Fairyhouse Easter Meeting 2017

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Second on Grand National day, the Gordon Elliot trained, Rightdownthemiddle, was always going to be long odds-against, to make the cut for The Irish National, but has been entered in the chase at 6:10. I thought it was a very eye catching performance last week. He made loads of headway and showed plenty of tactical speed to come from last to second place at Aintree.

My immediate reaction was that he is an Aintree-National type for next year, although there could be a chase or two to win before then, from where he is situated in the handicap. l'm Looking forward to watching him, (if declared). He has to be on anyones shortlist, I would have thought.
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I don't have a big problem with all the Giggi runners. If you look at the 5-day decs a lot of runners from other owners have come out and allowed those lower down the weights to make the cut.

I reckon at least four, maybe five of the Giggi runners could have been denied a place if other owners had kept their horses in. Another two or three of them are only running because they didn't complete at Aintree.

The chances are only two or three of the Giggi runners will actually be trying, the rest are there to deny places to others. It wouldn't be unheard of for McManus to have half a dozen in a race, denying places to others.

It's the way it is. I don't see much point in crabbing it. Other owners just need to deal with it. Maybe just get their horse better handicapped and stick to them in the race.

I really don't want O'Leary to win because he is the epitome of arseholery.

But it won't stop me backing one or two of them!
 
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Goodness gracious me. We've got two talented but very tricky ones stepping out of novice company next season. Even Ruby couldn't cope with him right handed today.
 
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Yorkhill a complete headcase ..how good must he be to lose all that ground and then comes running back at the end. another five yards he wins. crazy stuff
 
Yorkhill very hard to watch and even harder to understand why on earth they haven't sorted out this continuous jumping to the left.

Anyone know has he been for an MRI?
 
I want to be with Road to Respect in whatever race he runs in at the festival next year-Ryanair or Gold Cup.
 
Does Oscar Knight have a designated jockey yet? Runs with bottom weight in Irish National but no jockey booked up to ride (as per Racing Post). Looks like a lively contender there at bottom of handicap I thought.
 
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Marble said:
Does Oscar Knight have a designated jockey yet? Runs with bottom weight in Irish National but no jockey booked up to ride (as per Racing Post). Looks like a lively contender there at bottom of handicap I thought.
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Cheers Grass....his price is going only one way...down!
 
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Granger -I don't see RTR going anywhere near handicaps next season but he will probably get entries at Newbury and Aintree.This is a class animal on an upward trajectory -he has improved running on decent ground and is only a 6 year old.I could see Meade having him ready for Gowran and then going easy on him over the winter.The Ryanair would be an obvious target but he might be even better at 3 miles.
 
I see Ruby Walsh has done 10-1 in the last twelve months but does anyone know if that's his normal minimum?

(I'm trying to get a feel for the big race over there today.)
 
LUKE said:
Granger -I don't see RTR going anywhere near handicaps next season but he will probably get entries at Newbury and Aintree.This is a class animal on an upward trajectory -he has improved running on decent ground and is only a 6 year old.I could see Meade having him ready for Gowran and then going easy on him over the winter.The Ryanair would be an obvious target but he might be even better at 3 miles.
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He'd have run in the irish national today if things had worked out - I dont see him as a being a festival graded animal
 
Fairyhouse 15:30

I think Oscar's Den is worth an each-way dash in this at 25/1.

He won a Bumper and a couple of Novice Hurdles for Tim Vaughan three season's back, before managing to split two good horses in Garde La Victoire and Vieux Lion Rouge, in a decent Novice at Cheltenham's April meeting. He then had a long time off the track with injury, before moving to Ted Walsh's yard in March this year. He had his comeback run in a minor handicap hurdle at Limerick last month; making smooth headway in the last half-mile, before fitness perhaps took its toll, and he was ultimately a well-beaten 4th of 13 to Donegal Tuesday.

This was a promising-looking horse at one stage, and he gets in here off 116. If Ted has worked his magic, he could be extremely well-handicapped, and 25/1 is a price I personally can't ignore, in what is a wide-open and not particularly great race.
 
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granger said:
He'd have run in the irish national today if things had worked out - I dont see him as a being a festival graded animal
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The Irish National would have been purely about the money-I'm telling you this is a class animal on decent ground.
 
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