The Road to the 2019 Champion Hurdle
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Grasshopper
Wicklow Brave is an inconsistent hound over hurdles, and just about the last horse you would want to ‘yardstick’ handicap a race, I reckon. Don’t think that comparison tells us anything at all, to be honest, KA.
One mans trash is another mans treasure GH. I’d argue that he’s been ultra consistent rather than inconsistent and is the only horse tying the bedrock /samcro form to previous champion hurdle form. Since WB finished 8th to Buveur D’Air in the 2017 champion hurdle he finished 7th again this year. He won the Punchestown G1 hurdle in 2017 and finished 2nd to Supasunday in it this year. Over the summer he won a pile of mickey mouse races on the flat, won a minor hurdle at Listowel and finished 3rd to Bedrock at Tipperary last month, a form line which received a big boost last Friday. That to me is consistent, maybe it’s not to you but it certainly is to me.
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The Road to the 2019 Champion Hurdle
Not long back in from walking the course at Punchestown. It’s beautiful ground. Watering last night has maintained good/yielding ground. There should be absolutely no reason to withdraw Samcro on ground concerns.
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