Here's a chance to show how good you are at predicting the future. Predictions 2018 Please put a name against each of the following. Entries close on the 15th January 2018. Winners of the Following;- Champion Hurdle Two Mile Champion Chase World Hurdle Triumph Hurdle Cheltenham Gold Cup Grand National 2000 Guineas 1000 Guineas Oaks Derby Golden Jubilee Stakes Ascot Gold Cup Queen Anne Stakes Eclipse Stakes King George vi and Queen Elizabeth Stakes St Leger Arc de Triomphe Champion NH Trainer Champion Flat Jockey Champion Flat Trainer Champion Sire (stakes won) Champion New Sire (stakes won) Scandal of 2018 (person or horse) Dark Horse of 2018 Flat Season (has not won before 15th January 2018) The points will be awarded 5-3-1. The judge’s decision is final. I am the Judge
Faugheen Min Yanworth Apple's Shakira Yorkhill Mendelssohn Clemmie Happily Amideo Mogdigliani Harry's Angel Order Of Saint George Beat The Bank Cracksman Enable The Pentagon Enable Nicky Henderson Atzeni AOB Galileo Winx stays in Aus to beat handicappers Darkness Falls
Yep, seconded. Really good comp. Will give it a go before the deadline. Although I would add the rule that anyone who involves Mr Henderson in 'the scandal' should be automatically disqualified.
My Predictions 2018 - Will add as and when I can Champion Hurdle - Buveur D'air, Two Mile Champion Chase - Min World Hurdle - Unowhatimeanharry Triumph Hurdle - Espoir D'allen Cheltenham Gold Cup - Might Bite Grand National - Whisper 2000 Guineas - Saxon Warrior 1000 Guineas - Clemmie Oaks - Clemmie Derby - The Pentagon Golden Jubilee Stakes - Harry Angel Ascot Gold Cup - Stradivarius Queen Anne Stakes - Limato Eclipse Stakes - Cracksman King George vi and Queen Elizabeth Stakes - Cracksman St Leger - The Pentagon Arc de Triomphe - Cracksman Champion NH Trainer - Nicky Henderson Champion Flat Jockey - William Buick Champion Flat Trainer - Champion Sire (stakes won) - Frankel Champion New Sire (stakes won) Scandal of 2018 (person or horse) Dark Horse of 2018 Flat Season (has not won before 15th January 2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plus Apples Jade for the Mares' Hurdle
Maybe I should have put up Competition in the title. Feel free to add it Ron. I will take the final selections only after the closing date. So feel free to edit up until then.
Some clarification Top NH trainer and top Flat trainer are the usual UK top trainers The sires are those defined by the UK and Ireland results, not global and is from the position at the end of the Turf year. Flat jockey as defined by the current BHA rules
My answers are : Whatever Boris aftertimes with, coz he's never wrong. Best close competition as I've won
Champion Hurdle - Buveur D'Air Two Mile Champion Chase - Altior World Hurdle - Supasundae Triumph Hurdle - Espoir D'Allen Cheltenham Gold Cup - Native River Grand National - Cause Of Causes 2000 Guineas - Herculean 1000 Guineas - Clemmie Oaks - Laurens Derby - Saxon Warrior Golden Jubilee Stakes - Tasleet Ascot Gold Cup - Order Of St George Queen Anne Stakes - Winx Eclipse Stakes - Cracksman King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes - Enable St Leger - Roaring Lion Arc de Triomphe - Enable Champion NH Trainer - Nicky Henderson Champion Flat Jockey - Silvestre de Souza Champion Flat Trainer - Aiden O'Brien Champion Sire (stakes won) - Galileo Champion New Sire (stakes won) - Kingman Scandal of 2018 (person or horse) - Fergal O'Brien Dark Horse of 2018 Flat Season (has not won before 15th January 2018) - no idea
