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RSA Chase 2018

I've stated my case for both Presenting Percy and Our Duke and explained myself. Its down to ratings . That run was no 'fluke' result in the Red Mills. They finished 17 lengths clear of 156 OR rated horses who both ran to their mark. Our Duke carried 2lb more weight than A Toi Phil and the other horse and beat them on merit.

I don't really come up with my own ratings for a horse so have no rating in mind for PP but I would agree that the Red Mills run was imo a very very good run and basing it around A To Phil is a solid marker.

In the John Durkan, Sizing John was given plenty of praise when he beat Djakadam by 7 lengths. Back in 4th that day was A Toi Phil who was 13.75L behind the winner.

He was 18L behind Our Duke in the Red Mills and 17L behind Presenting Percy in 2nd. I see no reason to think ATP didn't run a similar race there.

(PP obviously had 5lbs in hand that day where as the John Durkan was off levels but that was fair with PP being a novice and doesn't chance the argument much even if you reduce the distances because of it)

To me that Red Mills gives PP adds plenty of weight behind his chances in the RSA. The timing of the race or how much it impacts or leaves a mark on the horse could be used against the horse's chances but I certainly wouldn't be dismissing it at all and it's right up there with the best pieces of form going into the race for me.
 
I don't really come up with my own ratings for a horse so have no rating in mind for PP but I would agree that the Red Mills run was imo a very very good run and basing it around A To Phil is a solid marker.

In the John Durkan, Sizing John was given plenty of praise when he beat Djakadam by 7 lengths. Back in 4th that day was A Toi Phil who was 13.75L behind the winner.

He was 18L behind Our Duke in the Red Mills and 17L behind Presenting Percy in 2nd. I see no reason to think ATP didn't run a similar race there.

(PP obviously had 5lbs in hand that day where as the John Durkan was off levels but that was fair with PP being a novice and doesn't chance the argument much even if you reduce the distances because of it)

To me that Red Mills gives PP adds plenty of weight behind his chances in the RSA. The timing of the race or how much it impacts or leaves a mark on the horse could be used against the horse's chances but I certainly wouldn't be dismissing it at all and it's right up there with the best pieces of form going into the race for me.

And A Toi Phil beat Ballycasey 28l in similar grade conditions, earlier in the season.
We could go on
 
We will have no idea whether or not A Toi Phil is a good marker until he runs the next time. The Red Mills was his 9th race of the season and it's entirely possible that he was in need of a break. RPRs have him running 11lb worse in the Red Mills than in his previous race so, while it was still a good contest between two decent tools, it only proved that both were in decent form on the day.
 
I love a horse that splits opinion.

I can understand people wanting to take him on at his current price but really surprised you wouldn't back PP at 10/1 Scooby.

How will you approach laying him? Win and Place?
 
I love a horse that splits opinion.

I can understand people wanting to take him on at his current price but really surprised you wouldn't back PP at 10/1 Scooby.

How will you approach laying him? Win and Place?

You'd be an idiot to lay Presenting Percy at 10/1 :devilish::highly_amused:

We might not even have 10 horses line up.
 
Monalee is markedly drifting on the exchange and looks certain to be going to the JLT.

Presenting Percy has had an abysmal campaign. Won over a marathon trip, hurdling then the hardest race of his life on heavy ground against a horse who is likely to be unplaced in the gold cup. He does not have enough time to recover for the RSA and even assuming he does turn up 100% ready he looks a national horse not a possible winner of next years gold cup. He will do well to place here.


Black Corton is a warrior and a battler but no matter how tough he has been this will be the toughest race he has ever ran in and this will be his 13th run in 11 months, he has to crack sooner or later and a bad run looks very possible. A small horse who is at his best on a sharp track. Yes he is 2/2 at Cheltenham but they were class 2 novic chases. The last Cheltenham win was a 3 runner race beating ballyoptic and west approach. West Approach was never travelling that day and looked beat a long way from home with Ballyoptic making a bad mistake at the 10th and was coming to win at the last when blundering and losing his chance. The Cheltenham form of Black Corton really isn't as strong as it looks and having already had 11 starts over fences and 22 career starts in total he can't be open to as much improvement as some of his rivals. I think he is vulnerable here and would be better suited avoiding Cheltenham and waiting for aintree.

