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TOMMYSTEEL

This should revolve around three of them.

TOMMYSTEEL , HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL & TARTAN SNOW

TOMMYSTEEL

Is probably just the form horse here.
Won two Hunters last season in good style, one where it beat another runner here in HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL  ( slightly favoured by the weights this time)  after nearly unseating the rider two out, a cracking effort after what had happened…….and beat SOME LAD in the other.

This season it has had three runs already, it actually started off in a handicap chase against Brave Spartacus ( won yesterday)..tailed off over a trip far too short & needing the run.
Next time out it was back in a P2P against some good horses, again well beat but the form of that race is working out well….

Last time,after the benefit of those 2 runs… again in a P2P it beat a very decent horse in COQUET HEAD (a winner the time before)..making all & staying on well….. COQUET HEAD is a stable mate of HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL, so we have some idea of how the form is working out.
COQUET HEAD had beaten SOME LAD around 8L last season…..TOMMYSTEEL beat the same horse around 12L  in a Hunter Chase. ……

HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL

It was actually odds on fav on its seasonal P2P debut, leading when falling mid race, last time out it was well beat, again against a decent horse in Sea Scout.
As above, it has already been beat by TOMMY STEEL , but is favoured by the weights here, but would have been beaten easier if TOMMY STEEL did not walk through the 2nd last.
I suspect that BOTH  might prefer better ground though,
They both ran on the same P2P card last time, with HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL running in the much quicker race, albeit being well beat.

TARTAN SNOW

Not really sure that this is its trip, even though it was just touched off last time over 3m by SACRED MOUNTAIN  …another stable mate of HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL… that race was run at a pedestrian pace & might find this a bit harder.

Just cant see anything else getting into it, unless something has  improved on what it has shown lately.

There is not much between TOMMY STEEL & HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL , but everything points to TOMMYSTEEL just shading it…TS is usually a decent jumper, whereas HC often hits a one, that could make the difference,
T. Davidson rides again here, has ridden TS in its points & both its Hunter wins…not the most stylish it has to be said, but the horse runs for him.
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Report bf_fananatic March 2, 2013 4:58 AM GMT
I have it to these three and some basic predictions of winning chance.

     5:25          Chance   
    Tartan Snow         39%   
    Highland Cathedral         23%   
    Red Kingdom         20%   


Field chance view( blanks are less than 2% chance)

Runner                  Chance

Back On The Road     6.63
Red Kingdom     20.46
Tartan Snow     38.58
Tommysteel     13.87
Highland Cathedral     22.58
Ocarina     3.99
Supreme Builder     2.36
Waterski     0.00
Report bf_fananatic March 2, 2013 5:09 AM GMT
In view of the prices, the tissue is pretty tight and only profitable value

would be red kingdom win and place (15.3)irrespective of the outcome, worse in value would be Tommy steel at

14% chance and "cut in" by exchange layers at (4.04) Wink



Also Tommy steel prefers good ground and the soft going makes him a great lay prospect unless he drifts like a barge!
Report allpoints March 2, 2013 8:27 AM GMT
Here's my view of the race.
As Koi says it's a three horse race(Red Kingdom will not get the trip around here)
However I think Tartan Snow should win this.He's had a couple of runs & was bt last time by Sacred Mountain,who in my opinion is a better horse(when right than Highland Cathedral,both Waltons)In fact when Sacred Mountain is right he's a decent animal so to get as close as it did last time Tartan Snow put up a fair performance.Highland Cathedrals latest run was very disappointing.It may have been a fair time but it was a Ladies race where they only carry eleven stone.
As for Tommy Steele it only won a members race last time & Victors horses aren't firing yet this year.
Report pauli March 2, 2013 8:56 AM GMT
Thanks for the preview koi, very interesting as always.  Thanks for your comments allpoints.  Gives me something to think about later.  Good luck lads.
Report koikeeper March 2, 2013 5:11 PM GMT
bf seems to know hi stuffWhoops
Report MadVlad March 2, 2013 5:16 PM GMT
did TS to beat HC at 2.1 in the a v b market.
Report StillLearning March 2, 2013 5:18 PM GMT
I've backed Oscarina, but I know feck all Shocked

gl
Report sparrow March 2, 2013 5:24 PM GMT
Back on the Road to place for me
Report halcyon days March 2, 2013 5:32 PM GMT
Should of done your top rated bf-fanantic  !
Report Deltâ March 2, 2013 5:32 PM GMT
WD allpoints!
Report Stevie Gerrard March 2, 2013 5:32 PM GMT
good call allpoints
Report koikeeper March 2, 2013 5:34 PM GMT
WD Allpoints Wink
Report easygold March 2, 2013 5:37 PM GMT
tommysteele soft ground ??????
Report pauli March 2, 2013 5:43 PM GMT
Well done allpoints, good call.
Report top2rated March 2, 2013 5:50 PM GMT
Well done winners.

