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  • #92
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Morleystreet wrote: »
    Galvin running Cheltenham tomorrow.

    Assume its just to qualify? Probably only needs to be placed. Must check it out. Wouldn't surprise it he didn't win but obviously I'm not hoping they keep the handicap mark down so I hope it wins well.

    Anyway I've done a wee muggy double with Galvin and Envoi Allen.


  • #93
    FatRat
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭FatRat


    Galvin will win the NH chase after that performance. Came in to write that and see that ye were already keeping an eye. Even longer would suit him judging from that


  • #94
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    What had Galvin shortened into after that?


  • #95
    madmoose
    Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭madmoose


    FatRat wrote: »
    Galvin will win the NH chase after that performance. Came in to write that and see that ye were already keeping an eye. Even longer would suit him judging from that

    He will piss it with Codd on, they go a crawl in the nth chase so his gears will come in well later on if not heavy ground.


  • #96
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    FatRat wrote: »
    Galvin will win the NH chase after that performance. Came in to write that and see that ye were already keeping an eye. Even longer would suit him judging from that
    Slattsy wrote: »
    What had Galvin shortened into after that?
    madmoose wrote: »
    He will piss it with Codd on, they go a crawl in the nth chase so his gears will come in well later on if not heavy ground.

    Easy game by all accounts. :pac::pac:


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  • #97
    FatRat
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭FatRat


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Easy game by all accounts. :pac::pac:

    Yep. That race is decided. End of.

    In fairness the NH is one of the easier races to call at Chelt. It always cuts up and ends up having half a field that obviously won't finish.


  • #98
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    FatRat wrote: »
    Yep. That race is decided. End of.

    In fairness the NH is one of the easier races to call at Chelt. It always cuts up and ends up having half a field that obviously won't finish.

    The arse is out of the value now anyway. 6/1 AP KWAYZY.

    https://www.oddschecker.com/cheltenham-festival/national-hunt-chase/winner

    I will be waiting until the day now.


  • #99
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Into 6s. Halved in price since yesterday. Ante post value has been snared.

    Hopefully not another Champagne Classic, and gets pulled, though not sure I'm as bullish on Galvin as I was with CC.


  • #100
    Plasandrunt
    Registered Users Posts: 858 ✭✭✭Plasandrunt


    Easywork at 25s for the RSA looks a big price to me. 2nd to Envoi Allen in the Ballymore and 2nd to a wonderful Asterion Forlonge performance at Leopardstown plus a 22l victory over Unexpected is very good form. Elliot has already said he's a stayer so with Envoi Allen probably going to the Marsh, Easywork looks to be his RSA horse


  • #101
    Slattsy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    The RSA is shaping up to be one hell of a race.


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  • #102
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    My baby is back, happy times.



  • #103
    RivetingRoger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    Mícheál Martin on TV3 last night said Irish health care workers and vulnerable will begin to get vaccination in mid December!
    Bolix Johnson in UK saying the same

    Crowds at Cheltenham must be looking good now lads!!
    Maybe not capacity but if we got 1/3 capacity even it would be great


  • #104
    Coneygree
    Registered Users Posts: 821 ✭✭✭Coneygree


    RivetingRoger wrote: »
    Mícheál Martin on TV3 last night said Irish health care workers and vulnerable will begin to get vaccination in mid December!
    Bolix Johnson in UK saying the same

    Crowds at Cheltenham must be looking good now lads!!
    Maybe not capacity but if we got 1/3 capacity even it would be great

    Not great for my Notebook Champion Chase bet at long odds!


  • #105
    RivetingRoger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    Coneygree wrote: »
    Not great for my Notebook Champion Chase bet at long odds!

    Eh?


  • #106
    Coneygree
    Registered Users Posts: 821 ✭✭✭Coneygree


    RivetingRoger wrote: »
    Eh?

    Notebook with no crowd to spook the horse would be a belter!


  • #107
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON




  • #108
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON




  • #109
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    The contrast between the 3 hurdle races at Fairyhouse on Sunday is compelling. Well worth a look, around 22 mins in.