Al Boum Photo has won one of his 3 chases, second and falling in the other. The only time he ran with good in the ground description he was unplaced 5th of 18 over hurdles. All of his Chase runs have been on heavy or soft and although he is open to improvement he isn't proven on the expected ground.
2nd in the floggas behind Monalee last time but only around 7 lengths separated the first 7 horses home. Jumping will be put under pressure in this race and although he should go well I can't see him winning.


The winner surely has to be Elegant Escape. Looks a brilliant chaser in the making who can land this years RSA before having a crack and a genuine chance of winning the 2019 gold cup.
Wasn't the greatest hurdler winning a maiden and a novice before outrunning his odds of 100/1 to be 7/15 in last years pertemps hurdle.
Horse is a big monster or a chaser and is developing fast. The only horse to beat Black Corton this season, yes he was getting 3lb but he was value for more than the 3/4 length victory.
Black Corton beat Elegant Escape at kempton in the Feltham but horses who ran in the Feltham and didn't win actually have a far superior record to horses who won the Feltham. Kemptons sharp track clearly didn't suit Elegant Escape at all and he never looked to be travelling from an early stage. Ther big horse didn't handle the kempton bends as well as the small horse and this gave Black Vorton a big advantage in the race. Despite hating the track he showed his fighting spirit and battling quality to be an ever closing 1/12 length behind on the line.
Cheltenham will suit Elegamt Escape and play to his strengths and not Black Corton strengths, he is also open to much more improvement having had just 5 chase Starts and 11 career runs, he has been trained to peak at Cheltenham where as Black Corton was a summer jumper who has continued to surprise connections and ended up here by default. Also when BC beat EE the Tizzard stable was badly out of form.
Elegant Escape has never finished out of the first two and is crying out for a 3mile race at a testing track ran at speed. He will get that here and will be a very hard horse to beat in this race.
Had the perfect prep run easily winning a 4 runner race from the front without being asked any quesToons. That will have put him spotnon for this and the Tizzard stable is really firing now.
Elegant Wscape was of course the only horse to have got SAMCRO off the bridle when they clashed in a point to point as youngsters.
That form from a 3m monkstown point to point in April 2016 is likely to provide 2 of the Wednesday winners at Cheltenham this year.

There is no need to worry about any other runners here. GB have won 15 of the last 20 RSA Chases and they look set to continue their RSA dominance with the brilliant Elegant Escape.

This horse will bolt up in the RSA before winning the 2019 gold cup.

https://youtu.be/FEsEm1I-8bk
 
Monalee is markedly drifting on the exchange and looks certain to be going to the JLT.

Presenting Percy has had an abysmal campaign. Won over a marathon trip, hurdling then the hardest race of his life on heavy ground against a horse who is likely to be unplaced in the gold cup. He does not have enough time to recover for the RSA and even assuming he does turn up 100% ready he looks a national horse not a possible winner of next years gold cup. He will do well to place here.


Black Corton is a warrior and a battler but no matter how tough he has been this will be the toughest race he has ever ran in and this will be his 13th run in 11 months, he has to crack sooner or later and a bad run looks very possible. A small horse who is at his best on a sharp track. Yes he is 2/2 at Cheltenham but they were class 2 novic chases. The last Cheltenham win was a 3 runner race beating ballyoptic and west approach. West Approach was never travelling that day and looked beat a long way from home with Ballyoptic making a bad mistake at the 10th and was coming to win at the last when blundering and losing his chance. The Cheltenham form of Black Corton really isn't as strong as it looks and having already had 11 starts over fences and 22 career starts in total he can't be open to as much improvement as some of his rivals. I think he is vulnerable here and would be better suited avoiding Cheltenham and waiting for aintree.

Al Boum Photo has won one of his 3 chases, second and falling in the other. The only time he ran with good in the ground description he was unplaced 5th of 18 over hurdles. All of his Chase runs have been on heavy or soft and although he is open to improvement he isn't proven on the expected ground.
2nd in the floggas behind Monalee last time but only around 7 lengths separated the first 7 horses home. Jumping will be put under pressure in this race and although he should go well I can't see him winning.


