Arkle 2019

[bobbyvalentino]

Who on earth was backing at 8/11. Hated every minute

[Faugheen_Machine]

We can safely say the chelt form was worth nothing. How he was made fav I'll never know.
Ornua is bang average.

Is that Lalor's true running? Surely not.

Easy for them to swerve the Arkle now though, if they were in two minds in the first place.

[boopa]

Wylie said VDR surprised them.

[Quevega]

Is that Lalor's true running? Surely not.

Easy for them to swerve the Arkle now though, if they were in two minds in the first place.

It definitely muddles the form for the brits, although I'd say the cheltenham form is probably worth more than today,
as it was at cheltenham and on normal cheltenham ground.
But today has put me off all the horses invloved, for now.

Defi DS is probably my only interest now (at the prices) but that still needs to be a better jumper and may go for the JLT, as at the moment in a strongly run arkle his jumping might cost him.

Kalashnikov jumps to the front of market again without facing any serious opposition yet, but has the festival form.

Irish are mostly still in the shed. Which is a concern as if they come out now and have an 'Eldorado', theyre fucked.

[Innoko]

Is that Lalor's true running? Surely not.

Easy for them to swerve the Arkle now though, if they were in two minds in the first place.

Never looked comfortable from the first fence when Pingshou made the error in front of him.

Interesting what they do now, but I suspect the Arkle may be swerved.

[mayo]

He actually jumped well enough but looked flat - it’s an open division

[charlie]

As someone on Lalor at a bigger price today was obviously disappointing. RJ blamed the ground

[westcountry1]

I wouldn't be totally writing off Lalor after today as I have always been of the opinion that he is a much better horse in the spring. The positive from today was that his jumping was every bit as good as it has always been...he hated the ground (no great surprise to me).

[thistlecracker]

I was there today and I certainly didn’t think his jumping was anywhere near as good as the performance at cheltenham

[KingSprinterSacre]

He was slow over a few of the fences

[mayo]

I was there today and I certainly didn’t think his jumping was anywhere near as good as the performance at cheltenham

Missed the first but jumped well enough in the main. Things are never as good or bad as they seem

[Kevloaf]

Lalor will need to put in a very good performance on better ground to gain any followers after yesterday for the Arkle.

I'm on at 33s and will be leaving it to run (unless it looks like they WON'T go), but his best (much better) performance was at Cheltenham, so I expect they still will.

Probably won't get any better ground until the festival though.

All eyes on Getabird (and then hopefully Cilaos Emery)

[KingSprinterSacre]

Forge meadow hammered there By Willies Camelia de cotte.
Mengli Khan got a lot of praise in here lto for beating forge

[Hurricane fly]

Solid round of jumping for Getabird

[Scooby91]

Forge meadow hammered there By Willies Camelia de cotte.
Mengli Khan got a lot of praise in here lto for beating forge

The praise he got was nothing to do with beating forge meadow. Was his style of victory and his jumping.