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First Lieutenant, Ryanair or Gold Cup?
First Lieutenant, Ryanair or Gold Cup?
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Confirmed for ryanair on racing post
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Never a doubt
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Where is it confirmed? Link?
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http://www.racingpost.com/news/live.sd
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These things happen. It's obviously influenced by the weather, so we will just have to get on with it. I'd have been more suprised if it was the gold cup.
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Genuinely bad luck to GC backers. FWIW I'm not sure the weather has had too much to do with it and they have probably just waited until SDC had travelled over and confirmed OK.
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Good news for me,feel for those its not good news for though.
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Was always the plan, purely backup to SDC.
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Yep
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Indeed.
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Catch Me ifyoucan 11 Mar 13 15:05 Will surely do a Dynaste on it and go the shorter route to victory ?
Best of Luck to BJ COOPER  |
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Thread. Is now closed.
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no need to feel for me Budde. I accept the risks of ante-post betting.
Hopefully Champion Court will serve it up to him any how. I've 11/1 on that, you boys have 10/1 on FL. May the best horse win. |
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No I have 12a sint
 . I wish I'd had more on nowIf it was a ground decision they could always change their mind, it didn't look at all bad today. |
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Will not win the Ryanair,Will be powering home from a hopeless position and Davy will get off and tell them it needs 3 Miles plus.
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18/1 for me but had same for Gold cup, lets hope FL wins :)
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im just a caring person Sint.
Good luck mate for rest of week. |
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Ran in the wrong race,O'Leary would want to listen to Mouse Morris in the future.
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14 pages and all for nothing
 - not quite as bad as the last two 1,000 Guineas threads but still 'what a waste of ink'. |
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It wasn't for nothing. He ran...in the wrong race !
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If he couldn't win the Ryanair what chance the GC to be fair? I don't think the change of jockey at the last minute probably helped, and he did hit a couple, but fair play to Cue Card backers he won very well
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Cue Card has speed. FL does not, blatantly the wrong race.
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cheers Budde. Did my dough anyway!
all on Our Conor now. |
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was blatantly obvious as I repeatedly said, well obvious to me as I just kept it simple and used BW to judge the form
sometimes people can't see the wood for the trees however much it gets discussed gl with OC sint |
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His trainer has repeatedly said he's a stayer,Well done Mr O'Leary,And not one winner for such a huge operation is almost embarrassing.
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Tofino Bay was desperately unlucky apart from that they've not really gone close
SDC will put that right tomoz |
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This may be a very strong tip for SDC in the Gold Cup. It is also a vindication of the winner's Arkle form, whose second to the monster was probably the best effort in the novice chase ranks at Cheltenham last year, bar of course one.
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I don't understand the decision - he may have not being showing much at home and they thought it was the easier race which I prophisised somewhere in this thresd - if the ground had been heavy then ok but he even had his ground now and was a solid eway chance for the GC.
Ah well, eway backers did alright out of it..... and I backed Cue Card at an inflated price :) |
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He was trained all season for the Gold Cup,then the ground came right for the Gold Cup,and yet he ran in the Ryanair??
Just dont make sense,surely the horse had everything going for a tilt at the biggie. Owner just trying to win both races. Reckon he has regrets right now. |
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correct Budde, trying to have his cake and eat it. Though I suppose they won't might if SDC wins the big one.
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Not that I could back him, think he's should be 4th fav not second.
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going to get that one wrong too then sint, SDC is going to destroy them even with McCoy up although I will be holding my breath and watching from behind the sofa
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Bobsworth, Judo.
SDC ran far better than I thought he would tbf. |
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Mmm. I wonder if Ballydoyle still thinks FL was going backwards in the Lexus after the last. I mean, even Stevie Wonder could see that, right?
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O'Leary may have left a Gold Cup behind with that ridiculous decision
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Not surprised to see this thread rear its head again
 I'll admit I've not watched the race, but serious question guys, did beating Menorah really prove that much? |
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He certainly stayed well, and that largely was the point, although obviously Aintree is somewhat different to Cheltenham.
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But surely 'staying' is only relative to the horses you beat and that was the point I was making. All of a sudden by beating Menorah 1/2 a length it suggests he would have beaten BW at Cheltenham - really stretching it imo
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My point is you runs horses in races they are best equipped to win. FL has no pace for 20f.
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