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MJK. soft and sticky.
Watching from a tv screen!!!! Times say it was good to soft at worst. Maybe slightly quicker. The fences are too big for him. Simple as that. |
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softer than soft ground with jonbon 4s above std vincenzo 6s above std 2m 5f & with a bit of added yardage too
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yes bran concur with you re chase track times g/s worst you could call it prob between good & g/s
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I just thought IET was out of this comfort zone throughout due to the faster pace he wasn’t used to. Very similar to when he ran in Arkle and struggled to keep up behind GW.
His previous 3 races where he showed a potent turn of foot to win were steady affairs while today race put his jumping under pressure throughout. |
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^ this
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dickster get a grip ya silleekhúnt...even if 3 people knew it woundnt win it wouldnt have been anywhere near 2/5 ffs.
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You can’t analyse anything till it’s happened ? Just reacting to the outcome and why it might have played out like it did.
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Why was Il Etait Temps below form?
His jumping will go down as one of the reasons for this defeat, but why was he not at his best in that department? Rain had turned the ground soft and his very best form – his Tingle Creek-winning form last time out – came on quicker conditions, while this was run at a high tempo of the sort he has simply not been used to. Timeform records show his lowest finishing speed over fences prior to Saturday was 101.9% in the Arkle at the Cheltenham Festival, when he was third to Gaelic Warrior, and it could be that such a quick pace found him out. On top of this, Ascot remains a true jumping test, the fences still catch good horses out like other top-level tracks simply don’t, and this diminutive little grey might just have found it all too much. Mind you, Gidleigh Park is at the other end of the physical specimen scale and he struggled as well. Out to 8/1 for the Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, it’s too early to be striking lines through him for such a contest. But seeing him struggle here obviously casts a doubt against his credentials and he might want better ground and/or a slightly less frenetic gallop if he’s to bounce back on March 11. |
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You can throw in the fact we know that IET hates Cheltenham.
For Jonbon, if that wasn't a step me up to the Ryanair run from him today I don't know what was, FTF is a stumbling block in the same colours of course but we also know that Jonbon isn't the greatest fan of Cheltenham but being able to go a stride slower in what looks a weak race depth wise must be the sensible move. As Marine Nationale, he went to sleep tonight with a dirty great grin across his chops. |