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2017 Stayers Hurdle

Faugheen_Machine said:
Absolutely crazy price. Added to that; this is definitely his target; he's going to have a prep; and, he'll love decent racing ground.

I'm already on at big prices on the exchange but will be backing him each way tonight just in case he gets nodded on the line.
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I am limited to 50p on him FFS haha
 
Kevloaf said:
I am limited to 50p on him FFS haha
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Betfair sportsbook are a joke, I mean seriously what is the point ?
They might as well not bother....
 
Istabraq said:
Betfair sportsbook are a joke, I mean seriously what is the point ?
They might as well not bother....
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Really not sure. Why offer 100/1 if you can't back it? - Losing account too.
 
Faugheen_Machine said:
He's 100/1 with Betfair Sportsbook Kev. Get him in some of your multiples :triumphant:
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I've had to go in again...
Had Rawnaq to win @ 20's earlier in the season (due to Kev's insistence!), but 100/1 is crazy and I've invested 1pt EW

20/1 to place is just ridiculous!
 
A £1 treble on Rawnaq, On The Fringe and Alary (w/o Thistlecrack) pays approx £9,000 with BetFair and that's including the offer of getting your pound back if one of them doesn't come in.

Considering 5 balls on the midweek lottery only paid eight hundred and odd quid, then that looks like great odds!
 
Leman14 said:
I've had to go in again...
Had Rawnaq to win @ 20's earlier in the season (due to Kev's insistence!), but 100/1 is crazy and I've invested 1pt EW

20/1 to place is just ridiculous!
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One for your mug bets thread :highly_amused:


Not sure how I ended up major of the Rawnaq fan club, I am sure others are more deserving than I am from earlier on in the thread. but you can't knock a 100/1 poke can you .... I could easily be bullish about Douvan but who on earth wants to read about that :devilish:
 
That was great by Jezki. It showed that he retained his ability and hopefully he'll come on for the run.
 
If he comes on for the run he should run a gooden at Chelt
 
Big choice for Barry to make he is 111111 on Jezki.
 
Old Vic said:
Big choice for Barry to make he is 111111 on Jezki.
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Big call from him. He was the beneficiary of McCoys wrong choice in the race a few years ago (and CH) but now it's his turn to make the call.

The class of Jezki vs the stamina of UKWIMH...
 
I'd be happy for Mark Walsh to be riding whoever Barry doesn't.
 
mayo said:
Would get Jezki ride imo but would have though Noel would get back on UKWIMH
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If he 'picked' Jezki, Jezki would have to shorten in to fav? Might still be some juice in the 8/1 available?
 
For some reason I can see the fav getting turned over by a horse with a better turn of foot on the day.:confused:
 
Market is going to look very different on race day than now. Cleeve Hurdle looks interesting and Mullins' VVM is only 7/2 nrnb against UNWIMH 5/2 .... she runs over 3m again soon ... these could flip flop
 
Some sad news on Rawnaq today, especially as I know Kev and a few others were very keen on him and had some great prices... :grumpy:

The Cheltenham Festival dream is over for connections of Rawnaq after the American-based gelding picked up an injury that will rule him out of the Sun Bets Stayers' Hurdle.

The Cheltenham Festival dream is over for connections of Rawnaq after the American-based gelding picked up an injury that will rule him out of the Sun Bets Stayers' Hurdle.

Formerly trained in Ireland by first Robbie Hennessy and then Matthew Smith, the 10-year-old was sold to race on the other side of the Atlantic in 2015 and proved a shrewd acquisition for Irish-born trainer Cyril Murphy and his principal owner Irvin Naylor.

A major victory over the Willie Mullins-trained pair of Shaneshill and Nichols Canyon in the Grade One Calvin Houghland Iroquois Hurdle in Nashville last May made him eligible for a $500,000 bonus if he could complete the Brown Advisory Iroquois Cheltenham Challenge by going on to win the Stayers' Hurdle at Prestbury Park in March.

He made his first start since that success in the American Grand National in October and claimed a narrow victory in the hands of Ruby Walsh.

Rawnaq was beaten on his only subsequent outing in the Colonial Cup the following month, but remained on track for a return to the Festival - where he was third over fences in 2015 - until suffering a setback last week.

Murphy told Press Association Sport: "Unfortunately he's picked up a soft tissue injury and he's not going to make it.

"He was due to ship over on February 3 and arrive on February 4. He was going to be based with Neil Mulholland before running in the National Spirit Hurdle at Fontwell on February 26.

"We had the plan mapped out, but it's not going to happen now."

With Rawnaq already in the latter stages of his career, Murphy admits the chances of ever seeing Rawnaq in Britain again are remote.

"I think because it has been such a long-term plan it made it that bit harder. We had such a big window for something to go wrong and unfortunately it has," the trainer added.

"It would have been hard enough to get him there this year as a 10-year-old. He's not going to run again this year, so to bring him to England as an 11-year-old would be next to impossible.

"Long-term I think he'll be OK, but time is the only healer and because of what he's achieved already, we're not going to rush him.

"If we can get him back then great, but if we can't, then he'll have a home here forever."
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Doh, just as I had a lovely EW double going onto him at 100/1.
 
loveracing said:
For some reason I can see the fav getting turned over by a horse with a better turn of foot on the day.:confused:
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Yeah im with you on this. Two favourites I just cant see winning at this stage are Harry and Moon Racer.
Im not really a layer so doubt I will get involved with that, but if I was I would be taking both of these on. Both have run well in defeat written all over them for me.
 
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