The Road To The Champion Hurdle 2021

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In the red corner Henrietta Knight who thought a horse can only take a couple of races a season and in the blue corner Mark Johnston who runs them and runs them and runs them.
 
No entry for Goshen in the Cesarawitch, so either Gary Moore is an avid reader here and has has a complete change of heart and is going to skip the flat campaign, or more likely he goes for the long distance cup on Champions Day/ It gives him little bit more time between races, and makes the result at Haydock and his subsequent mark less important.
 
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No entry for Goshen in the Cesarawitch, so either Gary Moore is an avid reader here and has has a complete change of heart and is going to skip the flat campaign, or more likely he goes for the long distance cup on Champions Day/ It gives him little bit more time between races, and makes the result at Haydock and his subsequent mark less important.
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His mark as it is would be too low to get in anyway so would have had to run and win in the meantime

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Apart from the trainer, jockey, him being a juvenile stepping up, him being headstrong and the campaign being mapped out for him, there is very little not to like!!

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I added Marie's Rock to my Champion Hurdle book at 50/1 ew a couple of days ago. Henderson thinks every bit as much of her as he does Epatante, and like that one they see her has a bang two miler. Given she's in different ownership I expect he to tread a similar path to the Champion Hurdle, with little chance of her being aimed at the Mares Hurdle.

Given the race always cuts up I have her in the great value bracket alongside Aramon and Saint Roi.
 
Middleham Park Racing

"There has recently been a new race for novice mares added to the Cheltenham Festival programme and this would very much be on her radar, as well as the all new mares card in April - also held at Cheltenham."

Just saying :ninja:
 
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In the red corner Henrietta Knight who thought a horse can only take a couple of races a season and in the blue corner Mark Johnston who runs them and runs them and runs them.
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One gets them fit at home, the other on the course!
 
Goshen won’t be winning a champion hurdle. Not necessarily because of his ability but unless the trainer is planning a coup, it’s a mystifying preparation. I wouldn’t send a horse to him.
 
From Timeform

Making his first appearance since his final-flight fall when seemingly set to run out a wide-margin winner of the Triumph Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March, Goshen was a long odds-on favourite for his return to the Flat on Saturday.However, after making much of the running, the four-year-old weakened to finish last of six runners behind 50-1 winner Stargazer.

Moore reported his stable star to be none the worse on Sunday morning, and he remains keen to give the Champion Hurdle hope another run on the level before he returns to the jumping game.“It was disappointing,” said the Sussex trainer.“He’s fine this morning – all good.I hope he just needed the run. At the end of the day he’s a horse rated 88, taking on horses rated nearly 100, and he’s got beat four lengths.The winner is no mug – he’s a 102-rated horse on the all-weather – and all the others had fitness on their side."


“It’s definitely still the plan to give him another run on the Flat.”
 
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From Timeform

Making his first appearance since his final-flight fall when seemingly set to run out a wide-margin winner of the Triumph Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March, Goshen was a long odds-on favourite for his return to the Flat on Saturday.However, after making much of the running, the four-year-old weakened to finish last of six runners behind 50-1 winner Stargazer.

Moore reported his stable star to be none the worse on Sunday morning, and he remains keen to give the Champion Hurdle hope another run on the level before he returns to the jumping game.“It was disappointing,” said the Sussex trainer.“He’s fine this morning – all good.I hope he just needed the run. At the end of the day he’s a horse rated 88, taking on horses rated nearly 100, and he’s got beat four lengths.The winner is no mug – he’s a 102-rated horse on the all-weather – and all the others had fitness on their side."


“It’s definitely still the plan to give him another run on the Flat.”
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Well, he reckoned in his post race comments that he wasn’t now going to run him at Ascot, but maybe he’s changed his mind on that too. I think he’s in real danger of falling between two stools with him. Another run on the flat when it isn’t long before most would be thinking of an easy confidence builder over hurdles. He has the potential to be a really exceptional horse at the highest level over hurdles , but it’s going to be difficult enough for a five year old to win the Champion without the dithering over his preparation.
 
I'll be judging Goshen after his next hurdle run, not some half arsed cobweb blower on the flat
 
Saint Roi out tomorrow at Tipperary


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Goshen entered up on Sunday at Goodwood in a 12f handicap
More bizarre campaigning


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Goshen entered up on Sunday at Goodwood in a 12f handicap
More bizarre campaigning
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Due to run in the Masterson Holdings Hurdle for 4yo here at Cheltenham at the end of the month, then the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton followed by the Champion Hurdle.

Souce RP Weekender.
 
Bit of love for Saint Roi today, from Patrick Mullins:

Saint Roi “could be anything” as the County Hurdle winner attempts to prove he is up to Champion Hurdle class later this season.
Having impressed many with the way he won one of the most competitive handicaps of the season at Cheltenham, the JP McManus-owned gelding did little to dampen enthusiasm winning a Grade Three event at Tipperary recently.
While plans are fluid for the Willie Mullins-trained five-year-old at this stage, his son and assistant, Patrick, feels he should be treated as a Champion Hurdle contender until he proves otherwise.
The latter did, though, have a rather forgettable experience on Saint Roi at Clonmel in December.
“I thought he had all the ingredients to win the amateur maiden hurdle in Clonmel last year, but that is one of life’s great mysteries,” said Mullins.
“He jumped terribly that day and we got the physio on to him, maybe he was a bit sore. Usually he is a fast jumper.
“We think this horse could be anything. To do what he did last year in the County Hurdle off the back of just two runs for us was extraordinary, you just don’t see that happen.
“He’s not the biggest, but he’s a fantastic jumper usually, he works with a lot of speed, he’s won at the track, although the Champion Hurdle is on a different one to the County, but for me he ticks all the boxes. Until he says he’s not good enough we’re going to think he is.”
 
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