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Rendlesham Hurdle 2026

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Any opinions on how good this favourite Kabral is people?

I don't think it'll be a one horse race myself with some getting a weight concession.

My contention is one of the handicappers yet to try graded company, might step up again and improve.

Of those we have Henri The Second, French Ship and Lud'or.

Henri's best form is on right handed tracks and that would be a slight worry here.

French Ship has done it on a left handed track, while Lud'or ran a great race giving lumps of weight away the last day. I do like him for the future.

Lud'or at the prices for me at present, but I haven't backed him yet.

Any thoughts or feedback appreciated.
 
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Wouldn’t Paul Nicholls love it if he could strut about in the Winners Circle, though I guess he’ll be looking on muttering “should’ve been me, should’ve been me”. If the rain starts again and it goes heavy, though……….
 
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Only value angle I can see is, if an on form Beauport sets out to make it a stiff test of stamina, on heavy ground.
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They might not want Beauport to show too much ahead of the National weights coming out next week. He appeared not to stay, surprisingly enough, last year but did run freely. This is his first run after a wind-op and they might want the National to be his second, when the received wisdom appears to be that that is when they get most benefit.

A poorish run might not get its mark down (given it is a hurdles race) but a very strong one might see its mark go up, given how the UK handicapper operates.
 
The Fortune Teller said:
Any opinions on how good this favourite Kabral is people?

I don't think it'll be a one horse race myself with some getting a weight concession.

My contention is one of the handicappers yet to try graded company, might step up again and improve.

Of those we have Henri The Second, French Ship and Lud'or.

Henri's best form is on right handed tracks and that would be a slight worry here.

French Ship has done it on a left handed track, while Lud'or ran a great race giving lumps of weight away the last day. I do like him for the future.

Lud'or at the prices for me at present, but I haven't backed him yet.

Any thoughts or feedback appreciated.
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The fav was taken out today.

I really hope a few risked it for a chocolate biscuit, (as long as you are all nice people, and agree with everything I say), in terms of backing Lud'or at 16's ante post during the week for this, as assuming he wins, now at 6/4, you are sitting in an extremely pretty position.

It s not often you get 16s about a 6/4 shot in this game, with no rule 4 deductions pending.

Needless to say he had another entry in a handicap hurdle today, so I didn't risk it ante post.

I'd still like to see him win, just so he could justify my faith in him, and win one a few quid, albeit not at 16s ante post. 😭

As you were...
 
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The Fortune Teller said:
The fav was taken out today.

I really hope a few risked it for a chocolate biscuit, (as long as you are all nice people, and agree with everything I say), in terms of backing Lud'or at 16's ante post during the week for this, as assuming he wins, now at 6/4, you are sitting in an extremely pretty position.

It s not often you get 16s about a 6/4 shot in this game, with no rule 4 deductions pending.

Needless to say he had another entry in a handicap hurdle today, so I didn't risk it ante post.

I'd still like to see him win, just so he could justify my faith in him, and win one a few quid, albeit not at 16s ante post. 😭

As you were...
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The trainer has reportedly mentioned running Lud'or in the Grade 1 Liverpool Hurdle.

I wonder will he even consider what was known as the Coral Cup, over the shorter distance, depending on what the handicapper does of course and whether there was a bit of cut in the ground nearer the time.

Because what if he waits for Aintree, the ground doesn't have any cut in it, and then doesn't run him anyway. Surely he should enter him in the old Coral Cup?

He's far from a badly handicapped horse and you need a horse that can compete at graded level to win a Coral Cup anyway.

See what the handicapper does Mr Symonds, and then do the honourable thing when those Coral Cup entries are made I reckon!

He should get up the Cheltenham hill!
 

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