Cheltenham Festival Race Program

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If you really want to see the best vs the best then you have to force it to happen by taking away the multiple options that horses/trainers/owners have....

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Thanks for listening Istabraq !

Its the 10lb allowance that makes it interesting for the 4yo in the Supreme. I can recall three 4yo who...

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The XC was the change that I had my doubts about, But as Quevega says the result helped support the change. And the changes to the novice races came just...

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Thanks for the comments.

For the avoidance of doubt I agree that they won't make wholesale changes such as those that I have advocated (and...

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I think the changes that were made to the races this year were generally beneficial. However, in my view they did not go nearly far enough. Potential...

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Yes - penalties would mean downgrading to Grade 2. Maybe they will be more creative but they surely wont want Lossiemouth doing a repeat in the race...

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Agree - Id be amazed if the conditions weren't changed to either prevent Lossiemouth running (e.g. no Grade 1 winners) or to severely compromise her chance...

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Any other owner and I think F2F simply goes for an obvious repeat win in the Ryanair. However JP was uncharacteristically open about the fact that there...

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The pavements were all dry in the morning so it wasn't too much - will all depend on how much he watered.

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Stopped raining for now - I'm about to walk into town for dinner so it will probably come down in sheets now

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It started raining at about 3:15 but it was just a fine drizzle for the first hour. Since about 4:15 it has been a steady rain rather than heavy (think...

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Just began to drizzle, enough to barely wet the pavement but stopped now....

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not raining at the moment...

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There is no benefit to Myretown not declaring if they want to run. If they declare and he is balloted out they get their entry fees refunded. If they...

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Not wanting to derail the Ultima thread with Plate talk but re Il Ridoto, I recall Nicholls saying that he had trouble getting Il Ridoto to retain his...

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Not sure if this is the reason for you but this can happen due to supplementary entries. For example if you had laid Inothewayourthinkin back in December...

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They were scared of F2F two weeks ago......

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Stretching it a bit to call those 3 "rogue winners". The Real Whacker and Lord Windermere were both only 8/1 and O'Faolains Boy was 12/1 in...

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Watering has started. They are currently watering in two spots, both in the back straight, the first in the middle of the flat part of the back straight...

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This is so spot on - when I was young and first started going to the Festival there was a horse called Sabin Du Loir trained by Martin Pipe who went to...