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I spent time today re-running Cheltenham trying to find a few more for the notebook. A chastening experience it was, too. There were 187 runners in the Grade 1s and guess how many from the home team…………..42 is all, that’s just over 22%. Only 1 of the 11 runners in the Supreme, 0 (yes, zero) of the 7 in the Brown Advisory, 2 of the 8 in the Queen Mother and the list goes on. There wasn’t a single Grade1 race where the home team fielded even half the runners. It’s one thing not having the talent to win these things, but not to be able to find anything capable of having a go is something else entirely. Is nobody listening to the strident shriek of the alarm bells?

[QUOTE="barjon, post: 2696309, member: 66598"] I spent time today re-running Cheltenham trying to find a few more for the notebook. A chastening experience it was, too. There were 187 runners in the Grade 1s and guess how many from the home team…………..42 is all, that’s just over 22%. Only 1 of the 11 runners in the Supreme, 0 (yes, zero) of the 7 in the Brown Advisory, 2 of the 8 in the Queen Mother and the list goes on. There wasn’t a single Grade1 race where the home team fielded even half the runners. It’s one thing not having the talent to win these things, but not to be able to find anything capable of having a go is something else entirely. Is nobody listening to the strident shriek of the alarm bells? [/QUOTE]

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