2024 Champion Hurdle (Previously Constitution Hill thread)

[Frankely My Dear]

Requiring a 'miraculous' improvement doesn't offer much hope. Is Nicky a pessimist? The words used are either pessimistic or realistically don't offer much hope

[Quevega]

Requiring a 'miraculous' improvement doesn't offer much hope. Is Nicky a pessimist? The words used are either pessimistic or realistically don't offer much hope

Overly dramatic ?

[Carnage at Taunton]

Requiring a 'miraculous' improvement doesn't offer much hope. Is Nicky a pessimist? The words used are either pessimistic or realistically don't offer much hope

I’d say he’s more of a pessimist than optimist by nature

[Lobos]

One word...... Binocular

[Irish Rugby]

Not pocket talking but I reckon he turns up and wins and in will in the future be talked about in the same sentence as Kicking King, Vatour, Binocular etc.

[HesTheOne]

Barry Geraghty on the barberstown preview

scope after Kempton was 3/5 followed up by blood test that revealed he was more under the weather then they had thought

same quote as Nicky then “a clean scope since, blood test Mon..dramatic improvement etc”

Did say he worked the prev fri/sat and did a brilliant piece of work

Ruby went on to say if the Hill does run then he’d expect Paul to buck out on Stateman and take him on from the front given the poor prep

[Lobos]

Cheers HTO. I'm sort of swaying towards him running now as well.

[PresentingPercy]

Not a very liquid market right now but if the exchanges are anything to go off, they must be expecting good news regarding CH bloods

[Mighty]

Not a very liquid market right now but if the exchanges are anything to go off, CH bloods must have came back clean

Think it’s too early to say. Nicky said last night on a preview show that they’d be taken this morning, and results back in the afternoon.

[Bollinger]

Overly dramatic ?

i’d say Q is correct here with ‘overly dramatic’.

Personally, I believe Con Hill will be scratched today, which won’t be of benefit to me having taking a fantastic price nearly a year ago.

But, Nicky I’ve always thought is a bit of a ‘flapper’, which offers the tiniest bit of hope.

I thought it was quite telling that Danny Mullins, on a recent podcast, when questioned about the Con Hill situation said that ‘if you knew how many of Willie’s scoped badly in the week leading up to the festival and actually won - they never get mentioned and the public don’t even know - it’s quite common’

Willie’s a cool customer (albeit with a plethora of horses to take a sick horse’s place, at short notice, in any specific graded race at the festival, which Nicky more than often doesn’t) - Nicky flaps more often than he should.

However, I feel in this instance here, Con Hill is cooked for the Festival.

I share a little prayer with myself I’m wrong.

[Atlantic Viking]

Scenes when there's no announcement today because the printer has run out of ink.

[Bumble]

Scenes when there's no announcement today because the printer has run out of ink.

Surely Nicky will just share a handwritten note on X?

[Exar Essay]

Not a very liquid market right now but if the exchanges are anything to go off, they must be expecting good news regarding CH bloods

Big ol' spike to 5.0 .... and perhaps just as importantly, State Man backed to 1.5.

[Exar Essay]

Constitution Hill matched at 9.0 with nothing to lay. I can't see that as anything but results received and decision made.

Edit: Make that 11.0

Edit 2: make that 50.0 ... he's out surely

[MadeinJapan]

He’s out - letter from Hendo just gone on Twitter.