CUE CARD SUPREME OR CHAMPION HURDLE BETTING PROPOSITION

Hello Jet

Cue Card has twice posted decent enough times over 2m at Cheltenham, so no reason why not.

The horse is still young though and there's no real need to be rushing things unless Tizzard has a future chasing career in mind.

Thanks for the replies, so if you think he will go the Champion route will this have already been factored in to Megastar's price.

I want to get Megastar in the book but I don't think any novice can beat Cue Card.

i had this exact same thought earler should cue card win or run well the supreme will be blown wide open. ive backed zaidpour of wille mullins at 14s with the thinking that if he wins the rescheduled royal bond he could easily be the new supreme fav come sunday

Might be a typical small field trial in the Bula on Saturday, with nothing particularly conclusive revealed about the three main runners as far as their CH chances are concerned. Menorah not the kind to win good races by wide margins, even assuming he is good enough to beat the other two. IF SC takes it on at a good clip from the front, that should help Menorah's chances of being in the mix at the end, so possibly setting up a close finish. As someone mentioned, Cue Card has already recorded some decent enough times over two miles at Cheltenham, so a sound pace in a small field shouldn't see him beaten far, if beaten he is. I wouldn't be surprised if there is not much to split the three at the end.

Now I have written that, one of them will probably come out and small the course record now and win by a country mile. It'll be testing the capacity of the new forum if we get that kind of a winner, especially if it were Cue Card.

Alvarado... i think you will find Dunguib was the most over hyped horse ever, there is nothing coming from Ireland to worry CUE CARD thats a fact...

Poor racing in Ireland on a daily basis, they always make an half decent horse look good, plodding round then when, the other donkeys get tired one stays on better.... and all of a sudden its a world beater.

how can u say there is nothing coming from ireland its december mate and isint ZAIDPOUR trained there

you do not win the suprme novices in december there are so many horses who havent even ran yet ridiculous comment

Move with the times Alvarado, IMO and many others, You will start to see the Champions earlier and earlier in the season i do not wear that you have to wait till the new year B4 we see one...

cue card is the one outstanding novice that ive seen so far, you saw him blow away the bumper field in march and hes swept all before him sice, unlike dunguib, he is a VERY slick jumper and tanks along in all of his races, he has never been asked a question yet. it'll  be a tough test for him this weekend but i expect him to win. I think menorah had a hard race carrying that weight and as much as ive been so impressed with silviniacl conti, hes a great jumper too, i cant help feel zaynar didnt give his true running that day. hendersons tending to come on for it too!

look out for al ferof hacking up on friday to give an indication to cue cards chances on the sat.

cue card to win on sat and go for the champion imo- why else is he running against menorah and silvi?

cracking race to look forward to anyway.

gl with ur bets

i just cannot have cue card at all and will lay him all day long imo he needs to improved 30lbsto get in the first 3 .terrible training he is running the risk of ruining cue card so early in his career he is only 4 whats the point

although that is a slightly ridiculous comment that it has to improve 30lbs, i do agree that the trainer doesn't seem to know how to handle this horse. Its young, don't run it against hardened more experienced horses at such a young age. Tizzard has a great horse. He needs to take care of it more, and introduce it lightly into racing - it may have a good 7 years left in the tank.

He's not done bad so far. Criticise him (and me) after the race by all means if he gets stuffed but all this armchair training beforehand is a joke. I mean, criticising Cue Card's jumping for example. If you want to see how not to jump a hurdle (ie. batter straight through it) watch Menorah at the third last in the Greatwood. If you rate horse who handed out a neck defeat of Bothy, seventh in the Fred Winter, as a 6/4 shot in this competitive race then good luck. I'd rate SC, who could be anything, higher though he's not sure to be suited by Cheltenham or coming back in trip.

cue card hasnt had a race yet imo the horse has done everyhing u could ask for jumps well travels an quickens u cant ask for more than that, sat race looks like its going to cut up with not a guaranteed front runner which menorah deff needs a strong pace an had a very hard race lumping that weight last time an i could touch him with a barge pole,as for silvianico conti looks a more of a stayer to me an nicholls early in season said he didnt believe he was a horse for the champion hurdle so that clearly shows me hes biting at straws an just hopeing he has his first champion hurdler but i cant have it ,Cue card for me an fair play to tizzard an connections to take the big boys on got nothing to lose an these horses arent here for ever only takes a slight injury an could miss a season or two

Interesting to read your thoughts and I think on balance my mind is as clear as mud!!

I have decided to back Zaidpour and will rewatch the videos of Megastar before deciding whether to back this one.

Anyone else fancy Megastar? I know what the earlier poster means but I think he handled Numide very well and I reckon this one has more ability.

i dont think it will be a walkover as PRINCE OF PIRATES is an extremely promising horse who will leave his bumper form behind and hes meant to be a better horse than Kid Cassidy intresting race

Yes JETCROWTS, I have some 16s about Megastar.
1. Because i like him.
&
2. Becuase if Cue Card wins the Bula he must be odds on to go the CH route.

I think Prince of Pirates would have won anyway. AP always looked comfortable, the horse travelled well off the strong pace and quickened when asked to make up ground. I thought he was a very slick jumper too. Al Ferof looks a sun alliance horse to me. Glad he got up OK, it looked awful.

who cares about form boosted your big day is tomoz wen we,ll find out just how good cue card really is

there are loads of horses yet to come out still a long way off cheltenham .yes cue card sets the standard but now we know how good he is unlike so many of his rivals he will face

Where can you see it? Heard he was a great horse and was in the process of beating Sea Pigeon etc. as a novice when killed.
Well done to Menorah supporters. I underestimated his ability thinking he was a slugger. To be fair the turn of foot he showed yesterday surprised his trainer. I think yesterday's form will prove very strong. The only argument doubters could feasibly suggest is the way the race was run as the jockey on the pacemaker was an idiot and other than his time for the first mile the clock showed nothing special.

I'm wrong.

There is footage of the Scottish Champion Hurdle, also on Youtube.