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    #32
    DylanAFC
    Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭DylanAFC


    It's snowing at Punchestown!


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    #33
    Ladeeen
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    Gregk961 wrote: »
    That rumour just wont go away will it

    ya, don't know where it's coming from???


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    #34
    paddy no 11
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    Is everyone actually at the races or did i miss the memo or crap racing?


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    #35
    magicmoves
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    paddy no 11 wrote: »
    Is everyone actually at the races or did i miss the memo or crap racing?

    Have a look at the other threads in the Horse Racing forum.


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    #36
    Harry Palmr
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    Ah well there goes me 10 grand :(


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    #37
    CH3OH
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    Michael O' Leary would drive you wrong


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    #38
    Johner
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    That was serious performance by Don Cossack, looked a Gold Cup horse there.


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    #39
    Miall108
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    Top class from Don Cossack. Thought he was struggling to keep pace with 3/4 to go and Djakadam would win but really steamrollered those last 2 fences.


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    #40
    kfallon
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    I wonder is DC just not suited by Cheltenham, I mean how did he not win the Ryanair looking at his last 2 runs!


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    #41
    Lt J.R. Bell
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    kfallon wrote: »
    I wonder is DC just not suited by Cheltenham, I mean how did he not win the Ryanair looking at his last 2 runs!

    I don't like suggesting this, as a rate him, but, anything to do with Bryan Cooper?


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    #42
    Miall108
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    kfallon wrote: »
    I wonder is DC just not suited by Cheltenham, I mean how did he not win the Ryanair looking at his last 2 runs!

    Who knows? But hes hardly on the same scale as Silviniaco Conti


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    #43
    irish_major
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    Disko will be a right horse.
    Pocket talk but stupid ride by nina, why you'd feel the need to have a first time out winner out the back of the field, bring him all the way around outside of the field and then not make use of his obvious stamina when given the chance. But anyway, don't know if he'd have beaten the winner.


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    #44
    kfallon
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    Lt J.R. Bell wrote: »
    I don't like suggesting this, as a rate him, but, anything to do with Bryan Cooper?

    Was discussing something similar with a mate this morn, Cooper is a good jockey and very young, hopefully in time he will be a great jockey.
    Miall108 wrote: »
    Who knows? But hes hardly on the same scale as Silviniaco Conti

    Yeah but he should have destroyed that Ryanair field based on his 2 performances since!


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    #45
    shy-tall-knight
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    Cooper has been pants since he came back from injury. Can't pick the right one for nuts either.


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    Miall108
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    Yeah but he should have destroyed that Ryanair field based on his 2 performances since!

    As far as I can remember did he not have terrible bad luck in that race like did he not get caught in between two horses at one stage going over the last 2 and lost momentum. Maybe Im wrong and that was another race but I could swear it was Don Cossacks in the Ryanair Chase


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    #47
    mdwexford
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    Miall108 wrote: »
    As far as I can remember did he not have terrible bad luck in that race like did he not get caught in between two horses at one stage going over the last 2 and lost momentum. Maybe Im wrong and that was another race but I could swear it was Don Cossacks in the Ryanair Chase

    Yeah he did.

    He wasn't going to win anyway I don't think but it certainly cost him some ground.


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    #48
    Miall108
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    mdwexford wrote: »
    Yeah he did.

    He wasn't going to win anyway I don't think but it certainly cost him some ground.

    He also had one really bad jump where he stumbled and lost quite a bit of ground too. That prob did most of the damage


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    #49
    thirtypence
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    Any spare ticket knocking around for punchestown today!?!


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    #50
    Fitz*
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    The Fly v Jezki should be interesting again.

    Hope the Fly can do it.


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    #51
    magicmoves
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    FitzShane wrote: »
    The Fly v Jezki should be interesting again.

    Hope the Fly can do it.

    Do you think the step up in distance will affect the Fly?


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    Lt J.R. Bell
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    No love for Dedigout? Or the out of form Jetson?


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    #53
    Lt J.R. Bell
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    magicmoves wrote: »
    Do you think the step up in distance will affect the Fly?

    He really shouldn't, but, he is still class. The way he came back at Leopy for the Irish Champion Hurdle when he was not travelling well, and put Jetski under serious pressure and win nicely, suggests a patient enough ride by Ruby would do it.

    Intereting to see how Jetski gets on with another jockey. He was a tad bit lucky to win at Aintree, wasn't he, though I never thought Arctic Fire would have won (then again Wicklow Brave pulled off a surprise at Cheltenham, and AF ran well in his last two prior to Aintree)


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    #54
    petes
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    Lt J.R. Bell wrote: »
    No love for Dedigout? Or the out of form Jetson?

    Dedigout a non runner, I had it backed to beat Jezki and fly :(


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