However it appears someone has blotted their copybook.......

||% chance
6.63
20.46
38.58
13.87
22.58
3.99
2.36
0.00


Total:  108.47%  Shocked
Report holywell March 2, 2013 6:01 PM GMT
top2,

I noticed that early this morning, but, didn't highlight the issue for fear of a torrent of posts from bf. He must have an issue with one of his formulas in Excel, no doubt he will tell us what the issue is and how he will fix it. Cry

Well done bf for flagging up the winner.Cool
Report Pre-Fat-Low-Fat-Foods March 2, 2013 6:08 PM GMT
Well Done Allpoints.
Report miprixabloater March 2, 2013 6:26 PM GMT
Who is the best Hunter chase man?  Kohaku or Koikeeper.
Report 11kv March 2, 2013 6:45 PM GMT
Has Kohaku gone pay per view ?
Report BERLINGTONBERTIE March 2, 2013 6:51 PM GMT
Where is Kohaku now?
Knew the score on point to points? Or is Koi the same?
Report miprixabloater March 2, 2013 6:52 PM GMT
At one point last year he was 180 pts up.  He put up 2 horses for a forecast

they finished 1st and 2nd at 14s and 16s the forecast paid plenty.
Report 11kv March 2, 2013 7:07 PM GMT
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Ive got to be careful about anything I say ..Got private messages from Weatherbys on JFF

They were not pleased with me.
Report koikeeper March 2, 2013 7:23 PM GMT
Kohaku still posts, but not on here..the reason is obvious!
Report seaview March 2, 2013 7:24 PM GMT
Ive only been following them for about 4yrs.
Remember once kohaku put up a horse at muss,forget the name,began with B ,but it won at 50's.thought i better start watching for them.many many at great prices.
Last big winner was the foxhunter cappa bleu.think he told us when he was on at 12

I look on the other forum,but someone said he's packed up.
Report miprixabloater March 2, 2013 7:32 PM GMT
koi, I thought he had packed in, can you please inform where he posts.
Report RN March 2, 2013 7:50 PM GMT
seaview

I suspect the horse beginning with B was the grey Belem Ranger in 2008. I remember being at Musselburgh for that race. It hadn't done much over regulation fences before that but managed a couple of wins after that and ran passably well at Aintree.

RN
Report koikeeper March 2, 2013 7:56 PM GMT
Dont want to post it  on here as to where he posts now.....he still looks in here & I suppose he will post if he wants to.
Report seaview March 2, 2013 8:20 PM GMT
RN.

Thanks.yes that was the one.

didnt do much after that either.Must have been pretty poor opposition at muss for him to think that had a fair chance.probably had a little bit of form somewhere.
Report miprixabloater March 2, 2013 8:40 PM GMT
koi, if kohaku still posts somewhere surely he would like to be read

otherwise why post?
Report allpoints March 2, 2013 9:45 PM GMT
Thanks lads
However why I've come back on here is to answer a couple of your questions.
Kohaku stopped posting on here because of the grief he was getting.He's getting on a bit & his wife wasn't in the best of health & he was a full time carer for her.He had plenty on his plate without getting grief on here.He still posts on Jumping For Fun where there's no hassle.We all give our opinions on there without the stupid snide remarks which are given out here.Of course we have our fallouts but there's not the slanging that there is on here.
As for Belem Ranger,he wasn't a bad horse upto 2ml 5f but he was struggling after that although he could get an easy 3ml.Since he retired he's gone into Hunter Trials or something like that & he's won a couple of those.
Report bf_fananatic March 3, 2013 12:46 PM GMT
Great write up by the OP and allpoints and tartan snow got the race this time and at my forecast 39% and
the odds it was actually profitable but had the going of been better then KoiKeepers choice would
of run a much better race.

In respect of my percentages not adding up to 100% and sometimes I get slightly more well i am

fully aware of this as the formula needs debugging and its early days with this type of chance representation

and the work that all form guys do using any methods is immense and I will admit that Koi keeper is far far

better than me at Hunter chase races as I am but a novice and I have a lot to learn...
Report Virgin March 3, 2013 12:52 PM GMT
kohaku

Regards if you're reading and good luck ........
Report BIG GURU March 3, 2013 12:54 PM GMT
Seaview I remember that one that Kohaku gave at 50's,I had it at 64 on here,still my biggest winner on here(I think)it was amazing,Kohaku was giving great tips and was probably 100+ points up and still the forum clowns managed to get rid of him.
Report miprixabloater March 3, 2013 1:04 PM GMT
BIG GURU, kohaku was a good judge of hunter chases but he went down the pay per view

route and although at first in that medium he did put up a good show, health problems

with both his wife and himself seem to make him neglect his hunter chase commitments

and towards of 2011 season his selections always seemed to get turned over.
Report BIG GURU March 3, 2013 1:08 PM GMT
Can't remember the PPV thing I do remember him being hounded,no-one can consistently get it right.
Report 1st time poster March 3, 2013 1:10 PM GMT
10 losing favs or 2nd favs out of 13 anygood, Wink
Report koikeeper March 3, 2013 1:11 PM GMT
It seems whatever happens on here there are those that will have a go....

