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2016 Champion Bumper
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Originally posted by Ballybeen View PostWell that's the Lucky Pass bet gubbed haha. O'Leary in today's Racing Post saying they won't be sending any runners for the bumper.
Winner £34,170 2nd £12,822 3rd £6,420 4th £3,198 5th £1,608 6th £804
Must be at least 3 worth more at Fairyhouse/Punchestown
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I have grown to like the bumper and it must already generate serious betting turnover.
Think they should go the whole hog and up prizemoney and do more to encourage the top flat jockeys/trainers to get involved.
Converting flat fans to jumps and vice versa should be near top of the racing promotion agenda imo.
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OV - I've often heard that mooted but I thought it was a sad day for NH racing when Pizzaro won the bumper all them years ago.
Old fashioned and extremely blinkered I know but Cheltenham for me is the pinnacle of the NH season, if jocks want licences they should be made to compete in 10 qualifying races, no-one sticks a dozen hurdles in the way to make life easier for NH horses in the Ascot Gold Cup....
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Fantastic point there istabraq and i totally agree, flat trainers/jocks shouldn't be able to just rock up in the bumper with a chance to claim all the glory, it is a NH race and a certain minimum criteria should be met, however i do agree fans of both codes should mix more however us jump fans know true class and racing comes under this code, any horse could run out a lucky winner over a 5f sprint but it takes true class and a training peformance to grind out a 3m 2f win over fences
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Originally posted by Istabraq View PostOV - I've often heard that mooted but I thought it was a sad day for NH racing when Pizzaro won the bumper all them years ago.
Old fashioned and extremely blinkered I know but Cheltenham for me is the pinnacle of the NH season, if jocks want licences they should be made to compete in 10 qualifying races, no-one sticks a dozen hurdles in the way to make life easier for NH horses in the Ascot Gold Cup....
Hurdles in The Ascot Gold cup - now there is a brillant idea .
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One-time E250,000 purchase Aspen Colorado landed the concluding Coral.ie (Pro/Am) Bumper at Leopardstown today, winning for owner J.P. McManus and father/daughter, trainer/jockey combination of Aidan and Sarah O'Brien.
The son of Galileo quickened well in the home straight for a four and three parts of a length win over Without Limites.
Trainer Aidan O'Brien was represented by his son, and soon to be Pilltown successor, Joseph O'Brien who stated “he won nicely. We thought he was a nice horse but didn't think he'd win like that and there was plenty of talk for horses in it.
“He was in Ballydoyle as a yearling but was just immature and backward mentally. The bit of time has done him well and hopefully he can progress.
“He's a nice horse, even to go jumping with next year and while he seemed to handle that ground, being a Galileo should be better on better ground.”
When asked about Cheltenham bumper he said “he'd probably have to have another run and we'd see then.”
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Willie gave this one a thumbs up early season but hasnt been out yet.
Asked to name one young horse to watch out for, Mullins chose Admiral Chief, a four-year-old gelding by Presenting, owned by Gigginstown house Stud.
"There is a nice horse catching my eye every morning called Admiral Chief, he's a Gigginstown bumper horse," he said.
"He is a chaser down the line but he covers a lot of ground, so let's hope Michael O'Leary wasn't planning a big gamble on him!"
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Originally posted by Cashew King View PostO'Leary in the racing post last week said gigginstown wouldn't have any runners in the bumper so I'd hold fire with Admiral Chief
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