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2023 Novice Hurdlers

Lbur4288 said:
Keep an eye on Encanto Bruno in the last at Cheltenham today. Favourable mentions in One Jump Ahead and touted as a possible Bartlett bound horse.
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40/1 to win today and A/R
100/1 to win today and AB

With Sky
 
I backed Encanto Bruno for the Bartlett just after the race with Hills, but I was just listening to the John McConnell interview with Champ tv and he said if he won the bumper today he might stay in bumpers this season. Nothing set in stone, but worth keeping in mind.

https://youtu.be/WNTZYyipiHs
(25:20 to hear him talk about Bruno...)
 
isitmarchyet said:
I backed Encanto Bruno for the Bartlett just after the race with Hills, but I was just listening to the John McConnell interview with Champ tv and he said if he won the bumper today he might stay in bumpers this season. Nothing set in stone, but worth keeping in mind.

https://youtu.be/WNTZYyipiHs
(25:20 to hear him talk about Bruno...)
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Yep, he said pretty much the same thing after the race.

Horse is a baby, spooked at screen going out and coming back in today. Only a 4yo so probably leave him in bumpers and give him a holiday and come back in the spring for a nice race. Will be a nice jumper in time.
 
John McConnell on ENCANTO BRUNO:

“We’ll probably have to come to the Champion Bumper, he could go to Punchestown or Aintree, but he has that valuable course form and it is worth a crack – he really is something and I won’t sleep for the next six months thinking about him.”
 
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Safe to say I'll be putting that one in the loss column :boxing::glee:
 
Blue for FV for ballymore and blue for redemption day for supreme. Not sure if significant, but with Mullins stable tour…. Maybe
 
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Not sure if anything has gotten to the bookies ahead of the stable tour, but PP/BF have shortened redemption day for the supreme and facile vega for the ballymore today at the exact same time going off oddschecker
 
You just know it’s going to be that noncommittal “I’ve been thinking of stepping him up, but we’ll see” thing. :smiley_simmons:
 
"He has loads of speed but also stays well" or something

He said this about appreciate it

He's a horse that I think might be in the staying novice hurdle division. I don't minding starting off over two miles but looking at him gallop I don't mind going out to two and a half and he's possibly a Ballymore type. We'll let him tell us as the season progresses.

Who ended up winning the Supreme by half the track

Plans change so what he says tomorrow will be helpful but not cast iron
 
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Willie is trying Polo Lounge over hurdles again today. One to keep an eye on for any Shanbally Kid fanboys :eagerness:
 
FinalFurlong91 said:
Plans change so what he says tomorrow will be helpful but not cast iron
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That’s a key message, reaction today will be instantaneous but that doesn’t mean the value is gone gone. Targets change, horses change, willies thinking changes.

See a big move today for a horse direction - think what could be the total opposite that could happen? As the AI example you gave.
he has a massive outfit this year, not shy off 50 recruits alone from France on top of his P2P and current crop of stars, not everything will get a mention id expect or it’d be a very long stable tour… read between the lines with big pinches of salt..

best of luck today everyone
 
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Boost for Shanbally Kid form there with Polo Lounge hacking up at Limerick. Worth remembering Mullins then went on to buy Shanbally after he had beaten PL for Gigginstown.
 
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darlojim said:
Boost for Shanbally Kid form there with Polo Lounge hacking up at Limerick. Worth remembering Mullins then went on to buy Shanbally after he had beaten PL for Gigginstown.
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Shanbally kid 50s for ballymore tempting you darlojim ?
 
Dark Raven described as a staying type for hurdles. Let's hope he has got over his injury as he showed a lot of promise in his bumpers.

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