The winner surely has to be Elegant Escape. Looks a brilliant chaser in the making who can land this years RSA before having a crack and a genuine chance of winning the 2019 gold cup.
Wasn't the greatest hurdler winning a maiden and a novice before outrunning his odds of 100/1 to be 7/15 in last years pertemps hurdle.
Horse is a big monster or a chaser and is developing fast. The only horse to beat Black Corton this season, yes he was getting 3lb but he was value for more than the 3/4 length victory.
Black Corton beat Elegant Escape at kempton in the Feltham but horses who ran in the Feltham and didn't win actually have a far superior record to horses who won the Feltham. Kemptons sharp track clearly didn't suit Elegant Escape at all and he never looked to be travelling from an early stage. Ther big horse didn't handle the kempton bends as well as the small horse and this gave Black Vorton a big advantage in the race. Despite hating the track he showed his fighting spirit and battling quality to be an ever closing 1/12 length behind on the line.
Cheltenham will suit Elegamt Escape and play to his strengths and not Black Corton strengths, he is also open to much more improvement having had just 5 chase Starts and 11 career runs, he has been trained to peak at Cheltenham where as Black Corton was a summer jumper who has continued to surprise connections and ended up here by default. Also when BC beat EE the Tizzard stable was badly out of form.
Elegant Escape has never finished out of the first two and is crying out for a 3mile race at a testing track ran at speed. He will get that here and will be a very hard horse to beat in this race.
Had the perfect prep run easily winning a 4 runner race from the front without being asked any quesToons. That will have put him spotnon for this and the Tizzard stable is really firing now.
Elegant Wscape was of course the only horse to have got SAMCRO off the bridle when they clashed in a point to point as youngsters.
That form from a 3m monkstown point to point in April 2016 is likely to provide 2 of the Wednesday winners at Cheltenham this year.

There is no need to worry about any other runners here. GB have won 15 of the last 20 RSA Chases and they look set to continue their RSA dominance with the brilliant Elegant Escape.

This horse will bolt up in the RSA before winning the 2019 gold cup.

https://youtu.be/FEsEm1I-8bk


Be careful with that. Monalee is not markedly drifting for this. I would strongly advise that nobody backs him without nrnb. Unless they are aware there's every chance there money is gone as soon as they've put the bet on and have factored that risk into there bet

It's easy to assume. But others may take that as literal and do there dough. Because he dosent look like going to the jlt to me. :)
 
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Monalee is markedly drifting on the exchange and looks certain to be going to the JLT.

Presenting Percy has had an abysmal campaign. Won over a marathon trip, hurdling then the hardest race of his life on heavy ground against a horse who is likely to be unplaced in the gold cup. He does not have enough time to recover for the RSA and even assuming he does turn up 100% ready he looks a national horse not a possible winner of next years gold cup. He will do well to place here.


Black Corton is a warrior and a battler but no matter how tough he has been this will be the toughest race he has ever ran in and this will be his 13th run in 11 months, he has to crack sooner or later and a bad run looks very possible. A small horse who is at his best on a sharp track. Yes he is 2/2 at Cheltenham but they were class 2 novic chases. The last Cheltenham win was a 3 runner race beating ballyoptic and west approach. West Approach was never travelling that day and looked beat a long way from home with Ballyoptic making a bad mistake at the 10th and was coming to win at the last when blundering and losing his chance. The Cheltenham form of Black Corton really isn't as strong as it looks and having already had 11 starts over fences and 22 career starts in total he can't be open to as much improvement as some of his rivals. I think he is vulnerable here and would be better suited avoiding Cheltenham and waiting for aintree.

Al Boum Photo has won one of his 3 chases, second and falling in the other. The only time he ran with good in the ground description he was unplaced 5th of 18 over hurdles. All of his Chase runs have been on heavy or soft and although he is open to improvement he isn't proven on the expected ground.
2nd in the floggas behind Monalee last time but only around 7 lengths separated the first 7 horses home. Jumping will be put under pressure in this race and although he should go well I can't see him winning.


