Cue Card 2014-15 Season

How long before Judo tells us he's going to win the Gold Cup wjilst playing the trombone up the home straight with the jockey reading a copy of The Racing Post?

conti will pick him up and carry him home on boxing day, 5s is massive

I'm not so sure re S Conti. I love them both, but I just think that flat spot last year was so odd. He picked up again after the last, and I think the distance & course are ideal.

Cue Card at current prices makes more appeal.

I'm interested to see how he gets on with his new jockey.

Cue Card must be a dream to ride, out front, clear sight of the fences. I guess the hard bit is judging the pace....very hard probably....

I think Jacobs is pretty good myself, and I'm sure he'll have been on top quite a bit before they're together at Exeter.

Could be Cue Cards year I think....my pocket hopes so.

has he had a breevin op?

Just had a wee tenner at 8/1 for Boxing Day ..

8/1 for king George, should be 20s imo ,but gl

i reckon his best days are behind him,They very rarely return from injury the same horse.

dont think it was  abad injury ^^ mate but I may be wrong.

"i reckon his best days are behind him,They very rarely return from injury the same horse."

"I'm interested to see how he gets on with his new jockey."

Me too. I can't imagine anyone other than Joe on Cue Card.

Would have really liked Joe to have continued riding for another season.

I've been a big fan of Daryl Jacob for years so I will now have to trust that he can do as good a job as Joe has done riding Cue Card.

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Love Cue Card, gave me my most enjoyable day ever at the races at Haydock last year.

whenever ithink of him i think of how good sacre was and hpefully still is

Obviously had had the breathing op, which if he was having any issues, could explain the slow motion 5 seconds in last years King George. Seems like the same plans as last year. Think he'll have a BIG season.

"Tizzard snr said: "He had his palate cauterised in the summer and I've been very pleased with his work"

"We're going to start off where we have done before, in the Haldon Gold Cup, then that should put him spot on for the Betfair.

"If that goes well, then it will be back to the King George.''

This is my all time favourite horse bar none, and I'll be backing him in every race he runs in and rolling some of it over.

The best thing they could do for the horse would be to drop him back down to 2 miles and take it from the front.

Won't win a Gold Cup, and no point going back over the middle distances.

He's won the Betfair over 3 miles, so I don't think you can say he doesn't stay stays 3m. Personally I think the Kempton 3m too is well within his stamina.

Probably agree re the Gold Cup, but Betfair, KG & Ryanair this season would be more than acceptable!

I think he would and will win a Gold Cup. Reason he stopped in the KG was the injury imo, he would have won it by miles.

You could be right......If he wins the KG it'll be hard to say no to the Gold Cup I suppose....

Of more concern has to be the form of the Tizzard horses. I don't think they have had a winner this season. Handy Andy ran respectably last week, but that is about it. Is there still some sort of bug in the stable?

"I think he would and will win a Gold Cup. Reason he stopped in the KG was the injury imo, he would have won it by miles."

This is my thinking, too.

If I was having a punt, I'd rather take the 8's for the KG than the 12's for the GC.

This is from the 23rd Dec with Sid James last year.

King George VI Chase NRNB (EW 1/4 1,2,3): 3 Cue Card, Dynaste 7/2 Al Ferof 9/2 Silviniaco Conti 10 Long Run 14 Mount Benbulben 16 Riverside Theatre 25 Menorah 40 Champion Court

To win King George and 2014 Cheltenham Gold Cup: 16 Cue Card 20 Dynaste 25 Al Ferof, Silviniaco Conti

CUE CARD will once again start his season in Exeter's Vix Technology Haldon Gold Cup next Tuesday, with Daryl Jacob taking the ride on the eight-year-old for the first time.

Third last year to Somersby and winner of the Grade 2 in 2012, Cue Card will be having his first start since last December, having been out of action with a minor stress fracture to the pelvis.

