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A moot point, but I'll concede.

Let me use the phrase: "Khyber Kim has failed to run to his Champion Hurdle mark in his only relevant outing since".

They key is not to look at this outing in isolation, but in the context of what all the other runners have achieved too. Again, when you look at all of the horses in the first half-dozen finishers last March, there are zero horses who have subsequently run to their purported handicaps marks post-Cheltenham. None of them - not even Binocular.

I'm not saying that this makes last year's Champion Hurdle a poor race, but it does make me question the level that was achieved in it - and by extension, re-evaluate how much horses like Hurricane Fly, Peddlars Cross and Menorah have to find.

[QUOTE="Grasshopper, post: 2281007, member: 65342"] A moot point, but I'll concede. Let me use the phrase: "Khyber Kim has failed to run to his Champion Hurdle mark in his only relevant outing since". They key is not to look at this outing in isolation, but in the context of what all the other runners have achieved too. Again, when you look at all of the horses in the first half-dozen finishers last March, there are zero horses who have subsequently run to their purported handicaps marks post-Cheltenham. None of them - not even Binocular. I'm not saying that this makes last year's Champion Hurdle a poor race, but it does make me [I]question[/I] the level that was achieved in it - and by extension, re-evaluate how much horses like Hurricane Fly, Peddlars Cross and Menorah have to find. [/QUOTE]

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