Cheltenham Day 2 - Wednesday

unitedrover

sdoc13 wrote: »

Never. They NEVER come back the same.

Solwhit came back to win the World Hurdle. Gone again though.

Keano

Are my the only one thinking of sitting this out. It's just like the national and a number of them can take it.

hawkhead

Backed Chicago Grey & Rose of the Moon in the next. Taking a chance that both decide to have a going day today cause if they do they are both reasonably treated

TheMilkyPirate

unitedrover wrote: »

Solwhit came back to win the World Hurdle. Gone again though.

Well he died so a bit different

Miall108

Very sad to see what happened to Sprinter Sacre. I was worried about him all week but lumped on him hoping he could find some of his vintage form. Im wondering what exactly was the problem with him

RobertKK

Added a small bet on the grey touttan-whatever it is called.

mdwexford

HarshOstrich wrote: »

Have to say nicholls is a much better trainer than Henderson in my opinion .
How many times year after year has nichols improved horses and kept them at that level.
When I think of hendersons horses they only seem to last a year or 2 and then there bottomed out.

The amount of top Henderson horses that get injured is unreal.
Very rare he has one that keep at a top level throughout their career.

Long Run, Binocular, Simonsig and Spirit Son are recent ones I can think of that got injured or form tailed off badly.

Have to question what his training methods are like at this stage imo.

Nicholls is different gravy to Henderson.

Whosthis

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Cross country is always an enjoyable race, tenner on Charingworth for a bit of craic.

This is my favourite race of the festival, always a minefield. I've also gone with Charingworth, pinsticking as much as anything as I think you could make a decent case for at least half of these.

Miall108

RobertKK wrote: »

With the Manchester United team at Cheltenham, I guess some see a similarity between Sprinter Sacre and Falcao's form at the moment.
Once two of the greats in terms of what they did.

Id put Sprinter down as more of a Fernando Torres tbh

tryfix

jimjamcos wrote: »

Hands up. Never in a month of Sundays could have predicted that. With Somersby so close you'd have to think it was a poor renewal. Sad to see SS & SDG so poor

The winner had decent form, he was only only rated a pound below Sire De Grugy, and Sprinter was hardly likely to be his old self. It was a bad omen for Sire's chances when a broken down horse like Sprinter was favourite. Champagne Fever really missed his chance today having beaten the winner last year, but the winner looked like he had a bit up his sleeve today.

sdoc13

unitedrover wrote: »

Solwhit came back to win the World Hurdle. Gone again though.

True. Almost Never.

jimini0

mdwexford wrote: »

The amount of top Henderson horses that get injured is unreal.
Very rare he has one that keep at a top level throughout their career.

Long Run, Binocular, Simonsig and Spirit Son are recent ones I can think of that got injured or form tailed off badly.

Have to question what his training methods are like at this stage imo.

Nicholls is different gravy to Henderson.

Is hendersons place up in the hills???

Keano

Small punt on Toutancarmont just for an interest

jimini0

I hope that photographer is ok

convert

What happened with Quantitativeasing and Toutancarmont? The guy on racing fm suggested he may have been distracted by a camera man?

RobertKK

Dramatic..

Had Any currency in my super heinz (posted earlier in this thread) but at least no one got killed in that race...

Was on Quantitive there, what a joke that French horse cost us a winner there... Looked like she was going to win easy.

DamienOB

16:00 Cheltenham
Full result
1st 10 Rivage D'Or (FR) 16/1
2nd 2 Any Currency (IRE) 7/1
3rd 3 Uncle Junior (IRE) 20/1
4th 11 Dogora (FR) 20/1

Shane732

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Was on Quantitive there, what a joke that French horse cost us a winner there... Looked like she was going to win easy.

Yup, hope the guy is ok.

jimini0

convert wrote: »

What happened with Quantitativeasing and Toutancarmont? The guy on racing fm suggested he may have been distracted by a camera man?

Toutancarmont jumped left took Nina with it through the rail

Al_Coholic

IMO quantitiveasing would have won that easy....hope the photographer is ok

hollster2

That 17 cash out looks good now gutted sire

DDC1990

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Was on Quantitive there, what a joke that French horse cost us a winner there... Looked like she was going to win easy.

Gutted. French horse came right across to carry Nina out.

What a spin she got all the way round, and she wasn't moving on him. No guarantees in racing obviously, but Nina would have got him close anyway.

Dr. Bre

photographer went downeasy

superfurry1

Nevermind d photographer once d horses and jockeys are ok:-) Rivage 1st decent priced winner at Cheltenham so far more please posted it earlier with picks ;-)

Esroh

Photographer was very lucky. If he had just pressed the button pics will be good.
Would love to know did the French lad understand the meath accent

toodleytoo

Think they said on Channel 4 that the photographer is fine!

AdpRo

First Annie and now Quantitative.......even for the week so far but could have been so much better.

RacoonQueen

DamienOB wrote: »

16:00 Cheltenham
Full result
1st 10 Rivage D'Or (FR) 16/1
2nd 2 Any Currency (IRE) 7/1
3rd 3 Uncle Junior (IRE) 20/1
4th 11 Dogora (FR) 20/1

Frig it...put Uncle Junior to win...was going to go EW :mad:

ellejay

anyone still here?
any fancies for the 4.40 / 5.15?

thinking of unaimite ridden by tom scudamore