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Must admit through Irish Point thought that had a bit to do
to win today.
Good to see someone different on the board though.

Willmount was impressive at Newbury today. He was described as "different league" by Hendo in his win. The Tolworth Hurdle would have been next but for being moved to Aintree on Boxing Day which clashes with the King George (Shishkin) at Kempton meaning Nico cannot be at both meetings on the same day.

What an interested dilemma for Nico?

I'd think so too. In the past Altior went to the Supreme Trial, and Constitution Hill to The Tolworth prior to Cheltenham Festival.

Boom or bust tomorrow if Sandown gets the go ahead; Nico is onboard. Otherwise Tolworth at Aintree on Boxing Day (without Nico).

The Tolworth has been renamed The Formby, to add insult to injury.

Other way round - he took his name from the location scrawled on the side of a coal train. Anyway, Henderson is now moaning about the logistics of getting horses to Aintree on Boxing Day....

He’s not punter friendly,,,,the ITV crew think the sun shines out of his rear end

Mullins after stating that he is considering sending El Fabiolo to Ascot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c__-8KKbcE

Hendo intimated at the backend of last season a "discussion" with owner of CH about a possible reroute to fences. However, he stated later it was not even discussed. I think all this was for the benefit of his bookie sponsor. I believe (I cannot be totally precise) he informed punters on his sponsor's website about Altior non-appearance at a key race against a Nicholl's runner.

In the future I'd like ask Hendo to keep his gob shut, and to allow punters to risk their money without his constant pontification about his star charges race plan.

There was a Welsh Grand National trial run on Saturday, if that can be run 2 weeks before that slog why can't a 2 mile hurdler manage it, especially one that would have barely come off the snaff??

It was the sensible thing to do on Saturday to scratch Constitution Hill.

Do not understand what all the fuss is about.

Don't know where you saw that Impossible, it's 2 miles and half a furlong.

Sorry 'strontium' I was looking at the Grand national Meeting. Sorry, old age!

It's given as 2 miles 103 yards on the BHA fixtures site and in the pattern book.

The race that no one with any pretension on winning at the festival wants to win.

'strontium' thanks. You're correct. The Formby is a 2m race. I hope Aintree has corrected their website.

I think Hendo wants Nico to ride Willmount in his next race. Any appropriate race in the New Year for him?

Willmount is running in the Introductory Hurdle race (12:40) at Newbury on 30th Dec.

What about the turkey

'strontium', put it down to old age; some elderly can be quite demanding. However, I do not think it was Aintree. I think it's more the day of the race as Nico cannot be 2 places at the same time; I think there ought to be more Gd 1 races up North tbh.

The Introductory Hurdle is sponsored by a bookie. The bookies are running horseracing in the UK. As such, they are dictating where and when races are run.

I speak the same lingo as the Junior Minister in Ireland on the Irish Gambling Regulation Bill.

Mr James Browne suggested the Irish Racing Industry was being led by the bookmakers. He also said only about 15 years ago advertising in horseracing events came from non-gambling companies. He said: "I know there's always been gambling with racing but this thing of being solely reliant on gambling companies is a recent event. There's a question mark there of the business sense of ending up with this narrow dependency on one industry. I think you'll find other companies who will want to go into that ad space".

I cannot agree more. The horseracing industry is lazy, and the bookies are exploiting this inadequacy of the industry. The bookies are laughing all the way to the bank using horseracing to facilitate fobt - their no 1 profit maker.