The gamble on the Pipe horse came unstuck...strange ride on a doubtful stayer from TS...great run again from GMOOH. Wonder will the stewards have a little question for Donald jnr..
Son Of Flicka showed next to nothing in 4 runs this season, backed both this morning and on course, he's landed a touch to say the least! The bookies must be relieved Grands Crus and Sizing Europe got beat!
4.00 SON OF FLICKA NAP 40/1 & CARLITO BRIGANTE 16/1 SON OF FLICKA (NAP) is either going to go very close to winning or finish absolutely nowhere but I think that this could be a classic plot by Donald McCain. This 8 year old has been in absolutely terrible form this year but as a result he has become very well handicapped. 12 months ago Son of Flicka was seen finishing a narrowly beaten 2nd in the Martin Pipe Conditionals Handicap Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival off a 5lb higher mark when being beaten by the excellent Sir Des Champs. Sir Des Champs has since become an excellent chaser, winning his only 3 starts in that sphere to date which have included to Grade 2s. This, and previous efforts behind Russian War and Quartz De Thaix demonstrate that on his day he is a very talented horse and there was no fluke about his 2nd last year. I have a strong feeling that connections have had this race in their mind for quite a while and have tried to get his handicap mark down to a level that he looks thrown in on and it seems they have done that. With trainer Donald McCain in great form, with stable jockey Jason Maguire on for the first time since May 2010 and getting down to his joint lowest weight of the last 12 months of 10-6, with a record at Cheltenham of finishing beaten less than 1.5L on his 2 starts and with money coming I really think that he could be thrown in off his current mark and 40/1 could be made ridiculous at the end of the race tomorrow. ROTO- get in there lad 40/1 FFS, OUTSTANDING result for you!
wow monster gamble landed there. Third Intention gave me a good run for my money so pleased with that and luckily I had Get me out of here EW
Well done ROTO - shows how important good festival form is ........................ (apart from Hurricane Fly and Sizing Europe )
Super stuff ROTO-I read your post this morning but the form put me off,smells dodgy to me!!Could really do with vendor coming in here,decent bet placed last week to win,anyone else on?
Let's hear it, Dan! (Good win by Bob's Worth, Flight Lieutenant might have run him real close had he not run so damn freely early on, as pointed-out by Quel earlier. Damn bad luck with Sizing btw, a right cock-up of a race, but damn glad Richard Johnson is OK - was Wishfull Thinking OK too? Didn't hear about the horse. Thank God for those plastic running rails).
Taken a chance on Ulck Du Lin who Nicholls thinks might have a nice mark from what he has seen so far. I also like Pipe's Kazilan