The winner surely has to be Elegant Escape. Looks a brilliant chaser in the making who can land this years RSA before having a crack and a genuine chance of winning the 2019 gold cup.
Wasn't the greatest hurdler winning a maiden and a novice before outrunning his odds of 100/1 to be 7/15 in last years pertemps hurdle.
Horse is a big monster or a chaser and is developing fast. The only horse to beat Black Corton this season, yes he was getting 3lb but he was value for more than the 3/4 length victory.
Black Corton beat Elegant Escape at kempton in the Feltham but horses who ran in the Feltham and didn't win actually have a far superior record to horses who won the Feltham. Kemptons sharp track clearly didn't suit Elegant Escape at all and he never looked to be travelling from an early stage. Ther big horse didn't handle the kempton bends as well as the small horse and this gave Black Vorton a big advantage in the race. Despite hating the track he showed his fighting spirit and battling quality to be an ever closing 1/12 length behind on the line.
Cheltenham will suit Elegamt Escape and play to his strengths and not Black Corton strengths, he is also open to much more improvement having had just 5 chase Starts and 11 career runs, he has been trained to peak at Cheltenham where as Black Corton was a summer jumper who has continued to surprise connections and ended up here by default. Also when BC beat EE the Tizzard stable was badly out of form.
Elegant Escape has never finished out of the first two and is crying out for a 3mile race at a testing track ran at speed. He will get that here and will be a very hard horse to beat in this race.
Had the perfect prep run easily winning a 4 runner race from the front without being asked any quesToons. That will have put him spotnon for this and the Tizzard stable is really firing now.
Elegant Wscape was of course the only horse to have got SAMCRO off the bridle when they clashed in a point to point as youngsters.
That form from a 3m monkstown point to point in April 2016 is likely to provide 2 of the Wednesday winners at Cheltenham this year.

There is no need to worry about any other runners here. GB have won 15 of the last 20 RSA Chases and they look set to continue their RSA dominance with the brilliant Elegant Escape.

This horse will bolt up in the RSA before winning the 2019 gold cup.

https://youtu.be/FEsEm1I-8bk

Elegant Escape never got Samcro off the bridle in that PTP. He ran on with maximum effort when Samcro was passing the finish line winning easily . If Samcro had been ridden as vigorously he would have beaten EE by 13L. I reckon. Elegant Escape has good chance in the 4miler though. Welcome to the forum ET.
 
Tbf no jockey is going to talk down the chances of a horse their riding that’s at the head of the market

Not many would.... one might.... hpw about Davy Russell... on Presenting Percy in 2017? :p
 
Monalee is markedly drifting on the exchange and looks certain to be going to the JLT.

Presenting Percy has had an abysmal campaign. Won over a marathon trip, hurdling then the hardest race of his life on heavy ground against a horse who is likely to be unplaced in the gold cup. He does not have enough time to recover for the RSA and even assuming he does turn up 100% ready he looks a national horse not a possible winner of next years gold cup. He will do well to place here.


Black Corton is a warrior and a battler but no matter how tough he has been this will be the toughest race he has ever ran in and this will be his 13th run in 11 months, he has to crack sooner or later and a bad run looks very possible. A small horse who is at his best on a sharp track. Yes he is 2/2 at Cheltenham but they were class 2 novic chases. The last Cheltenham win was a 3 runner race beating ballyoptic and west approach. West Approach was never travelling that day and looked beat a long way from home with Ballyoptic making a bad mistake at the 10th and was coming to win at the last when blundering and losing his chance. The Cheltenham form of Black Corton really isn't as strong as it looks and having already had 11 starts over fences and 22 career starts in total he can't be open to as much improvement as some of his rivals. I think he is vulnerable here and would be better suited avoiding Cheltenham and waiting for aintree.

Al Boum Photo has won one of his 3 chases, second and falling in the other. The only time he ran with good in the ground description he was unplaced 5th of 18 over hurdles. All of his Chase runs have been on heavy or soft and although he is open to improvement he isn't proven on the expected ground.
2nd in the floggas behind Monalee last time but only around 7 lengths separated the first 7 horses home. Jumping will be put under pressure in this race and although he should go well I can't see him winning.


