Andrew from sweden

It was a poor call, but one that I guess many would have made at the time I did. I wouldn't write him off, the winner is useful, Faugheen looked a bit burly, the ground was heavy in places and it was his first race of the season. He will be a different horse next time out and I still think he will win the CH.

not machines Andrew , think i already gave you the champion hurdle winner few months back

Correct, horses are not machines (Frankel excepted ) but it's way too early to discount Faugheen, even Mullins and Walsh were both mystified. Maybe something will be discovered later in the week, but maybe it's just one of those things that happens in racing occasionally.

Ironically Faugheen got beat going for his 11th straight hurdle win, the same number that Sprinter Sacre was going for when he was surprisingly beaten at Kempton in 2013 - and both first run of the season !

Andrew from Wisbech sezs hi

Hi Ghostie Andrew

Went to Sweden once, was only a kid my Brother had a girlfriend called Shastan think is the right spelling cant rem much about it it was over 45 years ago.

He meet her when she came over here fruit picking, sadly they split up.

Can rem 2 things . . Her house was near a railway track and i threw up on the ferry . . . Thats it

Based on your recollection, it may be difficult for me to discover where in Sweden you were

cant your brother rem

you missed a trick ,before abba

Died 10 years ago mart

the ground was heavy in places and it was his first race of the season
surely that applies to the winner aswell?bit like when England get beat at football and blame conditions yet other team managed fine

warhan, my point was that heavy conditions may have suited the winner more than Faugheen, and maybe he was more forward at this stage of the season (although he had been trounced in a gallop last week). That wasn't Faugeens true running, he travelled OK for 10f, but never looked like he was the current champion hurdler thereafter (although he stayed on again in the last 100 yds). He didn't jump 2 of the last 3 hurdles well either, if he had, I probably wouldn't be typing these words now.

faugheen is a poor jumper, always has been, luckily his jumping never got put under pressure in the champion last year because they went plumpton bumper pace

Faugheen is no Night Nurse, but he's not a poor jumper by any means

sorry too here about that ghostie

I reckon Ghost you couldnt resist all that cheap booze on the ferry - probably the one from Gothenburg to Frederikshavn where everyone used to get pi$$ed before half-way