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Arkle 2019

He’d also run has a lovely 2m racecourse prep run a couple of days before his Punchestown CH race!
If he went chasing I’d be on like a tramp on chips but given his injury and time off I’m inclined to believe he won’t go chasing
 
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Hurricane fly said:
He’d also run has a lovely 2m racecourse prep run a couple of days before his Punchestown CH race!
If he went chasing I’d be on like a trampoline in chips but given his injury and time off I’m inclined to believe he won’t go chasing
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He was never going chasing (rightly so being flat bred) and obviously never having the scope for it, according to to GE if he can rekindle his old zest he’s a potential Champion Hurdle contender! He’s as talented as he is bonkers if Gordon has him race fit again I’ll definitely be onside again, he has an engine that you can’t ignore imo!

Never been beaten when jumping off with the field before that Punchestown CH run as a novice! He has more gears than Samcro over the minimum distance for me but his jumping is inferior despite Samcro not being very economic.
 
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I was Looking at the Gordon Elliott stable tour again last night and definitely say's Ch. hdle the aim .
But , still a way to go .
 
If Labaik is the champion hurdler, why has Elliott moved heaven and earth to get Samcro to have a go?
 
Don't know , Different owners ??. he does say a long way to go after the injury Labaik had , but back in Training.
Not one i've bet on , But i suppose if he ran and ran well , you might consider it.
 
Not one to be relied on.

No doubting his talent though. Sluiced past Melon although Melon has 100% improved past then as the Supreme was only his second run.
 
Labaik is a thorough rogue who should have been banned from the Supreme.
 
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So , he goes in the Category with W****** W******* . yes ?:)
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Worse, much worse. A couple of weeks before the Festival, he refused to race for the third time in a row but the starter allowed him to go about half a furlong behind the others and jog round with a final losing margin of 100l. He should have picked up a mandatory 60 day ban. Coincidentally, one of his owners at the time was a convicted gangster.
 
I remember reading about the Crim, You'd have thought there would have been some sort of Retrospective
penalty or ban for the racing infringement. ??.
 
The owners who were in the parade ring at Cheltenham looked like central casting for Peaky Blinders. It's hard to believe that no-one else knew about the guy.
 
Makes sense now why Gordon said 'still a few things to sort out' when asked about Labaik on ATR :)
 
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The owners who were in the parade ring at Cheltenham looked like central casting for Peaky Blinders. It's hard to believe that no-one else knew about the guy.
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Shouldn't hold that against the horse though.

The non starting doesn't bother me as much as it would on the flat (as in having an issue with the stalls) but refusing to jump off doesn't affect much other than punters does it?
 
I used a £5 free bet on Labaik for the Arkle. He is a complete lunatic of a weapon though
 
Kevloaf said:
Shouldn't hold that against the horse though.

The non starting doesn't bother me as much as it would on the flat (as in having an issue with the stalls) but refusing to jump off doesn't affect much other than punters does it?
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Any horse that fails to leave the starting gate within 10 seconds of the first horse through should be an automatic non-runner.
 
It was harsh on the other owners. There was talk it would have been sold for around £500k.
 
Gone back in on cilaos emery at 28s. Trying to single handedly bankrupt Ladbrokes.

The draconien news hasn't filtered through yet. Only PP BF seem to have heard. If you've an arkle fancy now's the time.
 
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Gone back in on cilaos emery at 28s. Trying to single handedly bankrupt Ladbrokes.

The draconien news hasn't filtered through yet. Only PP BF seem to have heard. If you've an arkle fancy now's the time.
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Cilaos Emery still isn’t priced up with pp and bf scooby. Was it you that mentioned previously that they did the same with Footpad last year? If so when did they add him?
 
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Gone back in on cilaos emery at 28s. Trying to single handedly bankrupt Ladbrokes.

The draconien news hasn't filtered through yet. Only PP BF seem to have heard. If you've an arkle fancy now's the time.
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Any new news on CE? Backed 'any race' with Ladbrokes too, but was hoping for something by now. Just wondered why you went in again?
 
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