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2026 Champion Hurdle

….P Mullins;

A busy weekend for the team with Anzadam heading to Newcastle for the BetMGM Fighting Fifth. What are you expecting from your horse in this?​

Well, he did a fantastic bit of work after racing in Punchestown on Sunday. Paul rode him and was very happy with him but this is a huge step up in class. That said I suppose there's question marks over all of them, aren’t there? What will The New Lion be like at two miles? Is Constitution Hill the horse he was? And for us we have to find out if we’re a Grade One horse.

Look his work is very good but because he’s quite keen and has been a little fragile, we've never really got to look under the bonnet too much. But we think there's plenty of ability there, so this is going to let us know where we stand.
 
….W Mullins;

We’re asking him a big question for his first run of the season by going to Newcastle for the Fighting Fifth. However, whatever the answers are will tell us where we are going for the rest of the campaign.

It will tell us where we compare with the top English horses as well. He won in Fairyhouse and Naas for us last season and looked very good at the time. He will have to improve his rating on Saturday and take a significant jump forward to get to Constitution Hill at his best and The New Lion.

In fact he must improve more than any other horse in the race to tackle these two but we feel that improvement is there.
 
Eggs said:
….W Mullins;

We’re asking him a big question for his first run of the season by going to Newcastle for the Fighting Fifth. However, whatever the answers are will tell us where we are going for the rest of the campaign.

It will tell us where we compare with the top English horses as well. He won in Fairyhouse and Naas for us last season and looked very good at the time. He will have to improve his rating on Saturday and take a significant jump forward to get to Constitution Hill at his best and The New Lion.

In fact he must improve more than any other horse in the race to tackle these two but we feel that improvement is there.
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Reading that … the double with Lossie in the Mares seems a good related bet?
 
Anzadam looked fit to my eye! Not on course just from the TV.

edit - and tired by the end hah!
 
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That's Constitution Hill done. Time to retire him or send him to the flat.
 
Anzadam is a typical Authorized. An absolute handful.

Gutted about Constitution Hill :(

Hope both him and The New Lion are OK. Even TNL was quirky there, nearly ran out at one hurdle!
 
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Anzadam looks a proper rogue

Wouldnt ever back him after that

Big squiggle next to him

The new lion may have won had he not fallen but wouldnt have been impressive

Lossie wins the champion hurdle comfortably
 
Great for the mare, The New Lion I'm not sure wants 2 miles, looked beaten when falling.
Constitution, what can you say, he's learnt nothing for all this schooling/taking apart putting back together, he's no respect for hurdles and looked to be having a think even going down to the start, I'd say fences but also, might be better to pull up stumps.
 
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Best watch the Gerry Feilden carefully, might be the Champion Hurdle winner running :ROFLMAO:
 
Alexei happy sat in his box playing Scrabble after that utter mess......
 
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