Stayers Hurdle 2018

I see Beer Goggles hasn't a Festival entry. Does anybody know his status, my internet searches loses him after he left the Woolacott stable after the tragedy.
 
an capall said:
I see Beer Goggles hasn't a Festival entry. Does anybody know his status, my internet searches loses him after he left the Woolacott stable after the tragedy.
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Gone back with his owners who are point to point trainers. They are taking over the training of him. They said they may aim him at Aintree instead as he had a small niggle put right which may have been the cause him of him hanging right handed at Cheltenham. They didn't know if it was that or the fact they are always on the turn there so looks like Aintree for him.

Tweak to his back rather than niggle apologies my memory is never that good and I'm in the middle of getting ready for work.
 
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14 horses within 3 lengths of each other 2 furlongs out ! Sam spinner set much too sedate a pace for a horse that stays all day . Wholestone finishing third tells you all you need to know .
 
Ardross said:
14 horses within 3 lengths of each other 2 furlongs out ! Sam spinner set much too sedate a pace for a horse that stays all day . Wholestone finishing third tells you all you need to know .
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Agree -Darryl Jacobs said it was the biggest balls of a race he ever rode in.
 
LUKE said:
Agree -Darryl Jacobs said it was the biggest balls of a race he ever rode in.
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If that's the case then he should have clung to the rail instead of trying to circle the whole field coming to the foot of the hill
 
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Ardross said:
Colliver clearly bottled it - worrying about going too fast he went too slow
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No offence at all to the lad but by his own admission he's just a run of the mill jockey that's lucky to be riding a good horse
 
I'm afraid that's what was going through my mind too. He probably thought he was doing well and being clever to get a soft lead but he was setting the race up for horses with pace.
 
If he was gaining after the last I would have had more sympathy. Looked to be taking on better horses today. Finished ahead of all the horses he beat in the Long Walk.
 
granger said:
To the ratings and sectional guys on here.

Does Penhill have gears or does he just look quick finishing against slower horses?
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He had gears - last year over the same c/d and on much kinder ground, when winning a truly run Albert Bartlett.
Wouldn't set too much store by NH sectionals generally, but it's pretty clear Joe Colliver screwed up yesterday, in what was (relatively) the slowest run race of the day.
 
granger said:
To the ratings and sectional guys on here.

Does Penhill have gears or does he just look quick finishing against slower horses?
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Penhill is a very good horse, higher (off the top of my head) for winning the Albert Bartlett than other recent winners. He was very much on my shortlist for the Stayers when I first ran off the cards but the likelihood of heavy ground first time up after a year put me off him. To be honest, I also thought Sam Spinner would beat him regardless.
 
Given that he won the AB after an unlikely season and then yesterday first time out, I suspect that Penhill is quite special. I've just taken a little 50/1 for the Melbourne Cup.
 
The sectional analysis suny referred us to backs up what appeared to be happening . Just compare Richard Johnson's judgment of pace today ( I don't buy the criticism of his ride on La Bague au Roi - she is a flat track bully) . A very ill-judged ride.

Yanworth as a Christmas Hurdke winner one would have expected to have the most toe but was very disappointing.
 
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