2015 Arkle Trophy Chase

[Hoof]

Josses Hill

Barry’s always been very positive about him and still is. He’s the one that is very happy with his jumping, you might not believe it, but he is, and he’s been a work in progress so far. We’re getting there and he’s working very well, he schooled well on Friday and the one thing he wants is a good pace, then he can let him go and jump. We’ve been trying to teach him but it’s been part of an education so far, we just have to see if it comes to fruition. He schooled well on Friday and we probably have one more session with Yogi (Breisner). They will go very quickly, we know what Un De Sceaux’s going to do, he can’t do anything else, and we’re all going to have to try to go with him. It will be a very big test of jumping, but Mr Geraghty says the quicker they go the better he’ll be.

 

[loveracing]

Josses Hill

Barry’s always been very positive about him and still is. He’s the one that is very happy with his jumping, you might not believe it, but he is, and he’s been a work in progress so far. We’re getting there and he’s working very well, he schooled well on Friday and the one thing he wants is a good pace, then he can let him go and jump. We’ve been trying to teach him but it’s been part of an education so far, we just have to see if it comes to fruition. He schooled well on Friday and we probably have one more session with Yogi (Breisner). They will go very quickly, we know what Un De Sceaux’s going to do, he can’t do anything else, and we’re all going to have to try to go with him. It will be a very big test of jumping, but Mr Geraghty says the quicker they go the better he’ll be.

I just watched back the video where NH quoted the above and what a load of bull**** about Josses Hill. Does he think everyone is blind or does BG just have taerrible judgement?

Not a great way to start your stable tour video, made me not want to hear any more incase it was also a load of fibs.

 

[loveracing]

Iain - read the pm just sent to you.

 

[Sprinter]

More on Josses here lads

Josses Hill

Barry [Geraghty, Henderson’s stable jockey] is very keen on him. I said to him, do you want to switch to [the] two-and-a-half-[mile JLT Novice Chase] because he’d get [the trip] and he said no. He schooled on Friday and he was really good. He’ll probably have one more [session with jumping tutor] Yogi [Breisner] and one more school back over fences.

He’s in good form and he’s a good horse. This time last year Josses Hill wasn’t going to go there 10 days before and he got there, and got as close as you can get, and then he won at Aintree. He’s had a good prep and he’s coming in really well. I know he’s got [to beat the hot favourite] Un De Sceaux but Barry wasn’t for switching to the other race because of that.

Barry says he wants [the pace] the faster the better. That’s why he doesn’t want to switch because he won’t be able to let him jump as he wants to. He’s actually a brilliant jumper [despite making significant mistakes in previous races this season] and he’s got great scope. He just needs to learn to put it all together.

They’re going to go quick and it’s going to test everybody. Un De Sceaux has got to do it as well and it’s going to be a fascinating race.

I believe Barry believes in his horse but I am no more a mind reader than anyone else on here.

Geraghty is a brillant judge with a better record in two mile chases than any jockey riding now or probably ever.

Anyway you dont have to back him.

 

[loveracing]

More on Josses here lads



I believe Barry believes in his horse but I am no more a mind reader than anyone else on here.

Geraghty is a brillant judge with a better record in two mile chases than any jockey riding now or probably ever.

Anyway you dont have to back him.

BG is the best jockey this side of the water by far when he wants to be. He would also be the best judge of a horse if he told the truth.

 

[Lessey]

BG is the best jockey this side of the water by far when he wants to be. He would also be the best judge of a horse if he told the truth.

I could have a better record than any other jockey riding now in 2m chases if I got to ride Sprinter Sacre all the time!

 

[loveracing]

I could have a better record than any other jockey riding now in 2m chases if I got to ride Sprinter Sacre all the time!

That was the obvious answer.

 

[mayo]

That was the obvious answer.

And the wrong one.

Special Tiara at Kempton
Uxizandre at Cheltenham
Gods Own at Punchestown
Forpadys Arkle
Big Zeb a different horse when he got jocked up
Finians beating sizing

I could go on.

 

[loveracing]

And the wrong one.

Special Tiara at Kempton
Uxizandre at Cheltenham
Gods Own at Punchestown
Forpadys Arkle
Big Zeb a different horse when he got jocked up
Finians beating sizing

I could go on.

I just like to wind up BG posts because he annoys me with the rubbish he talks. He is clearly the best jockey in GB.:encouragement:

 

[mayo]

I just like to wind up BG posts because he annoys me with the rubbish he talks. He is clearly the best jockey in GB.:encouragement:

I like his blog. Two winners last Saturday.

 

[MrMcGoldrick]

And the wrong one.

