Hurricane Fly

...with three minders

could win this

No doubt why Ruby prefers to ride in Ireland at the moment. Assuming this wins, he will have collected E10k today.

£1.5m in prizemoney

yes easy money aint it

1/16 too short for any horse race

Willie Mullins Trifecta.lmao

stupid race when mullins has 4 out of 5 lol

the youngsters are going to get him this year innit?

did n't ping the last, ballooned it.

If the 2nd had of jumped the last well........

he still would've won

Not saying he wouldn't but would have been a lot closer.

Looked like a slow pace and HF rising ten doesn't need an extended sprint.
Did ok there for a seasonal debut but I'll be surprised if he can win the CH again.

19 wins from 22 races , similar statistics to Istabraq . 17 Grade 1's some record.
A true superstar ,but will be tested at Cheltenham by The Tother One to name but one imo.

Race was very slow , no horse or athlete runs away from a field if all have lots of energy left at the end . Race told us nothing as expected.

How many of those Grade 1s were Grade 1 in anything other than name?

Hurricane Fly has been a great horse but there has not been a proper CH contender in Ireland since 2010 (when Hurricane Fly was injured).

Not a lot can be done to make racing consistently competitive at the top level. ( Think of Frankel -who people said spent much of his time just beating Excelebration )
For one thing true Gr.1 horses are by definition rare . Then many of the top horses are in the same yard so they get spread out and don't meet each other. In some cases trainers are loath to take on champions in case they get a harsh readjusted handicap mark.
It kinda makes a case for more limited Gr.1 handicaps  which Americans are much readier to accept.