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It's not beyond possibility that Kumbeshwar did show improvement in this race.
He was progressive last year, and early signs were he'd maintain that progression this. Add to that he was only ridden for 3rd place, and consequently the only question he was asked was to pass a weakening Sanctuaire, and it's entirely feasible that he ran a personal best. Wouldn't have it as much as 7lbs myself, but can certainly see some justification.
Sanctuaire's a different case, & that he ran within 4 secs of his Game Spirit time (on slightly softer ground) suggests he ran his race, albeit not lasting home. He's nowhere near a 166 horse, nor ever will be ( He's touted elsewhere as a solid e.w bet for the Champion Chase; yet both his form and his trainer indicate he won't go near the race).
Having said all the above, it's pretty damn pointless using either to judge a horse that was in a different stratosphere entirely.

<blockquote data-quote="reet hard" data-source="post: 2415365" data-attributes="member: 65927">It&#039;s not beyond possibility that Kumbeshwar did show improvement in this race.He was progressive last year, and early signs were he&#039;d maintain that progression this. Add to that he was only ridden for 3rd place, and consequently the only question he was asked was to pass a weakening Sanctuaire, and it&#039;s entirely feasible that he ran a personal best. Wouldn&#039;t have it as much as 7lbs myself, but can certainly see some justification.Sanctuaire&#039;s a different case, &amp; that he ran within 4 secs of his Game Spirit time (on slightly softer ground) suggests he ran his race, albeit not lasting home. He&#039;s nowhere near a 166 horse, nor ever will be ( He&#039;s touted elsewhere as a solid e.w bet for the Champion Chase; yet both his form and his trainer indicate he won&#039;t go near the race<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).Having said all the above, it&#039;s pretty damn pointless using either to judge a horse that was in a different stratosphere entirely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="reet hard, post: 2415365, member: 65927"] It's not beyond possibility that Kumbeshwar did show improvement in this race. He was progressive last year, and early signs were he'd maintain that progression this. Add to that he was only ridden for 3rd place, and consequently the only question he was asked was to pass a weakening Sanctuaire, and it's entirely feasible that he ran a personal best. Wouldn't have it as much as 7lbs myself, but can certainly see some justification. Sanctuaire's a different case, & that he ran within 4 secs of his Game Spirit time (on slightly softer ground) suggests he ran his race, albeit not lasting home. He's nowhere near a 166 horse, nor ever will be ( He's touted elsewhere as a solid e.w bet for the Champion Chase; yet both his form and his trainer indicate he won't go near the race:)). Having said all the above, it's pretty damn pointless using either to judge a horse that was in a different stratosphere entirely. [/QUOTE]

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