Here are my picks: Champion Hurdle - Buveur D'Air Two Mile Champion Chase - Altior World Hurdle – Yanworth Triumph Hurdle – Apples Shakira Cheltenham Gold Cup – Might Bite Grand National – Blaklion 2000 Guineas – Expert Eye 1000 Guineas - Clemmie Oaks - Happily Derby - Saxon Warrior Golden Jubilee Stakes – Harry Angel Ascot Gold Cup - Order Of St George Queen Anne Stakes – Beat the Bank Eclipse Stakes - Cracksman King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes - Enable St Leger – Gustav Klimt Arc de Triomphe – Saxon Warrior Champion NH Trainer – Lieutenant Nicky Henderson Champion Flat Jockey - Silvestre de Souza Champion Flat Trainer - Aiden O'Brien Champion Sire (stakes won) - Galileo Champion New Sire (stakes won) - Kingman Scandal of 2018 (person or horse) – A.P. McCoy Dark Horse of 2018 Flat Season (has not won before 15th January 2018) – Crystal King (in training with Sir Michael)
I love Herculean (as he’s a full brother to Fair Eva, what a lovely name for a filly by the way, and trained in the county) but my fear re him and the Guineas is that if Expert Eye (in the same ownership) is deemed fit and well then he will be sent elsewhere. There were hints that towards the backend of last term they had similar targets but each and every time Expert Eye was given precedence (in the end Herculean picked up a slight injury so was proved irrelevant anyway in the end). Herculean is probs the horse that I’m looking forward to most in 2018 but it must be a huge uncertainty as to the route connections are going to take. I note he’s also now got quotes re The Derby. But considered him dam, African Rose, won the 6 furlong Haydock Sprint Cup Herculean staying double that distance must be a huge doubt.
Update with dark horse: Champion Hurdle - Buveur D'Air Two Mile Champion Chase - Altior World Hurdle - Supasundae Triumph Hurdle - Espoir D'Allen Cheltenham Gold Cup - Native River Grand National - Cause Of Causes 2000 Guineas - Herculean 1000 Guineas - Clemmie Oaks - Laurens Derby - Saxon Warrior Golden Jubilee Stakes - Tasleet Ascot Gold Cup - Order Of St George Queen Anne Stakes - Winx Eclipse Stakes - Cracksman King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes - Enable St Leger - Roaring Lion Arc de Triomphe - Enable Champion NH Trainer - Nicky Henderson Champion Flat Jockey - Silvestre de Souza Champion Flat Trainer - Aiden O'Brien Champion Sire (stakes won) - Galileo Champion New Sire (stakes won) - Kingman Scandal of 2018 (person or horse) - Fergal O'Brien Dark Horse of 2018 Flat Season (has not won before 15th January 2018) - Centroid (an unraced 3YO Dansili half-brother to Enable. Given to me by an IMPECCABLE source)
Winners of the Following;- Champion Hurdle - Buveur Dair Two Mile Champion Chase - Altior World Hurdle - Wolestone Triumph Hurdle - Apples Shakira Cheltenham Gold Cup - Native River Grand National - Definitly Red 2000 Guineas - Expert Eye 1000 Guineas - Clemmie Oaks - Wild Illusion Derby - Amedo Modigliani Golden Jubilee Stakes - Tasleet Ascot Gold Cup - Capri Queen Anne Stakes - Winx Eclipse Stakes - Cracksman King George vi and Queen Elizabeth Stakes - Cracksman St Leger - Saxon Warrior Arc de Triomphe - Enable Champion NH Trainer - Paul Nicholls Champion Flat Jockey - Silvestre De Silva Champion Flat Trainer - Aiden O'Brien Champion Sire (stakes won) - Galileo Champion New Sire (stakes won) - Kingman Scandal of 2018 (person or horse) - Ruby Walsh Dark Horse of 2018 Flat Season (has not won before 15th January 2018) no idea
Champion Hurdle - Faugheen Two Mile Champion Chase - Yorkhill World Hurdle - Finians Oscar Triumph Hurdle - Apples Shakira Cheltenham Gold Cup - Our Duke Grand National - Cause Of Causes 2000 Guineas - Saxon Warrior 1000 Guineas - Clemmie Oaks - Laurens Derby - The Pentagon Golden Jubilee Stakes - Harry Angel Ascot Gold Cup - Order Of St George Queen Anne Stakes - Winx Eclipse Stakes - Cracksman King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes - Enable St Leger - Roaring Lion Arc de Triomphe - Enable Champion NH Trainer - Nicky Henderson Champion Flat Jockey - Silvestre de Souza Champion Flat Trainer - Aiden O'Brien Champion Sire (stakes won) - Galileo Champion New Sire (stakes won) - The Gurkha Scandal of 2018 (person or horse) - Faugheen Dark Horse of 2018 Flat Season (has not won before 15th January 2018) - WINTER SOLDIER- Willie Mullins
