Awful ride
race run 11s slower than the pertemps
I'm afraid that's what was going through my mind too. He probably thought he was doing well and being clever to get a soft lead but he was setting the race up for horses with pace.
Illegitimi non carborundum
If he was gaining after the last I would have had more sympathy. Looked to be taking on better horses today. Finished ahead of all the horses he beat in the Long Walk.
Poor ride on Sam Spinner, great training performance by Mullins with Penhill
Desert Orchid (16th March 2018)
To the ratings and sectional guys on here.
Does Penhill have gears or does he just look quick finishing against slower horses?
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
He had gears - last year over the same c/d and on much kinder ground, when winning a truly run Albert Bartlett.
Wouldn't set too much store by NH sectionals generally, but it's pretty clear Joe Colliver screwed up yesterday, in what was (relatively) the slowest run race of the day.
granger (16th March 2018)
Joe Colliver may have screwed up but it doesn't make him the moral winner.
Penhill is a very good horse, higher (off the top of my head) for winning the Albert Bartlett than other recent winners. He was very much on my shortlist for the Stayers when I first ran off the cards but the likelihood of heavy ground first time up after a year put me off him. To be honest, I also thought Sam Spinner would beat him regardless.
Illegitimi non carborundum
granger (16th March 2018)
Given that he won the AB after an unlikely season and then yesterday first time out, I suspect that Penhill is quite special. I've just taken a little 50/1 for the Melbourne Cup.
The older I get the better I was.
The sectional analysis suny referred us to backs up what appeared to be happening . Just compare Richard Johnson's judgment of pace today ( I don't buy the criticism of his ride on La Bague au Roi - she is a flat track bully) . A very ill-judged ride.
Yanworth as a Christmas Hurdke winner one would have expected to have the most toe but was very disappointing.