GAELIC WARRIOR

Mullins - similar to AOB - whne they have multiple entries - as they do often - any of them can realistically win. In fact probably worth laying the favourite or Mullins' pick at the shortest odds!

It was pulling a bit but did drop it back before bend

Age catches up with everybody,Honcho.
GDC is no exception

GW was keen enough early on, that would be a concern in a GC, think the Ryanair must come into calculations now and is going some way to holding up FTF's price on the exchanges, I think GW will be in the shorter race.

GW had his chance in the KG, it wasn't strongly run and was set up for him but in a great race he just missed.

have a feeling that following DRF form will be poorhouse in cheltenham ground conditions could be v different come march

6 weeks is a good rest

fill your boots then

Everyone seems to be missing the point, especially Bentring...........horses are living creatures with brains and not machines, therefore not only can they be affected physically after hard races on bad ground but also and most importantly, mentally, they dont forget, so when it comes to the Cheltenham Festival they remember their last race and can decide enough is enough once it gets to the tough part of trying to win that particular race, you DON'T just bottom a horse physically but you do so mentally as well.

Totally Slickster

The win of FTF has left connections a conundrum. GW or FTF in The Ryanair? Both are trained by Mr Mullins whose motto at the Festival has always been the most winnable race for his charge. As such, FTF has more chance than GW to win The Ryanair without a doubt, with or without GW.

I still believe FTF has a lesser chance in the Gold Cup. He might not even stay the distance or up the hill despite yesterday's performance. Yesterday could be an unexplained exception or the form was inferior in comparison to the King George.

I think GW will have a better chance in the Gold Cup. He rallied again in the King George at Kempton.
But, very unlikely both will run in the same race.

Bentring, I said I would worry about any horse that had a hard race and it could come back to haunt them at Cheltenham, you in your ignorance replied it was a stupid post, care to explain which part was stupid.

According to the genius Mel Brooks there were fifteen but a tablet shattered on the way down! 

“Haunt” is a rather exaggerating word imo.  A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  Dublin winners will be delighted, surely, to have won very welcome prizes there.  I wouldn’t think any winning conns. would be more than disappointed ( yet philosophical ) about losing at Cheltenham, were they to do so.  I don’t care what age stats. say, whatever beats Galopin come March will win the G.C.  So many involved with clear stamina doubts, which he hasn’t.

It was an opinion, nothing stupid about it, just an opinion and you focus on horses winning after the DRF but then the counter to that is how many didnt win after a hard race at the DRF, maybe put your point next time rather than referring to a post as stupid.

Found this comment made by Nicky Henderson about Lulamba running today in relation to previous discussion on this thread, Henderson said in his Unibet blog: "Everything is good with him, but I do hope the ground isn’t going to be desperately testing as that really wouldn’t be the best idea to give him an unnecessarily hard race before Cheltenham, comments welcome.

Now Implausible knows more than Hendo

Its just a very interesting comment from the top trainer in Britain regarding one of his star horses, no more no less and your very welcome.

A complete opposite to Altior then. I think Altior was slow to get going only in his later racing days.

Lulamba and Romeo look vulnerable to the same type of issue and we just don't know where we are with Kopek and whether he'll even make the race.

Kargeese has definitely shown that she is very quick and accurate over the fences and was getting away from Romeo continually on landing and we assume that the pace will be quick and she'll have to get the stayers out of their comfort zone and force mistakes but isn't there also the possibility of the tactic of setting a slower pace allowing her to save her speed for later allowing her to nip away late on before the stayers can get going, there's two ways to potentially get the stayers beat, force them to go quicker they they are comfortable with early on or the complete opposite and do them for toe late, they'll need the race to be run just right over this trip.

A searching pace aids a horse's stamina providing the elastic doesn't snap, the easiest way to get a stayer beat is to force them beyond that point  earlier in the race and then they won't be alround later on in the race, when you see Lulamba and Romeo beginning to be niggled like we did, that's the symptoms but it didn't go far enough and there stamina then came into play, if Kargeese was able to turn that screw a little tighter it would have likely pushed Romeo over the edge.