Road to the Stayers Hurdle

It wasn’t so much the early start, as the searching pace, Lee. :cool:

PS. Cu*nt should have been chucked-out on Pizzaro. :thumbsup:
 
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In his ITV commentary, R Hoiles opined they took 15secs to cross the start-line - go figure.:D
 
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Yesterday's race was a 1-mile jog to the post, then a 1-mile canter, followed by a 1 mile-race...Paisley hardly had time for his customary 3 furlongs to go pressure lapse...McFabulous the least experienced in the race, was probably the most inconvenienced by the lack of pace, constantly hanging and pulling to the right....The winner's class allowed him the run of the race, and he was certainly the most advantaged (btn 2l by Envoi Allen, Abacadabras behind, in the bumper) by the sprint....I have a feeling, a true run race will see the protagonists come a lot closer!
 
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If SDB, Paisley, Thyme Hill and Fury Road all get there it won't be far off the race of the Festival. Which is some feat for a Stayers'
 
Euronymous said:
If SDB, Paisley, Thyme Hill and Fury Road all get there it won't be far off the race of the Festival. Which is some feat for a Stayers'
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No mention of the winner?

Ronald Pump wins the Stayers 2021:ninja:

May have won it last year but for a mistake at the last, brilliant little horse
 
Just wow! What a complete legend to run down a horse of Thyme Hills ability. That was some finish.
 
Fascinating race that. The passage PP had probably ended up winning him the race.

Oh Dickie.
 
A friend and I were watching it from outside the gate at Ascot, taking the dog for a walk and wishing them all luck previously at the crossing; being a Scot she had backed PP earlier in the day ( not for the first time either ), she couldn't see the big screen clearly enough to know what was going on, I was screaming go on Aiden, go on Aiden , where he is she says, he's getting there he's getting there...have to say at no point from the last did I not think he was going to get there, but to come from that far back in that ground... what a horse! Absolutely fantastic to watch; the other horses completely playing their part. ( if two mad women screaming outside the gate appears anywhere on social media..yes that's us!! :( )
 
Goshen in the Christmas Hurdle?

I thought we'd never see him on a racecourse again after the last day.
 
I’m almost certainly influenced by the fact that Thyme Hill is one of the cornerstones of my Antepost Book but I feel that Thyme Hill is more likely than Paisley Park to win the Stayers in March. Prices for both horses shortened after the Long Walk but I feel that RJ lost the race not Thyme Hill.
 
Come March RJ won't want to get in behind horses like he did in the AB again and one can see Paisley and SDB flying up that hill chasing down a classier horse whose jockey has gone for home too soon again. If I was on ap for a nice lump I'd be putting in some major lays IR sub 2.5
 
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Paisley Park is some way better than we saw other day. He did very well to get up after meeting trouble on the turn.

He is a stayer with a turn of foot. TH doesn't strike me as having that quality.
 
Pace is the key. If they go like they did last year Paisley won't have a turn of foot left. That's said, if the race is run as it usually is he's the most likely winner.
 
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Come March RJ won't want to get in behind horses like he did in the AB again and one can see Paisley and SDB flying up that hill chasing down a classier horse whose jockey has gone for home too soon again. If I was on ap for a nice lump I'd be putting in some major lays IR sub 2.5
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I'm quite confident of TH reversing the form accounting for natural progression and on better ground fingers crossed. On at 17's AP.
 
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