With Faugheen wearing cheek-pieces, and CP surely acting as a McManus hare, this race is probably going to be run to suit Buveur D’Air. Hard to see him beaten, imo.
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With Faugheen wearing cheek-pieces, and CP surely acting as a McManus hare, this race is probably going to be run to suit Buveur D’Air. Hard to see him beaten, imo.
Last edited by Grasshopper; 13th March 2018 at 1:18 AM.
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SlimChance, March 2018
I'd rather Faugheen had a pacemaker leading him at a fast pace like in the `14 Xmas Hurdle.. didn't served him well having to go the hard way in front the last couple of years and might be the reason he had enough of it.
BDair looks the one to beat on recent form, but I smell recency bias in every analysis of this race except the one made by Lydia Hislop, although even she didn't correctly identified the issue of his last 2 runs which I think were the racecourse gallops before the official races; with Ruby being injured the suspicion is that Townend did too much and arrived on couple of days later on race-day without anything left. He and UDS apparently are the ones working the hardest from the yard but Faugheen has a much different constitution and doesn't recover as fast. We'll see tomorrow what he does but I definitely can see him taking the scalp of BDair no problems just a return to Morgiana form will suffice.
Goodness me!
Fair play to Buv, he has guts.
What a run by Melon.
Very game from Buveur d'Air there - well below his best but still saw Melon off . Bet twiston Davies us wishing he ran The New One now.
Awesome training by Mullins..I faulted him for not sending him chasing but boy did he get it right again.........Hat's off to Nicky Henderson too getting it spot on.
Not sure who the ground favoured but hope the two meet again on a better surface
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I think Barry might be best hanging up his riding boots at the end of the season. One more year might be one too many.
Serious class from Buveur D'Air there.
Not sure what to make of the form.
I think Melon likely ran at least 8lbs better than anything in his previous but Mick Jazz holds the form.
Ground will make it a hard race to judge.
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
just melon's seventh race over hurdles
the bula experience stood to him and he was clearly the horse to take out of that race with all due respect to the old lads
Melon looks like he could be a very classy chaser - Arkle net year?
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I agree that Mick Jazz holds the form down . Just wonder whether too many penalty kicks for BDA this season and he wasn't 100%.
granger (14th March 2018)