The Road to the 2020 Champion Chase

[Diamond Geezer]

A Plus Tard,Douvan,Min,Duc De Genevries and Great Field all in the Fortria Chase at Navan on Sunday, a few early clues

 

[granger]

GF has been a big disappointment
Min the most likely of Riccis I'd have thought

We all know APT is being saved for the Ryanair

 

[HawkWing]

Douvan only one year older than Min. Still miss the old Douvan.

 

[granger]

Fortia has some roll of honour

Leopardstown Christmas should see La Rich back hopefully

 

[granger]

Liked A Plus Tard but for the Ryanair

Chacun very disappointing.

 

[Gaz's Way De Solzen]

Was really looking forward to seeing Chacun Pour Soi out today, thought he would show a lot better than that.

However, I imagine he will come on for that run. A Plus Tard had the benefit of running 6/7 weeks ago, and Chacun Pour Soi hasn't been seen on the course for 8-9 months, so imagine there was a little rustiness there.

 

[Double J]

Backed A Plus Tard for the Ryanair at 25s thanks to some mentions on here. My worry would be now they fancy a crack at the Champion Chase which doesn’t look that strong.

 

[granger]

I think that it would need to be soft for APT to run in the QM

 

[Euronymous]

Backed A Plus Tard for the Ryanair at 25s thanks to some mentions on here. My worry would be now they fancy a crack at the Champion Chase which doesn’t look that strong.

Champion Chase - Altior, Defi, CPS

Ryanair - Min (not a stayer over the trip unless he gets an easy lead) Cyrname, Frodon, Footpad and Kalashnikov.

The QM looks far stronger

 

[redundant pal]

Champion Chase there for the taking, key to him is a strong gallop.

 

[redundant pal]

And Henry needs to dissuade himself from going left-handed only.

He leads with his right and was only beaten right-handed due to a combination of an inadequate trip at the Punchestown festival and seeing too much daylight at Gowran and Punchestown prior to that.

 

[Euronymous]

Champion Chase there for the taking, key to him is a strong gallop.

The Ryanair will have a far weaker field. You go for the easier race. He only put notable lengths into the third in the last furlong or so yesterday.

 

[granger]

If Altior and Defi were to clash prior to March, one of them could end up bypassing the QM

La Rich has some entries so hopefully see him out in next 2 weeks

 

[Marb]

Le Rich entered in a hurdle on Tuesday as it happens.