Special Tiara at Kempton
Uxizandre at Cheltenham
Gods Own at Punchestown
Forpadys Arkle
Big Zeb a different horse when he got jocked up
Finians beating sizing

I could go on.

Big Zeb was a different horse with BG on board and the git cost me a packet when he beat Forpaddy by a snoz in the QM

 

[Old Vic]

Big Zeb was a different horse with BG on board and the git cost me a packet when he beat Forpaddy by a snoz in the QM

I actually backed Big Zeb that day (very late after timing).

Josses will probably learn to jump sometime. I just hope no one gets hurt in the process of teaching him.

 

[MrMcGoldrick]

I actually backed Big Zeb that day (very late after timing).

Josses will probably learn to jump sometime. I just hope no one gets hurt in the process of teaching him.

LOL, the place to learn your trade in the jumping game isn't Prestbury park I wouldn't have thought

 

[Lester]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Barry Geraghty on Un De Sceaux: "He's a worthy favourite for the Arkle but he's very easily wound up and Cheltenham is a different animal."</p>— BoyleSports Studio (@Boylestudio) <a href="https://twitter.com/Boylestudio/status/570594515070935041">February 25, 2015</a></blockquote>
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[Mytentoryours]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Barry Geraghty on Un De Sceaux: "He's a worthy favourite for the Arkle but he's very easily wound up and Cheltenham is a different animal."</p>— BoyleSports Studio (@Boylestudio) <a href="https://twitter.com/Boylestudio/status/570594515070935041">February 25, 2015</a></blockquote>
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When a novice is an incredibly strong favourite all the old chestnuts seem to get brought up. The laughable one three years ago was that Sprinter Sacre wouldn't get up the hill.

 

[Morning Glory]

Smashing heading here - JJ Burke Ar Cork Preview.

 

[Old Vic]

on the hoof gang preview novice chases

 

[andrisiggy]

Has anyone seen anything confirming whether Three Kingdoms runs here or the JLT by any chance? I have just finished my trends for the race and I have him and VV coming out equal behind UDS. I might be tempted at 25s in case VV and UDS take each other on

 

[loveracing]

Difficult one Andrisiggy. Arkle by the looks of the exchanges, though they think two and half will suit.

 

[Old Vic]

Difficult one Andrisiggy. Arkle by the looks of the exchanges, though they think two and half will suit.

I though McCoy said something about needing further after winning the last day. Not sure if this was posted here before.

Donn


Three Kingdoms

Three Kingdoms put up a really likeable performance to get the better of the highly-talented Solar Impulse in the Grade 2 Lightning Novices’ Chase at Doncaster on Saturday.

The market told you that this four-horse race was really all about the top two, and so it transpired. Solar Impulse got into a lovely rhythm out in front, and going up over Rose Hill it looked like he was travelling better than Three Kingdoms. Then at the top of the home straight, the John Ferguson horse came back on the bridle for AP McCoy, and appeared to have the upper hand. But he made a fairly significant mistake at the third last fence. He didn’t appear to lose that much ground, but he lost impetus, he fired his rider up onto his neck, and the champ did really well to keep the partnership intact. Probably as a result of that, he was not great at either of the last two fences. He was high and deliberate and stuttery, with the result that he conceded ground to the leader at each obstacle. Still about two and a half lengths down as they started off up the run-in, he responded really willingly for his rider’s urgings, joined Solar Impulse with 25 yards to run and surged forward to win by a neck in a thriller.

Both of these horses are fine prospects. Solar Impulse has been unlucky to come up against Monetaire and Josses Hill in two of his three race since he beat Turn Over Sivola at Wetherby in November, and to be caught out by the tricky fourth last fence at Cheltenham in the other. But he remains a highly promising horse, and he set a fair standard here for Three Kingdoms. The fact that the Street Cry gelding was able to beat him, giving him 3lb, and after that mis-hap at the third last fence, is highly commendable. Also, the time of the race was good, 0.13secs/furlong faster than Racing Post par.

Rated 82 on the flat, and rated 140 over hurdles by the time that he contested the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival last March, Three Kingdoms has raced four times over fences now, he has won three times and he went down by just a half-length to Arkle contender Vibrato Valtat in the Wayward Lad Chase at Kempton in the other, when he shaped as if a step up from that two-mile trip could bring about improvement. That was the impression that he left from Saturday’s race as well, and it is a view that is reportedly shared by both AP McCoy and Brian Hughes.

He is a lively outsider now for the JLT Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. However, while he finished third behind Quick Jack in a handicap hurdle at Cheltenham in November 2013, he has been well beaten in both of his efforts at the Festival itself, and it may be that a flat track suits him best. The Manifesto Chase at Aintree’s Grand National meeting looks like an ideal race for him now.

24th January 2015