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So many negative stories about Ditcheat but 2 winners at Taunton moved Paul to second in the trainers table. Last season was disappointing by his standards but 10 wins from the last 39 runs is impressive.
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Very true, lets hope Kempton passes its inspection as he has a hatful running tomorrow.
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Already passed inspection trusty
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Why do you want him to run horses that probably been given some sort of injections and cant lift a leg
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His horses die on their arses 2 out every time.
They canter around stylishly and then fall out the back of the telly. STD in the plate instead of Cobden there. Same old story. Horrible day for Ditchheat. They were rubbish. |
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The multiple Champion NH Trainer clearly has much to learn from STEO.
January is rarely a month the Yard excells |
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2 fat
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Has he suddenly become a bad Trainer,STEO?
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Stupid STEO stumped
 Always a pleasure to debate with an erudite poster |
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**** off. ****.
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A distinct lack of vocabulary,STUPID STEO
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****
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STUPID STEO,thicker than an elephant's trunk
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Brought one horse to Fontwell today.
200 mile round trip. Tailed off first beaten. Waste of Diesel. |
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It’s often a slow, gradual decline. Shame because he’s been brilliant for Racing for a long time.
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Is he not second in the trainers championship?
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Is he not usually first? Has he not lost hordes of first class horses, withdrawn by two major owners? Has he not been unusually moderately to modestly successful at the festivals of recent years? Is luck not going against him in recent times, in the main?
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If so then he is in decline. As I say, a shame as his record of brilliance is there and he has been brilliant for Racing.
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Had a shedfill of fantastic horses for years, all the ammunition gone, needs new owners with deep pockets desperately.
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Agree loyal he has been great for national hunt racing he grafted he way to the top and stayed there for a long time,sir Henry as a trainer couldn’t really compete in the last few years of his career but finished with the greatest there will ever be ,hopefully Paul can get one more champion he deserves to.
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Stable jockey retained by jp next season
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No Walsh?
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Harry both uk and Ireland Penzance
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Bit of a blow to Walsh that then.
Cobden gets The New Lion ride aswell then. |
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Apparently next season
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Good move by Harry....He is a fantastic jockey imo....From the front and a waiting ride...
With Paul in decline, for some reason, owners (new and old) dont seem to like his methods, this was an offer not to be turned down. Of course he is now going to be slated for the many unexplained JP owned horses performances before the big meets. |
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Mcanus needs to sack Frank Berry
No other operation spends so much for so little return compared to others |
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Discussed a lot, many of Pumpkin's formerly loyal owners are now dead. He's never targeted Cheltenham, and that MO worked for him for a long time. But many new owners only care about C festival winners, and if you only want that and money is not object, Pumpkin isn't your first choice. Nothing stays the same forever anyway.
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I can't help but feel Nicholls has been the architect of his own demise. First, the much publicised falling out with Anthony Bromley, in favour of Tom Malone, which saw Nicholls overtaken by Henderson on 2016-17 . Then the odd decision last year to announce his daughter, with comparatively limited experience, is to source his new equine talent at the sales. The fact Cobden has flown the coop suggests the downward spiral isn't about to be arrested anytime soon.
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talking about using STD more when cobden leaves...expect the downward spiral to accelerate
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Jesus yes it will then
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Smith, Barber, Wylie, Stewart, Lewis, Hales, Findlay, Sullivan, Giles - that's an awful lot of big owners that have .either passed away or have cut back totally, or at the very least, significantly. Ditcheat was like a who's who of big owners once upon a time - even JP, Hemmings and David Johnson had the odd one there.. Going further back, you had the likes of Roach and Ogden involved.
Nicholls has always come across as volatile and he did say in a recent interview how much he missed Paul Barber's ability to calm and soothe difficult situations. He's also had a lot of body blows in recent months, i.e. Caldwell Potter out for season, Kalif's sad death, Kabral Du Mathan improving markedly for joining Skelton, Cobden's impending departure. I'd say he needs No Drama This End to put his name in lights at the big festivals or else his decline could be precipitous. I'm wary of writing him off as he came back strongly when Hendo seemed ready to swamp him around the time of Sprinter Sacre and Long Run, but Skelton could prove a tougher foe, seemingly a Nicholls mark 2, only younger and hungrier. Having said all that, I do think he is doing well enough this season with what he has at his disposal. |
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Cobden has been doing most of his winning outside the yard....or so it seemed anyway.
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Good post Iswear, also Benny. If you found yourself with a spare 300 large, which trainer would you pick to train your horse? For me, not Nicholls (respect his record) nor Henderson (ditto). It would be someone younger and more dynamic like Pauling or Owen.
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" He has never targetted Cheltenham"?
I must have missed have missed the 50 Festival winners,Cider |
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You're not an idiot. So I thought. The objective of his entire operation isn't to get Cheltenham winners. It's to maximise all opportunities.
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All top Trainers aim to get Festival winners,Cider.
The only idiotic statements was yours |
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All Hendo cares about (for example) is winners at the festival. Which Elliott stated they other day, for him was the 'be all and end all' (getting winners there). HDB and many others would be the same. It has never been the 'be all and end all' for pumpkin.
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