Sunday 22nd April Daily Thread

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Jesus anyone seen that Genoa match - 4-0 down and fans get on the pitch - let the opposition and refs leave but demanding the players of Genoa take off their shirts as they are not fit to wear them <yikes>
 
Fair play to em RV

Fecking bent Ballydoyle bastards - second string hoses up and backed from 6s into 7/2 on course
 
Nephrite travelled well but didn't pick up at all. Requisition did the exact opposite. As Oddy says, he was well backed so perhaps they 'knew'.
 
Ballydoyle are the bentest team in racing. You knew as soon as the money came for Requisition that Nephrite was never going to reach the leader despite travelling like a machine. Absolutely detest Aiden O'Brien. Never honest in interviews, and constantly having shorties turned over at ridiculous odds.
 
Excelebration will now win by about ten lengths as well. ****ing jokers. They basically run Irish flat racing.
 
It must be said that the money coming for Requisition was an ominous sign.

Still, plenty of mug multiples sunk.
 
Zenyatta said:
I think the fact that First Lieutenant has been diverted to the 2m Novice Chase whilst Sir Des Champs takes his place in the 3m tells you all you need to know. I think he'll improve considerably for the step up in trip. He's been crying out for it in my opinion.
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Where've you heard FL runs in the 2 miler? He's still entered in both and I've not seen anything announced.

There's a number of reasons why FL may not run in the 3miler on the Tuesday.

He's proven over that distance against top opposition whereas SDC isn't. They may want to see where they're at with SDC.
It was seemingly a toss up over who ran where at Cheltenham. FL's superior novice hurdle form probably swayed things in his favour. It could have been the arrangement all along for SDC to get his chance over 3m this week as a trade off for not running in the RSA.
FL is a spring ground horse who excels at Cheltenham. Maybe they think Punchey isn't going to suit as much as Cheltenham does.
FL had a much tougher race in what is traditionally a much tougher race so may need the break.
Gigginstown Stud may also be wary of giving SDC and FL unnecessarily hard races by teeing them off against each other so could be swerving each other for that reason.

I'm 100% not saying SDC isn't potentially a top class chaser. All I'm saying is his reputation is built on beating average horses and hype from the yard. So far he's not proven much more than he's better than Champion Court which, if taken on face value, means he's not really proven anything. I like Keighley's horse but he's never going to be winning grade one races against older generations.

We've seen the hype machine numerous times from Willie Mullins. Cooldine, Mikael D'Haguenet, Zaidpour, Cousin Vinny, So Young. All of them were supposed to be the second coming and none of them have done it after their juvenile season over their chosen obstacle.

Gigginstown are also not afraid to run their horses against each other so we may see them take each other on. They didn't at Cheltenham because there's two quality races that time told they either won or came extremely close to winning and we all know Cheltenham is a different ball game to every other festival. Eventually, they will run against each other though and if I had to back one of them on what we've seen up to now, I'd be backing FL (if it was at Cheltenham in Spring).
 
I see they are at it again in the lucky last at Wincanton, horse with form figures that wouldn't look out of place with a fun runner today, being backed into short price for Pipe.
 
To throw it back at you, was the RSA Chase form all that strong?

Those to have run since, although all well beaten in the RSA:

Call The Police smashed by Flemestar.
Walkon pulled up in the Scottish National.
Cannington Brook smashed in a handicap.
Join Together well beaten behind Silviniaco Conti and Champion Court.
 
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