Possibly the 2 falls can be attributed to different factors, Who knows ..
I imagine yogi will be in the indoor school with him and nico as they will leave no stone unturned trying to eradicate the issue.

As we know, practice makes perfect so some intensive gridwork with the pair of them would be my bet.

It's not what I would call an 'artificial process ' Paulo.  It's real !  It has no bearing on being under race conditions. It teaches the horse to listen to the riders instructions and when done loose or on a lunge or with nico dropping the reins it will make the horse think for itself and put its feet in the right place.
Then repeat and repeat until the horse can do it right every time.
It will then take the lessons learned and apply them to the racecourse at speed.

You will never learn anything doing it at racing speed.

It was obvious at Aintree that he had been schooled beforehand and fiddled a couple of hurdles which indicated he had learned from the schooling. The problem is if they school him too intensively to fiddle the obstacles they may dent his most potent weapon which is his slick, low hurdling?

practice makes perfect
they don't school at 34 mph surrounded /crowded by other horses doing 34mph,and from now on presumably making it as difficult as possible for Nico aty the hurdles

In your case oneten maybe Boo Boo would be more help to temper your holier than thou BS? As far as I remember you suddenly appeared on here looking for advice on how to get your children back and now you are the resident insider expert?

If you say so but you have spouted about reading a race on a 4" screen etc, reading a horses mind and other such drivel and yet just because you consider others beneath you expect it all to be accepted?

Not if I say so, I can prove it.
I'm not a braggard and not going to start now. And before you misconstrue my previous comments about Yogi , I was not a show jumper. He was my show jumping trainer when I evented.
Yogi and I go way back to LS at WS.
So mars bar if you can work out the initials.

And the reason why he is so good is he can see things the horses are doing and thinking by the smallest of nuances that others cant. That is why he is so highly revered as an international coach. It is highly likely when you train with someone for many years, you'd expect some of it to rub off on you .   

Yes, I could see that horse thinking about ducking out and hanging the other week on a 7inch screen.  Probably because I've been schooled by one of the best, that I have learnt to see things in the way he does, so I'm sorry if others can't see it as well. 
But if you spend a lifetime riding at a high level then I'd expect to have picked up some skills along the way,  be pretty rubbish at it otherwise !

Or are you going to start to call Yogis qualifications into question as well ?
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ROFL, not a braggard but to paulo " So you think you know more than, Yogi, Nicyk and myself" ? What would you call that oneten, no honour in self praise btw.

I could cite plenty but will settle for Corky Browne and Steve Dibble, not on a par tbf but neither do I claim that my screen has grown by 3" since posting about reading a race on a 4" one.

We all know that Nicky knows best but it doesn't mean that all of us can't have our own opinion be it informed or otherwise, just like with every single other topic on the planet.

My twopenneth, the horse has fallen the last twice, was lucky the time before, so although Nicky knows best, for the moment at least the evidence shows that the problem is getting the better of him.

Cag, you really are a prize fool as you know how to ruin every thread you pop up on.
I'm going to go back to ignoring your posts as they are all pretty pointless and I have better things to do with my time than argue with you.

Irons , exactly the point I was trying to make to Paulo earlier on today before I got drawn in by cag.

My Apologies to all reading it for ruining this part of the thread.

'Cag' is a timewaster. Best to "ignore".

Don't think I've ever read imp randomly insulting anyone though, counts for a lot in my book.

“It is our intention to come to Punchestown,” said Henderson, who is no stranger to the winner’s enclosure at the Kildare track.

“It was my original plan after Cheltenham and then, he was so well, I couldn’t say no to Aintree. Thankfully, I think he’s come out of that very well and we’ve got four weeks to Punchestown. It was only three weeks from Cheltenham to Aintree.

“And don’t forget, in neither race has he actually had a race. He is very fresh at the moment. He’s as fresh as paint here. He’s in terrific shape.

“It’s a long way to go and I can’t tell you anything else at the moment, but we think he’s in good nick and all being well, we will be in Punchestown. We are looking forward to going.
It’s meant to be a great clash of two great horses – State Man and Constitution Hill – and they deserve to have a head-to-head. And we may have more if Lossiemouth, Golden Ace and Brighterdaysahead are there.

