The Horse racing thread

[ashman]

I would think the Maroon and White would be hard to deal with .

[mouview]

O'leary is a very hard man to warm to, near billionaire fighting with millionaire over money just pisses me off.

Mullins is even harder; doesn't help having that dipstick Ruby as stable jock.

[Donnellys Hollow]

Aidan O'Brien. What more can you say?

[Two Hands FFS]

Awful news about Vautour.   

[Mickey Linden]

Awful sad news. Vatour was my fav horse in training. Losing avant tout today as well. This with the news of freddi tyleki shows how tough this game is, if ever we needed reminding!

[charlieTully]

thats terrible news, superstar. festival banker.

[Donnellys Hollow]

It always seems to be the good ones although the Freddie Tylicki news does put it into perspective.

https://www.gofundme.com/freddie-tylicki

[drici]

The course commentary was only marginally louder than the crowd singing during the last (9-00pm) there now.
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1st  8 Song Of Love (IRE)  12/1
2nd  6 Zanjabeel  14/1
3rd  1 Brokopondo (IRE)  11/2

Winning Trainer
J O'Brien

Winning Jockey
D O'Brien

[bannside]

Singing Celtic songs for a full hour.

[Mickey Linden]

What was going on? I thought I was hearing things

[beer baron]

Thistlecrack goes for the King George, looks like we might have a race on our hands afterall.

[Donnellys Hollow]

Thistlecrack goes for the King George, looks like we might have a race on our hands afterall.

Hats off to the Tizzards.

[INDIANA]

He's a bull of a horse. Kempton is a flat track though

[Donnellys Hollow]

A horse who gets 3 miles over hurdles at Cheltenham should have no trouble getting 3m2 over fences there. Generally horses stay a little bit further over fences because they're going that gear slower. I'd like to see him settling a bit more to be taking even money for a Gold Cup particularly if he has a galloper like Coneygree taking him on down the back on the second circuit but it's only a minor criticism. To win a King George as a novice on only his fourth chase start (the first since the great Captain Christy) is a credit to his trainer. Most connections would be satisfied to mop up the Stayers Hurdle for a few years and it would have been easy to have a nice leisurely school round in the Feltham instead today.

I'd pay good money to see a match between Thistlecrack and Douvan over 2m4 in the Melling at Liverpool.

[INDIANA]

A horse who gets 3 miles over hurdles at Cheltenham should have no trouble getting 3m2 over fences there. Generally horses stay a little bit further over fences because they're going that gear slower. I'd like to see him settling a bit more to be taking even money for a Gold Cup particularly if he has a galloper like Coneygree taking him on down the back on the second circuit but it's only a minor criticism. To win a King George as a novice on only his fourth chase start (the first since the great Captain Christy) is a credit to his trainer. Most connections would be satisfied to mop up the Stayers Hurdle for a few years and it would have been easy to have a nice leisurely school round in the Feltham instead today.

I'd pay good money to see a match between Thistlecrack and Douvan over 2m4 in the Melling at Liverpool.

Thistlecrack would eat him in my opinion

He reminds me of Sea the Stars equivalent over fences.

A handsome, tank of a horse with the power of a thoroughbred.

He's a special horse - just not sure he'll win it this year.

But he'll win two or maybe even three Gold Cups at least