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As for Champion Hurdle I struggle to see her not getting outpaced at some stage. I think she may have beat the Fly but the rest I'm not sure.
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I'm not suggesting it is a waste because she didn't win the stayers. My point was that the owner was going to go chasing with her this season. That would have been the perfect time in my view seeing as she is six and would have been likely challenging for some of the bigger novice prizes and gaining valuable experience for a challenge on some of the biggest open age prizes at 7 and beyond. The decision was taken to delay to have a shot at the champion hurdle. We can debate what might have happened in that but they didn't in order for The Fly to have a free run at the race. Both her and UDS were denied perhaps their only chance at the race because of this policy. Had she run in the champion and finished fourth the owner would have known. Now he'll never know if he had a champion hurdler on his hands. That is in my view the waste.
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In hindsight and isn't that a wonderful thing maybe Ricci should have kept Champagne Fever over hurdles and sent her over fences.
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Fatcatinthehat was named with a heavy dose of irony after a newspaper article in the Mirror asking "who's the fat cat in the hat?". RR has donated all career earnings from the horse to charity. |
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She could still be a 3 mile horse over fences. The larger obstacles are less of a test of stamina than hurdles. The gentler tempo and the fact she will be able to fill up in mid air will help her. It's not like she doesn't stay 3 miles either.
Vautour will be their Arkle horse next year, could easily see her go RSA or Jewson, there is also the Power Gold Cup which would look made for her. Briar Hill probably the stable's RSA horse. I can see both Faugheen and More of That running in the Gold Cup next season, the standard set this year is so ordinary that it could conceivable be easier to win than an RSA clash with a stablemate like Briar hill or Annie Power for Faugheen. You'd expect them to be joined by Champagne Fever who I still can't believe didn't win the Arkle!! |
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The last horse to win the Neptune as easily as Faugheen did was Simonsig......he of course went on to win the Arkle. I'm not convinced Vautour will go chasing yet
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Mullins is desperate to win a Gold Cup, I could see the yard going dual purpose at a higher level once he achieves that. The man is seriously ambitious.
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WPM has always said novices for novices. Can ruin a horse going to the well too soon and miss out on winning good novice races such as Arkle, JLT and RSA and whatever else at Aintree and Punchestown. Cant see him going that route with anything tbh.
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