granger
Senior Jockey
think it should be straightforward tbh..would think so anyway
Your inittial thoughts EC?
think it should be straightforward tbh..would think so anyway
Could the Gold Cup be rated in the 160s?
Time for Rupert ran very well.
Why didn't they run China Rock in the Ryanair?
Syncronised if rated
off Knockara beau is about 167
time for rupert ran really well so is probably worth 5 more than his ohr making Syncronised 168
these are OHR's not timeform or rpr or whatever
i'd go for 168 mesen
Reet Hard, I'm glad you're not more persuasive.
Similar, although they always seem to add on a couple of pounds for it being the Gold Cup so I wouldn't be surprised to see 170.
add Last InstalmentDid anyone see David Bridgwater's interview on Racing UK?
Very amusing. 'Some people think there's only two trainers in this country'...and then a few profanities about The Giant Bolster's original handicap mark. [He was actually complaining that he was underrated]
That horse is only 7 so could be an improver still.
But you look to next year,
Sir Des Champs
Bobs Worth
First Lieutenant
Flemenstar [?]
The Bolster
Long Run
Synchronised
Invictus
Bog Warrior [Probably not]
Hidden Cyclone [Ryanair?]
Weapons Amnesty [? - O'Leary suggested the other day that the horse is probably a 'write off' now]
Of course, we'd do well to get 4 of those to the starting post...but still....
AP McCoy told Ruby Walsh to pull up Kauto Star during today’s Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup after the 12-year-old horse struggled to keep up with the pace early on.
Dougie Costello set a fearsome pace on course specialist Midnight Chase, which had the likes of Knockara Beau, Diamond Harry, Weird Al and eventual winner Synchronised all off the bridle early on.
Synchronised won in a times of 6mins 36.19secs, which was 0.81 seconds faster than standard.
Kauto Star, who was sent off at a well-backed 3-1, was never fluid and Walsh pulled up the Cheltenham hero after the ninth fence.
“He was never going, and was beaten early, explained Walsh. “I knew at the back of the water jump we were beaten.
“AP told me, 'If I was you I’d pull him up,’ and he was right.
“Even Knockara Beau was travelling better and when horses rated beneath the great Kauto Star are going better it wasn’t such a hard decision to pull him up.
"I would have felt a lot worse if he had fallen at the third-last and broken his neck. That’s racing though.
“He’s been a wonderful horse, a horse of a lifetime.”
Ah dear, its always bad when you enter the Grand Annual chasing losses
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I've not had a placed horse.