Carraig Mor

Neptune of course is a strong possibility of course.

Highly impressive. Lets wait and see if the trainer can deliver him to peak in March. Not the best of records at the Festival in recent years, but horse looks hugely promising.

He previously won a 3 mile soft ground point in Ireland and Adrian Maguire is convinced he's one of the very best he's trained, certainly, his first run under rules suggests he's very exciting indeed.

Really liked the performance but jumping out to the right a concern and might find him out upped in grade going left handed. Neat jumper for a big horse and very enthusiastic galloper. If he is a Cheltenham horse, I suspect we'll see him in the Bartlett on normal Cheltenham ground.

snapped up some big prices for the Bartlett soon as this crossed the line, I think this house good be a good'in.

Where next? Challow was my first thought but then maybe the Grade 2 novice at Sandown (going right handed)

Really really liked this horse today

Entered for a 2m6f at Ascot on Saturday 23rd November which will presumably suit his jumping.

That race looks very winnable.

Having seen his debut I think many novice hurdles would look very winnable for this fella.

He's easily the most impressive novice I've seen this season so far, who knows what he beat but he won a 2 mile 6 race in the soft at uttox on the bridle pretty much in the style of a speedy horse, there was no grind to it at all.

Yep, it looked like he could do a Willie Mullins modus operandi and be dropped in trip

I guess if he wins well At Ascot then the Challow Hurdle might be next, and hopefully he wont show that quirk of slightly nudging to his right when he goes back to a left-handed track. I can't personally back him for Cheltenham until he has run left-handed again tbh, even if it was only minor.

yep, fair point sint, we just don't know how bad it would become if and when he came under pressure and of course you wouldn't fancy all the bumping he'd get if he did it with horses directly outside of him in a bigger field at the festival...he could be a monster though

looks a good horse this but how ground dependant is he?? looks to love the mud

Looks more like a staying chaser than a slick 2.5m hurdler to me. Serious mistake obviously cost him, but I think he had enough time to regain momentum, and wouldn't be in a rush to back him for Cheltenham any time soon.

deary me, heaven knows what to think about that, horror mistake, but still disappointed he couldn't get it back

Jockey never allowed him time to recover, panicked and started rousting him straight away. I don't think he can have long left at King's yard tbh.

It was a shocking error, and horse is a chaser in the making like a lot of Albert Barlett horses. Can't believe he got beat today but that mistake was bad. Saying he had time and ground to recover is like saying you have time to get to your feet after being kicked in the knuts whilst in a scrap. It takes a lot out of you no matter what.

1/8 SP

I wonder how quickly choc gets to his feet after king gives him a whack in the nuts when he gets back to the yard

Didn't see the race but am stunned he was beaten.  It will have taken the edge off King's day.

King will b more worried about the pr1ck on his back havin potentially soured his horse! Gave him no chance to recover after the mistake

King saying he can run his stable with two number one jockeys doesn't sound plausible to me. When one of them gets beat on a 1/8 shot the owners are bound to wonder if they'd have been better off with the other one on board. I'll give the arrangement until Christmas.

If I owned this beast i'd be putting him the PFN yard pronto tbh.

I am pleased to report Carraig Mor was fine after Ascot.  He has been given a good break and will return to training in the New Year.



At present I have no particular plans for him and it could be we bypass Cheltenham this season, as he is more of a chasing prospect for next season .

Could be one for the Aintree Grade 2 they won with Lovcen recently, then. A shame though.

Also, strange that the 1st,3rd, and 4th are also yet to run from that Ascot race so we don't know how strong the form is yet.

The Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle
Class 1, Grade 1, Total Prize Fund £120,000, 2.40pm Friday, March 14, 2014, New Course, three miles, for novice four-year-olds and upwards. Weights 4-y-o 10st 11lb, 5-y-o and upwards 11st 7lb, fillies and mares allowance 7lb. Entries closed Tuesday, January 28. Entries revealed Thursday, January 30 (81 entries). Scratchings deadline February 18, six-day confirmation stage Saturday, March 8. Final declaration stage 10am, Thursday, March 13. Form figures supplied by Weatherbys and are correct up to and including the racing of Monday, January 27. May not include some overseas form.