    Ruby is great at analyzing races in fairness to the hooer.


  • #110
    akelly02
    Registered Users Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭akelly02


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    The contrast between the 3 hurdle races at Fairyhouse on Sunday is compelling. Well worth a look, around 22 mins in.

    Ruby is great at analyzing races in fairness to the hooer.



    you will do well to find a better judge of pace on horseback. always had it sussed


  • #111
    Pogue eile
    Registered Users Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭Pogue eile


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    The contrast between the 3 hurdle races at Fairyhouse on Sunday is compelling. Well worth a look, around 22 mins in.

    Ruby is great at analyzing races in fairness to the hooer.

    I posted here straight after the race that we had just seen the winner of the Triumph but to be honest I was shocked when I watched it back again during the week, after what transpired the last two years with Sir Erec and Goshen I am a little bit cautious about getting a it over excited about a juvenile again, but if my times are right for this race, I think we have seen an absolute monster.

    The word was as well that Mullins was very keen on the second and was gobsmacked to be beaten so readily.


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  • #112
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON




  • #113
    akelly02
    Registered Users Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭akelly02


    Boys , love him or hate him as a jockey and put all this 'he works for paddy's hes bound to give you losers ' aside, he is some man to dissect a horse race.


    The bollox Clive smith used to say he was worth 5 lengths having him on his back, I'd say hes underestimating it.


  • #114
    carq
    Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭carq


    Anyone planning on heading over ?
    Any word on crowds back for cheltenham meeting?


  • #115
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    carq wrote: »
    Anyone planning on heading over ?
    Any word on crowds back for cheltenham meeting?

    I would not be too fussed.

    I am getting to the stage now where I actually don't like going to the big UK meetings, it is too busy. For the same money I would prefer to head over mid-summer and up to Yorkshire for some evening meetings and afternoon of golf etc etc. Better value. You can get a full weeks racing in for the same money as a 2/3 trip to Cheltenham, that's including accommodation. Yorkshire is great value for racing, check it out.

    I went Gold Cup day 2019 and literally saw nothing and spent the whole afternoon queueing. You see a lot more from the comfort of your local bar stool and you can fall home in your own time.

    There are Ryanair flights from Leeds to Farranfore now also. So you can be in Killarney one day and on the knavesmire the next for 2.99 if you play your cards right.


  • #116
    RivetingRoger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    I'd say its6m fairly certain there will be crowds but it won't be usual.
    Maybe members plus 5k general sale tkts a day
    Regardless, I can't wait
    Still, unrivalled. The best week of the year


  • #117
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users Posts: 17,962 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    I'm worried we'll be in lockdown for Cheltenham :(


  • #118
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    I'm worried we'll be in lockdown for Cheltenham :(

    Not going to happen.

    It is a lot cheaper to inoculate the country than it is to fork out € 350 covid payments every week.

    The beginning of the end has started.


  • #119
    longshotvalue
    Registered Users Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭longshotvalue


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Not going to happen.

    It is a lot cheaper to inoculate the country than it is to fork out € 350 covid payments every week.

    The beginning of the end has started.


    I hope your right, but id imagine travel to and from uk will be an issue unless we have taken the vaccine already, which will be a problem unless your over 80 and in a home. No way everyone will have it got my mid march


  • #120
    RivetingRoger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    Leo was on Newstalk Friday saying he anticipates level 1 by March
    Game on if so
    Once the nursing homes, health care staff and vulnerable are looked after the rest of us will have a lot more freedoms


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  • #121
    Coneygree
    Registered Users Posts: 821 ✭✭✭Coneygree


    A lot depends on how bad things get over Christmas. I wouldn't be holding much faith in the roll out of vaccines anyway. I'd say it'll be well into Summer before that's a thing for the average Joe. It won't be a case of take the vaccine and we're sound, it'll be a painful wait to see how it takes across the population at large.

    Said I'd make my first trip over there last year and couldn't because of Covid and said I'd go next year instead. I didn't think Covid would still be news 9 months later but here we are. I think I'll give this year a skip too even if there's no restrictions. I'd settle for the pubs being open.


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