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Kauto’s star said:
Awesome. Glad to hear it’s back up and running! Thanks for letting me know. Wanting to get on live conti (aswell as a few others) for the county as hills best price 25s and is running tomorrow!
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Might be worth keeping an eye on the market tomorrow ahead of Live Conti’s race. No support at the moment despite having Harry on board which suggests he might not be primed. Price could get pushed out post-race..

Flip side - would you still want to be on him if he does win and wins well - every lb he goes up is a lb he won’t have in hand if he ends up in the County.
 
jrjr said:
Might be worth keeping an eye on the market tomorrow ahead of Live Conti’s race. No support at the moment despite having Harry on board which suggests he might not be primed. Price could get pushed out post-race..

Flip side - would you still want to be on him if he does win and wins well - every lb he goes up is a lb he won’t have in hand if he ends up in the County.
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Fair shout, but I don’t think ’hell be winning tomorrow. Skelton said he wasn’t ready for it so hoping for a nice quiet one. Not sure he’ll get much bigger than 25s tho as general 16s elsewhere….I look forward to the reply tomorrow when he backs up on the snaff 😂😂
 
Kauto’s star said:
Fair shout, but I don’t think ’hell be winning tomorrow. Skelton said he wasn’t ready for it so hoping for a nice quiet one. Not sure he’ll get much bigger than 25s tho as general 16s elsewhere….I look forward to the reply tomorrow when he backs up on the snaff 😂😂
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I hadn’t heard Dan say that - prob explains why the price is so big, strange Harry is riding him though..

I’m gonna hold off and wait, horses quite often get pushed out if they lose and Bet 365 are also 25’s. Gotta be a decent chance one of them goes bigger. If he does bolt up then I suspect they’ll go to a graded race at Aintree instead of the County.

Anyway, let’s hope for a smooth trot round, then a tilt at the County - he’d fit the ‘graded horse in a handicap’ mantra (certainly according to Dan anyway).
 
jrjr said:
I hadn’t heard Dan say that - prob explains why the price is so big, strange Harry is riding him though..

I’m gonna hold off and wait, horses quite often get pushed out if they lose and Bet 365 are also 25’s. Gotta be a decent chance one of them goes bigger. If he does bolt up then I suspect they’ll go to a graded race at Aintree instead of the County.

Anyway, let’s hope for a smooth trot round, then a tilt at the County - he’d fit the ‘graded horse in a handicap’ mantra (certainly according to Dan anyway).
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Harry did ride him LTO too, so I wouldn't be too concerned - I'd be surprised if he's firing on all cylinders tomorrow
 
jrjr said:
I hadn’t heard Dan say that - prob explains why the price is so big, strange Harry is riding him though..

I’m gonna hold off and wait, horses quite often get pushed out if they lose and Bet 365 are also 25’s. Gotta be a decent chance one of them goes bigger. If he does bolt up then I suspect they’ll go to a graded race at Aintree instead of the County.

Anyway, let’s hope for a smooth trot round, then a tilt at the County - he’d fit the ‘graded horse in a handicap’ mantra (certainly according to Dan anyway).
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Dan did a brief video on YouTube on his winter million runners, didn’t exactly sell the case for conti running a blinder tomorrow. I don’t have online accounts anymore to restricted to shops 😰 tbc whether I back pre or post race now, good shout.
 
Saw those yesterday, some interesting entries, among them - Wendrock entered in the 3m handicap hurdle. Not quite sure what to make of that..?
 
jrjr said:
Saw those yesterday, some interesting entries, among them - Wendrock entered in the 3m handicap hurdle. Not quite sure what to make of that..?
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Big field. Get a run in. Easy to bury him in behind.
 
Fighting 5th form took a little knock there.
 
….looks like Hills have cut Live Conti to 16-1 County.
 
jrjr said:
I hadn’t heard Dan say that - prob explains why the price is so big, strange Harry is riding him though..

I’m gonna hold off and wait, horses quite often get pushed out if they lose and Bet 365 are also 25’s. Gotta be a decent chance one of them goes bigger. If he does bolt up then I suspect they’ll go to a graded race at Aintree instead of the County.

Anyway, let’s hope for a smooth trot round, then a tilt at the County - he’d fit the ‘graded horse in a handicap’ mantra (certainly according to Dan anyway).
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A smooth Trot around is exactly what we got. Settled and jumped for a change. Beautiful.
 
…..W Mullins;

We had a good day in Fairyhouse on Tuesday with five winners.

Proactif and Bambino Fever were probably the pick of them. Both booked their Cheltenham tickets with their performances.

Then on Thursday Mighty Park showed on the track what he shows me at home. He looked very special and for any horse to win any race by 38 lengths is some effort.

He looks to be out of the top drawer and will hopefully prove that. He too booked his Cheltenham ticket but like Bambino Fever we’re not sure for which event just now.

Macho Man ran a good race behind Proactif and I think there’s a lot of improvement in him which puts him in the picture for the Triumph as well.

Brian Hayes was seen at his best on Western Diego who won the Dan & Joan Moore Memorial. Sean Cleary-Farrell didn’t do anything wrong on the second More Coko either but just met one on the day who was in good form and they pulled clear of the rest in one of the year’s most competitive two-mile handicaps.

I was particularly taken by how The Wager won the bumper. He looked beaten for much of the straight, but Patrick changed his whip and got the response and he won, in doing so pricking his ears passing the post.

That leads me to believe there’s a lot more in the tank and he’s very green still. He’s another who will improve for this.
 
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