Form  Horse    Age Owner    Trainer
1  AKLAN (IRE)  5 Coach Partnership   Willie Mullins IRE
310-312 APACHE JACK (IRE) 6 Mrs Pat Sloan    Dessie Hughes IRE
1/P-2165 ASHES HOUSE (IRE) 8 Diamond Racing Ltd   Rebecca Curtis
12-1223 AZORIAN (IRE)  6 Gigginstown House Stud  Eoin Griffin IRE
2  BIG HANDS HARRY  5 Alan Spence    Nicky Henderson
31312  BLAKEMOUNT (IRE) 6 Jacqueline Conroy   Sue Smith
11-111 BRIAR HILL (IRE)  6 Andrea & Graham Wylie  Willie Mullins IRE
12303-0 CALEDONIA   7 Johnnie Delta Racing   Jim Goldie
12  CALL ME VIC (IRE)  7 C B Compton    Tom George
132-111 CAPTAIN CUTTER (IRE) 7 J P McManus    Nicky Henderson
(2)0-2F21 CAROLE'S DESTRIER 6 Mrs C Skipworth   Neil Mulholland
2-02111 CHAMPAGNE WEST (IRE) 6 Roger Brookhouse   Philip Hobbs
1/3//-2212 CLONARD LAD (IRE) 9 DAFTC Syndicate   Willie Mullins IRE
1-11  CLONDAW COURT (IRE) 7 Susannah Ricci   Willie Mullins IRE
1631  COGRY   5 Graham and Alison Jelley  Nigel Twiston-Davies
1-1411 COLE HARDEN (IRE) 5 Jill Eynon & Robin Eynon  Warren Greatrex
P  COMPANY COMING (IRE) 6 P P Greaney    Jim Culloty IRE
0111P0 CYRIEN STAR  7 Puteus Profundus   Henry Daly
11-2211 DEPUTY DAN (IRE)  6 Tim Syder    Oliver Sherwood
322/5-  DIAMOND LIFE  8 Malcolm Denmark   David Pipe
231  DOING FINE (IRE)  6 Carl Hinchy    Rebecca Curtis
2-601  DOUBLE IRISH (IRE) 6 Barry Connell    Gordon Elliott IRE
1111  FAUGHEEN (IRE)  6 Susannah Ricci   Willie Mullins IRE
1  FENNELL BAY (IRE) 5 Bloomfields    John Ferguson
4113  FLATFOOT BOOGIE (FR) 9 Noel Glynn    Noel Glynn IRE
12  FLEMENSON (IRE)  5 Gay Smith    Jonjo O'Neill
142-103 GILT SHADOW (IRE) 6 David Gordon Roberts  Stuart Crawford IRE
0P1414 GOLD PATROL (IRE) 6 Mountfinn Racing Partnership Colin Bowe IRE
5-2115 KAKI DE LA PREE (FR) 7 Sir Peter & Lady Gibbings  Tom Symonds
12F-111 KINGS PALACE (IRE) 6 Drew, George & The Johnson Family David Pipe
(6)-1312 KNOCK HOUSE (IRE) 5 Camilla Radford   Mick Channon
122  KNOCKANRAWLEY (IRE) 6 Kim Bailey Racing Partnership VIII Kim Bailey
042-221 KRIS SPIN (IRE)  6 Six To Five Against   Richard Lee
P1211P MADNESS LIGHT (FR) 5 Tracey Brown    Warren Greatrex
1P-1P22 MASTERS HILL (IRE) 8 K S B, M Doughty & Sarah Tizzard Colin Tizzard
4  MEDIEVAL CHAPEL (FR) 6 Ronnie Bartlett   Nicky Henderson
1F12  MOONSHINE LAD (IRE) 6 Brendan Scully   Gordon Elliott IRE
11  MOSSPARK (IRE)  6 Nick Mustoe & Tim Syder  Emma Lavelle
11  MOUNTAIN TUNES (IRE) 5 J P McManus    Jonjo O'Neill
11-13  MOYLE PARK (IRE)  6 Susannah Ricci   Willie Mullins IRE
014  NOBLE ENDEAVOR (IRE) 5 Chris Jones    Gordon Elliott IRE
