My own take on the race was that St Nicholas Abbet was disappointing. The Dewhurst form wasn't exactly advertised though was it?

The crazy thing abouyt the race was that aiden, again, had 2 horses in the race that were absolutley guarenteed to appreciate the race being as much as a test of stamina as possible. This is also true of Al Zir and even more so of Elusive Pimpernel.

Between them all they did not find the gumption to use a pacemaker. Esp[ecially surprising to me was that Frankie never bothered trying to nick the race from the front.

As it turned out the race was essentially run like a training gallop. The mile was run at crawl for the first half mile and then was a 3 furlong burn up at the end. Unsurprisingly with a race run like this the doubtful stayer Canford Cliffs ran a blinder and the 7 furlong horse Dick Turpin nearly managed to steal it. The winner, was French trained, and he would have loved the was the race was run, since the fench style is to have no pace at all and then a big sprint at the end.

I suppose that I would have to agree with kirk in respect tp his assertion that the Racing Post Truphy was full of horses that were unsuited to a 4 furlong sprint race on fast going. This doesn't mean though that the form of the Racing post Trophy was poor. The line through Elusive Pimpernel to at least 3 other group winners including the breeders cup Juvenile winner was just too strong for this to be sensible.