point, I've met Luke Harvey and you couldn't meet a more inoffensively self-deprecating bloke.

There is literally nothing to dislike about him in person.
 
Luke Harvey definitely appears to be a lovely lad. I’d also put Oli Bell in that category, along with Rishi.

Jason Weaver would never be your mate, though. Too much side to him, he looks like someone who would want you to fail badly. Very grumpy, too.
 
Len Madeiros said:
Luke Harvey definitely appears to be a lovely lad. I’d also put Oli Bell in that category, along with Rishi.

Jason Weaver would never be your mate, though. Too much side to him, he looks like someone who would want you to fail badly. Very grumpy, too.
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Luke is great in person. Very down to earth and will happily chat to anyone who approaches him at at point to point (and that's even without being able to get him to come and compere my Awards evenings (I have tried several times!)

Jason too is lovely and we go back a very long way. In fact I taught him riding in the Pony Club for three years. And he was a great kid - very talented and small so I used to try and get him to think about being a jockey. But at the time legendary Showjumper, David Broome, was the Master of the hunt affiliated with our Pony Club so they all wanted to emulate him. Anyway fast forward a few years and I was working for Cumani and Jason pitches up at the Open Day with his parents. I introduced him to Cumani as he was booked to go on the course at the British Racing School the following week. Cumani offered him a job on the spot on my recommendation and he duly returned to the yard following his course and lived with me for a while. He's an absolutely great person and you most definitely have him very wrong. He's still thrilled to see me every time I am at Ascot or Goodwood and wander down to the commentary box and I get a big hug.

When Jason was in the Pony Club, we had our summer camp at Chepstow Racecourse. And he was so talented (he rode this lovely coloured pony called Toby) so the other instructors used to come over and "borrow" him to get other kids ponies to jump - as you so never got on them your selves in case you showed yourself up when they wouldn't jump for you either.
 
Strange how people see a race. Some saying best ever, i thought it was a pile of shite.

Mark Walsh and Paul Townend, by their usual standard, absolutely disgraced themselves.
The ride on Fact To File was bewildering. Maybe he had an eye on Townend, but just send the f$%^ing horse. Maybe it was instructions, but instructions surely weren’t sit midfield 6 wide

If all lined up in the Gold Cup, Id wanna be on Jango. (Cant see Galoping or Iknow losing sleep like) could be best Gold Cup field in some time
 
Slim said:
A King George thread turning into a "Do I not like Luke Harvey" thread. You people don't deserve good races
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No manners, but what a critic.

Getting back to the race, when half a length separates the first four home, you don't have to be Einstein to realise it wasn't the highest-quality King George ever, great spectacle notwithstanding, interesting fractions and overall time, notwithstanding.

But the winner looks the one most likely to be suited by the stiffer stamina test in the Cheltenham Gold Cup to me, not only the way he battled back today, but his Albert Bartlett effort as a novice in bad ground.

He'd be behind Inowayurthinking and Galopin Des Champs on the numbers, but he's the one who's come out and put down a marker and I reckon there's more to come.
 

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