Speaking on Wednesday, the trainer said: "He's been to the Haldon Gold Cup for the last two years, two miles two is probably a bit short of his optimum nowadays but we need a race before the Betfair Chase.

"It worked lovely last year so we're doing the same again."

Tizzard's son Joe partnered Cue Card on all 20 of his previous starts, but as he is now retired Daryl Jacob, who was snapped up as retained rider for owners Bob and Jean Bishop over the summer, takes the ride.

Last year's winner Somersby also features among the 11 entries for the Haldon Gold Cup, with Balder Succes and God's Own other possible runners.

Thanks for that, yeast.

I'm feeling nervous

Good luck Cue Card and Daryl.

Hope he was badly in need of that run!!!

I wouldn't pay any attention to the Haldon. Total prep run over wrong trip. He was beaten well last year and horses weren't needing it as bad as they are this term. Also horses often run a bit below themselves in their first run after a wind op.

A return to the right trip, hopefully not too bad ground and we'll see him put up a proper performance. Was hoping he'd drift more than half a point for betfair after defeat today.

The Betfair will see Cue Card in a better light, but I think he might still need that run to be spot on.  Jacob was pushing from a fair way out and 2m is more than likely too short now anyway.  Far too early to write off though.

I hope he will improve but I was a at Exeter today and I was a bit disappointed in the run. I know he was giving quite a lot of weight to the first two but still beaten a long way. Gods Own was really impressive.

Seriously!!! I mean then nothing will win the Betfair Chase.

Sil Conti - poor ftp
Taquin - poor fto
Cue Card - poor fto
Holywell -poor fto

Maybe the trick is to miss your intended prep runs ala Dynsate and save your poor run for the Betfair itself.


Oh and Boston Bob, Uxizandre etc.. are also to be written off due to poor first runs. Look it's clear the warm summer means the top horses are needing it more than the trainers thought. The main aims for all the horses I've mentioned above are to come. They all just needed their preps. Judge them on their main winter aims.

There will be some pretty disappointed trainers after the Betfair?????

I've only just had chance to watch the race from yesterday.

I was very happy with Cue Cards run and very happy with the ride that Daryl gave him.

I thought he jumped much better than he did in this race last year.

I'm feeling very optimistic that Cue Card can get back to where he was last season before his injury.

I think his trainer was more pleased after this year's Haldon Gold Cup run than he was last year.

Cue Card fans have a lot to look forward too

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I've been looking for news on how Cue Card is this morning after yesterday's run.

Hopefully he has come out of the race well.

To my surprise I found he has his own Twitter account

He hasn't tweeted anything so far this morning. He's probably still in bed

Oh, my point of posting was to ask if anyone hears anything can they please post it on here. Thank you

Obviously isn't going to stay the gold cup trip. Ryanair got to be the plan now ?

head carriage looking worse than ever.

Not as good as he was,looks to me.
Wont be having any of my hard earned thats for sure,not until he shows better signs of form.

As i suspected,He's no longer top class unfortunately

Well, 12's+ looks a reasonable price for the KG. The Exeter race was way too short, and it looked to me like he was short of puff at the end on Saturday. A bit like me when I start running again after my fortnight of beer & eating out in Tenerife.

I'm going to have a go. If he turns up he'll be 8's or short & trade lower than that, so worth a few quid. Too early to write him off.

Problem here though is last season Cue Card ran a fairly similar sort of race getting beaten same sort of distance at Exeter,but then ran a stormer to win at Haydock.This season however hes got beaten a long way at Haydock, which suggests a drop in ability. Hes also been out injured.
Of course he could get his form back and if a price is considered good enough to take a chance on that happening,fair enough.

The way Sconti finishes off his races at 3m,Cue Card will have to be right at the top of his game at Kempton....right now hes clearly nowhere near that.

Cue Card has never nor ever will be a stayer,The day Bobs Worth outstayed him over 2m4f at Newbury (2011) when he was legless on the run in confirmed that imo