Champion Hurdle 2015

Maybe it was he missed the Supreme with injury, granger, rather than this specific injury.

I'm almost certain that a yoke I backed in the race didn't run, due to breaking a pelvis on the way to post. I'm buggered if I can remember who it was though. :confused:
 
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Almost sure it would be Landing Light (in Sausalito Bay's Supreme) who was withdrawn late enough for a 5p deduction. Moscow Flyer won the Punchestown novice that year.
 
Grasshopper said:
Maybe it was he missed the Supreme with injury, granger, rather than this specific injury.

I'm almost certain that a yoke I backed in the race didn't run, due to breaking a pelvis on the way to post. I'm buggered if I can remember who it was though. :confused:
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Hairline fracture alright but not during or before a race. Two weeks before the Deloitte, they weren't happy with him
 
The newbies will have to beat the current champion and whilst I'm sure their efforts will be entertaining I'm with Jezki to retain his crown.
Jockey booking on the day could make a difference but he is better than many rate him.
 
Can't see him beating My Tent or Yours this time round. McCoy couldn't get him to settle at all and he ended up beaten only a neck. A year older and less exuberant he could easily turn the tables but the big question is will they cope with the Mullins selection who could turn out to be head and shoulders above them

It wasn't a bad Champion Hurdle but the best horse IMO was lost hampering the New One and Hurricane Fly ran a stone below his previous form.

Opinion seems to be that it turned out to be below average with Faugheen and the New One heading the market.

I think he'll be hard pushed to retain his crown
 
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Jezki would have beaten MTOY in the previous year's Supreme if he'd not clattered the last and prepped for the race.
 
There was only 1/4 length between the Tent and CF that day though Euro so im not so sure he would have got past both of them, CF was mighty game that day.
 
You cannot underestimate the effect not having a prep had on Jezki that day.

Fact is 12 months after the Supreme Jezki had a prep race leading up to the Festival, made no jumping errors, and of course was ridden by a better jockey. Result: he turned the form around.
 
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He turned the form around on sufferance, and if MTOY ever learns to settle, he'll eat him alive.
Cracking Champion Hurdle in my view, and I'd expect the form to be franked again, and again and again.
 
MTOY possibly not one for a scrap? Haven't read through his C&H essay, but I wouldn't be surprised if Timeform had him verging on 'thinker' status.

MTOY must still be a candidate for novice chases, given Jezki is in the same ownership, no?
 
Should be going chasing IMO, Unless of course he hasn't taken to them at home.
With More Of That staying hurdling and Defy Logic out for the season again, Bar Double Seven im struggling to think of a JP horse going for any meaninful chasing honours this season.
 
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some horses you just don't take to and jezki is one of them for me. was gobsmacked he turned all the form around in march. was a fantastic ride from geraghty. don't think the error at the last in the supreme cost him the race either and i don't think it was a one-off. he's never looked too slick at his hurdles.

maybe i've just underrated him but he isn't in my thoughts for a repeat at this point.
 
I took to Jezki from his first bumper win.
Backed him in Supreme Novice and felt gutted after.
showed his true worth under that Barry ride in March where The New One was undoubtedly unlucky.
Looking forward to an absolute cracker in March where this thread will hit 3000 posts again.
 
JamesRB said:
some horses you just don't take to and jezki is one of them for me. was gobsmacked he turned all the form around in march. was a fantastic ride from geraghty. don't think the error at the last in the supreme cost him the race either and i don't think it was a one-off. he's never looked too slick at his hurdles.

maybe i've just underrated him but he isn't in my thoughts for a repeat at this point.
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Jezki was always gonna be a different kettle of fish at the festival on better ground with pace.
 
The Punchestown win showed all the AP is wrong for the horse talk was crap .He just needed good ground .
 
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MTOY possibly not one for a scrap? Haven't read through his C&H essay, but I wouldn't be surprised if Timeform had him verging on 'thinker' status.

MTOY must still be a candidate for novice chases, given Jezki is in the same ownership, no?
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FWIW, Timeform hint at mild resolution concerns with MTOY.
 
With Josses Hill not due to appear until Christmas time and with tricky's past (Simonsig last year, Spirit Son) it might be worth having a shilling or two on the Tent for the Arkle.

As for his resolution, he battled all the way to the line in the Xmas hurdle and imo was just beaten by a slightly better horse in the Champion.
 
Euronymous said:
As for his resolution, he battled all the way to the line in the Xmas hurdle and imo was just beaten by a slightly better horse in the Champion.
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He's a mutt - get over it. :D

Been reading back through a few of the old Champion Hurdle threads - how they're not in Forum Gold is a mystery.

It's accepted fact that the season before last threw-out an unusually-talented crop of novices (Jezki, OC, MTOY, TNO), all of whom not only went on to progress, but generally showed form capable of winning a standard-running of the CH, before they ran in that race.

In Vautour and Faugheen, we have another two emerging novices who can comfortably be rated in the "unusually-talented" bracket, but surely only one of them will run in a Champion Hurdle? The newly-established top-end hurdlers like Jezki won't therefore face the same strength-in-depth, which theoretically improves their own chances. The counter-argument is that Vautour/Faugheen perhaps have less ground to make-up to reach the same level as Jezki et al.

Insofar as having a bet is concerned, I suspect I'm unlikely to recover anything on my Vautour bets, and am standing back for the moment. If someone out a gun to my head, I'd row-in with Jezki at current odds. His level is proven, they now know how to ride him, and he is genuine and consistent. In fact, he is the only horse in the race that doesn't have a single question-mark against him, and he is probably fair-enough value at the moment.

Great time of the year this. :cool:
 
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