Wednesdays Cheltenham thread

My first winner, on Dodging Bullets, it was Ruby Walsh who put me on to him, semed obvious, after the event.
Alice is down at the start of the cross country, to say the least, the jocks are not too keen on the mic at this nervous moment.
Tutnecamun looks lovely, the jock is riding far too short so I won't be on him. but the odds of none of them are tempting,
 
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I'm sure the team at Seven Barrows will do the right thing by Sprinter Sacre, at least BG pulled him up safe and sound. I was so disappointed for Sire de Grugy, he didn't seem to light up like he usually does, I wonder if it was the ground?

I thought Somersby ran a blinder, what a good horse!
 
Im going to have to watch all of this on catch up! Listening on the radio doesn't do this carnage justice!

Hope the photographer is ok! Ambulances are headed down to him!
 
Mariposa said:
I'm sure the team at Seven Barrows will do the right thing by Sprinter Sacre, at least BG pulled him up safe and sound. I was so disappointed for Sire de Grugy, he didn't seem to light up like he usually does, I wonder if it was the ground?

I thought Somersby ran a blinder, what a good horse!
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I wonder if Sire de Grugy wasn't fully fit because of the run at Chepstow, he looked quite tired at the end of that race so maybe his energy reserves weren't fully replenished.
 
I thought he connected with the hindquarters, more of the side swipe though, could have been nasty!

Well I've had an appalling day's betting, I had a 2nd and a 4th. This is not good!
 
Mariposa said:
I thought he connected with the hindquarters, more of the side swipe though, could have been nasty!

Well I've had an appalling day's betting, I had a 2nd and a 4th. This is not good!
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Could have been messy, I think they will amend rules now, it should be easy for cameras to operate by remote control.
I am holding my own.
Hen looks well.
 
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I see Paul Nicholls has just won another race, strange how yesterday was all about Mullins and today Nicholls. Good that Britain is holding it's own now after what looked like being a whitewash for us....
 
Just watched the video - Nina can swear all she wants but at the end of the day the french horse was going down, shouldered her horse and was kept upright by it but there was nothing the jockey could have done -she just happened to be in an unfortunate place.

The photographer was lucky! It looks as though the only.horse cantact may have been horee shin to his shin but at speed that would bloomin hurt! Hopefully he is just battered and bruised and will be back in a more sensible position tomorrow! Id love to see his shots though!
 
I thought Any Comments jockey spent the entire race bullying & crowding every horse which came up alongsides him, I think the French horse was shying away from him & over reacted.
 
Telegraph reporting via PA Sport that Garry Moore has been critical of the ground given Sire Du Grugy's run
 
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Telegraph reporting via PA Sport that Garry Moore has been critical of the ground given Sire Du Grugy's run
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He shouldn't do that, just comes across as bad sportsmanship, whatever the ground it's the same for everyone ! His choice to still run the horse and he shouldn't make excuses afterwards.
 
In his post race chat with Lydia on RUK he was quite critical of the ground, basically saying that they havent got it right for the best race meeting of the year. Ive never thought of GM as being a bad sport so he must be really unhappy about something. Re the photographer incident, didnt something similar happen last year/year before? Maybe they should start restricting where these guys are positioned. Im surprised given how 'elf & safety everyone is these days that they are allowed to be so close, those barriers are designed to break if a horse touches them after all so dont offer any protection if you are stood right next to them :(
 
The ground is just the luck of the draw, I think they were right to stop watering it when they did, else others would have complained it was too soft! It must be hugely frustrating knowing your horse prefers some give when the ground is hardening up, but I guess it's just luck.
 
He had no qualms stating outright that his horse would win just before the race after the ground had been raced on for a day and had had a race round the chase course before his too so he would have known exactly what the ground was like. He is just being a sore loser by the looks of it. His horse was beaten fair and square. I am gutted because I love the horse!
 
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