211-123 OSCAR ROCK (IRE)  6 Mr & Mrs G Calder   Malcolm Jefferson
0//3100-2 OUR POLLYANNA (IRE) 7 The Dunkley & Reilly Partnership Alan King
43P-122 PERFECT GENTLEMAN (IRE) 9 Jackie Mullins    Willie Mullins IRE
13  PLEASANT COMPANY (IRE) 6 Malcolm Denmark   David Pipe
3  PORT MELON (IRE)  6 Graham Roach   Paul Nicholls
232134 POTTERS CROSS  7 Conyers, O'Reilly, Roddis, Zeffman Rebecca Curtis
51F6  PRINCE SIEGFRIED (FR) 8 Bloomfields    John Ferguson
113  RACING PULSE (IRE) 5 Carl Hinchy    John Quinn
41  RAINBOW PEAK (IRE) 8 Bloomfields    John Ferguson
111F2  RATHVINDEN (IRE) 6 Ronnie Bartlett   Willie Mullins IRE
243  RED DEVIL LADS (IRE) 5 Andrew McIver   Rebecca Curtis
11-1111 RED SHERLOCK  5 The Johnson Family   David Pipe
162424 REGAL DIAMOND (IRE) 6 Roddy Owen, Paul Fullagar & Karen Bowen Peter Bowen
12F  RENNETI (FR)  5 Susannah Ricci   Willie Mullins IRE
RIVER OF TIME (IRE) 6 Dr Ronan Lambe   Jim Culloty IRE
30  RONNIE LAWSON (IRE) 5 Bloomfields    John Ferguson
23-311 ROYAL BOY (FR)  7 Michael Buckley   Nicky Henderson
52/(2)2F-1 RYDON PYNES  6 The Rydon Pynes Partnership Martin Hill
11113F SAINT ROQUE (FR)  8 Chris Giles & Ian Fogg  Paul Nicholls
23-3115 SAUSALITO SUNRISE (IRE) 6 Diana Whateley   Philip Hobbs
B1  SEGO SUCCESS (IRE) 6 Tim Leadbeater   Alan King
4-114  SHANTOU MAGIC (IRE) 7 Owners For Owners: Shantou Magic Charlie Longsdon
112025 SILVER EAGLE (IRE) 6 Kim Bailey Racing Partnership IV Kim Bailey
66-2621 STROLLAWAYNOW (IRE) 7 Andrew Wates   David Arbuthnot
U11  SURE REEF (IRE)  5 Andrea & Graham Wylie  Willie Mullins IRE
315  TARA ROAD   6 Nigel Morris    Rebecca Curtis
233112 THE JOB IS RIGHT  6 Mrs M Devine    Michael Hourigan IRE
40-1311 THREE KINGDOMS (IRE) 5 Bloomfields    John Ferguson
3C-4412 THUNDER AND ROSES (IRE) 6 Gigginstown House Stud  Dessie Hughes IRE
3-11226 TIMESREMEMBERED (IRE) 6 Tim Syder & Sarah Prior  Emma Lavelle
205-113 UPAZO (FR)   6 Philip Reynolds   Willie Mullins IRE
22-22S1 URANO (FR)   6 Mrs M McMahon   Willie Mullins IRE
1211  URBAN HYMN (FR)  6 Mr & Mrs G Calder   Malcolm Jefferson
1211-15 URTICAIRE (FR)  6 Gigginstown House Stud  Willie Mullins IRE
61-11  VALSEUR LIDO (FR) 5 Gigginstown House Stud  Willie Mullins IRE
22-11  VAUTOUR (FR)  5 Susannah Ricci   Willie Mullins IRE
1-1253 VERY WOOD (FR)  5 Gigginstown House Stud  Noel Meade IRE
26-0041 WICKLOW GOLD (FR) 6 Wicklow Bloodstock Limited  Willie Mullins IRE
3114  WOUNDED WARRIOR (IRE) 5 Gigginstown House Stud  Noel Meade IRE
211  WUFF (IRE)   6 Roger Brookhouse   Tom George

