Cheltenham Festival
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09 Mar 13
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McCoy on the ground: "There'll be a lot of strange results at Cheltenham because it'll be so testing"
McCoy says the ground is not a negative for My Tent Or Yours in the Supreme but says it will be good news for Champagne Fever.
Ruby Walsh will ride Champagne Fever in the Supreme, says Paul Nicholls. His own Dodging Bullets "worked great" this morning
chris cook@claimsfive
McCoy on the ground: "There'll be a lot of strange results at Cheltenham because it'll be so testing"
McCoy says the ground is not a negative for My Tent Or Yours in the Supreme but says it will be good news for Champagne Fever.
Ruby Walsh will ride Champagne Fever in the Supreme, says Paul Nicholls. His own Dodging Bullets "worked great" this morning
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Also at Sandown's post-racing Cheltenham Festival preview. With McCoy is Nicholls, Henderson
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Henderson says his only concern re My Tent is the final hill, "different to anything he's done before"
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Henderson adds that Puffin Billy is another concern for him, now that he's expected to run in the Supreme
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McCoy says he gave Overturn a chance of giving Simonsig a race in the Arkle on good ground. On soft, he thinks S just has to jump round
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Zarkandar another who "worked great" this morning, Nicholls says. Testing ground will be "absolutely ideal"
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McCoy accepts that Binocular (which he rode) and Hurricane Fly were held up too far back last year in the Champion
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McCoy: "I would like it to have been drier for Binocular" because his quick jumping is more of an asset on good
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Henderson: "I won't say we haven't had our blips with Grandouet but his last 10 days have been good"
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Nicholls: "Overturn made the race for Rock On Ruby last year. There's no Overturn this year. He's got it all to do"
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Henderson: "I think we've got to accept it's going to be soft and that's not going to help us" in the Champion Hurdle
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Henderson is pressed + pressed by Nick Luck to express a preference for one of his in the Champion. Eventually goes for Binocular...
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but to be honest, he didn't appear in deadly earnest at the time. He basically didn't want to split them
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Nicholls says Ruby Walsh rides Unioniste in the RSA. "Ruby's very keen on him," he says
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Henderson + Nicholls say they've both heard rumours that Dynaste will go for Jewson, not RSA. But Nicholls says Pipe has not decided yet
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McCoy puts in a good word for Goulanes in RSA because he stays so well. "This race will be won by an out-and-out stayer"
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McCoy says he wouldn't be surprised if Sizing Europe + Cue Card ran in the 2m Champion Chase because of testing ground
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Andy Stewart: "Sprinter Sacre is the biggest certainty since Ben Hur". Nicholls accepts that everyone else is playing for 2nd place
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tizzard said cue card will only run in the champion chase if sprinter sacre misses the race
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Sounds as if the ground is going to be soft than I expected. Has Andy Stewart said anything about Tataniano?
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cheers AD keep em coming
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has the ground really changed that much 3 days ago there was none of this
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it will be beautiful jumping ground I am certain of that, fresh, unraced on, turned, spiked, good growth of grass, not watered artificially... perfect, bet it rides really well
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7mm yesterday Howdi, soft all over.
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McCoy + Nicholls both feel First Lieutenant should run in the Ryanair
Nicholls says Ghizao could be 3rd or 4th in Ryanair if everything falls right Henderson says Finians Rainbow is in tremendous form but may not run this week because of the soft ground Henderson says Riverside Theatre didn't win the Ryanair last year, Barry Geraghty did. But hopes RT is back to his best for this year's race Henderson: "Ulcers can affect a horse quite considerably." Riverside's have been treated + gone since last run |
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Riverside is a shocking price for the Ryanair, no recent form, had ulcers, hated the track last year. Can't see him beating several horses with outstanding course form.
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Nicholls says Ruby Walsh has committed to Wonderful Charm in the World Hurdle. Reports RW told him Quevega won't run
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Nicholls on Wonderful Charm: "He'll run a big race. Whether he'll stay, we don't know"
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McCoy says Get Me Out Of Here would have had a chance in the World on good but doesn't fancy him on soft. Solwhit the value, he says
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Henderson: "They will have a Ryanair Hurdle one day but the problem is, Oscar Whisky will be 22 and I'll be 104"
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horses that have run in a champion hurdle before have terrible records in the world hurdle, may not have had a winner, so peddlars, OW, Celestial Halo all unlikely winners
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Nomadic Way ?
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Mysilv got beat a whisker. Where does this "terrible record" come from ?
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Henderson says he's "not particularly" looking forward to Oscar Whisky this week. Drier ground would have helped "close the gap" on RDS
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Henderson says Oscara Dara will now run in the World Hurdle, not the Coral Cup
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I looked it up, the numbers were terrible, not that I retained them in my mind but it was bad reading for anyone backing them
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Henderson will run Cash And Go in the Coral Cup. Same owner has Wonderful Charm, which is now in the World
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Nick Luck says Far West is not that big. Nicholls corrects him. "He's a proper horse. Ruby's going to ride him"
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Probably the same place as where Irish Horses have terrible records in the Triumph, despite two of them finishing 2nd in the last two renewals. Who knows, on Tuesday afternoon we might be saying Unaccompanied got beat by a Champion Hurdler in her renewal, Zark or Grandouet.
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feel free to back any of them then, I won't be though
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