Results for tag: noland
Posted by:
PNicholls
on Apr 14, 2012 at 10:25:44 AM
[b]14:15
Toubab[/b]
Realistically, the three of us are just playing for the places here with Sprinter Sacre in the line-up. But the fences still have to be jumped and, as we have seen at this meeting already, Cheltenham can leave its mark on the best of horses - even if horses win races on the bridle at the Festival, they still take plenty out of them - so stranger things have happened. And I think we are fairly well positioned to benefit if the favourite doesn't perform, for one reason or another. Toubab's run at Cheltenham pretty much summed up my Festival - he was brought down when travelling well in the Grand Annual, by Free World, a horse I used to train. But even though he was running off a mark of just 143 there, I think he has the potential to be a bit better and conditions could...
Posted by:
PNicholls
on Feb 4, 2011 at 07:36:40 PM
Last weekend showed us never to write off a horse after one moderate run.
So I wouldn't be in a rush to pack off Noland into retirement just yet after his admittedly disappointing run at Cheltenham last week, where he was pulled up four out after never really going.
AP got off the horse and said not to retire him, and to send him over 3m next.
So we are going to send him for the Aon next week, and see what that race tells us.
I was quite open before his comeback jumps run last week that I thought he would need it, despite finishing second in a Jumpers' Bumper, though of course he ran very poorly.
But last week also illustrated that horses can, and do, bounce back after a poor run; step forward Neptune Collonges. It was great to see him win at Cheltenham.
Unfortunately...