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Eggs said:
…..went for 15 years or so on the spin with pals, wall-to-wall Guinness in Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square. Highly recommended if you’re not too bothered about your liver.
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Do I not like Guinness 🤮
 
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Anyone else like Frankie John as a potential handicap / BANC outsider?

Won well at Galway yesterday and previously beat Jalon D'Oudaries I've hurdles
 
Hurricane fly said:
Anyone else like Frankie John as a potential handicap / BANC outsider?

Won well at Galway yesterday and previously beat Jalon D'Oudaries I've hurdles
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Trustatrader Plate h/cap ??. - 2m 4 f .. ??.
 
Just got an email from Paddy Power saying BOG moving to a minimum of a fiver....weird thing to be worried about? They getting knocked over by £1 drifters??????????
 
The Fellow said:
i emailed Mark Howard about OJA publishing date

Hi John

Thank you for your email. OJA due to be published second half of September. I will be updating my website shortly with full details.

Kind Regards

Mark
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How did they do last year? Any early big priced winners? Anyone keep records?
 
somer1 said:
@BuckingThe Trend is down to do the October Yankee.Would he like to do the OJA Yankee? Or im more than happy to let BTT to do the December and i do the Oct?
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….see what he says but I wouldn’t be overly bothered about timing of OJA Yankee. If you end up doing the selections at some point in October it won’t really matter.
 
I see Endorsement, who is fav for the Ballyroan tonight, has been bought by JP and sent to JOB. Be a very highly rated flat horse if they send him down the Triumph Hurdle route! An interesting move from Coolmore and AOB to JP and JOB if he's not heading over jumps...

Appreciate he's not the sexy french type and Wooton Basset wouldn't be anyone's favourite national hunt site :LOL:
 
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Benjy23 said:
I see Endorsement, who is fav for the Ballyroan tonight, has been bought by JP and sent to JOB. Be a very highly rated flat horse if they send him down the Triumph Hurdle route! An interesting move from Coolmore and AOB to JP and JOB if he's not heading over jumps...

Appreciate he's not the sexy french type and Wooton Basset wouldn't be anyone's favourite national hunt site :LOL:
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Was always a sucker for a highly rated flat horse heading over obstacles, an interesting one this.
 
Is there anywhere I can find a confirmed fixture list for the British and Irish jumps season? Or is that not fully confirmed yet? Thank you.
 
Ballybeen said:
Is there anywhere I can find a confirmed fixture list for the British and Irish jumps season? Or is that not fully confirmed yet? Thank you.
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Due any day, it's usually first week of August.
Interesting that Trials Day was scheduled to be run on the same day as DRF, whether that's been changed I have no idea...
 
I seen a post from Liam Firkin I think it was on X, saying that he was informed by jockey club that, that clash will be happening.
 
I've had this discussion/argument with some Irish friends.

There's no dispute that Trials Day is the last weekend in January. It had always been my assumption that the DRF was the first weekend in February. However, my Irish friends claim that it's the weekend before the first February Bank Holiday Monday which, in 2027, is 1st February. Given that it only started in 2018 (compared to 2006 for Trials Day), I think it's fairly arrogant of the Irish to assume that Cheltenham should move their fixture.
 
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archie said:
I've had this discussion/argument with some Irish friends.

There's no dispute that Trials Day is the last weekend in January. It had always been my assumption that the DRF was the first weekend in February. However, my Irish friends claim that it's the weekend before the first February Bank Holiday Monday which, in 2027, is 1st February. Given that it only started in 2018 (compared to 2006 for Trials Day), I think it's fairly arrogant of the Irish to assume that Cheltenham should move their fixture.
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That's generally been the case although last year was run on 24th Jan so technically could have gone for the following weekend, but last year was an early festival (10-13 March), 2027 festival has moved back a week (16-19 March) so Sat 30th Trials Day for 2027 makes sense.
It'll be a great Saturday for armchair viewers but I suspect attendance at HQ might suffer...
 
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I've done a little more digging and it seems like Trials Day is fixed at 45 days before the Festival Tuesday as that is deemed the optimum gap for recovery.

The DRF has only been going since 2018 and the implication that it is linked to a Bank Holiday seems tenuous at best because the first Monday in February only became a Bank Holiday in 2023. It's only an issue this season because it falls on the 1st of February. The only other year since the DRF started that the first Monday was the first of the month was in 2021, ie before it was a Bank Holiday, and the DRF was on the 6th and 7th. It also happened to be the pandemic meeting so there were no spectators at either course.

In other words, there is absolutely no precedent and, in my view, it's the Irish who should move dates if they don't want a clash with Trials Day. Although the racing is better quality than Trials Day, I've felt that the DRF has become less enjoyable as it got more popular, especially if the weather wasn't great.
 
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