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Best horse never to win a Champion Hurdle

Peddlers Cross would have won a lot of other Champions, Hurricane ripped his heart out that day and he's never recovered.
 
Simon said:
Peddlers Cross would have won a lot of other Champions, Hurricane ripped his heart out that day and he's never recovered.
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I remember someone telling to me after Aintree that Jason Maguire reckoned HF broke his heart.
 
SlimChance said:
0-6 in the champion. Not good enough.
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Oh yes and what price would Night Nurse, Monksfield and Sea Pigeon be ?

He won 3 Bula Hurdles , 3 FF Hurdles , 2 Scottish Champion Hurdles when it was a proper race and a Christmas Hurdle He was second to Night Nurse in the mega 1976 Champion and third to Monksfield and Sea Pigeon in 1980 . He was not at his best in March at Cheltenham but he was a magnificent hurdler and Timeform rated him 176 .
 
Dato Star is the best horse not to have won a Champion Hurdle in the time I've been following racing. It's just a shame that his CH runs came during the window when they were carrying-out the drainage work at Cheltenham - and Claisse was at his most inept - and as a result he never got the Soft ground he wanted.

The fact he isn't even quoted in Slim's market is an outrage and a violation.
 
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SlimChance said:
Rhinestone Cowboys third as a novice was a serious run. He could have won one.
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Gotta love a good hard on for a horse. Next year, he could have gone champion but went Coral Cup instead. Think he would be a dark horse in the best never to have won a stayers/world. The day he won at Haydock I thought i was looking at a Gold Cup winner. Shame.
 
Macs joy. Running in an era with hardy eustace and brace inca. Won an Irish champion with those filling the places.
 
SlimChance said:
I remember someone telling to me after Aintree that Jason Maguire reckoned HF broke his heart.
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That is so much bollocks. He should never have run at Aintree and was given a poor programme as a novice chaser. Easier to blame a foe than **** training.
 
The Mullins camp would tell you the same thing, Euronymous, and they've been saying the same thing has happened to Rock On Ruby
 
SlimChance said:
11/10 Golden Cygnet
11/4 Flyingbolt
9/2 Baracouda
9/2 Rhinestone Cowboy
5/1 Valiramix
5/1 Sizing Europe
10/1 Captain Christy
10/1 Harchibald
12/1 Inglis Drever
12/1 Brown Gazette
14/1 Birds Nest
20/1 Moscow Flyer
25/1 Arkle
25/1 Barton
33/1 Birds Nest
66/1 Solwhit
66/1 Captain Cee Bee
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Love the horse but Sizing Europe a dream place lay. Never that economical over hurdles and won the Greatwood getting a chunk of weight from Osana. Not much better than Katchit.
 
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