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Festival racing golden moment

Jack Kennedy on Delta Work.

The Flooring Porter syndicate a close second.
 
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Flooring Porter celebrations, not usually into the gushy 'what a great story' shite peddled by itv but buying a horse off Facebook that becomes a double Cheltenham festival winner is a pretty good story. Good job Danny Mullins was the jockey, can't imagine the likes of AP McCoy would have agreed to be hoisted in the air by the owners in the winners enclosure :welcoming:
 
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Flooring Porter celebrations, not usually into the gushy 'what a great story' shite peddled by itv but buying a horse off Facebook that becomes a double Cheltenham festival winner is a pretty good story. Good job Danny Mullins was the jockey, can't imagine the likes of AP McCoy would have agreed to be hoisted in the air by the owners in the winners enclosure :welcoming:
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McCoy would have charged them money.
 
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Jack Kennedy for me on Delta Work !
Second highlight would be Facile Vega winning the bumper and the connections leading it into the parade ring.
 
Flooring Porter landing a 125/1 treble
 
Struggling with this, and still one day to go.

Will have to wait and see what tomorrow brings, but I can already guarantee I won't have just one.

After yesterday's wash out and disappointments it was great to see some quality performances back on a bit better ground today.
 
moment of the week was Graham rodway dubbing Colin tizzard tizzie rascal on in the know

spat my beer everywhere in laughter
 
Constitution Hill for me. Rarely does a hurdler catch your imagine as much as the chasers but this lad is an absolute machine.

Other smaller highlights:

Venetias fantastic form.

The overhead footage of Derek Fox weaving CR through traffic. Would love overhead footage to be more widely used and available to punters.

Allaho demolition. There's something about 2 and a half milers, the Cheltenham Festival and utterly fantastic performances.

Paul Townend looking round to see Shishkin pulled up, CPS falling and him changing tactics mid race so Energumene could pound through the mud for an authoritative victory. Not been Paul's best week for me but that was great.
 
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The reception and standing ovation for honeysuckle to be there and witness it was special .
 
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ComplyOrDie said:
Struggling with this, and still one day to go.

Will have to wait and see what tomorrow brings, but I can already guarantee I won't have just one.

After yesterday's wash out and disappointments it was great to see some quality performances back on a bit better ground today.
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Derek Fox ride of the week thus far.
The performances of GDC,CHill who are complete and serious racehorses of the top order already, LPresse also I think.
The battling back of the brits after last year.
Alan King, so pleased for him, Venetia and Lucinda too.
And all the other British trainers producing.

For the healthiness of the festival we really needed the brits to perform this year.
 
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There's a couple of positives...

1) Allaho and Flooring Porter's 'catch me if you can' front running performances. Both brilliant and a wonderful hour of racing yesterday.
2) Galopin's performance up until the first stride after the last fence.

And then the negatives (but still golden moments in their own way)...
3) Galopin's fall and the shock we all felt, immediately followed in my case by concern he'd hurt himself because of the rein issue, then finding out he was OK.
4) The cheer as Tiger went clear of Delta Work at the last, only for silence as DW reeled him back in as they got to the line.

Both 2/3 & 4 unbelievable sporting drama for those of us invested in the sport, 1) was just two incredible sporting performances.
 
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Tuesday in general was fantastic viewing, especially Honeysuckle winning back to back champion hurdles. Won absolutely hee haw but the racing made up for it!

Agree Galopin getting up being ok was great to see, hopefully Bob doesn’t have a long term injury if he was off, also Shishkin hopefully is fine and bounces back at Aintree!

Flooring Porter and Allaho were just brilliant yesterday, L’Homme Presse was fantastic on Wednesday and is certainly in the Gold Cup picture next year. Sir Gerhard was brilliant too, why did we ever doubt WPM haha!
 
For me, Allaho repeating what he did last year with the pressure Townend would've been feeling, was incredibly impressive
 
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Getting in out of the rain on Wednesday !! But seriously constitution hill took ur breath away and the roar when tiger hit the front was some moment to witness but u just knew delta was going to collar him cause I had it doubled with edwardstone ha Thru the drink I thought it was a short head but just watched it back and it was a cosy length
 
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Paddy Mullins with the ride of the century.
 
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