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Vatour , faugheen?
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Vautour undoubtedly H. His jumping was sublime.
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More Of That was special on his 5th start, could be very smart over fences
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JONJO'S IN THE WORLD HURDLE TOO could win a world hurdle
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^^^ sorry could win a gold cup
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Sire De Grugy.
Smashed the opposition and great connections. |
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was a very substandard race though
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True it was, but beat them incredibly easily.
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Of the novices if you've got a class one you'd rather have the supreme than neptune and the latter lacked depth. Both were impressive but Vautour for me for the reasons above.
Having said that after just four runs and giving Annie Power half a stone I think More Of That powering clear of her after the last leaves a deeper impression especially given them leaving the others in their wake. |
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me too, MOT very impressive
performance in the saddle: Geraghty - a master, although a big shout out to Davy Russell |
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I'd go MOT, Vautour,SDG in that or - SDG would probably be my Jumps Horse of the Season now and I ain't backed him once.
I also thought the performances of Taquin Du Seuil and O'Faolain's Boy particularly augured well for next season. Beyond the obvious, superb training performances from Culloty,Pipe and Rebecca Curtis who has now trained a festival winner in each of the last three seasons and will surely continue to go from strength to strength. I'm sure I've missed plenty. |
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^ in that order
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Despite not loving the four day format there has been a lot of wonderful memories. Quevega also not mentioned. Yes it's only the mares (see the comment about four day fillers) but Mullins getting her there six times on the bounce is some achievement.
Time to start marking the days off on the calendar.  |
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Have to say that one of the best rides has to be macnamara on spring heeled!
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vautour dynaste and MOT.
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Don Pooli, next years star nov chaser?
Vautour Sire De Grugy horse of the year |
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Shout for O'Faiolains Boy (and Smad Place)
Remember looking through the card for that immediately beforehand and bar Samingarry at 100/1, I thought every other horse had some decent form behind it at some point in the season. Yes we know this race can bottom out a horse easily (though it didn't do Lord Windermere any harm!) and we'll probably only know to what extent after next seasons Hennessy, but for the first two to put 6 lengths on a very capable third looks good at the moment. Maybe they don't get the plaudits since this race tends to be won by grinders rather than obviously flashy types. |
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Faugheen for me
Smashed a load of hurdles and the way he quickened from about 1/2L ahead to 5 lengths in not time coming round the final bend was so impressive. He put the race to bed in a matter of seconds. Reckon that'll turn out to be a hot race too, fancy Ballyalton for the RSA already! |
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My three were as follows:
3. Ballynagour. Demolished a good field and looked like he could have gone round again, stand out handicap winner of the week for me. 2. More of That. Beat Annie Power fair and square and looked all about staying. Could win the World Hurdle countless times or be a GC horse. Very exciting beast. 1. Vautour. Can't look past him. The way he controlled every yard of the race was breathtaking. Jumped well, travelled well, quickened, stayed. Just a faultless performance and I am going to back him every week from now until next year for the Arkle. Fantastic week of racing even if I only backed 6 winners and had 11 seconds  Still can't believe CF got nutted on the line  As for the lowpoints, Our Conor totally took the gloss of the CH for me and I wasn't really interested in the race after he fell. But I had a really good view of the Daryl Jacob incident and it was shocking. Minutes after riding his first winer, that happens. Just shows the ups and downs of this fantastic but cruel sport. |
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Like a mention for Fingal Bay too. Back from injury and winning giving weight all round in a festival handicap is no mean feat.
Will have a say in next year's world hurdle imo |
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Vatour for next years Arkle at 5-1 is a JOKE
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Got some on at 7's. Didn't realise he was 5's already tbh.
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think O'Faolains Boy may be a little underrated too Roger. He's been impressive in his last two races now since that blip at Haydock. Rebecca Curtis seems rather shrewd to me. She did very well to get At Fishers Cross back to form after his first two dire runs.
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That said, if I owned Many Clouds I would now save him for the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury in November. He must be chucked in off 145!
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Vatour - it was simply stunning
could not believe how he finished the race considering how fast and keen he seemed to be early on and that jump at the last was just magic |
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Even CF was 8-1 in the November
Cant bet at that low price Ridiculous |
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It is as if the market has no recent memory of Champagne Fever. If you are going to take short prices like that then they need to be in the superstar catergory like Simonsig or Sprinter Sacre.
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Doesn't vautour look to be in at least simonsigs class? the style of his win if not ultimately achieving the distance between himself and the rest was equally as impressive, he's definitely the best horse I've seen at actually hurdling for as long as I can remember, I said the other day, you often get blown away at seeing a good chaser soar over a fence, you don't often get that feeling from a hurdler, you did with him, took ground away from the pursuers at most hurdles, went a strong pace throughout and ran away from them.
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Vautour, could be a multiple champion hurdler. Followed by More Of That who only in his 5th race won the world hurdle.
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fingal bay and balthazar king best performances of the meeting, two banker bets that battled all the way to the finishing line,
thats what racing is all about, horses fighting all the way to the finishing line. there where better horses, these two refused to be beaten. |
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Vautour more impressive than CF, even if it wasn't as good a renewal, so deserves to be shorter IMO. And I have no doubt he is superior to Simonsig. Obviously SS is a one off, but Vautour deserves to be put in the superstar bracket as we stand IMO.
The fact WPM has been waxing so lyrical since day one also suggests he's special. |
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My two performances of the week
Vautour - Breathtaking Fingal Bay - Sheer guts Honourable mentions Sire De Grugy, Ballynagour, Faugheen, More of that. Best performance from the saddle - The jockey in the charity race |
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the new one best in defeat ......................some u win and some u lose ?
not a lot of fun when hampered like it suffered . |
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Jezki beat a pretty classy CH field ,and did it well.
Tammys Hill was impressive, werent that many races we knew the winner 3 out!! |
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Catch me,
You serious mate?? Taken 7/1 on Vatour for the Arkle??!!! |
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I have mate. I know it sounds daft, but that was the most taken I think I've ever been with a novice. And he looks like he will improve for a fence. I understand he's probably 7-1 to even get there... But you pay your money, you take the chance etc.
Hopefully I'll be feeling quite smug when he goes off 5-4 and hacks up next year! I thinks antepost has changed a lot the last few years. With all the extra place offered and the increased competition, I think I'm going to do much less of it this year. So I've decided I'm going to pick two or three horses and have bigger bets on them than spreading my money around to about a dozen which has been my usual approach. Vautour is my number one pick to win next year. |
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Fair enough, I wish you best of luck.
Lets hope fortune favours the brave my friend. |
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Thanks mate.
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superior to simonsig! brave that
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Said it the other day about vautour, and admittedly I'm perhaps getting a little carried away and a good few things need to happen with lots of IF's along the way, but.....IF this horse can carry the impression he has created, through next year when chasing and IF SS is still on the missing list, I can see it being muted that he could even run in the Queen Mum as a novice.
This is all based on the premise that he really is the very special horse he has suggested he is in the last week, and with CF potentially stepping up in trip, they don't look likely to have queen mum horse,also, with the UDS and AP fiasco, Ricci just may well take a view of going for it while the chance is there. You may think that if connections of SS didn't go for it with him, why should anyone else, but they had finians in the queen mum, mullins/ricci, aren't likely to have anything in there......I think it's worth a speculative punt as it's not hard to imagine huge momentum gathering behind the horse, particularly if the queen mum looks as weak as it did this year. |