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it has to be Douvan for me..i think this one is rated a little too highly on what its achieved..the times don't back up the form rating and this race is hot hot hot.

looks like another sweet wake/dunguib type to me.
 
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I agree that Douvan is a weak favourite but I'd have Don Cossack as the weakest. I can't even see him getting placed.

My NAP of the festival would have to be Faugheen. Not very imaginative I know, but I think we're looking at one that's in a different league to the rest.
 
EC1 said:
it has to be Douvan for me..i think this one is rated a little too highly on what its achieved..the times don't back up the form rating and this race is hot hot hot.

looks like another sweet wake/dunguib type to me.
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Duodena's price is up there with Sweet Wake.

You need to be a mug to back this at even 5/2.
 
he isn't mega short or anything but agree with tanlic. ridiculous favourite but in fairness the market knows full well it's going to be an open race.
 
TheBear said:
My NAP of the festival would have to be Faugheen. Not very imaginative I know, but I think we're looking at one that's in a different league to the rest.
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What's great about the Champion Hurdle is you get the chance to take him on with multiple graded winners, in The New One, Jezki and Hurricane Fly. This is not like a class 5 race at Perth on a Monday where you want to go against the jolly but can't find one to do it with, that's for sure.
If you got Faugheen at the right price then good on you.
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Douvan hasn't convinced me yet.
Can see Peace And Co being beaten from within.
 
TheBear said:
My NAP of the festival would have to be Faugheen. Not very imaginative I know, but I think we're looking at one that's in a different league to the rest.
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Bold statement considering one of "the rest" is a 22-time G1 Hurdle winner, and a dual Champion Hurdler. In comparison, Faugheen has beaten Parlour Games and Blue Fashion.

Faugheen might win the Champion hurdle, but this kind of talk is both premature and disrespectful to a true Champion racehorse. It's a shame that Hurricane Fly is 11yo, and will be retired before he gets a chance to serve Faugheen his rear-end, in an irish Champion. It might give people a little bit of perspective.
 
Grasshopper said:
Bold statement considering one of "the rest" is a 22-time G1 Hurdle winner, and a dual Champion Hurdler. In comparison, Faugheen has beaten Parlour Games and Blue Fashion.

Faugheen might win the Champion hurdle, but this kind of talk is both premature and disrespectful to a true Champion racehorse. It's a shame that Hurricane Fly is 11yo, and will be retired before he gets a chance to serve Faugheen his rear-end, in an irish Champion. It might give people a little bit of perspective.
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Disrespectful? Not serious with that statement surely.
 
Frankel, a horse that is "in a different league' to Hurricane Fly, would basically have to be better than Night Nurse or Golden Cygnet. Either The Bear believes that's the case, or he isn't showing Hurricane Fly enough respect. It has to be one or the other.
 
For sure he has to go and prove it which many think he will.

The statement though is regards the 2015 Champion Hurdle though. No room for sentiment in this game.
Ok, maybe just a little bit. :)
 
Grasshopper said:
Bold statement considering one of "the rest" is a 22-time G1 Hurdle winner, and a dual Champion Hurdler. In comparison, Faugheen has beaten Parlour Games and Blue Fashion.

Faugheen might win the Champion hurdle, but this kind of talk is both premature and disrespectful to a true Champion racehorse. It's a shame that Hurricane Fly is 11yo, and will be retired before he gets a chance to serve Faugheen his rear-end, in an irish Champion. It might give people a little bit of perspective.
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Whilst I agree with your sentiment about Faugheen and having horses to take him on with (and I believe he is hugely underpriced for doing very little), Hurricane Fly may have been a great horse in Ireland but his Champion Hurdle form is in the league of Punjabi, Brave Inca and Sublimity.
 
To be fair to Hamm, he only started with this nonsense after Solwhit made a mockery of his "155 horse" positon, which he'd been using to hold down The Fly's form. And now, apparently, a horse who has won 2 x Champion Hurdles, 5 x Irish Champion Hurdles and 22 Grade 1's in total can be mocked for not achieving 'legendary' status.

He needs a smaller shovel......and a bigger brain.
 
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