Bump @Mac @TreatyStones
Remember a time when Willie couldn’t train chasers??
He struggled with novice chasers for a long time
Was it when he won the Hennessy a couple of years back that his previous open chase win in the UK was the Grand National with Hedgehunter? Something mad like that. And sure 2 Gold Cups later you’d nearly forget about it
Edit - maybe it was Vautour when he won the Ryanair
That Mikael D’Hageunet was a bastard from the day he won at Cheltenham onward. Was going to bait the tar out of Jessie’s Dream in the Dromore, fell at the last, never the same.
Sowed the seeds for Willie’s dominance.
Rich Ricci never looked back.
Willie is great but he had a lot of high prospects down the years that could have done with an extra day or so practising how to get their hooves airborne
Fucking hell this thread is nearly 10 years old. @The_Runt is shedding a tear in his e grave somewhere no doubt. He was a very witty poster sometimes, God rest him
He was wrong about Tom Brady, again.