Put up a fav & it wins....slated for putting up a fav.....even though the majority have no idea about P2P/Hunter chase form.
Put up a fav & it loses... slated for putting up a loser
Put up a loser at any price, slated because its beat..

its the nature of the beast!
Report bf_fananatic March 3, 2013 1:12 PM GMT
Its best to be thick skinned if posting your picks as all forums will have the full spectrum of

personalities contained and on days that you might make a loss the odds of someone posting in search of emotional feedback

which is irrelevant in the real world of gambling as opposed to the clinical long term progression of profit comments

go up ten fold.


I will say one thing and that is I love the aspect of not only penetrating the weakness of Books accuracies

but sometimes running a muck with the wonderful odds on offer at all betting arenas.Wink
Report 1st time poster March 3, 2013 1:12 PM GMT
well when you put one up at any price we,ll decide, Wink
Report koikeeper March 3, 2013 1:15 PM GMT
I have yet to see 1TP  put up anything with any logic/reasoning  behind it.....maybe because he has no idea of horse racing...

Different story when he is starting meaningless thread ...always having a go at something/someone...its all negativity with him...
Report miprixabloater March 3, 2013 1:16 PM GMT
BIG GURU kohaku was a guy who took profits, if he was confident his selection would run

a race and at some time or another would show he always had two lays in one to recover

his stake and another at a shorter price to show all green, he was and probably a master at this.
Report bf_fananatic March 3, 2013 1:17 PM GMT
KK I have decided not to post on your threads anymore as I hold the same respect for you as top3man

who is also brilliant at rating the NH and good luck at the forth coming festivalHappy
Report 1st time poster March 3, 2013 1:18 PM GMT
thats a forum negative ,positive,if its all the same either way it dont work,

you obviously fancy yourself as a good judge with something to offer hence the reason you post ,so even you must admit your on a dreadful run at the prices you play at
Report koikeeper March 3, 2013 1:18 PM GMT
1st time poster 03 Mar 13 13:12
well when you put one up at any price we,ll decide


Dont need you to decide anything...I put up what I think will win, regardless of price, but like I said..you are all negativity, so it stands to reason that there is going to be a post from you regardless!
Report koikeeper March 3, 2013 1:20 PM GMT
1st time poster 03 Mar 13 13:18
thats a forum negative ,positive,if its all the same either way it dont work,

you obviously fancy yourself as a good judge with something to offer hence the reason you post ,so even you must admit your on a dreadful run at the prices you play at

LaughLaugh still over £1000 up at level stakes...still 4 month to go...
Report miprixabloater March 3, 2013 1:23 PM GMT
koi, that is what counts and you are 10 pts to the good a sound achievement.
Report posy March 3, 2013 1:25 PM GMT
Most unusual that the 2 most informative posters on hunter chases are named kohaku and koikeeper....is it a coincidence that a kohaku is a breed of koi ??

Is there a connection between these two experts ?
Report sparrow March 3, 2013 1:26 PM GMT
1st time poster will decide for himself and nobody else.
Report koikeeper March 3, 2013 1:27 PM GMT
miprixabloater

Same happened last season, with results you couldnt predict in jan/feb....soon picked up though..I think it was 13-13 straight wins around march/april
Report 1st time poster March 3, 2013 1:27 PM GMT
yeh back koh,s and lay kois, Wink

only joking
Report koikeeper March 3, 2013 1:28 PM GMT
Posy, no connection, just a coincidence lol
Report posy March 3, 2013 1:29 PM GMT
lol !
Report miprixabloater March 3, 2013 1:32 PM GMT
koi, I know for a fact that kohaku never missed going to ptp within a

100 miles or so radius of where he lived in Cornwall, do you do the same.?
Report bf_fananatic March 3, 2013 1:35 PM GMT
The biggest factor that affects horses runs and market return variables is

also the most over-looked and it affects all outdoor sports.

Seasonal effects!


Its reason why say in the peak of the turf season when the ground is drying up

that you have the smallest average returned prices and in October as the turf game winds down that you have the largest

returning prices.
Report Dr Gonzo March 3, 2013 1:38 PM GMT
Well that pledge lasted all of 18 minutes Laugh
Report koikeeper March 3, 2013 1:39 PM GMT
mip, no mate, just havent got the time, but do keep on top of all the form.
Report miprixabloater March 3, 2013 1:41 PM GMT
koi, you are doing well then, keep up the good work.
Report Dr Gonzo March 3, 2013 1:42 PM GMT
Agreed koi. Win or lose, always find your analysis an interesting read.
Report bf_fananatic March 3, 2013 1:44 PM GMT
I ment DR Gonzo that I wont be posting my view of the race on others threads as I have

come to the conclusion that if I am not at a point of creating my own threads then why

dish out my stuff on other members threads in terms of ratings when all it does

is cloud each individual threads worth, its a matter of respect so Dr Gonzo you

might be out of your depth on this one, though I do like your humor on the wholeWink
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