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Champion Chase 2027

Odddog said:
Several jumping errors by Kopek. Go on Willie - send him back over hurdles (y)
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Thing is he wasn't massively fluent over his hurdles at times either.

Step ip in surely required whatever discipline he takes to next.
 
ComplyOrDie said:
Thing is he wasn't massively fluent over his hurdles at times either.

Step ip in surely required whatever discipline he takes to next.
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Thing is, if he does revert, you know he'll be kept at 2 miles until at least the Spring.
 
Ray said:
That looked like they were just trying to get him fit, he didnt even try..strange they manage to get away with these non triers all the time.
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All the time ?
Bit unfair.
 
Ray said:
That looked like they were just trying to get him fit, he didnt even try..strange they manage to get away with these non triers all the time.
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lmao

want Paul to absolutely leather the horse when he knows he's beaten on seasonal debut?
 
Ray said:
That looked like they were just trying to get him fit, he didnt even try..strange they manage to get away with these non triers all the time.
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Be interesting to hear the post race comments
 
I’m no a huge fan of Kopek because of his temperament - which Willie has managed to do with some of his keener horses that have needed hoods during the earlier part of their career

He was on his toes before the off, and Townend didn’t ask for much

Lessons learnt from last season, don’t write off Willies top ones after a defeat or poor showing - kargese, IET, Kitz

I’d want a little more than 8/1 - one to monitor
 
He was poor all the way around really. Even when there wasnt necessarily an error, he was giving them too much air, going up and down rather than skimming over them. They have their back up 2m hurdler now so I guess thats narciso gone chasing 😂
 
ComplyOrDie said:
Thing is he wasn't massively fluent over his hurdles at times either.

Step ip in surely required whatever discipline he takes to next.
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I just re-watched his Supreme and I think he jumped well throughout, his only mistake being at the last which he didn't meet on a good stride and went through the top of it. It being the Supreme, I'm not sure how much help he got from the jockey at the last hurdle, he was in the process of throwing the kitchen sink at him. His time was respectable too, 4 seconds faster than Golden Ace in the Champion Hurdle 😁. I'd stick him in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton and see what happens - I think he'd love it.
 
Odddog said:
I just re-watched his Supreme and I think he jumped well throughout, his only mistake being at the last which he didn't meet on a good stride and went through the top of it. It being the Supreme, I'm not sure how much help he got from the jockey at the last hurdle, he was in the process of throwing the kitchen sink at him. His time was respectable too, 4 seconds faster than Golden Ace in the Champion Hurdle 😁. I'd stick him in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton and see what happens - I think he'd love it.
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I agree, I'd send him over for the grade 1 hurdles over here.
Surely a lot more fun for the owners.
Can't be fun watching the fucker trampoline over his fences.
 
Don’t think he’s a champion chaser but will give the benefit of the doubt and wait for next run. He looked to be carrying loads of condition to my untrained eye and Townend didn’t exactly push Kopek at the business end, a quick hurry up coming the last and that was it really.
 
More than likely it was a case of them trying to get him jumping better and a clear round than anything else.
Probably more important than winning the race kind of.
Not sure it helped him or that they gained anything though.
 
Willie a stubborn old bugger who doesn't like being proved wrong so expect him to stay over fences
 
That was disappointing, he was fat as a pig to be fair, but not impressed by jumping. He’s willies sir Gino super sub for the champion hurdle if anything happens to lossie IMO. Has ability, just whether we see it over fences.
 
He won't win any grade 1 running like that.

Not sure where they go from here but that was such a disappointing performance.
 
He's not really anywhere close to winning a Champion Hurdle after that performance so any talk of switching is wide of the market imo. Yes, the performance was very underwhelming as everyone just wanted to see him win on the bridle, but he didn't seem to have anything left in the straight when I would have expected to see him easily pull away. Let's see how he performs nto but he needs to be much much better.
 
When Paul was interviewed he said he was happy with KDB and thought we would see the best of him next time out. Did not sound like he was disappointed or given up on him over Fences. He clearly was not fit.
 
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BuckingThe Trend said:
When Paul was interviewed he said he was happy with KDB and thought we would see the best of him next time out. Did not sound like he was disappointed or given up on him over Fences. He clearly was not fit.
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I'd believe that if he'd had a good round of jumping.
Not really sticking his neck out saying he'd be better next time out either is he ?
 
Quevega said:
I'd believe that if he'd had a good round of jumping.
Not really sticking his neck out saying he'd be better next time out either is he ?
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Reading between the lines I think he was saying "he was not fit" without actually saying "he was not fit". 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
 
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