2024 Stayers Hurdle

[Studfarm254]

Monkfish wins all

Pretty sure his name is Fishcake, Kev!

[Eggs]

….Fred immediately cuts to 16-1.

…10-1 with Hills NRNB, 20-1 looks about the best with Lads.

[Benjy23]

That Monkfish and Stayers 125/1 that Eggs posted looks pretty good value now. Considered it and left it.

[TigerRolllllll]

Forgot I’d backed him already & did again pre race ….senior moments for once bring kind

Chelt needs great stories …..and this would be one

Fingers crossed makes it here & we can cheer him on

[Eggs]

….as usual, post-race comments will be interesting but lovely if they bring him over.

[TigerRolllllll]

….as usual, post-race comments will be interesting but lovely if they bring him over.

Hope they don’t go Gold Cup as no chance in that, but Stayers wide open as ever

[ComplyOrDie]

Fantastic to have a 125/1 ticket for any race that is still live, but ultimately Monkfish wins nothing, IMO.

That is the one form line you have for him, and Summerville Boy got walloped in the same race last season by Teahupoo getting a fair bit of weight, and even Teahupoo couldn't win the Stayers getting his conditions.

Summerville Boy was also beat LTO in a listed handicap, obviously having to give lumps of weight away but it's not as if it was close, he was 7 lengths behind a 124 rated horse.

I struggle to believe anyone on here actually gives him a chance in the race.

[Kevloaf]

Fantastic to have a 125/1 ticket for any race that is still live, but ultimately Monkfish wins nothing, IMO.

That is the one form line you have for him, and Summerville Boy got walloped in the same race last season by Teahupoo getting a fair bit of weight, and even Teahupoo couldn't win the Stayers getting his conditions.

Summerville Boy was also beat LTO in a listed handicap, obviously having to give lumps of weight away but it's not as if it was close, he was 7 lengths behind a 124 rated horse.

I struggle to believe anyone on here actually gives him a chance in the race.

I definitely give an Albert Bartlett winner a chance in a Stayers Hurdle mate. Nevermind a dual festival winner.


Have you seen the roll call of Stayers Hurdle winners? Lisnager Oscar got the job done fella..... wide open!

[ComplyOrDie]

I definitely give an Albert Bartlett winner a chance in a Stayers Hurdle mate. Nevermind a dual festival winner.


Have you seen the roll call of Stayers Hurdle winners? Lisnager Oscar got the job done fella..... wide open!

Yeah, when he was a lot younger and prior to any injury.

He's done well to win today, that I give him credit for.

I'd rather be backing whatever wins the Cleeve Hurdle tomorrow, over anything that won that Galmoy today,

I can understand, from your perspective, creating a book on the race and therefore having everything or almost everything covered it won't matter, to a degree, which one wins the race, but from a standalone bet I wouldn't be entertaining Monkfish, at all.

[Kevloaf]

Yeah, when he was a lot younger and prior to any injury.

He's done well to win today, that I give him credit for.

I'd rather be backing whatever wins the Cleeve Hurdle tomorrow, over anything that won that Galmoy today,

I can understand, from your perspective, creating a book on the race and therefore having everything or almost everything covered it won't matter, to a degree, which one wins the race, but from a standalone bet I wouldn't be entertaining Monkfish, at all.

Haha, yeah, come on the mighty Dashel Drasher

[Dandrew99]

Teahupoo won last year with a race under his belt, Monkfish is coming off nearly a year off. He's definitely entitled to come on from that run IMO. Don't quite see why Teahupoo disappointing last year is at all related to Monkfish either. Teahupoo has still never won a race in the spring, Monkfish has loads of spring form.

Not saying he's going to win or anything, but the situations are very very different. I'd definitely give him a chance, looks like another bang average stayers hurdle to me.

[Lobos]

Monkfish can finish 2nd to the mighty Irish Point.

[Eggs]

….Monkfish;

Patrick Mullins said: “He hasn’t missed any training (this season), we just hadn’t got him out, so we were happy his fitness would hold up. We thought he was a Gold Cup horse once upon a time, but that is a great start to his season and hopefully he can build on it now.

“We were supposed to start him at Tramore on New Year’s Day but he got a little bang, so we decided to wait for this. He is in the Gold Cup and Stayers’ Hurdle but all options are open and it will be a case of what race suits, when he is ready.

“We won’t rush him back and Cheltenham is only seven weeks away, so he’ll probably go straight there. The decision regarding which race he runs in will be a Willie special.

“Ruth Dudfield does a fantastic job in keeping him sound and we’ll just hope he is OK in the morning. Touch wood, at his age, he will stand up to it.”

[Benjy23]

That's Patrick Mullins. In case it makes a difference to anyone. Not that he's said anything particularly controversial.

[YoungHustler]

My take on Jack Kennedy's thoughts(on yesterday's Road To Cheltenham podcast) on Irish Point and Teahupoo is that he prefers Teahupoo at this stage of their careers.