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2024 Champion Hurdle (Previously Constitution Hill thread)
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Originally posted by Bollinger View PostSo, the word is out on RTE this evening - Jane Mangan & Hugh Cahill discussing news that Constitution Hill’s first schooling over fences on Tuesday was not great.
6/4 on Paddy Power on the champ hurdle…..
Unibet shortening a few days ago…..
Who’s brave????
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No link Darlo, which would conclusively prove I have no evidence, but they were just summing up the day’s racing and Hugh inferred to Jane Mangan the word was out, with which she concurred.
Was schooled on Tuesday morning.
I guess in the industry word gets out fairly quickly, especially with a horse of his nature. It only takes a single whatsapp message and 2 hours later you’ve got 200 messages going back & forth.
Unibet shortened in the afternoon for the champ hurdle from 7/4 into 11/8 - Seven Barrows yard sponsor. On Sunday morning at 06.34, he was 7/4, which shows the timing of my bet, despite the Oddschecker rick.
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Originally posted by darlojim View PostHmmmm
Anyone else on here happen to be watching RTE today? I'm a little wary, as I'm positive this kind of news would have started flying around on Twitter and there's no such peep.
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Well guys, I have nothing left to say. It’s not like it was ‘categoric’, it was just before the finishing credits, Hugh Cahill talking about the season in general for 2 milers in general, touched upon Con Hill’s season, then suggesting ‘It’ll be long odds on he’ll be staying hurdling next year won’t he Ruby?”, at which point Jane Mangan just inferred, if I need to temper this, with the suggestion that Tuesday’s schooling hadn’t quite been as impressive as they were hoping.
So I’ll end my personal input here for now here by saying it’s what I’ve seen with my own eyes. Whether anything more concrete starts to appear in the next few days, I guess we’ll find out.
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Originally posted by darlojim View PostHmmmm
Anyone else on here happen to be watching RTE today? I'm a little wary, as I'm positive this kind of news would have started flying around on Twitter and there's no such peep.
He wouldn't exactly be mixing in the echelons of horse racing he’s a cross sports commentator and racing has been 2nd to most of his work
going to rewatch it now and see
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We won’t be hearing about it tomorrow at all Lobos, I’d be confident of that.
But we will be hearing about it in due course, whatever the decision.
With regards his ante post price for the Arkle Lobos, he’s 11/8 v the 6/4 for the Arkle.
This from his yard’s sponsors.
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Originally posted by HesTheOne View Post
I caught the end of the segment and I will need to rewatch it but I thought he was just talking out of his arse Hugh?
He wouldn't exactly be mixing in the echelons of horse racing he’s a cross sports commentator and racing has been 2nd to most of his work
going to rewatch it now and see
But those words were definitely uttered and Mangan definitely concurred. Swift, but possibly telling.
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Just as an aside, Henderson did say in an interview immediately after Aintree that horses need to make a certain ‘shape’ jumping a fence, and inferred that with Con’ Hill’s exceptional slick hurdling, he might not get away with it over a fence.
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Originally posted by HesTheOne View Post
I caught the end of the segment and I will need to rewatch it but I thought he was just talking out of his arse Hugh?
He wouldn't exactly be mixing in the echelons of horse racing he’s a cross sports commentator and racing has been 2nd to most of his work
going to rewatch it now and see
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