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Cheltenham Festival
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Carraig Mor
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4 miles feck me
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You don't start a horse out over fences at its longest trip do you? Surely you build up to his longest trip? He won his point to point over 3m on heavy ground a staying career beckons imo
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Barnsey, surely the way a horse races has to come in to things? A horse who races very keenly over a certain trip does not want stepping up in trip. Winning a point is no guarantee of staying three miles on the track.
Unless he has a personality change and becomes much more relaxed over night, Carraig Mor has only two hopes of staying four miles imo. |
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Apart from his debut Carraig Mor has done very little to warrant such interest, but the horror ride choc gave him next time out will take a long time to get over.
Still reckon the horse is a dud, even though i think Carole's Destrier is very decent. |
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Most importantly they need to get him to settle, I thought his jumping was preety good on the whole apart from one obvious mistake.....the edging right handed is a potential problem too, so all in all they've got to iron a few things out...he has undoubted talent though and all things are still possible for him.
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Runs tomorrow at Newbury
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Right...let's settle and let's not jump to the right.........much
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feltham and reynoldstown....any right handed course, his jumping is very good but the right handed jumping will stop him round cheltenham for sure.
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Has he always gone right when pressure is applied ?
Serious question before anyone thinks I'm taking the p@ss |
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yes...even went right on his debut over hurdles when winning by a street!!.
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Cheers Duffy, I think he's a machine but must admit hadn't noticed it until today, Will do some digging for future targets.
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Big day tomorrow, hot renewel of the feltham I think but at least he'll be racing right handed which will help, didn't expect him to be trading quite as big as he is if I'm honest.
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sick with that...looked very good right up to departing, obviously was keen but frustrating not to find out if he'd have kept going.....I remain convinced he's something special.
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Backed him aswell. What a race!
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I wonder if he will be one of those horses that continues to frustrate?
Think hes got real talent and i have had a bit at nice odds on here for the RSA. See hes entered up at Kempton on Saturday over 2 and a half m though,maybe they might think about dropping back in trip for the festival?? |
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Surely a confidence booster after Kempton and one eye on the spring/don't bottom him out on winter ground etc.
Doesn't look like he wants anything other than 3 miles for the races that matter (Or even 4 |
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Probably right, but suggests the four-miler is a no-no surely. Not the ideal prep for that slog by dropping a hard-puller to two and a half. I like this horse too, but like others have said, he might be tough to get the best out of.
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Tom, I agree but unfortunately the smiley with the wink somehow fell off the end of my post after the the comment about the 4-miler!
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The big issue they've got to sort out before he has even the slightest chance of even being competitive at any festival race is the going out to the right on a left handed track..at this moment you have to think that whatever he achieves it will have to be right handed.
I tell you what I'd do, depending on what happens over the week-end, I'd do an opening batsmen and bang him in the Racing Post chase as a novice...I'd love to see him firing around Kempton, reckon he'd have them all strung out a long way from home. |
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Here we go again this afternoon, worried about going left handed...convinced he's still a monster though, just a matter of time before we see it....it'll be the other way around though.
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Let's hope for a good run,sure is a talented horse.
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Duffy quick question - why do you think he wants to go right handed??
all his wins left handed that was all |
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Ohh god, big problems, never looked happy at any point....he jumps out to his right when he jumps, that wasn't the problem so much today though, he never went a yard really, always being niggled.
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yep that was poor - he clearly has his quirks but can still win a nice handicap at some point but he isn't an easy horse to predict
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I would think somethings amiss,that was too poor to be true.
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Being treated for gastric ulcers after haydock...no definite plans for him at the moment as he'd need another run before Cheltenham.
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oops
 accidentally bumped my Fav. horse, running again tomorrow, getting everything back on track again...still travelling well and giving coneygree a race in the Feltham you know...keep the faith...ulcers all sorted hopefully....over the proverbial cliff with this horse for me...still convinced he's top quality |
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still think Thornton soured him after what happened at Ascot. Such a shocking ride
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A joy to watch at his fences... absolute natural. I think he had DS well cooked tbh.... very nice performance.
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Agree CCM, it's taking time but he'll get there eventually, he was still half keen crossing the finishing line....just a shame he'll go out to his right going the other way around, that said, I'd love to see him whizzing around Aintree.
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He's the last horse i'd want to overrate. Had it easy today.
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Those fences take some jumping tbf Sint.
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Exeter does I agree with that. He still has a patchy profile but today was a step in the right direction..
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Exactly. Considering how well he stays he did show a good deal of pace as well.
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I guess he would not have taken much out of himself there, could even go to Aintree, still time.
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Big day tomorrow, left handed obvious concern of course but notwithstanding that he's looking likely to be going off a bigger price than I for one make him, although I'm biased as am convinced he's got all the talent in the world
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Running in a hot little 4 runner graduation chase at Exeter on Sunday.
We're back |
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]All eyes on Exeter,never a dull moment with this one!! |
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duffy are you on carrig today massive price probably out for a spin , am gonna chuck some spare change at it !
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I see he has a Ryanair entry
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