Buveur Dair Politolgue Wholestone Apples Shakira Native River Total Recall Roaring Lion Clemmie Happily Saxon Warrior Harry Angel Order of St George Winx Cracksman Enable Gardens Of Babylon Enable Nicky Henderson Andrea Atzeni Aiden O’Brien Galileo Kingsman Cheltenham Festival Winner Disqualified Gardens Of Babylon
As I won’t look at Cheltenham until the week in March, the selected plodders are total guess work (although I did back Sizing John last year). Not sure how we can come up with the St Leger winner as it is likely to be one of Gosden’s that will debut at Chelmsford in February (... could put it as Dark Horse if we knew the name). Just nitpicking: Why the Queen Anne not the Sussex? Why the Golden Jubilee not the July Cup? Royal Ascot not all-aged. Nothing in August... how do you propose to score the Scandal and Dark Horse categories? Champion Hurdle: Buveur D'Air Two Mile Champion Chase: Altior World Hurdle: Penhill (tragically, my original choice is no more) Triumph Hurdle: Apples Shakira Cheltenham Gold Cup: Sizing John Grand National: Vincente 2000 Guineas: Expert Eye 1000 Guineas: Clemmie (will get beaten on the Monday at odds-on in Ireland like Found, such is my luck with Ballydoyle) Oaks: Winter Lightning (should I have put this maiden as my Dark Horse?) Derby: Family Tree (if Saxon Warrior is not a superstar, Ballydoyle will have half a dozen in it) Golden Jubilee Stakes: Harry Angel Ascot Gold Cup: Stradivarius Queen Anne Stakes: Le Brivido (if Winx travels she will go for the Prince of Wales’s vs Cracksman) Eclipse Stakes: Expert Eye King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes: Enable St Leger: Kew Gardens (Moore will be on the favourite and the Zetland winner won’t be it) Arc de Triomphe: Enable Champion NH Trainer: Nicky The Needle Champion Flat Jockey: Sylvestre De Sousa Champion Flat Trainer: John Gosden Champion Sire (stakes won): Nathaniel Champion New Sire (stakes won): War Command Scandal of 2018 (person or horse): Bryony Frost will turn out to be Nicky The Needle’s love child Dark Horse of 2018 Flat Season (has not won before 15th January 2018): First Eleven (Frankel half-brother to Kingman, 0-3 as a two year old, has Zenda thrown another dud or a slow learner?) I picked these without looking at what everyone else had posted but I now see that many of us have six or seven selections in common, so this might come down to Champion New Sire! Who would have picked Enable last January? We could all be wrong with the flat...
Champion Hurdle - Buvear Dair Two Mile Champion Chase - Altior World Hurdle - Supasundae Triumph Hurdle - Apples Shakira Cheltenham Gold Cup - Our Duke Grand National - Definitely Red 2000 Guineas - Roaring Lion 1000 Guineas - Clemmie Oaks - Happily Derby - Roaring Lion Golden Jubilee Stakes - Tasleet Ascot Gold Cup - Rekindling Queen Anne Stakes - Winx Eclipse Stakes - Cracksman King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes - Enable St Leger - Roaring Lion Arc de Triomphe - Enable Champion NH Trainer - Nicky Henderson Champion Flat Jockey - S De Sousa Champion Flat Trainer - Aiden O'Brien Champion Sire (stakes won) - Galileo Champion New Sire (stakes won) - Kingsman Scandal of 2018 (person or horse) - AOB to only win half of what he achieved last year and to be called a failure...!! Dark Horse of 2018 Flat Season (has not won before 15th January 2018) - No idea