The winner surely has to be Elegant Escape. Looks a brilliant chaser in the making who can land this years RSA before having a crack and a genuine chance of winning the 2019 gold cup.
Wasn't the greatest hurdler winning a maiden and a novice before outrunning his odds of 100/1 to be 7/15 in last years pertemps hurdle.
Horse is a big monster or a chaser and is developing fast. The only horse to beat Black Corton this season, yes he was getting 3lb but he was value for more than the 3/4 length victory.
Black Corton beat Elegant Escape at kempton in the Feltham but horses who ran in the Feltham and didn't win actually have a far superior record to horses who won the Feltham. Kemptons sharp track clearly didn't suit Elegant Escape at all and he never looked to be travelling from an early stage. Ther big horse didn't handle the kempton bends as well as the small horse and this gave Black Vorton a big advantage in the race. Despite hating the track he showed his fighting spirit and battling quality to be an ever closing 1/12 length behind on the line.
Cheltenham will suit Elegamt Escape and play to his strengths and not Black Corton strengths, he is also open to much more improvement having had just 5 chase Starts and 11 career runs, he has been trained to peak at Cheltenham where as Black Corton was a summer jumper who has continued to surprise connections and ended up here by default. Also when BC beat EE the Tizzard stable was badly out of form.
Elegant Escape has never finished out of the first two and is crying out for a 3mile race at a testing track ran at speed. He will get that here and will be a very hard horse to beat in this race.
Had the perfect prep run easily winning a 4 runner race from the front without being asked any quesToons. That will have put him spotnon for this and the Tizzard stable is really firing now.
Elegant Wscape was of course the only horse to have got SAMCRO off the bridle when they clashed in a point to point as youngsters.
That form from a 3m monkstown point to point in April 2016 is likely to provide 2 of the Wednesday winners at Cheltenham this year.

There is no need to worry about any other runners here. GB have won 15 of the last 20 RSA Chases and they look set to continue their RSA dominance with the brilliant Elegant Escape.

This horse will bolt up in the RSA before winning the 2019 gold cup.

https://youtu.be/FEsEm1I-8bk

Entertaining first post, welcome to the forum.
 
My returns in singles only for this race (This might surprise people...) Total stake 19 pts so far

Elegant Escape 81 pts
Al Boum Photo 53 pts
Dounikos 50 pts (unlikely runner?)
Invitation Only 41 pts (unlikely runner)
Presenting Percy 34 pts
Black Corton 28 pts

My best two winners would be Monalee or Presenting Percy though, due to the multiples that are in place so far. Interesting that I haven't got any single returns on Monalee though.
 
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Monalee is markedly drifting on the exchange and looks certain to be going to the JLT.

Presenting Percy has had an abysmal campaign. Won over a marathon trip, hurdling then the hardest race of his life on heavy ground against a horse who is likely to be unplaced in the gold cup. He does not have enough time to recover for the RSA and even assuming he does turn up 100% ready he looks a national horse not a possible winner of next years gold cup. He will do well to place here.


Black Corton is a warrior and a battler but no matter how tough he has been this will be the toughest race he has ever ran in and this will be his 13th run in 11 months, he has to crack sooner or later and a bad run looks very possible. A small horse who is at his best on a sharp track. Yes he is 2/2 at Cheltenham but they were class 2 novic chases. The last Cheltenham win was a 3 runner race beating ballyoptic and west approach. West Approach was never travelling that day and looked beat a long way from home with Ballyoptic making a bad mistake at the 10th and was coming to win at the last when blundering and losing his chance. The Cheltenham form of Black Corton really isn't as strong as it looks and having already had 11 starts over fences and 22 career starts in total he can't be open to as much improvement as some of his rivals. I think he is vulnerable here and would be better suited avoiding Cheltenham and waiting for aintree.

