Champion Bumper ‘25

[AaronLad]

EL CAIROS (Gary & Josh Moore) was a narrow winner of his point-to-point for Sean Doyle last spring before being bought for €200,000 on behalf of owner/rider David Maxwell. Despite being a half-brother to staying chaser Wasdell Dundalk, the No Risk At All gelding showed terrific acceleration to win on his Rules debut in a bumper at Newbury (Good) in November.
Following his six lengths victory, Gary Moore commented: “El Cairos was impressive and he's a nice horse. He's always shown that at home, but the proof is in the pudding here today and it was a rare turn of foot.” The statistics courtesy of Race Iq suggest it was a taking display – he hit a top speed of 37.84mph and covered two of the last three furlongs in 12.15 and 12.03 seconds. Evidently blessed with a lethal turn of foot, he reportedly worked very well under Jamie Moore at Lingfield earlier this week.
His jockey is factored into the price but there are no obstacles to be jumped and his stable, who have sent out 8 winners in the last fortnight, trained Authorised Speed to finish fifth in this behind Facile Vega in 2022.

I wouldn't want to put anyone off of this horse but a bit of context to these final sectionals.
The first 4f's of that race were run at an average of around 18.5 secs. They had got up to the rattling pace of an average around 15 second furlongs from 1mile -4f out.

So it was basically a 4 furlong race.
Which the bumper wont be.
Im not saying he cant win just adding context.

[Hurricane fly]

Jody on her, very happy with that!

Finally! Didn't back as much as I thought but not the first time the bumper has saved my bacon and made me much more positive going forward. Karoline Banbou delivering in the MNH to complete a double would really make me happier

[Zachx02]

Kalypsochance running no race after hammering heads up in the pre Christmas bumper - what more can you do aye

[HoldenTheReins]

Dare we say it, a poor bunch again for novice hurdles next year?

[Quevega]

It was poor anyway aside from the winner IMO.
The only one with proper graded form wins.
The Dublin geldings race result showed that none of them were that good.

Gordon clearly thought his were shite which is why he was thinking of bringing Jalon along and ducked Dublin with Kalypso.
And Mullins was just throwing any old shite at it in February - winning late season bumpers that probably weren't all that.

[CJW]

El Cairos, anything mentioned with regards to the future with this horse, quiet fancy a interest in this one for next year

[DenmanSacre]

El Cairos, anything mentioned with regards to the future with this horse, quiet fancy a interest in this one for next year

A flat campaign was discussed before Cheltenham I believe. Always going to be let down in the big races with Maxwell riding him though.

[Fouroverthrutwo]

I reckon both Windbeneathmywings and Sober Glory were better than most / all of these. I hope Sober Glory goes to the Aintree bumper. I reckon he could be a nice horse next year and one to follow. Maybe one for The Persion War at Chepstow?