Champion Hurdle 2015

LUKE said:
Wicklow Brave interests me today -as I see it they will want to get him relaxed after his performance at Cheltenham where he got really stewed up at the start.Might be one to back at big odds in running.
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I was biggin up WB on a different thread myself Luke. Was of the opinion the price was too big today.
That Cheltenham race you mention, he still finished 6th within a couple of lengths of the 2nd, JH, and lost a few places only in last 100yards.
Today's test and field size more up his street I think, but the rain didn't come overnight with the official Going : 'Yielding, Good in places' at the moment.
Less confident now due to conditions and I've only had a small bet today in an E/W double with Harry Trotter - Dundalk 6:10
 
Tremendously game heart warming performance from Little Robin-Ruby was matched at 1.02-he will need to improve -Wicklow Brave looks like a horse getting a handicap mark to me.
 
granger said:
From 11 years ago but a good read for all of you that enjoyed Limestone

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/mar/10/horseracing.gregwood
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Probably the horse that tipped me over the edge to be a big racing fan. My Dad was a massive racing fan, and up to the age of say 28/29 I could take it or leave it.
Limestone, Solerina, Moscow (especially) and Istabraq changed that. We were members at Navan despite being from north Roscommon (proper race track my old man said).
Moscows Arkle sealed the deal (massive win helped)
 
Limestone Lad shares "The Haughey Factor" with Sea The Stars.
LL is by Aristocracy, CJH's only pattern race winner who also ran in Irish Derby while STS 's paternal great great grand dam is Innocence, the first filly R J McCormick trained for CJH. Incidentally she was named well before "The Arms Trial " as she had a Classic entry.
 
I took 33/1 this morning Sign Of A Victory for the Champion Hurdle.

Notwithstanding Geraghty's downplaying of last Saturday's race, I think it was an unusually hot renewal. There were about seven or eight with strong chances heading for two out but once they got serious they ended up being more strung out than the 3m chasers in the following race on ground that couldn't have been soft - either that or the distances are inaccurate - and all without the winner being asked the remotest question at any stage.

The bare form remains well short of the necessary but what did he have in hand? Ten lengths? More?

Last year was ripe for something to break through and show the likelier candidates up for the moderate bunch they were. I thought Our Conor would be it. Sadly it wasn't to be. Hurricane Fly is gone. Rock On Ruby is gone. The New One, Jezki, etc are not really better than what the Fly left behind. The other current CH possibles are, in my opinion, largely short of the normal class and the ones that are probably better are already prominent in the betting.

Unusually for Henderson, after the race he suggested SOAV wouldn't be seen out again soon, that he'd very probably skip the Greatwood and go instead for the Ladbroke. That suggests they think an awful lot of this chap. I think the 11lbs hike for his win at Ascot seriously underplays his superiority. RPRs put him on 155. I think that still underestimates him. I reckon he's probably at least a 160 animal at this stage and he has another half-season in which to find the remaining improvement he'll need to win the big one. At 33/1 I reckon that's the price about him doing so and I think that's very generous.

The pundit on the RUK/ATR replay I watched suggested after the race he didn't think SOAV was acting that well on the course so if he's likely to be even better going left-handed, it's looking positives all the way.

FWIW, I reckon that race last week will throw up a number of winners in the coming weeks.
 
Certainly not in other sections of the forum, Granger :D

I got an email this evening from someone I know who backed SOAV on Saturday. He says he thought he might not win as he was pulling so strongly for so much of the race. I can't say that's how I saw it - I thought he was nicely settled and cantering throughout but I was watching the one I'd backed for most of the race - but he has a better eye than me for this kind of thing.
 
Desert Orchid said:
I took 33/1 this morning Sign Of A Victory for the Champion Hurdle.

Unusually for Henderson, after the race he suggested SOAV wouldn't be seen out again soon, that he'd very probably skip the Greatwood and go instead for the Ladbroke. That suggests they think an awful lot of this chap. I think the 11lbs hike for his win at Ascot seriously underplays his superiority. RPRs put him on 155. I think that still underestimates him. I reckon he's probably at least a 160 animal at this stage and he has another half-season in which to find the remaining improvement he'll need to win the big one. At 33/1 I reckon that's the price about him doing so and I think that's very generous.
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Entered in the Fighting Fifth
 
When is the FF? I don't see it in the 'big race entries section' in the RP.

I think it is very encouraging that they are even thinking about that as well as the big handicap route.
 
Desert Orchid said:
When is the FF? I don't see it in the 'big race entries section' in the RP.

I think it is very encouraging that they are even thinking about that as well as the big handicap route.
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29th November, DO. Someone post the entries up if they actually exist, I'm going along to that meeting if anyone would like to see hello. :)
 
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