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Festival racing golden moment

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  • Festival racing golden moment

    That fight back by Coole Cody when looking beaten for me

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    Jack Kennedy on Delta Work.

    The Flooring Porter syndicate a close second.

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    • #3
      Constitution Hill demolishing a decent Supreme field for me.

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      • #4
        Flooring Porter celebrations, not usually into the gushy 'what a great story' shite peddled by itv but buying a horse off Facebook that becomes a double Cheltenham festival winner is a pretty good story. Good job Danny Mullins was the jockey, can't imagine the likes of AP McCoy would have agreed to be hoisted in the air by the owners in the winners enclosure

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        • #5
          Originally posted by That Horse View Post
          Flooring Porter celebrations, not usually into the gushy 'what a great story' shite peddled by itv but buying a horse off Facebook that becomes a double Cheltenham festival winner is a pretty good story. Good job Danny Mullins was the jockey, can't imagine the likes of AP McCoy would have agreed to be hoisted in the air by the owners in the winners enclosure
          McCoy would have charged them money.

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          • #6
            Jack Kennedy for me on Delta Work !
            Second highlight would be Facile Vega winning the bumper and the connections leading it into the parade ring.

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            • #7
              I really enjoyed the race where the grade 1 horse chinned the most popular horse of the last decade on the line in a cross country race

              Fan bloody tastic that was

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              • #8
                Flooring Porter landing a 125/1 treble

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                • #9
                  Struggling with this, and still one day to go.

                  Will have to wait and see what tomorrow brings, but I can already guarantee I won't have just one.

                  After yesterday's wash out and disappointments it was great to see some quality performances back on a bit better ground today.

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                  • #10
                    moment of the week was Graham rodway dubbing Colin tizzard tizzie rascal on in the know

                    spat my beer everywhere in laughter

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                    • #11
                      Constitution Hill for me. Rarely does a hurdler catch your imagine as much as the chasers but this lad is an absolute machine.

                      Other smaller highlights:

                      Venetias fantastic form.

                      The overhead footage of Derek Fox weaving CR through traffic. Would love overhead footage to be more widely used and available to punters.

                      Allaho demolition. There's something about 2 and a half milers, the Cheltenham Festival and utterly fantastic performances.

                      Paul Townend looking round to see Shishkin pulled up, CPS falling and him changing tactics mid race so Energumene could pound through the mud for an authoritative victory. Not been Paul's best week for me but that was great.

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                      • #12
                        The reception and standing ovation for honeysuckle to be there and witness it was special .

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by ComplyOrDie View Post
                          Struggling with this, and still one day to go.

                          Will have to wait and see what tomorrow brings, but I can already guarantee I won't have just one.

                          After yesterday's wash out and disappointments it was great to see some quality performances back on a bit better ground today.
                          Updates are allowed

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                          • #14
                            Derek Fox ride of the week thus far.
                            The performances of GDC,CHill who are complete and serious racehorses of the top order already, LPresse also I think.
                            The battling back of the brits after last year.
                            Alan King, so pleased for him, Venetia and Lucinda too.
                            And all the other British trainers producing.

                            For the healthiness of the festival we really needed the brits to perform this year.
                            Last edited by Carnage at Taunton; 18 March 2022, 06:06 AM.

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                            • #15
                              There's a couple of positives...

                              1) Allaho and Flooring Porter's 'catch me if you can' front running performances. Both brilliant and a wonderful hour of racing yesterday.
                              2) Galopin's performance up until the first stride after the last fence.

                              And then the negatives (but still golden moments in their own way)...
                              3) Galopin's fall and the shock we all felt, immediately followed in my case by concern he'd hurt himself because of the rein issue, then finding out he was OK.
                              4) The cheer as Tiger went clear of Delta Work at the last, only for silence as DW reeled him back in as they got to the line.

                              Both 2/3 & 4 unbelievable sporting drama for those of us invested in the sport, 1) was just two incredible sporting performances.

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