National Hunt Season Highlights

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For me....

Kauto winning the Gold Cup...

Hurricane Fly winning at Christmas...

Brave Inca winning the Irish Champion...

And of course Cooldine winning at Cheltenham and living up to my hopes.
 
kauto star winning gold cup and king george after all the doubts
ruby walsh's 7 winners at festival shows he is the man for the big events.
a coleman and r flint showing there future stars
the champion hurdle finish
 
Well Chief's brilliant run in the Champion Chase.

Exotic Dancer winning the Lexus Chase.

And Kauto Star's sensational Gold Cup victory.
 
Agree with Arazi about Well Chief ... fantastic to see.

Kauto's Gold Cup ... best staying chasing performance i've seen.

Galileo and Cooldine :)
 
In general it has been a great season.

Best race I have seen this season was the World Hdl.

The Champion Hdl division has been very week.


Master Minded unbeaten but dissapointed me, especially in the last 2 races.

Kauto won a bad Gold Cup edition and was lucky to regain the crown catching an injured Neptune collonges and Denman with very bad preapration.


The novice hdl division has been really good, Huricane fly is the fastest horse in the NH code I have seen, lets see if he is able to find the stone of improvement to win a Champion Hdl.

Mikael Dahuguent top class novice.

Novice chasers , Barker in 2 miles and Cooldine in 3 miles are the ones for me.


Jockeys, I think Ruby has not been riding as well as he did some years in the past, he has won many races but riding for Mullins and Nicholls you would expect someone like Luke Harvey been jockey of the meeting in all the big ones.


Townnend impressive, the rebelation of the season.


Mullins has dominated the season in amazing fashion.


For betting highs
Ninetieth Minute in the Coral Cup.


Very sad because the season finished.
 
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Well I'm still tempted to nominate Davy Russell for ride of the season if only because he had the sense to read the rules of the cross country course back in the Autumn and work out how to save himself a considerable yardage which was ultimately decisive
 
I think the end of the season has been very exciting but apart from a small few notable highlights the rest of it was interminable.
 
Not far off Galileo's highlights with the addition of the lead-up girl in our bumper.
 
Kauto :)

Big Buck's

Brave Inca bagging another Grade 1

Also, seeing the lovely Aran Concerto back again, although the poor bugger is cursed with an ante post bet of mine for the Gold Cup next year.
 
All things Willie Mullins

Emergence of Paul Townend

Kauto wins Gold Cup

Brave Inca returns to win a Grade 1

Harchibald at Kempton

Bright hopes for Irish chasing types in 09/10 :)
 
The Hurricane, Kauto, Paul Townend, Aidan Coleman, Venetia having decent horses again, Long Run, Mikael, Fiveforthree, Solwhit, Quevega :)
 
I tried four times last night to post mine - here we go again!

Kauto Star's and Well Chief's respective comebacks, one from defeat and one from injury.

AP's wonderful wins on Wichita Lineman (RIP) and Hennessy. Legendary.

Snoopy Loopy giving the Bowen's something to smile about.

Lough Derg. Do they come tougher or braver?

Venetia, Liam Treadwell and Mon Mome for giving us an unforgettable National.

Mattie Batchelor for being Mattie Batchelor - and for staying on Carruthers at Cheltenham. Recovery of the season.

Rhys Flint for jumping without a bridle. Incredible.

More personally, Laertes winning the Highland National two years running for Chris Grant and Helens Vision winning for owner Dai "Shadow" Morris, a childhood hero of mine.
 
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