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2026 Champion Hurdle

Lobos said:
He who laughs last.....
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Didn't quite get the joke

I honestly thought he was way too highly rated for a handicap, despite being a handicapper, bit of luck he'll get in, I'd also hope they could get Cobden again too, good hands you see, didn't just switch him off, he put him to sleep.
 
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Golden Ace has beaten BDA fair and square twice at the festival now and is more than double the price of BDA for the Champion Hurdle. I must be missing something .....................
 
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Win nearly 50k for finishing 3rd in a champion hurdle? or win 60k for trying to win a county off a mark nearing 160... I dunno about Anzadam going county. Take your chance in a champion hurdle, we've seen what happened last season.
 
Odddog said:
Golden Ace has beaten BDA fair and square twice at the festival now and is more than double the price of BDA for the Champion Hurdle. I must be missing something .....................
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Hard to see Golden Ace out of the frame. And you're right, so many question marks about the other main protagonists.
 
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I've just put my 50-1 bet for Kopek back on my in play list.
Not hard to imagine a scenario where they say they don't want to go arkle after just the one run.
Especially if Kargese wins well tomorrow.
 
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Quevega said:
I've just put my 50-1 bet for Kopek back on my in play list.
Not hard to imagine a scenario where they say they don't want to go arkle after just the one run.
Especially if Kargese wins well tomorrow.
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not a bad shout
 
Lossiemouth’s rider Paul Townend reported: “I was never comfortable on her. It surprised me that I actually got in with a chance at any stage. Everything was hard work today.”
 
Lobos said:
Lossiemouth’s rider Paul Townend reported: “I was never comfortable on her. It surprised me that I actually got in with a chance at any stage. Everything was hard work today.”
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Yep, the hope for Lossie in the champion is not lost when you see what happened with State Man last season.
 
I'd be supplementing Old Park Star. Has a novice ever won the Champion Hurdle? It would be legendary.
 
Odddog said:
I'd be supplementing Old Park Star. Has a novice ever won the Champion Hurdle? It would be legendary.
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Matt Chapman said the same.

Crazy idea imo
 
Google AI tells me we had 3 novices win the Champion Hurdle in the 1990s - Royal Gait (1992), Alderbrook (1995) and Make A Stand (1997)
 
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