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Noble Prince - Ryanair
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RL has a great shout IMO but struggle to justify backing it at shorter odds than either Noble Prince or Somersby.
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Rubi Lights form has been most progressive.Apart from winning a grade one race by five lengths,and tipping up when having a grade two race at his mercy hes also finished an honourable second in a grade one over a trip that looks beyond his optimum.Although he excels on soft ground he has put up two performances on good ground(last time out and in last seasons Ryanair) that in terms of ratings are on a par with anything he has achieved when encountering soft ground so the theory that he needs bottomless ground may be misplaced.
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I took 14s for Great Endeavour a few weeks ago as I can't see what other race he can go in. He loves the track and is approaching his peak. I have him marked down as a 170+ horse and I reckon he will go off much shorter than his current odds. He will have to cut out the blunders though - he got away with it in the Paddy Power but not in the Spinal Research.
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Slaughtered by Synchronised (nowt but a decent handicapper) LTO at equal weights. Admittedly over a longer trip but you need to stay 3m to win the Ryanair IMO.
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I don't think its fair to say Synchronised is nowt but a handicapper as he has only ran in graded company once and won that race by more than 8 lengths,People came to the conclusion he was merely a handicapper due to the fact he ran so well in major staying handicaps.Also the third placed horse at Leopardstown was a dual Grade one winner last year so the form warrants respect in my book.
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The form of the Jewson aint great but I backed him on his form this season, which is running Biz Zeb close twice and also slamming Osirixamix, who himself would have slammed Golden Silver, albeit a waining Golden Silver.
15/2 was available with 4 bookies this morning .. and it has now all gone .. so someone has clearly backed him since his run at the weekend. |
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Magic I would have to agree with you re Synchronised. I reckon he may make a few sit up before the season ends and I dont mean in handicaps either.
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KALAHARI KING will head straight to the Cheltenham Festival in March as he seeks an elusive first victory at the showpiece meeting.
Ferdy Murphy's 11-year-old has finished fourth in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle, second in the Arkle, third in the Champion Chase and most recently second in the Ryanair Chase. The latter race is once again his target having recovered from a fractured splint bone suffered at Ascot in November. "Graham (Lee) rode him work yesterday and was very happy with him, but he won't run between now and Cheltenham," said Murphy. "He's in good form again now and we're pleased with how he's going. "He'll probably go to Doncaster on Grimthorpe Chase day (March 3) for a racecourse school, which we've done with our horses before, and then straight back to the Ryanair." One Murphy inmate who will not run this season is Big Fella Thanks, last seen finishing seventh in last year's Grand National. The trainer had hoped to see his charge return to Aintree this spring, but he has instead been given the year off. "He's out in the field at the moment and he won't run this season," the trainer added. "We found out he had a fibrillating heart after the National last year, so we got that sorted, but I think it has just taken him a bit of time to get over that. "There wasn't a whole lot wrong with him, but the vet just wasn't entirely happy with him and luckily the owners are patient and said we'd give him time. Hopefully we can go to Aintree next year all guns blazing." |
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POQUELIN second and fourth in the last two runnings of the Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, will bid to make it third-time lucky in this year's race, trainer Paul Nicholls confirmed on Tuesday.
Andy Stewart's nine-year-old had to concede weight all round when second to The Giant Bolster in a Grade 3 handicap on Saturday, a run that delighted Britain's champion trainer. "He ran a great race. He'd been ill since his run at Cheltenham over Christmas and we needed to get a run into him and it will be straight to the Ryanair Chase now," said Nicholls. "He falls a bit short of top class but he's run well in the Ryanair in the past and I feel we're better running him in that than a handicap." Poquelin is a best-priced 20-1 with Paddy Power for the Ryanair. Back to top View user's profile Send private message |
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Trainer Robbie Hennessy will follow a tried-and-tested route by running Rubi Light at Gowran before heading to the Cheltenham Festival.
The seven-year-old won the Red Mills Chase in 2011 on the way to finishing third to Albertas Run in the Ryanair Chase. The two-and-a-half-mile contest on February 18 is again ideal for Hennessy's charge as it comes just less than four weeks before his prime objective. "We are going to give him a run in Gowran Park on the 18th of February in the Red Mills and that's something to look forward with him first," said County Meath-based Hennessy. "He won it last year and the weather forecast is bad for the foreseeable future, so I imagine the ground will be testing which would play to his strengths. "After that we'll just keep him ticking over for Cheltenham. He doesn't need long coming out of his races." Rubi Light is a strong fancy to go two places better in the Ryanair on March 15 after a profitable campaign that has seen him win the John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown and finish second in the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown on his first try over three miles. |
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Jockey Dominic Elsworth feels Somersby would be well served stepping back up in trip at the Cheltenham Festival by running in the Ryanair Chase.
Henrietta Knight's likeable eight-year-old secured the big-race victory his consistent efforts deserved when claiming the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot on Saturday. Somersby also has the two-mile Queen Mother Champion Chase as a possible Festival objective, but his regular jockey believes he will be best served in the Ryanair over two miles and five furlongs. "I just feel over two miles he can miss a jump out here and there," said Elsworth, who was securing his first Grade One winner at the weekend. "It (the Ryanair) would be definitely more up his street. "He does stay, and he's got the pace to lay it up to them over two and a half miles. "He can miss a fence now and again and obviously Ascot being a bigger, longer, galloping track definitely played to his strengths He's as good as anything else in the Ryanair," Elsworth told At The Races. |
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Any word from the trainer ?
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Pulled-up. Ran an absolute shocker. Seriously weak in the betting all day aswell.
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Ran too bad to be true - maybe the rumours about him being poorly on de run upto the race were true after all
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Yep they must be. Was never going after the first fence. Shame.
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He was layed like victory was out of the question.Trainers brother was interviewed on the M.L said the horse was in good nick.Somebody new something.
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Made a mistake at the 2nd and then kept jumping awkwardly out to the right after that - maybe injured himself at the 2nd. Didn't think the drift was big enough to suggest that soemthing was wrong before hand.
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I dont think the mistake was that bad, it was ridden with much more restraint than his run at cheltenham last year.
I knew my fate after 3 furlongs. |
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Yep it was minor. Bad vibes all round methinks.
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was always place lay material
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