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    He was very unlucky in the 2018 King George when brought down by a bad fall by Bristol De Mai.

    He was travelling so well that day and I still think he would have gone very close. That could have been his biggest day on a racecourse.

    A day that his jockey Brian Hughes won't have forgotten easily I bet!

    At least he can enjoy a happy retirement.
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    Pleased to see him being retired - hope he has a long and happy one

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    Allegorie De Vassy fav for the Mares Novice HUrdle) out of Cheltenham
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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamond Geezer View Post
    Allegorie De Vassy fav for the Mares Novice HUrdle) out of Cheltenham
    Was this confirmed anywhere?

    Her price seemed to stabilise in the afternoon.

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    Gerri Colombe out of Cheltenham after a setback
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    Porlock Bay to miss Cheltenham, goes to Aintree

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    I thought something wasn’t right after his last run. He should have beaten Salvatore easily. Good to see there was a reason behind it.
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    Double posting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chroniclandlord View Post
    Was this confirmed anywhere?

    Her price seemed to stabilise in the afternoon.
    Problem appears to be a chipped bone
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    How on earth did this take so long to be confirmed when DG posted it here a week ago ?

    WPM in RP today

    “ However, despite being reported to be on course for the race over the weekend, she has been ruled out of the festival after subsequent scans revealed she has suffered a hock injury.”

    She was still short enough on exchanges as of yesterday.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wilsonl View Post
    She was still short enough on exchanges as of yesterday.
    Surely that's proof that there's no conspiracy story here.

    Horses are slightly lame on a regular basis. Often it's trivial like a stone bruise and the horse is perfectly fine a few days later. If it's not fine, the scanning and x-ray process can be quite complicated if you don't have an identified point of pain.

    Willie has over 170 entries for the Festival. I haven't checked but I imagine that covers about 80 horses and he'll have over 50 runners with maybe half of them single figure prices. He cannot be expected to give regular updates on all of them. The owners will always hear first (well, second after the stable staff) and in many cases it will be the owners who decide when to release information. All trainers operate in this way and they wouldn't keep owners onside if said owners were hearing information about their own horses via the media rather than from the trainer.
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    I wasn’t necessarily suggesting any skullduggery on Mullins behalf because of the exchange price.

    But the only place I (and it appears plenty of others) had seen this mentioned was on here by DG. And then a week later the news breaks.
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    Mon Frere from Nicholls' yard, injury found after the race today at Newcastle.
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    Jarvey’s Plate from the O’Brien/Macpherson yard after an accident in his stable


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    Chilli Filli has retired and is going to be a broodmare at Richard Johnson’s - visiting Walk in the Park.


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    I'm not entirely sure why but I liked that mare, and I hope she's successful as a broodmare.
    "Beat the price and lose. It's what we do".

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    Jarveys Plate pts at home
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    The 2020 Galway Hurdle winner and County Hurdle runner up Aramon collapsed and died on the gallops at Closutton this morning.

    He also won the Grade 1 novice hurdle at the 2018 Leopardstown Christmas meeting and was runner up to Klassical Dream at the 2019 Dublin Racing Festival

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    Condolences to connections, met them often racing.

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    Minella Crooner,fav for AB, out of the Festival
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