I think everyone has been talking about State Man and Constitution Hill and want to find out what happens if they turn into the straight together. Wow! That’s what it’s all about. It would be fantastic. Everybody deserves it and we would love to have that in Punchestown.”

From Nicky interview yesterday .

A mouthwatering clash that will materialise and hopefully all will manage to complete the course this time.
We have all been waiting a very long time..

We have heard the same thing twice this year already and both times have been damp squibs, will Mullins run Lossie or go for the easier prize money again? The only result worth anything will be CH stuffing them all if they turn up otherwise it will just be how he is not as good as he was and the winner will be forgotten.

Btw acey , do you get the feeling that we have no clue about racing and riding such is the depth of knowledge and experience on this thread? Tbh still trying to fathom how dressage might tie in with reading races, any idea?

LOL, that would be the norm tbf, seems though that OP gets upset if an opinion is contrary.

Acey, I know , and would normally agree . But (there is a but !) needs must .
I wish it was Cheltenham,  but sadly it wasn't to be. I wish it had been Aintree,  but it wasn't to be....  So please may the racing gods shine on us all and give us racing fans the main protagonists in the duel we so need

It sounds that Nicky is well up for it and he wants a dust up. Fighting talk from his corner, he has come out all guns blazing.

I just hope for all our sakes that the others get there and it's on.  It's been a trying season waiting to see if he is still the superstar we saw before.

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I'd wait until he actually shows up. Hendo has been bookie-talking once too often.

I like Galopin Des Champ (if he shows) esp if the ground is good to soft or softer; the surprise entry is Fact To File for the Irish Champion Chase. JP or Mr Mullins's instigation?

I cant believe im going to lower myself to your level and waste 10 minutes of my time on you when there are decent posters to reply to, but since you are like an impotent snake that slithers its way around the forum like an unwanted dose of the pox, I will answer and prove you wrong again.
(Though its so tedious doing this). 


It shows how petty and pathetic you are when the only thing you can pull me up on is I said I watched a race on a mobile phone with a 4" screen.  So after you brought it up yesterday I went online and checked my phones screen size.  Now I've wasted 2 mins of my life online and it says the screen is 6.8inches, so I corrected myself and informed you it was a 7" screen.


You were asking Acey how dressage could help me when watching a race ? If you are asking that then you really are more stupid than I thought. 
After I didn't make the British event team I went racing instead as that was my passion, (jumping fences at speed) and did as all amateurs do and got a job as assistant trainer, it was to one of the best gambling trainers (and he won a lot of big races).

Not that its any of your business.  Now I am now back in real life as I have a family to support I run a business manufacturing in the FE and importing what we manufacture (And no, Im not telling you what) into the UK from predominately China and Vietnam. 
Which is why I commented on another thread as I know what the wages are in China as I have a China office and have to pay import duty (Tariffs) and VAT on the containers we bring into the UK.   
That is why I said to someone on another thread about tariffs as it was obvious the  poster had no knowledge of the subject, so as a friendly forumite I dont mind sharing some knowledge if its on a topic which I know about.
As my "real" job encompasses tariffs from China, I added some info to help them have some understanding about how importing goods from the FE works as I suppose its not really that common a field.   

I wont make the same mistake again and get suckered in by your pathetic games so I am blocking you, as you really are a waste of space and the forum would be a far better place without you.


Apologies in advance to anyone else who has had to read this drivel, I promise I wont be sucked in again.

One ten,fantastic,

This is the why sometimes the forum is a great read.all human life,opinions,endeavours spill into  a thread.

Yes it might be a wind up,or maybe it’s all your accounts.

It’s not drivel,and please get sucked in again.its great  reading.

And why not have your two penath,
That’s your choice,post with passion or shrug shoulders and say,can’t be ars ed,

Against my better judgement I've splashed out 25p on him at 7/4 for the Punchestown Champion Hurdle in a 5-event acca. This usually is the kiss-of-death. Potential backer beware!