Punchestown festival 2021

TheMilkyPirate · 25-04-2021 08:28AM #1

It amazes me that Cheltenham has threads a year out and then individual threads for each day and then other great meetings.. nothing.

Rachael has taken the ride on Envoi for his clash against Monkfish on Tuesday, please god this goes ahead and there are no late withdrawals.

Would absolutely love to be going up for a few days but thanks to covid I'll be watching on a tablet in work instead. Hopefully we will be back on a course before the summer is out.

clevtrev · 25-04-2021 09:54AM

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

It amazes me that Cheltenham has threads a year out and then individual threads for each day and then other great meetings.. nothing.

Rachael has taken the ride on Envoi for his clash against Monkfish on Tuesday, please god this goes ahead and there are no late withdrawals.

Would absolutely love to be going up for a few days but thanks to covid I'll be watching on a tablet in work instead. Hopefully we will be back on a course before the summer is out.

I think most of the regulars here moved to a telegram forum for Cheltenham and didn't come back after it finished. This forum has been dead for the last month not worth checking anymore

Frozen Veg · 25-04-2021 12:06PM

Better line up than Cheltenham.

RivetingRoger · 25-04-2021 05:58PM

A certain over zealous moderator had more to do with it than the telegram group lads

akelly02 · 25-04-2021 08:43PM

RivetingRoger wrote: »

A certain over zealous moderator had more to do with it than the telegram group lads

You back in telegram rog?

clevtrev · 25-04-2021 08:46PM

Frozen Veg wrote: »

Better line up than Cheltenham.

I think there are some fabulous head-to-heads but not a lot of great racing as the fields are very small. For me most of these head to heads are a pure toss of the coin and most are even money or odds on so I will be watching but keeping my money in my pocket

Day 1 we have 3 grade 1s

Blue Lord vs Echoes in the rain - 5 runners
Allaho vs Chaucon pour soi - 7 runners
Envoi Allen vs Monkfish - 4 runners

Shemale · 25-04-2021 09:11PM

clevtrev wrote: »

I think most of the regulars here moved to a telegram forum for Cheltenham and didn't come back after it finished. This forum has been dead for the last month not worth checking anymore

Lol, you have 6 posts in the forum since Gold Cup day and one is this.

Shemale · 25-04-2021 09:15PM

RivetingRoger wrote: »

A certain over zealous moderator had more to do with it than the telegram group lads

Spot on, along with posters on the verge of calling someone they disagree with a big poopyhead.

clevtrev · 25-04-2021 09:26PM

Shemale wrote: »

Lol, you have 6 posts in the forum since Gold Cup day and one is this.

only stating the obvious and was not going to try and keep the forum going with just myself and the goat!

The Hoarse Whisperer · 25-04-2021 09:42PM

clevtrev wrote: »

I think there are some fabulous head-to-heads but not a lot of great racing as the fields are very small. For me most of these head to heads are a pure toss of the coin and most are even money or odds on so I will be watching but keeping my money in my pocket

Day 1 we have 3 grade 1s

Blue Lord vs Echoes in the rain - 5 runners
Allaho vs Chaucon pour soi - 7 runners
Envoi Allen vs Monkfish - 4 runners

Yeah some great matchups there alright. Looking forward to it.

Think Envoi will get the better of Monkfish. I get the impression Monkfish is a better horse at less than 3 miles so once Envoi gets this trip, and I think will, I think he will win. Hopefully we get a cracker either way.

RivetingRoger · 25-04-2021 09:43PM

akelly02 wrote: »

You back in telegram rog?

ðŸ‘

finglashoop · 25-04-2021 10:01PM

akelly02 wrote: »

You back in telegram rog?

thats where all the winners are

Gavin "shels" · 25-04-2021 11:23PM

Looking forward to it but not the end of the NH season

PatrickDoherty · 26-04-2021 01:53AM

Interesting Paddy Mullins riding echoes in rain and Townend on bigger priced Blue Lord, Mullins had previously said Supreme winner was defintely heading here and its a NR, Doubt it takes on Bob Olinger either.

posturingpat · 26-04-2021 08:02AM

PatrickDoherty wrote: »

Interesting Paddy Mullins riding echoes in rain and Townend on bigger priced Blue Lord, Mullins had previously said Supreme winner was defintely heading here and its a NR, Doubt it takes on Bob Olinger either.

Has there any mention of reasons behind Echoes of rains jockey booking? Must be owner driven. Seems very odd.

Plasandrunt · 26-04-2021 09:13AM

posturingpat wrote: »

Has there any mention of reasons behind Echoes of rains jockey booking? Must be owner driven. Seems very odd.

Why is it odd that Townend would have chosen Blue Lord over Echoes in Rain?

posturingpat · 26-04-2021 09:16AM

Plasandrunt wrote: »

Why is it odd that Townend would have chosen Blue Lord over Echoes in Rain?

