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Brooker17 said:
Whats everyone best value bet for the festival so far?
For me it has to be Jimmy de Sueil.
8/1 compared to Final Demand at 5/4 (bet 365) when there was little to separate either performance 1st run this season and JdS has course form.
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After seeing what Kitzbuhel did to The Enabler who just pissed in at the weekend, I’d say 20/1 compared to 8/1 and 5/4 is darn good value
Think that would be my choice right now.
 
I've got both Kitzbuhel 33/1 and Jimmy De Seuil 33/1................he said a little smugly. A long way to go yet though. Been here before. And lost the lot.
 
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Fact to file into 9/4 for king George .... Looks like he's coming over for the big race!
 
BigL said:
Think they are both going according to the exchange ..... Gaelic still holding his price
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Not sure why he’d run both in the race and was sure he’d keep Gaelic away from leopardstown. Either way my book in the race did not account for the file coming here!! Could be another epic race if so!!
 
Kauto’s star said:
Not sure why he’d run both in the race and was sure he’d keep Gaelic away from leopardstown. Either way my book in the race did not account for the file coming here!! Could be another epic race if so!!
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Why would you think he wouldn;t run both ?
 
What a race this is going to be, any one give jango a chance against these two ? Won well at Ascot last time but is the form any good ?
 
Kauto’s star said:
Just thought after the ding dong a few weeks back he’d keep them separate, especially as both having favourites chances in separate races….oh boy
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That bit is very surprising to me too. They could both kill their Cheltenham at Kempton. They already had a tough enough race a few weeks back. How many performances like that can a horse do in a season.
 
Yosser said:
That bit is very surprising to me too. They could both kill their Cheltenham at Kempton. They already had a tough enough race a few weeks back. How many performances like that can a horse do in a season.
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It's only 3 hard runs in a 5 month period, easy
 
Yosser said:
That bit is very surprising to me too. They could both kill their Cheltenham at Kempton. They already had a tough enough race a few weeks back. How many performances like that can a horse do in a season.
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Yeah we have seen this before when a big performance is followed by lesser ones.
Guess one has to have faith with the trainer.
 
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He has had it pretty easy so far F2F bar a couple of runs. The last time Fact To File had a proper hard race was Christmas last year where Galopin did him by 7 lengths. About a month later he finished behind Galopin and Grangeclare West though those runs were over 3 miles. He then bolted up at Cheltenham. It's an intriguing race no matter what happens. It's the best looking King George on paper i can remember if these two turn up..................... to the detriment of my bets. You will have ll Est Francais bombing off from the front and i assume The Jukebox Man leading the pack in behind with Gaelic and Djelo on his shoulder. Jango, F2F and Banbridge will try and pick them all off. What a potential race.
 
Yosser said:
He has had it pretty easy so far F2F bar a couple of runs. The last time Fact To File had a proper hard race was Christmas last year where Galopin did him by 7 lengths. About a month later he finished behind Galopin and Grangeclare West though those runs were over 3 miles. He then bolted up at Cheltenham. It's an intriguing race no matter what happens. It's the best looking King George on paper i can remember if these two turn up..................... to the detriment of my bets. You will have ll Est Francais bombing off from the front and i assume The Jukebox Man leading the pack in behind with Gaelic and Djelo on his shoulder. Jango, F2F and Banbridge will try and pick them all off. What a potential race.
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Probably not quite as good as the Cue card, Vautour, Don Cossack renewal but if they all turn up and it's a good race then it'll be close.
 
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Yosser said:
He has had it pretty easy so far F2F bar a couple of runs. The last time Fact To File had a proper hard race was Christmas last year where Galopin did him by 7 lengths. About a month later he finished behind Galopin and Grangeclare West though those runs were over 3 miles. He then bolted up at Cheltenham. It's an intriguing race no matter what happens. It's the best looking King George on paper i can remember if these two turn up..................... to the detriment of my bets. You will have ll Est Francais bombing off from the front and i assume The Jukebox Man leading the pack in behind with Gaelic and Djelo on his shoulder. Jango, F2F and Banbridge will try and pick them all off. What a potential race.
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Yep, potentially a classic.
Gun to head I would say right now that GW the one most likely .
He’s for me the better horse out the two Mullins over 3m,and to win this one the winner is going to have to stay well,and I’m not sure FTF stays well enough to win this one, from what I’ve seen of him, and I still have my doubts over Jango and 3m.
Having said that, Jango’s last run suggested they could certainly try 3m, and the fact they are tells me that my doubts could well be proved wrong.
 
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