Al Boum Photo has won one of his 3 chases, second and falling in the other. The only time he ran with good in the ground description he was unplaced 5th of 18 over hurdles. All of his Chase runs have been on heavy or soft and although he is open to improvement he isn't proven on the expected ground.
2nd in the floggas behind Monalee last time but only around 7 lengths separated the first 7 horses home. Jumping will be put under pressure in this race and although he should go well I can't see him winning.


The winner surely has to be Elegant Escape. Looks a brilliant chaser in the making who can land this years RSA before having a crack and a genuine chance of winning the 2019 gold cup.
Wasn't the greatest hurdler winning a maiden and a novice before outrunning his odds of 100/1 to be 7/15 in last years pertemps hurdle.
Horse is a big monster or a chaser and is developing fast. The only horse to beat Black Corton this season, yes he was getting 3lb but he was value for more than the 3/4 length victory.
Black Corton beat Elegant Escape at kempton in the Feltham but horses who ran in the Feltham and didn't win actually have a far superior record to horses who won the Feltham. Kemptons sharp track clearly didn't suit Elegant Escape at all and he never looked to be travelling from an early stage. Ther big horse didn't handle the kempton bends as well as the small horse and this gave Black Vorton a big advantage in the race. Despite hating the track he showed his fighting spirit and battling quality to be an ever closing 1/12 length behind on the line.
Cheltenham will suit Elegamt Escape and play to his strengths and not Black Corton strengths, he is also open to much more improvement having had just 5 chase Starts and 11 career runs, he has been trained to peak at Cheltenham where as Black Corton was a summer jumper who has continued to surprise connections and ended up here by default. Also when BC beat EE the Tizzard stable was badly out of form.
Elegant Escape has never finished out of the first two and is crying out for a 3mile race at a testing track ran at speed. He will get that here and will be a very hard horse to beat in this race.
Had the perfect prep run easily winning a 4 runner race from the front without being asked any quesToons. That will have put him spotnon for this and the Tizzard stable is really firing now.
Elegant Wscape was of course the only horse to have got SAMCRO off the bridle when they clashed in a point to point as youngsters.
That form from a 3m monkstown point to point in April 2016 is likely to provide 2 of the Wednesday winners at Cheltenham this year.

There is no need to worry about any other runners here. GB have won 15 of the last 20 RSA Chases and they look set to continue their RSA dominance with the brilliant Elegant Escape.

This horse will bolt up in the RSA before winning the 2019 gold cup.

https://youtu.be/FEsEm1I-8bk

Welcome ET, that was a great introduction.
EE is a favourite of a few here :encouragement:
 
My returns in singles only for this race (This might surprise people...) Total stake 19 pts so far

Elegant Escape 81 pts
Al Boum Photo 53 pts
Dounikos 50 pts (unlikely runner?)
Invitation Only 41 pts (unlikely runner)
Presenting Percy 34 pts
Black Corton 28 pts

My best two winners would be Monalee or Presenting Percy though, due to the multiples that are in place so far. Interesting that I haven't got any single returns on Monalee though.

I've only got Monalee covered in some of those specials, too.


6pts Outlay in singles

Elegant Escape 25pts
Black Corton 30pts
Invitation Only 30pts

Fountains Windfall was a return of 58pts for a 2pt outlay.
 
Monalee is markedly drifting on the exchange and looks certain to be going to the JLT.

Presenting Percy has had an abysmal campaign. Won over a marathon trip, hurdling then the hardest race of his life on heavy ground against a horse who is likely to be unplaced in the gold cup. He does not have enough time to recover for the RSA and even assuming he does turn up 100% ready he looks a national horse not a possible winner of next years gold cup. He will do well to place here.


Black Corton is a warrior and a battler but no matter how tough he has been this will be the toughest race he has ever ran in and this will be his 13th run in 11 months, he has to crack sooner or later and a bad run looks very possible. A small horse who is at his best on a sharp track. Yes he is 2/2 at Cheltenham but they were class 2 novic chases. The last Cheltenham win was a 3 runner race beating ballyoptic and west approach. West Approach was never travelling that day and looked beat a long way from home with Ballyoptic making a bad mistake at the 10th and was coming to win at the last when blundering and losing his chance. The Cheltenham form of Black Corton really isn't as strong as it looks and having already had 11 starts over fences and 22 career starts in total he can't be open to as much improvement as some of his rivals. I think he is vulnerable here and would be better suited avoiding Cheltenham and waiting for aintree.

