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No sweat.

Right or wrong, I have discarded the Kingwell as an event of Champion Hurdle relevance, and have not bothered rating it. That's exactly how I would feel about the race whether Celestial Halo ran or not.

Neither Overturn nor Silviniaco ran their races, and both are probably over-rated anyway from an OR viewpoint; the former due to his win in a valuable handicap and close-up second (never a threat) to Binocular.......and the latter for running Menorah close in the Bula, after looking every every inch a stayer at Ascot the time before.

The Pipe horse was never going to be a factor, which leaves Mille Chief (questionable OR, imo) and Celestial Halo (inconsistent at best and on the downgrade at worst, imo) to rate the race around.

As far as being a pointer to the Champion Hurdle, it's about as bad an event to draw firm conclusions from as I can think of. The only genuine notion I have is that the outcome probably damages the Bula form a bit, though that is something I had already questioned following that race anyway.

<blockquote data-quote="Grasshopper" data-source="post: 2281166" data-attributes="member: 65342">No sweat. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />&nbsp;Right or wrong, I have discarded the Kingwell as an event of Champion Hurdle relevance, and have not bothered rating it. That&#039;s exactly how I would feel about the race whether Celestial Halo ran or not.&nbsp;Neither Overturn nor Silviniaco ran their races, and both are probably over-rated anyway from an OR viewpoint; the former due to his win in a valuable handicap and close-up second (never a threat) to Binocular.......and the latter for running Menorah close in the Bula, after looking every every inch a stayer at Ascot the time before. &nbsp;The Pipe horse was never going to be a factor, which leaves Mille Chief (questionable OR, imo) and Celestial Halo (inconsistent at best and on the downgrade at worst, imo) to rate the race around. &nbsp;As far as being a pointer to the Champion Hurdle, it&#039;s about as bad an event to draw firm conclusions from as I can think of. The only genuine notion I have is that the outcome probably damages the Bula form a bit, though that is something I had already questioned following that race anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grasshopper, post: 2281166, member: 65342"] No sweat. :cool: Right or wrong, I have discarded the Kingwell as an event of Champion Hurdle relevance, and have not bothered rating it. That's exactly how I would feel about the race whether Celestial Halo ran or not. Neither Overturn nor Silviniaco ran their races, and both are probably over-rated anyway from an OR viewpoint; the former due to his win in a valuable handicap and close-up second (never a threat) to Binocular.......and the latter for running Menorah close in the Bula, after looking every every inch a stayer at Ascot the time before. The Pipe horse was never going to be a factor, which leaves Mille Chief (questionable OR, imo) and Celestial Halo (inconsistent at best and on the downgrade at worst, imo) to rate the race around. As far as being a pointer to the Champion Hurdle, it's about as bad an event to draw firm conclusions from as I can think of. The only genuine notion I have is that the outcome probably damages the Bula form a bit, though that is something I had already questioned following that race anyway. [/QUOTE]

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