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What was the best performance of the festival?
What was the best performance of the festival?
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sire de gury was the best ,closely followed by tammys hill,vantour will win the arkle ,holywell will grand national in 2 years time
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Sire de Grugy's brilliant performance in the 2 mile Champion G1 Chase. Destroyed the field with a devastating turn of foot just as he did previously at Ascot.
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MoT for me. At the prices Josses Hill 12/1 makes most appeal. All things considered ran a cracking Arkle trial.
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More Of That, hope they stick to hurdles again next year. There's not much value in antepost betting these last 5 years, bookies (and punters) are far too switched on/focused on Cheltenham all year round
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The New One to come third in a very hot CH despite losing all momentum. Will pish in next year - Vautour or no Vautour
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agree ante -post has aLL BUT DIED R.I.P. BOOKMAKERS ARE NOW KNOCK -OUT MERCHANTS ? think seven out of seven or therby ..
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how can you tip a horse to win the arkle when its not jumped a fence
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Vautour looks a different class, and hard to tell at this stage, but it looks a really poor Supreme. Faugheen was very special, reminded me about Simonsig; not the best of jumpers, but has a huge engine to compensate.
Diakali ran a blinder in the County Hurdle off top weight, carrying about half a stone more than anything else. Sire De Grugy silencing the doubters was a big highlight for me, but I'll be in therapy for years trying to forget the name Western Warhorse. As much as it pains me to say it, for Western Warhorse to win an Arkle after only one chase is a pretty damn good achievement, and would be the performance of the festival for me, because he beat a serious rival in the Arkle in Champagne Fever. He didn't fluke it, CF ran a blinder and both pulled well clear of the rest. |
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^ Western Warhouse also a good example of an owner insisting on dictating the running plans and being proven correct.
Credit to D Pipe for being so open and relaxed about it too - other connections might want to take note! |
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Couldn't agree more re. Josses Hill. I was looking for Arkle prices before he jumped the last in the supreme!
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For me it was The New One, to be hampered in a championship race just when things were about to heat up, and to pass a 2 time champion leaving him standing was mightly impressive. you can never say for sure on a what if, but STD interview after the race said it all imo
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more of that giving annie power half a stone,beating afc,only going to improve aswell !
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The thing with TNO,if he had lost stacks of ground up and started a run that saw him closest at the finish, then there would be a sound argument that he may well have won.....but it did not happen like that....he made the ground up that he lost and was with them when they quickened but got left behind as he couldn't go with their pace before closing again after they had used up that vital bit of energy to initially get away from him....it was just like zarkandar's run a couple years back that saw people saying that if he can keep tabs on the front runners he'll win next year, the hampering that occured to TNO will just feed the frenzy.
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Ah well, we all see things differently but you can only go with 'the unluckiest horse in training' moniker for so long.
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I knew I had Don Poli as a novice chase star
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Some good calls on here. Sintonian with Many Clouds for Hennessy
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UDS thus far this week.
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sintonian 15 Mar 14 13:55
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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Best this year so far is surely Faugheen. To win a championship race do easily when still a relative novice was awesome in my book. It is easy to say that the opposition was below the average standard but he had at least a stone in hand of last years winner and Hurricane Fly is still a good yardstick.
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Don Poli
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Holy shat Vautour
AS and VL are top novices |
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That was comfortable it, Vatour jumped, just like Best Mate, who couldn't run in his novice year, due to foot and mouth and we all know how good he was. Fantastic jumping.
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Pretty impressive from uxizandre as well.
Been spoilt with the jumping performances from UDS, Vautour and Uxizandre this week. |
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C O N E Y G R E E - best performance of the last few years!
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Probably a lot of people voting based on how much a particular horse won them but leaving that aside I'd go:
1. Vautour (by a distance) 2. Don Poli (think he would have beaten Coneygree therefore he deserves to be ahead of him even though he won a lesser race) 3. Coneygree (by virtue of the fact that he was a novice running in the blue riband and led from pillar to post) 4. UDS (frightening potential) 5. Faugheen (in his comfort zone and never looked in danger, still more in him) |
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Coneygree produced the highest rated performance of the week. Therefore, he is No.1
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Coneygree by far the best performance, I didn't backed him(I was on Holywell and Conti) but the way he jumped from the front beating the best around it was amazing, he already done a better Vautour lto(at Newbury) beating 160 rivals by any lengths unlike Vautour beating 150 rivals in the same manner. However Coneygree today he performed to a different level, the way he jumped from the front against proven G1 performers...as a novice... amazing...
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willie mullins
a record breaking haul of 8 wins for national hunts finest trainer |
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^^^ nicholls for me
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Coneygrees was a great victory but he got a helping hand from the weather.
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Best ride: McCoy on Uxizandre. I even commented at the end of the race, so impressive was it.
Best Horse: Vautour. Made it look easy. |
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you can make it look easy against 150 animals, or you can prove to be alot better than the best around like Coneygree and Faugheen did in a championship race. Vautour put up one of the impressive performances of the festival but not the best IMHO.
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Vautour would have won the Arkle, Queen Mother or Ryanair this week imo. He was awesome, destroyed 4 of the best novices we've seen this year.
But Conygree has beaten the best there is, and stuffed most of them, in the blue ribbond, so it has to be him. |
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A bit left field but some of the beaten ones that I thought put up great performances were:
1. Djakadam to finish second in a Gold Cup as a 6 year old was fantastic - ran a lot better than I thought. 2. Hurricane Fly - say no more. Racing royalty where the ground was against him and fully justified his place in the race 3. Somersby - went off at huge odds, but second in two QMCC's now (as well as 2nd in an Arkle and 3rd in a Supreme). I thought he was going to win it jumping the last |