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brill toby...

wouldn't mind but ma was the best looker by a long chalk in the first, i convinced myself the ground would do him ..it got worse after that....

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WR    IDID SAY ON PON THAT SOLWHIT CERT AND TOFINO BAY  HARD TO BEAT

i know i know norn....lynch rode a shocker on aupcharlie , plus solwhit looked magnificent .....oh woe is me.....my head is melted ffs.....

feck off you sod dinglemick....

I thought Lynch rode a perfect race on Aupcharlie. Beforehand I thought the most likely way he gets beaten is if he kicks too soon and runs out of steam. He gave him every chance and when Lynch asked him to go by there was nothing in the tank, simple as.

have a look at the second last as a example , he never presented the horse at the fence .....went right back to the buckle end ...took him an age to get his reins together , then let him cruise up , the horse is a stayer , he should have kicked earlier , this fellow does nothing in a hurry as he showed last year as a hurdler...lynch not riding well imo...he lost both the big races at leopardstown by not kicking on at the right time ....davy out thought him today....i like andrew btw...

The better stayer won in a tactical race. Lynch did nothing wrong. Aupcharlie isn't an out and out stayer. He's not slow but equally he doesn't quicken. He will be seen to much better effect when he gets to run at a strong pace over a shorter trip in a bigger field. He'll win the PJ Moriarty if he runs and quite possibly the Jewson. He wasn't right most of last year which is why he only ran a couple of times.

I would argue the horse is more of a 2 and a half miler than a stayer workrider. If Lynch had went for everything earlier I have no doubt the result would have been the same.

I can only imagine the slating he would have got if he had went for home at the 2nd last and got collared up the run in, considering what happened at Leopardstown last time out.

14/1 for the Jewson is very tempting!

Captain Conan (4), Dynaste (6), Arvika Ligeonniere (10), Fago (10), Oscars Well (10), Aupcharlie (12), Back In Focus (16), Court In Motion (16), Hinterland (16), Overturn (16), Tetlami (16), Unioniste (16), Wonderful Charm (16), Argocat (20), Colour Squadron (20), His Excellency (20), Module (20), Oscara Dara (20), Tap Night (20), Theatre Guide (20)

It's 12's best with the main high street bookies slabster but even thats a big price. Looking at the above list the 2nd, 3rd and 4th favs probably will be heading for alternative targets as will Back in Focus and Overturn. I think Aupcharlie would handle Oscars Wells and several of the others aren't good enough / likely handicap runners though Unioniste would be interesting. That leaves Captain Conan who has made a very impressive start to his chasing career but you should never be afraid of one horse!

Two of them we all could have won on. But on Morning Assembly and Tofino Bay having the advantage of the rail certainly was a wise move considering the ground conditions.