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Exactly, its pretty split on the racing pages, but I bet those who want him in the CH have a bet on him or are caught up in this damn "fairytale comeback" 🙄 you then have those fuelling the egos of the owner and trainer, even Barry Geraghty who sourced CH wants him in the CH. Why? The horse doesn't care that he may not win another CH, he doesn't know

NH comment after the fighting fifth of whether then can keep asking him to do this will bite him on the backside if they do indeed keep asking him to do this, and something happens to him

Agreed with what Reynold said, if he stays up and wins the CH easily, itll be all about how hes back weve solved his problem we are geniuses let's keep him over hurdles

They want the prestige of a CH win. They will be going for it, otherwise there would be no hurdle schooling. I think their minds are made up, they are just pretending to look like they have a dilemma

If they run him in it, and something happens to him, they deserve every slating they get

ITV haven't helped the situation, they are constantly going on about him, which is going to bite them and racing on the backside if something happens to him

You also have the element of risking the jockey (who obviously has a say the horse doesnt).
 
The problem is they don't really know why he fell 3 times, his eyesight or brain perception of those stupid hurdles something we can't understand perhaps
 
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 does he not realise he might DIE if he falls in the CH, so wont be around to do anything else. Note as well how they will want to Come back and defend it potentially

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If CH had performed as he did in his last four runs over hurdles in his first four runs, would he have been kept hurdling? No. If he then went on and won on the flat like he did on Friday, would he have stayed as a flat horse? Yes.

So what's the difference now? He was good in the past, got overconfident and lost his nerve and is pretty much back to square one without his confidence. If his owner loved him like he says he does, he wouldn't be able to stand there and watch his horse race with that likelihood of another, potentially fatal fall.
 
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 does he not realise he might DIE if he falls in the CH, so wont be around to do anything else. Note as well how they will want to Come back and defend it potentially

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I listened to this interview this morning and it made me angry. How can he say if he falls again he won’t go hurdling!!!!! He’s already fallen 3 times, isn’t that enough. I can’t believe he can say this after the reception he got at Southwell. He’s become the people’s horse and far more people are saying don’t risk it. I mean why would you, he’s already won one champion hurdle. Perhaps if it wasn’t such a weak race this year they wouldn’t even entertain it.
Apparently it all rests on a schooling session this week but they’ve always said his schooling is good.
I feel sorry for those involved with the horse who have no say on what happens. I really hope he doesn’t run in the CH. I was all for him retiring full stop but seeing how amazing he was on Friday, perhaps a short career on the flat beckons
 
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The problem is they don't really know why he fell 3 times, his eyesight or brain perception of those stupid hurdles something we can't understand perhaps
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I’m also concerned if he goes hurdling again, Nico has that in his head too and Yogi has told them that to switch jockeys would be suicidal!!
Basically, Nico can’t let him go long at any hurdle. I assume they have been teaching him to shorten.
 
"If he ran and won the Champion Hurdle, it would kind of put a few demons to bed for me, but if he doesn't run on that Tuesday next month, I don't see him running over hurdles again this year."

Note the words "this year" so what they still want to in future?

Also putting demons to bed? Yep for their egos the horse doesn't care 🤨
 
Yep feels like the pair of them (NH & MB) are loving all the attention (that the media seems to love whipping up around him, do we get this much about any other horse, I know hes Irish trained, but you dont hear this much about GDC for example and hes won 2 gold cups)

Feels like they want this circus to continue

I thought NH was one of the nicer more sympathetic trainers, but hes really not coming across well in this. Is it the owner, are they egging each other on, is it NH?

They should be VERY aware that because of this whole circus around the horse and the drama they are causing, there will be even more fall out if hes killed, than any of the other CH runners, because they dont receive the same level of publicity

There are all these media drives to show how much racing cares about the horses, yet there they are still thinking about hurdling with a horse that's had 3 falls hes been lucky to get up from, 2 horses had falls yesterday where they dived at the hurdle, and one didnt get up

The Melbourne Cup is a dodgy suggestion too, seems quite prolific for deaths for a flat race

NH and NDB will be the ones that take the flaming if anything does happen to him, as theyre most visible at the meetings, unlike MB

This whole laying demons to rest bs is all about THEM, CH does not stand in his stable wishing he could have another CH on his CV.

Its almost getting to the point where it would serve them b***** right if they ran over hurdles again and he was killed, but the horse absolutely does not deserve that
 
He basically said if he was training CH he wouldn't run him there, that's his opinion and one would think he wasn't worried if he did run seeing as he has fallen in his last 3 hurdle races.
 
I've get so tired of all this....

NH knows perfectly well that's he could die if he falls again....

They seems to enjoy all the media's attention, but surely in the trainer's heart, he knows that the flat will be better.

It's like they are playing with everyone's nerves.... and talking endlessly about it....

Two big mens with enormous ego..... and a wonderful horse, ready to give everthing he can.
 
I'm due at Seven Barrows on friday for an Old Gold stable visit to Akimos.

I'm hoping to be able to see CH in his stable as it's in the back of my mind, if they announce this week he's going to run in the CH, that it might end up being the last time I'll get a chance to see him alive.

I'm so sad that thought is in the back of my mind as I have been looking forward to this visit. I'm really hoping that he schools at Yogi's this week so badly that they ditch all thoughts of hurdling again.
 
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