big question,who will ride faugheen in the CH if he runs

Betting has just been suspended!

The betting resumes but Annie Power is 9 for the Mares with VVM only 2, and now the Mares Hurdle has been suspended. What is going on? Is Annie Power ok? An imminent announcement to follow, I believe.

Willie yesterday  "Both Annie & Faugheen could meet each other"!!!  The guys a crook. End of story.

Last year there were late switches for Vautour, Black Hercules and Bellshill, what will it be this year?

If Faugheen does not win on sunday Yorkhill will be a near certainty to be supplemented for this race with Min rerouted to the JLT, I'd imagine.

That puts to bed Faugheen in the Stayers.

Such a shame re AP.

Now we await the aftermath,hopefully wont be too bad all the time Faugheen is still on the scene.
if hes out..........carnage!!

To put it another way

AP ruled out of chelt and poss the season, that fluctuation with yorkhill in churdle market yesterday is rather interesting now isn't it and with no one interested in faugheen in irish churdle market on bf INTERESTING

We've got Brassneck under 24 hour surveillance for his own safety

Well would you believe it !

After Petit Mouchoir hoses up on Sunday , Douvan to do a Flyingbolt ??????

There's all lot of flutes on this forum who talk about racing who haven't a f-ing clue, some suggesting annie power and faugheen race each other at home, some say faugheen hasn't a chance of racing this year because they heard it off someone else.
Racing is a tough game,try being an owner and you'll know all about it. The most likely time a horse is going to get injured at home in training is the few weeks leading up to their first race when a gun is being put to their head. When it was announced weeks ago Faugheen wasn't sparkling there was no gun to his head and people speculated he wasn't right and wouldn't race this year. The same people hoped he wouldn't just to be right.
It not to long ago half this forum were suggesting ruby would ride hurricane fly over faugheen in his first champion hurdle. And this time last year Annie Power wasn't even entered in a champion hurdle, but fair play to her she was a substitute and a half and although she won a less than average champion hurdle she did it in some style. I wish her the best in her recovery. As for Faugheen I hope he has a safe and successful return to the track and ruby once again rides him in a c.h

Yanworth won't win this, will be left for dead at the bottom of the hill
Watch The New One in the 15 and 16 CH - that will be Yanworth in March

yanworth only in the champion because jp has younowhatimeanharry for the stayers ,king wanted him for stayer so the champion hurdle  is a bit of an afterthought .

bad luck brassneck hope ya didnt have too much on

Commisserations Brassneck...it just wasn't to be.

Opatcho, you have some nice bets there but I just can't see her going the CH route even if Faugheen got knocked out. For that to happen, Limini would have to do something special before Cheltenham...enough to make her banker material for the Mares.Not saying that can't happen but, unless she does, VVM will go for the Mares regardless of Faugheen.

Good luck Opatcho, with Vroum Vroum Mag. I took a similar view to yourself as well a few months back, and have her in a similar price range 42's to 150's (22 pence at 150's I may add ). As much as you have to recognise the strength in depth of WPM's string, I just can't be bothered second guessing the targets for his big guns, only to get it wrong anyway, so I just normally take a swing (and usually a miss) at a couple of his going for less likely targets.

For what it's worth, I'd agree that it's unlikely she'll go CH, but gives you something to hope for, and if I were a betting man I'd say Yorkhill is the more likely to get re-routed.

I took a similar view with Ivan Grozny as well, and have him up to 200's as well, but I reckon they see him as very much a backup only, and they seem to be of the view he doesn't like Cheltenham, but was happy to take a chance anyway.

If Faugheen comes back though on Sunday as good as ever, then surely all academic for the rest anyway.

If Faugheen don't run in CH,then I hope they think hard about rerouting Un De Sceaux.
Possibly could be the best chance they would have without Faugheen,although I do respect Yorkhill is probably still an improver and could turn out better.
Lets face it without AP and Faugheen its wide open and Yanworth at 2nd fav says it all!!(even if I do have a nice bet on him)
One thing for sure, whether good enough or not,UDS will be exciting to watch if he runs over hurdles as he did before going chasing....catch me if you can....would be great for the race.
And the debates on here would be interesting!!!!

If no Faugheen then the lineup could look drastically different than it would have done.

You could make a case for Altior, Yorkhill, UDS, Beveur Dair, VVM or even Moon Racer being in it.

Then ones like Nichols Canyon and The New One who are 50/50 for this or the stayers could be leaning towards this.

I'm sure Ricci will want a runner in each race so I'm not sure he'd run VVM and Limini in the mares and nothing in the stayers.

Lots of twists to come I'm sure.

yes Chief a lot hinges on Faugheen,not only the CH line up,but also a fair few other races.
Supreme, JLT, Stayers, Arkle, Mares,Ryanair will probably all be affected one way or another,if Faugheen don't make it.
My antepost book(whats left of it!!)could get destroyed.

Faugheen was beaten in his 1st race last season by Nichols Canyon in the Morgiana. Let's hope he runs a sound race, win or lose.