What price will Briar Hill go off?

He'll be desperate short if FY and/or AP go in tomorrow.

treble from an English punter here

Evens

The pipe winners this week will prop the price up imo, less than Evens would be crazy

Briar Hill would be a big return for me, tempted to stick a ton on the Pipe horse, it has the best form of any staying novice - everything franked.

Given the performances of Vautour and Faugheen this isn't a plausible lay. Willie knows exactly how good BH is. If this is his best novice hurdler, he won't be too worried about King's Palace.

d day is nearly upon me...come on briar hill !

To Lay or not to Lay, that is the question

if i dont lay will be going for a nice holiday,probs be bigger in running than it is now at some stage !

Lay lay lay!!!

To play safe and be good or to take risks and be great, that is the question...

Being honest I backed King's Palace ante post but I can't ignore the form of the Mullins novices. Having said that I did take a view from what I've seen that Briar Hill wasn't as good as Faugheen but that may still be good enough and who knows he could be better?

Looks a pretty deep race to me, of course BH could be a monster but they would n't hear of defeat for Annie Power either.

King's Palace ticks all the boxes in terms of profile for this race and has best form in the book imo, BH never been beyond 2.5m.

Urban Hymn, Deputy Dan, Captain Cutter and even Champagne West are all unexposed and full of potential.

Mosspark is interesting also, Lavelle had a couple run well earlier in the week including Timesremembered in the Coral Cup who could have run in this.

I'm not a layer but will probably back King's Palace and have a little each way on Mosspark.

i would rather hedge the 2nd and 3rd in betting tbh

not happy with bookie 's  KNOCK--OUTS .....BOB'S WORTH ??? TODAY  BILLY ILL

Despite the money for it in the lead up I don't get the impression that this is getting lumped the same was as his first 2 novice winners. I really fancy Kings Palace too think it has the best form and stable is in rattling good form

Suspect price contraction over the past couple of days due to multiple bet liabilities. If Annie Power had won yesterday, he would probably be even money! If the horse is of similar ability to Vautour and Faugheen, then 2/1 is probably about right.

Looks like Ruby was clutching his hand there.

out for the rest of the day

BH 3.45

Townend to ride?

settled at 3.2

lets hope Ruby has recovered well by the Grand National meeting

compound fracture of the humerus, be out for a good few weeks at least

Highly unlikely.

Compound fracture. 4-5 months out in probability.

David Casey rides Briar Hill now, not Paul Townend.

rough race, very attritional, hope the horses all come back safe.

Those falls looked bad

I think it was Kings Palace that fell at the last and was still down when they finished.

Simon Holt wasn't sure who it was.

Hope we get good news.

Graham Cunningham thinks Kings Palace got up ok.

We'll have to wait for news of the others.

Briar Hill would have hosed up, would have been my biggest ever return. I never Layed, ended up just backing Kings Palace as a saver

Mr Mischief

Hope all the horses are alright. They haven't said anything yet.

Briar Hill been taken off in the horse ambulance with what seems to be a small fracture on his cheekbone but he should be alright. That's according to Alice.

gutted..briar hill had already beat the 1st and 3rd giving them weight,just another 361 days to go

Briar hill will go off 6-4 favourite for world hurdle if more of that goes chasing

big question what is More of That going to be doing come October?

Haven't a clue Howdi,you not featuring Johnjo in one jump ahead

Old Joke ^^^

You'd be very tempted to see if he can jump a fence wouldn't you?

Has anybody heard any news about Briar Hill and his well being?  Thanks

I spoke to Graeme Wylie about him a few weeks ago. He actually showed me the X-Rays of the fractured eye socket and it really was a horrific injury. The horse was very close to being blinded.

The horse is in good shape and very well, no physical issues...they are just a little worried about the psychological effects of being back in the hustle and bustle of a race after such an incident.

Cheers CCM.  Many thanks

Cheers CCM. Here's hoping he comes back A1 and as he would add a lot of depth and quality to the WH.

A few small runner fields in Ireland could be a good start for him to ease him back in.

I suppose you never can tell the psychological effects of a fall until they are back on the track.

Briar Hill backers will be slightly worried reading Willie Mullins comments prior to the Leopardstown Christmas Hurdle - sounds like he's the clear third string behind Zaidpour and Glens Melody and they don't know where they are with him:

We have three runners in the Grade 1 Christmas Hurdle over 3 miles. Zaidpour (Ruby) is our number onechoice and has the advantage of having won this race last year. He will love the ground and we are expecting a very good run. Glens Melody (Paul) ishaving her first outing of the season and we expect she will come on for the run. Briar Hill (David Casey) is also having his first run back after having cheekbone surgery following his fall at the Cheltenham festival. It ishard to judge how forward he is on his work at home so we will just have tosee how he gets on