Cheltenham Festival
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Which horse do you think was the most backed/ biggest cheered home at the festival.
Not in monetary terms,just in crowd reaction.
I didn’t back it,but the David pipe horse in the last race on one of the days,village was one of its names,even that could be wrong.won at 7/2,3/1 in the last race,Kim muir I think.
Half the track backed it.louder than when Kauto won the Betfair at haydock,which was acknowledged has one of the loudest cheered home.
Corals,betfred said next day 5 million quid loser.one of biggest losers every.
And the Hobbs horse,that won the cross country,5/1 fav.massively popular.
Sorry can’t remember exact names,sure the forum will know.
Annie power,biggest groan.
Not in monetary terms,just in crowd reaction.
I didn’t back it,but the David pipe horse in the last race on one of the days,village was one of its names,even that could be wrong.won at 7/2,3/1 in the last race,Kim muir I think.
Half the track backed it.louder than when Kauto won the Betfair at haydock,which was acknowledged has one of the loudest cheered home.
Corals,betfred said next day 5 million quid loser.one of biggest losers every.
And the Hobbs horse,that won the cross country,5/1 fav.massively popular.
Sorry can’t remember exact names,sure the forum will know.
Annie power,biggest groan.
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Dawn Run or Desert Orchid
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People cheering because the money is down will only have those people involved in the cheering, horses winning with public sentiment has a much wider breadth of people screaming them home therefore higher decibels
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Yeah and no.
My point was,half the track had money down on the pipe winner. Has for dawn run,dessie. Once you ve accepted your bet is down,you would cheer it home,but not with the same vigour has if you’d backed it. |
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comingupthehil - He had a horse called The Package that won the Kim Muir but not at such a short price as you say
It could have been Junior which was heavily punted during the day and went off 3/1 I think and won the KM a few years earlier. |
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Thanks,sure it was the package now ,not village,but sure package was 7/2,3/2 fav.
I reckon 30% backed it,if every see the Finnish,it felt like all the stand was cheering.so only backers,no emotional cheering. Can’t remember a junior winning Kim muir,but I bow to your knowledge |
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Yeah,I m wrong.it was junior,10/3. Package 9/1. Mixing memories with facts.
Package wasn’t cheered ,defo junior,it was a fav |
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Middleham park ,big group of owners,who presumably told everyone,fav,plus jj codd riding,last race,get out stakes at a backable price.
Plus it had won at royal ascot in the summer before. So a lot of reason for the plunge to get out of control. Won by 24 L. So punters cheering knowing it was home,hence the loudest, A celebration as it was coming up the hill.pardon the pun. |
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Just watched re run,commentator mentions plunge and popularity 3 times from bend,cheered at 2nd last,then when 10l clear on the bend,then roof off when jumped the last 20L..
I bet there’s not many 5/1 morning ,10/30 sp,3mile hcps at festival,that the winner was 10 clear,won 24l,plus last race.with best jockey on. Should of been 2/1,but bookies probably didn’t want it standing out banker,so took the hit, |
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One of quietest was Rule Supreme in the RSA , my mate and I looked at the trends for the first time , ignored everything else and were the only two in the Anual Members stand cheering . (Apologies for a/t )
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Pipe one was Unsinkable Boxer - backed off the boards and although a big cheer , it was almost 'expected' and so not as big as it ought to have been.
Barton winning the Sun Alliance Hurdle was nuts, it felt like everyone was on it. |
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When Pipe was asked when it was he knew UB would win , he replied "about 3 months ago"
 RE: Rule Supreme, there would have been at least one more person cheering it on in Lydia Hislop as she usually puts this one up as her favourite festival bet. Barton was the first time I had a hundred quid on a horse at 2/1, my heart was thumping and I was most certainly cheering when Graham Goode announced that the "horse with the mighty stride" took it up at the second last  |
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Unsinkable is always quoted,but at 2/1,24 runners county hurdle,again not a big percentage of the crowd would have backed it.a banker yes,but the price tends to create a bigger cheer.
The other one that surprised with a lot of the crowd cheering. Was Balthazar king in the cross country. Think it was the biggest loser in the book for years. 5/1 joint fav,a winner lto ,easy to pick,in a race punters guess a bit in. Again seemed most backed it. All the great horses,that are usually evens and look bankers,aren’t backed by a lot of the crowd,the odds put them off. Every now and then,the odd one sneaks through at a good backable price,that tick a lot of boxes for the crowd ,with a last minute bet.and it catches the bookies out when they realise too late,i |
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Unsinkable Boxer won the Pertemps.
The same year Blowing Wind won the County Hurdle completing the Imperial Cup double. He was very supported at Cheltenham. |
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Very WELL supported
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One that stands out to me was when the commentator announced Doran’s pride had hit the front on jumping 2 out in the stayers an incredible roar.
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On an individual basis the loudest person iv ever heard was a woman screaming like a crazy banshee next to me at the conclusion of the 1990 gold cup.her screaming was especially galling as I was sitting on a 4 figure ante post wager on desert orchid.it emerged she d had 50p ew on nortons coin.
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I walked into a bookies in London that day with a quid in my pocket and tossed a coin to decide whether I'd stick it on Norton's Coin and The Bakewell Boy.
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or ffs
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Desert Orchid 1989 Cheltenham Gold Cup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcCuIVn6egM&pp=ygUmRGVzZXJ0IE9yY2hpZCAxOTg5IENoZWx0ZW5oYW0gR29sZCBDdXA%3D
I was there that day. Magnificent. |
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Cue Card won the bumper at 40/1 .....you could have heard a pin drop
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I was at fontwell when cue card made his racecourse debut,Milton Harris had a runner he was backing it on course as if defeat was out of the question it finished clear of the rest of the field but a long way behind a future star.
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how is Fontwell ?
I thought it would have been lobbed out to housing by now, Its one of the loveliest quirkiest courses in the World for me , running across the infield to see St Athans Lad win again, great little course and a nice hotel on site. |
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Yes fontwell is good although by in large the racing is poor,unfortunately that nice hotel on site is now a travel lodge it must have been quite a while ago you was there irishone
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Arundel is the best place to stay for fontwell,although it’s concerning it has a shop that sells only walking sticks.
Some good restaurants there |
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always liked bognor there jimnast, although i have heard its been over run by east europeans recently , the norfolk hotel was good there, right on the front.
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Lived in bognor for a short while..same distance Fontwell and Goodwood……lived in lewisham my early life…train to Plumpton in no time right outside the track…Good memories all them days
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Was there in 89 for Dessies gold cup but sprinter sacres comeback in QM was loudest I’ve heard. Then probably honeysuckle in the mares.
Good memories of that cross country you were on about. Balthazar king, managed to grab 13/2 before it was smashed in, tbf I hadn’t had a place for first 2 days and it got me back in the game |