2023 Ryanair

[Eggs]

…..no mention of Janidil or CPS in tonight’s Mullins Stable Tour. Noteworthy that Blue Lord now under consideration for this.

[doctorwu]

Step forward Pic D'orhy.

Nicholls is going to have some Festival!!!!

Pic D'orhy
Stage Star
Herpes
BMG

Plus a couple of Handicaps....

Good luck with those 4 Lobos.

[Carnage at Taunton]

Step forward Pic D'orhy.

Nicholls is going to have some Festival!!!!

Pic D'orhy
Stage Star
Herpes
BMG

Plus a couple of Handicaps....

And Tahmuras makes Five.

[doctorwu]

And Tahmuras makes Five.

[Carnage at Taunton]

Haha, knew that would cause a reaction!!

[Lobos]

…..no mention of Janidil or CPS in tonight’s Mullins Stable Tour. Noteworthy that Blue Lord & Sir G now under consideration for this.

Sir G ???!!! Surely not.

[doctorwu]

Best chance Nicholls has of a winner at the fez would be to put BMG in The Ryanair. Its getting to that time of the year when all the excuses will come flowing out of the English trainers before they run off to Aintree for that non-event. 31 entries for the Nash, please.................
(Hendo excluded)

[Lobos]

And Tahmuras makes Five.

Yeah, forgot about him. Definitely place claims. He's got some team this year. That feed he nicked from chemical man has worked a peach.

[Eggs]

Sir G ???!!! Surely not.

….ffs, I really am getting old.

[Carnage at Taunton]

Yeah, forgot about him. Definitely place claims. He's got some team this year. That feed he nicked from chemical man has worked a peach.

Yep,he’s one with a chance.
Probably more hopeful than confident, got him at big odds, we shall see how all the form lines up on the day.

[FinalFurlong91]

I'd still be on jonny dineens side that Nicholls will have 0-1 graded winners

Likely 0

Pic dorhy wins Saturday he could become his best chance

[ComplyOrDie]

I prefer Hitman for Nicholls in this over Pic D'Orhy.

[FinalFurlong91]

I prefer Hitman for Nicholls in this over Pic D'Orhy.

He's a dodgepot isn't he?

Not won a proper race for Nicholls

6 2nds and 2 3rds

Travels into his race then finds little to nothing

[ComplyOrDie]

He's a dodgepot isn't he?

Not won a proper race for Nicholls

6 2nds and 2 3rds

Travels into his race then finds little to nothing

He's consistent, without being top level, but he's 25/1 and Pic D'Orhy is 12/1.

Hitman's run behind Fakir D'Oudairies at Aintree last season has him in the mix for this. I don't think he's bred for 3m ~(he may get the trip properly in time, but not at his currently age, IMO) and stated as much in the King George thread on here, so I can almost put a line through his 3m runs, though his King George run was bad but the vet found him to have bled, which isn't ideal, but at least it was some level of reasoning behind it. He was fine the next run, and got done by a course specialist.

He's 11 wins/places from 13 runs over fences which means he at least places 84.6% of the time, and is a 25/1 shot. The two times he hasn't placed was when he fell back in 2021 and in the King George over 3m where he bled.

Do I think he's going to win a Ryanair? No. Do I think he go better than Pic D'Orhy in the race? Absolutely.

[Exar Essay]

I will probably read (or someone will tell me) that Janidil is not going to Cheltenham, but I can't understand the 33/1 odds for last year's second.. There is no guarantee that Conflated would have beaten him last year when falling and I would argue that Janidil has shown his best form on good or yielding ground and not the soft it was on Thursday last year. While recognizing that Janidil was beaten 6l by Conflated in their most recent meeting, that race was over 3 miles when all of Janidil's best form has been over 2.5 miles; such as when he beat Conflated by 17l at Fairyhouse in April 2021. Another good run over 2.5m was when he was the only horse to get anywhere near to Allaho in the 2021 John Durkan; well clear of both Fakir D'oudairies and Envoi Allen. 33/1 looks too big to me and so does the option of 25/1 NRNB with Skybet and PP.

Janidil entered in the Red Mills over 2m4f at Gowran on 18th. A decent card. That NRNB looks good!