Pay no heed to me. I had it in my head Jacob would be over with no racing in UK.

Plasandrunt · 26-04-2021 09:25AM

actually I noticed that Townend had the ride on Concertista at Cheltenham, maybe he rides the Munir and Souede horses trained by Mullins and Jacob has the rest. Could be a owners thing actually.

longshotvalue · 26-04-2021 11:18AM

PatrickDoherty wrote: »

Interesting Paddy Mullins riding echoes in rain and Townend on bigger priced Blue Lord, Mullins had previously said Supreme winner was defintely heading here and its a NR, Doubt it takes on Bob Olinger either.

Townend just on the better horse as normal.

PatrickDoherty · 26-04-2021 02:46PM

Not so sure, dont rate Blue Lord myself think echoes in rain will hammer him with any sort of ride especially getting 7lb.

d00mk1n · 26-04-2021 02:57PM

PatrickDoherty wrote: »

Not so sure, dont rate Blue Lord myself think echoes in rain will hammer him with any sort of ride especially getting 7lb.

Do you think Blue Lord would have finished 2nd at chelt?

PatrickDoherty · 26-04-2021 03:02PM

d00mk1n wrote: »

Do you think Blue Lord would have finished 2nd at chelt?

Yes but I dont rate that supreme form the 2nd and 3rd are still running around Aintree.

Dont think echoes in rain is a top notcher but I'd be shocked if she cant beat Blue Lord even allowing for Paddy onboard.

longshotvalue · 26-04-2021 04:59PM

Punchestown is a proper shambles when you looks at the amount of decent races. Wednesday is laughable for a supposed top class meeting

clevtrev · 26-04-2021 05:19PM

the Gold cup was looking interesting on Wednesday but it seems Minella Indo is out now with a bruised foot so another small field of 6

clevtrev · 26-04-2021 05:40PM

longshotvalue wrote: »

Punchestown is a proper shambles when you looks at the amount of decent races. Wednesday is laughable for a supposed top class meeting

you need a lot of quality horses to fill a 5-day festival with 12 grade 1 races. Also, it doesn't help that there are very few English horses other than Clan Des Obeaux, Epatante and that mad dog Goshen coming over to collect his £100k from Paddy Power on Friday. Although that said I don't ever recall English horses traveling over in any great numbers

bladespin · 26-04-2021 06:05PM

Telegram, what is this mysterious thing you speak of???

26-04-2021 06:52PM

I'm particularly interested in the bumpers for future stars ahead of next season. Gig in the Park is a horse that I am really looking forward to seeing on the track. He is entered for fridays concluding bumper and the master of Closutton has spoke very favorably about this french bred, during his stable tour commentary in November last year.

Im very excited about the champion bumper on Wednesday with Sir Gerhard, Kilcruit, O'Toole and Eric Bloodaxe all declared. Dont forget the mares bumper also on Wednesday, the Land rover bumper tomorrow too.

Toetohand · 26-04-2021 08:56PM

Golf Crazy Guy wrote: »

I'm particularly interested in the bumpers for future stars ahead of next season. Gig in the Park is a horse that I am really looking forward to seeing on the track. He is entered for fridays concluding bumper and the master of Closutton has spoke very favorably about this french bred, during his stable tour commentary in November last year.

Im very excited about the champion bumper on Wednesday with Sir Gerhard, Kilcruit, O'Toole and Eric Bloodaxe all declared. Dont forget the mares bumper also on Wednesday, the Land rover bumper tomorrow too.

Looks like the Crawfords have sold O Toole. Very impressive last time out

kksaints · 26-04-2021 09:31PM

Monkfish vs Enovi Allen tomorrow is a race to savour. Would be inclined to side with Monkfish. The Champion Chase is also a fascinating prospect. If Allaho shows up in a similar form to last time out and the distance isn't a problem he'll win. Chacun Pour Soi is a very short price for a horse who didn't have any excuses at Cheltenham. Nube Negra is overpriced compared to him at 4/1.

RivetingRoger · 26-04-2021 11:45PM

bladespin wrote: »

Telegram, what is this mysterious thing you speak of???

Its just a platform for Slattsy and Mig to argue about who has the bigger willy really

The rest of us just watch

Willy watch

27-04-2021 12:30AM

I lumped into The Priests Leap anti-post for the Stayers Hurdle before his race in Clonmel in early March. Won that at a canter at 2/7 under very soft to pure muck conditions.

Based on that performance he's certainly a stayer, and still available at 2/1. I don't really know if the change in conditions will impact him, but up against a very competitive field. Was with A Moore, but now with G Cromwell (no offence to Moore, but Cromwell is different gravy).

My head is telling me to lay off some of the bet, but I've decided he's going to romp home.

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