Queen Mother Champion Chase 2020

[Istabraq]

Should be out Saturday in the Game Spirit

Yep, but there have been a few false starts this season...

[Redbridge]

If Chacun pour Soi is the best that Ireland have got then thry may as well just cancel the race and give the trophy straight to Defi.

Mullins.
“The day I brought him here for Cheltenham trials day [schooling at Leopardstown] last year I let him go around with a few of ours.

“I said to Danny [Mullins], who rode him, to follow around but after two fences he was in front and led all the Cheltenham horses.

“It was absolutely eye-opening. Once every two or three years you get a horse coming up the gallops who shows you something they shouldn't be able to do and that's what he did that day.
“I said 'wow we could have something here' and he's turned out that way.


PS. 5 races since joining Mullins and on his 2nd Start last season beat DdS 41/4 lengths, say whatever you want about Defi but he would not hold the potential to improve as much as CPS could.

[jack1092]

Mullins.
“The day I brought him here for Cheltenham trials day [schooling at Leopardstown] last year I let him go around with a few of ours.

“I said to Danny [Mullins], who rode him, to follow around but after two fences he was in front and led all the Cheltenham horses.

“It was absolutely eye-opening. Once every two or three years you get a horse coming up the gallops who shows you something they shouldn't be able to do and that's what he did that day.

“I said 'wow we could have something here' and he's turned out that way.

I shouldn't laugh at this. Every two or three years- most trainers would be happy to say this about one their whole career. It's almost normal for Willie

[Super Raven]

CPS will have to improve a lot to beat Defi. Defi has more gears and i think he will pass CPS approaching the last. Altior the main danger to Defi.

[ComplyOrDie]

Chacun Pour Soi given 172

[jack1092]

CPS will have to improve a lot to beat Defi. Defi has more gears and i think he will pass CPS approaching the last. Altior the main danger to Defi.

The speed they went from early doors yesterday i'd say Defi would've slowed at the finish too. Some match up though.

[Super Raven]

The speed they went from early doors yesterday i'd say Defi would've slowed at the finish too. Some match up though.

yeah can see what you mean. just think Barry will sit in behind CPS and just have too much going up the hill. Proven at Cheltenham to stay on.

[Quevega]

The speed they went from early doors yesterday i'd say Defi would've slowed at the finish too. Some match up though.

Exactly.
The pace will be crucial.
Defi's first 2 races this season were more strongly run and he didn't have the same finish, he at least could not sustain it.
UDS and waiting patiently chasing him down at Sandown shows a weakness that may cost him at this trip against better horses going a quicker pace throughout.
The trainer and jockey will also know this.

[Redbridge]

Chacun Pour Soi given 172

Timeform Rating 176 someone rated him given all his flaws

[Kevloaf]

Timeform Rating 176 someone rated him given all his flaws

What are Defi / Altior / A Plus Tard with TF?

[Stormy Antarctic]

A bit disappointing to read Hobbs’ comments about waiting to see altior on sat before committing Defi to a Cheltenham target. He’s been the best 2 miler all season. Just let the bloody horse have his chance to prove it Philip!!

[Quevega]

https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/no-horse-in-england-would-have-kept-up-with-altior-not-one/421244

Good old Nicky.
Penis

[Quevega]

Dublin Chase winner Chacun Pour Soi, the last horse to beat Defi Du Seuil when four and a quarter lengths his superior at the Punchestown Festival last year, reasserted his case on Saturday and has moved into second favourite after a disappointing reappearance over Christmas.

But while Hobbs was impressed, it is Altior who will have a bigger impact on Defi Du Seuil's target. He said: "Chacun Pour Soi ran very well but we'll watch Altior this weekend as well, that's the important thing really. We'll see what happens on Saturday and then decide which race we go for."

Since that defeat by Chacun Pour Soi last season Defi Du Seuil has won the Shloer, Tingle Creek and Clarence House and improved his official rating by 8lb.

On those figures the JP McManus-owned seven-year-old still has 5lb to find with Altior and it is perhaps telling that like Chacun Pour Soi, Defi Du Seuil also holds an entry in the Ryanair Chase while Altior's only festival option is in the race he has claimed for the last two years.

[FaugheenTheMachine]

Defi has won the key 2m Chases this season; Altior didn’t jump with the usual zest even before Cyraname began pouring it on. You’d be crackers not to take him on at Cheltenham whatever he does to a poor field this weekend imho

[Scooby91]

A bit disappointing to read Hobbs’ comments about waiting to see altior on sat before committing Defi to a Cheltenham target. He’s been the best 2 miler all season. Just let the bloody horse have his chance to prove it Philip!!

A load of bookmaker sponsored rubbish. Watch his price now on the exchange and all other bookmakers apart from PP BFSB.

If that was the case he would say Ryanair now and would already have been smashed up for the race before saying a word. As altior has no task what so ever to win at the weekend.


I'd have my absolute balls on him to run in the qmcc.