Cheltenham - Thursday

@******)@(£- @£#%@&@*** £%)£+@&@&@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One barstewarding horse! All we needed was one horse to come out but no! So my horse now doesn't get a run! So unimpressed right now! I will be even less impressed if there is a non-runner due to a horse being double declared for the Coral Cup today declaring again for tomorrow!

Sulking now as I am on Hexham duty instead...
 
Watching the Morning Line and wondering how we now feel about the Ch4 team, considering that we did tend to pull a face or two when the regime was changed!! Me? It's a vast improvement with the available analysis and ALL the presenters are now growing on me! :)

EKW, that's hard lines, and it'll be doubly irritating should it all be to do with 'options'. Try to enjoy your day at Hexham.

Alec.
 
Things have been brightened up by Alice's cheery tones Alec. I agree we have got used to them. Still miss Francome and Alistair Down. To be honest if they can't make Cheltenham interesting they really will have failed!
I enjoy seeing the horses out exercising, Don Cossack is a beautiful looking horse, I read in H and H that he's German bred which is interesting.
 
Really hoping that Thistlecrack lives up to expectations today :)

Hating being back at work today after being at Cheltenham yesterday :(
 
My worry with Thistlecrick is that he has done all his winning on soft/heavy ground. The ground is much quicker than he is used to so it may not be ideal for him.
 
Absolutely, walking to and from the Cross Country over the main track yesterday the ground seemed much firmer than I had been expecting and with the steady wind blowing all yesterday I can only imagine that it has continued to dry.

You must be gutted EKW, it would be a dream come true for me to lead up there.
 
Wimbles said:
Absolutely, walking to and from the Cross Country over the main track yesterday the ground seemed much firmer than I had been expecting and with the steady wind blowing all yesterday I can only imagine that it has continued to dry.

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Was it Cheltenham that they were referring to this morning, when they said that the track had had 4mm of water over night? Either way, as you say, the wind will dry it out a little I'd imagine. If all that's correct, then the going will probably be similar to yesterday.

Alec.
 
EKW said:
@******)@(£- @£#%@&@*** £%)£+@&@&@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One barstewarding horse! All we needed was one horse to come out but no!

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Oh crap, I'm so sorry. That's so annoying!

I fear the ground is against Flintham, where is the rain?!!

Also worried about the ground for Thistlecrack too..

Never thought I'd be disappointed with a dry sky..
 
So we couldn't get a horse to come out of the Pertemps to get a run but 12 have come out of the boys race so he can run tomorrow instead! Never thought that that would happen in a million years!!!
 
All ready for one of the strangest races at the festival this year....I would just like to see all the top horses going up against each other, no matter who they are owned by and how many they have in one race....
 
Vautour's turn of foot was amazing! I rewound just to watch Ruby tighten the reins slightly and he shot forward!
 
Although it's fabulous to see such exciting horses I am getting a little bored of the monopoly by Walsh/Mullins/Ricci - I know it goes in cycles but I don't know how healthy it is when there is such dominance (bit the same when Nicholls was carrying all before him). May be I'm just being a bit churlish!
 
Even though I'm not a huge fan of the Walsh/Mullins/Ricci monopoly that was utterly brilliant! Loved watching that!
 
Looking forward to watching his performance when I get home as he sounds like he was super. Would just have liked to see a horse that has always looked incredibly special run in the main championship race for his type of distance. Only my opinion and I know they say that his work had been poor but to me it feels a bit like they're HOYS show horses pot hunting at your local riding club ;)
 
frostyfingers said:
Although it's fabulous to see such exciting horses I am getting a little bored of the monopoly by Walsh/Mullins/Ricci - I know it goes in cycles but I don't know how healthy it is when there is such dominance (bit the same when Nicholls was carrying all before him). May be I'm just being a bit churlish!
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At least Nichols' horses had different owners and thus different colours to play with!
 
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