So then, troops, who do we think wins the above award??? Who’s performance made you think ‘that’s one to follow’ as you promptly jotted his, or indeed her, name in your old notebook??? Who caught your eye was it Hidden Cyclone, Hargam, Silsol, Garde Le Victiore, Brick Red, Le Reve, Mr Henderson as he strolled into the paddock or something else?!?
My answer was a horse with seasonal form figures prior to yesterday of -6PU and who then added an 8 to that scoreboard up at Musselburgh. I am talking about, pilgrims, TRUSTAN TIMES.
In finishing 8th in a ‘Pertemps Qualifier’ yesterday he qualified for the Final and that I would guess would be where the animal goes next. Racing 24 hours ago off 145 I would imagine that figure would be reduced 2-3 pounds after yesterday’s defeat. Now I’m not suggesting yesterday was a ‘nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more’ effort (actually I am but for legal reasons we will say I’m not) but you can guarantee that Trustan Times will come on a bundle for that run and I would be fairly confident in suggesting that like last term the only events that he is being seriously trained for are the ‘Pertemps Final’ and then the following months ‘Scottish National’ back over the big ‘uns.
In ’14 Trustan Times was beaten just half a length in the former event (and will probably run off a figure lower than last years mark of 144 and potentially not come up against horses as decent as Fingal Bay and Southfield Theatre) and just a length and a quarter in the latter heat (despite a terrible blunder at the first and not being foot perfect at loads of other fences). His chase perch, incidentally, is only 1 pound higher now than it was then.
I can’t see the old boy quoted anywhere for the ‘Pertemps Final’ but to my eye he is the most likely winner of that heat and with a modicum of improvement in his jumping would say he would also be hard to beat in Ayr’s biggest NH event.
My answer was a horse with seasonal form figures prior to yesterday of -6PU and who then added an 8 to that scoreboard up at Musselburgh. I am talking about, pilgrims, TRUSTAN TIMES.
In finishing 8th in a ‘Pertemps Qualifier’ yesterday he qualified for the Final and that I would guess would be where the animal goes next. Racing 24 hours ago off 145 I would imagine that figure would be reduced 2-3 pounds after yesterday’s defeat. Now I’m not suggesting yesterday was a ‘nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more’ effort (actually I am but for legal reasons we will say I’m not) but you can guarantee that Trustan Times will come on a bundle for that run and I would be fairly confident in suggesting that like last term the only events that he is being seriously trained for are the ‘Pertemps Final’ and then the following months ‘Scottish National’ back over the big ‘uns.
In ’14 Trustan Times was beaten just half a length in the former event (and will probably run off a figure lower than last years mark of 144 and potentially not come up against horses as decent as Fingal Bay and Southfield Theatre) and just a length and a quarter in the latter heat (despite a terrible blunder at the first and not being foot perfect at loads of other fences). His chase perch, incidentally, is only 1 pound higher now than it was then.
I can’t see the old boy quoted anywhere for the ‘Pertemps Final’ but to my eye he is the most likely winner of that heat and with a modicum of improvement in his jumping would say he would also be hard to beat in Ayr’s biggest NH event.
