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Champion Hurdle 2018

Went to have a little bet on campeador before he runs today and was disappointed to see the 50s had gone and was now next price 33-1. Was very tempted by Divin Bere at 50-1 though only beaten less than 2 lengths by defi du seuil at aintree yet he's more than 6 times the price and with fewer runs there could be greater improvement. Sure I've seen Henderson say he stays over hurdles this year too.
 
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taylorch1990 said:
Went to have a little very on campeador before he runs today and was disappointed to see the 50s had gone and was now next price 33-1. Was very tempted by Divin Bere at 50-1 though only beaten less than 2 lengths by defi du seuil at aintree yet he's more than 6 times the price and with fewer runs there could be greater improvement. Sure I've seen Henderson say he stays over hurdles this year too.
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Yea Divin stays over hurdles. Was Lydias outside tip for the champion hurdle on the FFP Podcast last week.

Campeador travelled into that race lovely. Needed pushed out a bit after the last but should come on for that.

Geraghty on fire last couple of days for JP
 
Dear Father Christmas , please send The New One to the world hurdle.

2m today to win Welsh Champion hurdle bound to convince Nige to go down this 2 mile route when his chance has gone.
 
Every Tuesday I get a bus to Cheltenham with my old football team, and every year one of the winners of the raffle says the money is going on The New One

Makes me want to pull my hairnout
 
The Beast said:
Dear Father Christmas , please send The New One to the world hurdle.

2m today to win Welsh Champion hurdle bound to convince Nige to go down this 2 mile route when his chance has gone.
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He dosent stay 3 miles, especially left handed.
 
Now I know it doesn't really mean too much but Nicky Henderson had a twitter poll up a few days ago...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The jumps steps up a gear <a href="https://twitter.com/CheltenhamRaces?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CheltenhamRaces</a> on Friday so which Seven Barrows inmate are you most looking forward to seeing this season?</p>— Nicky Henderson (@sevenbarrows) <a href="https://twitter.com/sevenbarrows/status/922134684594790400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Asking which 4 horses in the yard are people most excited about. The 3 obvious horses are in there but Charlie Parcs makes the 4th spot. Everytime Henderson mentions the horse it tends to be alongside the stable stars and this is another instance. The likes of Top Notch, Whisper, Pym, Apples Shakira are just a few that could have been mentioned. Now again a twitter poll, in all likelyhood not even done by the man himself means nothing but he does keep mentioning CP in the same bracket as his best horses.

And more notably and seriously - I had assumed Henderson would look to utilise his handicap mark in big handicap like the Greatwood Hurdle at the International meeting and then based on that either look towards the County or the Champion Hurdle but the plan so far is to aim him at the Gerry Feilden at Newbury on December 2nd. The Greatwood would be 2 weeks after which would be pretty soon for him to reappear? I wonder if that again gives a clue on where Henderson see's the horse for the season in that he may be giving up what would look like a very handy handicap mark for the Greatwood and instead by slowly buidling his path towards the Champion Hurdle?

Probably nothing in it and I think Charli Parcs has a huge gap to make up to feature if the main players line up in this race but it's hard not to take note of the high regard he is still held in
 
jono said:
Now I know it doesn't really mean too much but Nicky Henderson had a twitter poll up a few days ago...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The jumps steps up a gear <a href="https://twitter.com/CheltenhamRaces?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CheltenhamRaces</a> on Friday so which Seven Barrows inmate are you most looking forward to seeing this season?</p>— Nicky Henderson (@sevenbarrows) <a href="https://twitter.com/sevenbarrows/status/922134684594790400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Asking which 4 horses in the yard are people most excited about. The 3 obvious horses are in there but Charlie Parcs makes the 4th spot. Everytime Henderson mentions the horse it tends to be alongside the stable stars and this is another instance. The likes of Top Notch, Whisper, Pym, Apples Shakira are just a few that could have been mentioned. Now again a twitter poll, in all likelyhood not even done by the man himself means nothing but he does keep mentioning CP in the same bracket as his best horses.

And more notably and seriously - I had assumed Henderson would look to utilise his handicap mark in big handicap like the Greatwood Hurdle at the International meeting and then based on that either look towards the County or the Champion Hurdle but the plan so far is to aim him at the Gerry Feilden at Newbury on December 2nd. The Greatwood would be 2 weeks after which would be pretty soon for him to reappear? I wonder if that again gives a clue on where Henderson see's the horse for the season in that he may be giving up what would look like a very handy handicap mark for the Greatwood and instead by slowly buidling his path towards the Champion Hurdle?

Probably nothing in it and I think Charli Parcs has a huge gap to make up to feature if the main players line up in this race but it's hard not to take note of the high regard he is still held in
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The Greatwood is middle of November Jono but totally agree with you, seems very strange race planning...........unless Hendo already has one for the Greatwood?!

Jenkins is v well handicapped:devilish:
 
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The Greatwood is middle of November Jono but totally agree with you, seems very strange race planning...........unless Hendo already has one for the Greatwood?!

Jenkins is v well handicapped:devilish:
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Ah yes of course it is. Definitely off the agenda then!
Haha i'm all over Jenkins off 137 in a big handicap :devilish:

That Newbury debut over hurdles included the beating of Captain Forez - now rated 148 and Pingshou -
now rated 150...he could be absolutely chucked in
 
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Ah yes of course it is. Definitely off the agenda then!
Haha i'm all over Jenkins off 137 in a big handicap :devilish:

That Newbury debut over hurdles included the beating of Captain Forez - now rated 148 and Pingshou -
now rated 150...he could be absolutely chucked in
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Jenkins won't get missed by the bookies unfortunately!
 
much love for the "talking horse" Charli Parcs. Having dodged Defi last season blaming ground conditions the festival came and went for the so called star. The bookies will be forming a large line to take bets on him winning the Champion Hurdle.
 
Henderson has a blind spot when it comes to Charli Parcs
 
Totally forgot about Jenkins. He had so much potential, wonder if Nicky has got the jumping of the horse working yet?
 
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Henderson has a blind spot when it comes to Charli Parcs
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I agree, I think Defi is a level above Charli Parcs, as his form would suggest, and I don't think Defi beats Buveur D'air or Faugheen anyway so Charli Parcs surely won't be aimed at this race. I think Henderson wants 2 in the race, but he doesn't want it to be Tent again, that much we do know.
 
I don't think DDS will improve this season, but I think Charli Parcs and Divin Bere will.
The money was speaking very heavily in favour of CP before he got pulled out against DDS.

If I fancied DDS, at all (Which I don't) there is no way I'd leave CP or DB unbacked. I think the prices they are is great value to turn tables on DDS.

The reason I'm not effusive about them as actual prospects for this race, is I feel BVD and Faugheen would be 1-2 And then melon, pingshou, cilaos Emery all at times showed form that I'd rate over junenile races
 
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I don't think DDS will improve this season, but I think Charli Parcs and Divin Bere will.
The money was speaking very heavily in favour of CP before he got pulled out against DDS.

If I fancied DDS, at all (Which I don't) there is no way I'd leave CP or DB unbacked. I think the prices they are is great value to turn tables on DDS.

The reason I'm not effusive about them as actual prospects for this race, is I feel BVD and Faugheen would be 1-2 And then melon, pingshou, cilaos Emery all at times showed form that I'd rate over junenile races
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DDS won't have to improve to beat Charli Parcs
 
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