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How anyone can say Hes outclassed Apache is totally beyond me.
Apache is still on the bridle jumping the last,taken it up after the last and simply not got home. Don Poli is being ridden before the last, and ridden all the way up the run in,and simply outstayed Apache. Apache needs to go back in trip.Big player in the JLT,if they have the sense to run him there. |
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Totally agree Budd, Apache still 20s with BV for JLT big price imo.
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I don't think it's as simple as just a case of Apache not getting home. He'll probably prove better at 2m 4f given he was quite keen early yesterday but Don Poli was pricking his ears coming to the last, Cooper happy to let him pop it and he's won pretty snug in the end. If the race had been two furlongs shorter I'm not sure the result would have been any different. I've taken the view that these are two top novice chasers and took 20/1 Apache for the JLT today, huge price. Loved the way he jumped in particular, not spectacular by any means but very quick from A to B. He has improved with each run this season and the faster pace of a Cheltenham race should see him in an even better light.
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Yeh its a good price if he runs in it,but connections may still go RSA.
Think they would be mad to go RSA myself,but I have enough doubt to not take the price right now. |
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Some of these horses won't appear.....injury, lack of form, it happens every year. However, assuming the main players make it, the problem with the JLT is that this will be Valseur Lido's likely target. I think they'll all be very wary (including Mullins with Vautour) of taking him on at that trip. He and Don Poli have been the 2 most impressive novice chasers in Ireland this season. If the ground remains slow, I wouldn't be surprised to see VL have his Cheltenham prep in the Irish Arkle.
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Could be Vautours target, maybe Gilgamboa as well,plus a fair few more......this race could end up the race of the festival.
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I think it's a case of not understanding different jockeys styles tbh.
Class in a race horse doesn't mean being on the bridle. That's an incredible naive opinion but we're all entitled to one. It's clearly not a debate worth having though. |
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After AS's previous race I was of the opinion that he wanted 3 miles and sure enough he ran a cracker...but the fact is that he travelled like a dream through the race but couldn't finish it off, the closing part of the race was not his strongest, yes you can argue that he stayed the trip, but every horse will stay any trip relatively speaking but here he showed that he is vulnerable to a "better" stayer....with that in mind you must assume that around cheltenham there will be at least one horse who will prove capable of exposing that frailty.
Also, Meade commented after the previous race that he was keen to keep him down in trip but said that if he raced over Christmas he'd have to step him up to 3, so perhaps he had his reservations about the trip.....Sunday would only have confirmed those concerns if they did exist. Judging by the way he travelled through the race, you'd be more than happy to be with him back in trip in the JLT. |
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Hope you are correct Duffy re Jlt.
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Meade says he's thinking about running him in the Irish Arkle.
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