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2026 Juveniles

jrjr said:
Always looked well held to me and presumably 4th choice at least for this (Paul/Danny/Patrick), not sure I’d be queueing up to back him even if it was just Willie’s running!
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Yeah fair enough, thanks for your thoughts. I’m on already from preseason at 16s so will just see how it goes. Let’s not forget Jonjo won it on last years 10th in line or whatever he was 😂😂
 
….Mullins to train TH winner evs with Hills.
 
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Quite keen on Selma now after the encouraging run from the other ricci juvenile in the mares novice yesterday.

The thinking would be he was wanting to keep them split with the more fancied taking in the triumph. If that is the case a big run got to be expected.
 
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Do any companies do match bets for this race? Struggling to find a market, that said I've only looked in a couple of places!
 
The watering of the New Course followed by 12mm of rain must be a downer for small trainer Adam Nicol and Minella Study as he’s a good ground horse and any of the first three days would have been ideal. Soft ground has diminished my confidence. I think he has the class to cope with it so I’m not ready to throw in the towel, but I’ve had a saver this morning on Highland Crystal. I liked the way she battled on in soft ground last time and the hill should hold no fears.
At least Willie Mullins has been catered for and that’s obviously all that matters at Cheltenham nowadays, according to Willie anyway.
 
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Highland Crystal now fav, this is a mad market. I was at a preview last Friday, Busty and R Power were saying they were going to keep her at home...
 
I've had more on Proactif. There's no harm in backing a JP drifter this week - Meetmebythesea and Saratoga are two that have gone in.
 
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We've gone from Macho Man being rumoured to be Townend's choice and set to go off favourite to him pushing 20s here.

Think I'm going to have to go in...
 
Bunny Huzzard said:
The watering of the New Course followed by 12mm of rain must be a downer for small trainer Adam Nicol and Minella Study as he’s a good ground horse and any of the first three days would have been ideal. Soft ground has diminished my confidence. I think he has the class to cope with it so I’m not ready to throw in the towel, but I’ve had a saver this morning on Highland Crystal. I liked the way she battled on in soft ground last time and the hill should hold no fears.
At least Willie Mullins has been catered for and that’s obviously all that matters at Cheltenham nowadays, according to Willie anyway.
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Yes it has to be a little concern. That said his winning c and d time was nearly 7 seconds slow (4m 3.97 secs) and I’d think today would be in that sort of ball park and the price appears to be holding up better than some so I think there is still hope. I’m more worried about the number of runners many of which are pretty inexperienced.
 
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Id really like to see highland crystal go very well today.
Crystal ocean is a sire I'm sure we're all excited about and I think he could have his first of many festival winners today.
 
Fantasy World for the owner that sponsors this race, that will do.
Minella Academy should be the 1 for Mullins in this as it was the horse Ruby never mentioned. That's worked out pretty well in the past.. in the lottery of Mullins bingo.
 
Time to see if Selma can get one up for a Zarak progeny.

Worry about the hill for her, but we shall see.
 
Might be time to add the triumph to the list of races its not worth betting antepost in

Considering paul was 7 wide with no cover selma ran surprisingly well
 
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Haha one of only a couple of the Willie lot I didn't back :ROFLMAO:
 
Annoying to have an antepost shorter than SP

But maybe today is going to be a good day after all

Edit/ not sure who put it up but I know I've only backed it because of this forum
 
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