cheltenham 2017

EC1 said:
i'm loving how now you are trying to run down your favourite horse's best ever runs to suit your silliness Tanlic..class stuff this..i'd start reading what you are posting..its unreal

in a bit..the hoss that were 2nd to only Arkle 3 years ago ..will be nowt more than a mid 170's hoss

i'd stop now before you trash the brilliance of SS completely

stop digging man
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Digging? and where did you get Sizing Europes rating ? fall out the sky did it.

Ok for you to quote numbers that suit you but no one can quote numbers that don't or they are silly.

You really are an obnoxious prick
 
PS EC you're the one who is pulling down Sprinter Sacre by insisting UDS has run ,miles below his best...at least I have tried to work out if he did or he din't not just accept you saying so as being gospel.

I notice you had nothing to say about my post regarding why ST ran so well
 
just going back to Sizing Europe..yes i agree he wasn't a 172 hoss that day..but subsequent efforts show he was still a 165 hoss..and SS buried him..could won another 5 or 6 lengths...that was an awesome performance by SS

ST and Gods Own are damn good markers Tanlic...they have run to the lb what their ratings suggest in realation to each other..GO is a solid good ground marker on his own anyway

old SS would have had way too many chops for them a few years ago..another league

if a hoss had beaten GO 8.5 lengths in 2012..and i come on here and said..this is the best since Arkle..what do you think response would have been?....nurse?
 
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Sizing Europe never made Timeforms top 5 this century The 5th highest ranking went to Finian's Rainbow at 174

That's kind of weird because his OR hit 177 and Finnian's highest OR was 173 so they seen the 2 very differently.
 
Where to next is the big question Nicky said Sprinter won't go but the bookies have him in at 2/1

UDS is 11/8 but WPM won it with Felix Yonger last year

Best bet though could be Special Tiara at 4/1
 
That Punchestown race is likely to cut up badly with Sprinter and Special Tiara more likely to head to Sandown a few days before and it rarely attracts strength in depth, plus if Willie is still in with a shout of winning the trainers championship over here then there also has to be a strong possibility that he'll send Un De Sceaux for that Sandown race.

All of which would open the door for Gods Own. The trainer sent him to win the novice race on the card two years ago and was torn between sending him back for the champion last year or heading to Sandown. They know where they stand now so are surely more likely to head to Ireland this time around and the current 14/1 3 places would look absolutely huge on the day if he only has the likes of Felix Yonger to beat in a 5 or 6 runner event.

but what has this got do with Cheltenham 2017 ;)
 
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if they don't get some dig in the ground then wouldn't be surprised to see UDS sent to grass for the summer

not mullins style but he may pitch Douvan into open company for the £££££

wonder if we see Vautour again at aintree/punchy and where. Melling? Gold cup?
 
granger said:
Someone posted on here that SS won't race again this year

Willie will run something in the melling - ground will determine things
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Could have been me. Nicky said he was going on his summer holidays but then decided to wait a week

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from BHA link DG posted

Whether he was tiring, idling or something else, I’m strongly of the view the six-and-a-half-length margin was the best measure of Sprinter Sacre’s superiority on the day and rounded that up to 7lb. He now tops the division at 175, a 5lb improvement on his pre-race figure. We all know that’s shy of his career-defining 188 performances from the spring of 2013 but let’s not quibble!


Special Tiara is a likeable gelding and he retains his rating of 168, which he achieved when winning last spring’s Celebration Chase as well as when finishing second in the Tingle Creek and third here. He was probably unlucky not to hold on to second, having been edged out only on the nod.
 
I'm away from home and haven't got my stats with me, but off the top of my head statistically something like 60% of Aintree races will be won by horses that competed at the Festival off the same time difference between the two Festivals.
 
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