What's happened to Colonel Mustard

dining room, candle stick, miss scarlet

reformed character

Beaten 3 lengths by stateman in the county hurdle receiving only 1 lb

Can’t remember many times seeing horses of that ability finishing so slowly.

heavy & worn ground normal

rince ri 2nd ericsson chase hard to match on that score

Great call wondersobright I remember him there were a few very slow chasers around then who ran in gold cups.

Mind you he beat a real good one that day.

yes that was v wet winter & spring that ssn red mauraders national in the spring

Colonel always looked golden and yellow and hungry, but he was somewhat intelligent in teeth and beautiful in soul.

Here are some of the equally slow chaser around that time that over achieved for the pace they had.
Truckers tavern
Lord noelie
Hussard collonges
Harbour pilot
Commanche court

And the daddy of them all sir Rembrandt

Ramptan has let them out early today

Commanche Court won a Triumph

yes & an irish national winner

tiger roll before tiger roll except CC wasn't a little rat

He did Duffy but I just think at the time around best mate was winning his gold cups the group of staying chasers were basically plodders but between them achieved plenty

Just slow...I mean Just So

About to find out if Kopek Des Bordes can jump.

Yes just so against sir Rembrandt would have been some race.

Duffy just looked back at commanche court’s triumph win ,I would say possibly the worse triumph ever only shooting light when pipe got him and sent him chasing ever achieved anything worthwhile

Earth Summit another really slow horse. Hence his GN winning time.

Martin Pipe and RSA winner "I PlOD ON"

Certainly recency bias, but Mr Vango is up there for the slowest useful horse I have seen over the jumps.

Would have been fun over the old GN conditions.

Party Politics another useful big boat.

Sir Rembrandt nearly caught Best Mate, who I loved having followed him from a 5yo.  Then along came Kauto and Denman to show us how lucky he had been to face such modest opposition.  Still a great training effort though.

Best Mate remains the slickest jumper I have ever seen. Never exuberant, just efficient. Somehow he had a technique that I've never seen another horse replicate. Only Bino over hurdles came close, for me.

I agree 100%.  I have said so on here before and been rocketed.  I only ever saw him make one mistake and it was in the KG with AP on board.  And it was a slight one which he overcame no bother.

Didnt Hen sack him after that or did I imagine it?

Best mate the last auntie post winner I had, the 1st time

Don’t think so.  He only rode it that day as Culloty was unavailable.

One of the ploddiest of races and finish in relation to the stature of the race and one I always put up for top jockey performance to get the horse home was Dickie Johnson's effort in getting Flaship Uberalles over the line in the Champion Chase, the horse hated every second of it that day and it certainly didn't look much like the finish of a Queen Mum.

Culloty was banned for that race.

Duffy -Good call with Flagship Uberalles-it was like the finish of a Welsh National.

How many Ryanair’s would the 2nd horse that day have won if the race was around then ?

Nativeupmanship was another who could have done with a Ryanair in his day too as too would Strong Promise.

Time For Rupert trained by Paul Eebber got slower with every run.

That’s the horse I’m referring to Duffy he was 2nd behind flagship

Yes of course sorry,I've watcched it over and over again and still forgot about him running on past Cenkos