Al Boum Photo has won one of his 3 chases, second and falling in the other. The only time he ran with good in the ground description he was unplaced 5th of 18 over hurdles. All of his Chase runs have been on heavy or soft and although he is open to improvement he isn't proven on the expected ground.
2nd in the floggas behind Monalee last time but only around 7 lengths separated the first 7 horses home. Jumping will be put under pressure in this race and although he should go well I can't see him winning.


The winner surely has to be Elegant Escape. Looks a brilliant chaser in the making who can land this years RSA before having a crack and a genuine chance of winning the 2019 gold cup.
Wasn't the greatest hurdler winning a maiden and a novice before outrunning his odds of 100/1 to be 7/15 in last years pertemps hurdle.
Horse is a big monster or a chaser and is developing fast. The only horse to beat Black Corton this season, yes he was getting 3lb but he was value for more than the 3/4 length victory.
Black Corton beat Elegant Escape at kempton in the Feltham but horses who ran in the Feltham and didn't win actually have a far superior record to horses who won the Feltham. Kemptons sharp track clearly didn't suit Elegant Escape at all and he never looked to be travelling from an early stage. Ther big horse didn't handle the kempton bends as well as the small horse and this gave Black Vorton a big advantage in the race. Despite hating the track he showed his fighting spirit and battling quality to be an ever closing 1/12 length behind on the line.
Cheltenham will suit Elegamt Escape and play to his strengths and not Black Corton strengths, he is also open to much more improvement having had just 5 chase Starts and 11 career runs, he has been trained to peak at Cheltenham where as Black Corton was a summer jumper who has continued to surprise connections and ended up here by default. Also when BC beat EE the Tizzard stable was badly out of form.
Elegant Escape has never finished out of the first two and is crying out for a 3mile race at a testing track ran at speed. He will get that here and will be a very hard horse to beat in this race.
Had the perfect prep run easily winning a 4 runner race from the front without being asked any quesToons. That will have put him spotnon for this and the Tizzard stable is really firing now.
Elegant Wscape was of course the only horse to have got SAMCRO off the bridle when they clashed in a point to point as youngsters.
That form from a 3m monkstown point to point in April 2016 is likely to provide 2 of the Wednesday winners at Cheltenham this year.

There is no need to worry about any other runners here. GB have won 15 of the last 20 RSA Chases and they look set to continue their RSA dominance with the brilliant Elegant Escape.

This horse will bolt up in the RSA before winning the 2019 gold cup.


https://youtu.be/FEsEm1I-8bk

Welcome, Christoper Hil. A great example of opinion masquerading as fact. Lots of "subjective" holes in that case. If you're right, sir, fair bloody play. I juat doubt you are.
 
My returns in singles only for this race (This might surprise people...) Total stake 19 pts so far

Elegant Escape 81 pts
Al Boum Photo 53 pts
Dounikos 50 pts (unlikely runner?)
Invitation Only 41 pts (unlikely runner)
Presenting Percy 34 pts
Black Corton 28 pts

My best two winners would be Monalee or Presenting Percy though, due to the multiples that are in place so far. Interesting that I haven't got any single returns on Monalee though.

Rathvinden 76.0 £14
Elegant escape 88.0. £12
Al boum photo 120.0 £9. 85.0 £21. 55.0 £35. 33/1 £20. 16/1 £50 ew nrnb. £50 ew 10/1 nrnb
Monalee 14/1 £80
Dounikos 50/1 £20 . 16/1 ew nrnb £50 ew
The storyteller 75.0 £14
Death duty:( 20/1 £50
Up for review 560.0 £4
Invitation only 33/1 £30

Too random ammounts to work out in pts. Obviously nr's in there.
 
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Not many would.... one might.... hpw about Davy Russell... on Presenting Percy in 2017? :p

Tbf that was different cause he was saying the horse has been given no chance by the handicapper.