81 entries
30 Irish-trained

Another novice hurdle run before a crack at Aintree you'd hope, so they get some experience into him before going chasing.

I don't know why BJG decided to rub my nose in it by putting the AB entries minus him onto this thread

Could nt find an AB fred - was the closest thing to one

Don't believe him Duffy,i reckon hes taking the mickey mate

Think you're fooking right budd, anyway, I don't care, when this thing wins the RSA next year and then the GC the year after, I'm having this thread right up there

Gets the chance to redeem himself on Saturday

Not sure he'll run in those, trips looks too short.

Runs tomorrow. Should have a good chance.

We start again tomorrow..let's hope that his problems from last season are behind him....as lowly a race as it was...his debut hurdle run had the wow factor about it....and Adrian Maguire still maintains he's one of the very best he's had and even mentions him in the same breath as the mighty Denman.....everyone connected with him think he's special...let's see it now!!!

Hope you're right Duffy and think today a good opportunity for a punt. Could just be different class to his opponents and we all know how excited AK was about him last year. No cakewalk today but I'd be very hopeful.

Looked very weak last year, He'll have done well to fill that frame over the summer but if so he'll be some bull of a horse, Is one I hope goes to the very top and looks a fair race to start him off in, Safe round will do but a exhibition round of jumping and winning by as far as he likes would be even better.

Duffy I've liked this horse since seeing its first race at uttoxeter I think it was, I followed him all year and over hurdles he obviously didn't quite live up to expectations but I watched with anticipation today in the hope chasing which he was bred to do would show him to be the star I thought he would be........... To be honest I was disappointed today as I thought he would win and the lofty heights of RSA seem a bit ambitious on that run, but hopefully he will improve his jumping which wasn't the best and I haven't totally given up on him!!!
My instinct after the race was if he will line up in any festival race then the 4 miler might be his best chance of winning???

I would have thought he wants dropping in trip, not stepping up, given how free he is in his races.

4 miles feck me

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

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.

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.

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.

Runs tomorrow at Newbury

Right...let's settle and let's not jump to the right.........much

feltham and reynoldstown....any right handed course, his jumping is very good but the right handed jumping will stop him round cheltenham for sure.

Has he always gone right when pressure is applied ?

Serious question before anyone thinks I'm taking the p@ss

yes...even went right on his debut over hurdles when winning by a street!!.

Cheers Duffy, I think he's a machine but must admit hadn't noticed it until today, Will do some digging for future targets.

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.

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.

Backed him aswell. What a race!

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??

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

Let's hope for a good run,sure is a talented horse.

Duffy quick question - why do you think he wants to go right handed??

all his wins left handed that was all

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.

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

I would think somethings amiss,that was too poor to be true.

Being treated for gastric ulcers after haydock...no definite plans for him at the moment as he'd need another run before Cheltenham.

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

still think Thornton soured him after what happened at Ascot. Such a shocking ride

A joy to watch at his fences... absolute natural. I think he had DS well cooked tbh.... very nice performance.

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.

He's the last horse i'd want to overrate. Had it easy today.

Those fences take some jumping tbf Sint.

Exeter does I agree with that. He still has a patchy profile but today was a step in the right direction..

Exactly. Considering how well he stays he did show a good deal of pace as well.

I guess he would not have taken much out of himself there, could even go to Aintree, still time.

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

Running in a hot little 4 runner graduation chase at Exeter on Sunday.

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All eyes on Exeter,never a dull moment with this one!!

duffy are you on carrig today massive price probably out for a spin , am gonna chuck some spare change at it !

I see he has a Ryanair entry

feckin bot on here is takin the pish outta me !

ah well!

What happened?

race was just beginning to hot up with him and alary up front just beginning to get tea for two at it and he took off a stride too early and went...gutted as it was just getting exciting...hope he's ok, deserves a big day.

Oh dear,although sounds like an encouraging run till that happened.