Will Thousand Stars go jumping this year?

Hope not as still have hope for the stayers for this one.

The owners seem real creatures of habit and this one likes winning the very lucrative French CH!

He should on the formbook finished a lot closer in the World Hurdle imo. Oscar Whiskey didn't appear to stay but this one had no such excuse.

Maybe, but my view is he was just beaten by a much better horse, possibly still the best NH horse in training. OW and TS tried to go with Big Buck's as he accelerated from the second last, didn't close a yard and that was their race run. Nothing can gallop as fast for as far as BB. In the end TS was 12 l behind which is about right on ORs (though heaven knows what BB's true rating is).

The French CH is a decent consolation prize though - only £10k less than the World Hurdle, a far weaker race, and less of a test of stamina because it's flat and the first 3 m are usually walked.

^^^ what they walk all the way???

He'll go chasing!

It's 26 f so they run the last 2 f Seriously though, there isn't usually a lot of pace on.

Thought it was power walking strontium :)