Cannot wait to see Cue Card & Flemenstar lock horns. Certainly a race to savour & i wouldn't be to quick to dismiss For Non Stop either, should the ground come up good or faster.
He won his first grade two of the year against a load of crap. Knew you'd look to that but couldn't be bothered to edit it. If you're using For Non Stop as a guide for top form you need to reassess how you look at these grade one races IMHO. Riverside hasn't been the same horse since Cheltenham 2013. He's lost at Aintree and lost on debut this year and hadn't run since because of those awful runs. He's not the horse of the 2012 festival. So like I said Cue Card didn't beat a select field. He beat a really weak grade one field.
I thought Cue Card produced one of the best performances of the festival. Beat a lot a good horses IMO, including First Lieutenant, who, through a line with Tidal Bay and Sir Des Champs is right in the middle of one of the best formlines to follow all season. I will agree that for me, For Non Stop is not a consistently top class horse, but on his day is capable of top class performances. That's the problem with horses like FNS, you never know which one has turned up.
Exactly GGW, even with a tough race at Cheltenham in Cue Cards legs, Flemenstar the so called 'superstar' couldn't live with him, nevermind Sprinter Sacre. Sprinter Sacre is a machine, the most talented horse I've seen. Cue Card is a cracking horse, and in most other earas he'd be a champion. Flemenstar is really nothing special. The Irish chasers are poor, even Tidal Bay went and beat them all in there own back yards, and he's 12 now. Today just further proved that
