Truth be told I’d say townend underestimated o Sullivan and marine national. If townend tracked him I’d wonder what happened. Facile jumping cost him ground too at the last.
I’m not surprised they were fairly seething.
Marine is just a better horse. If facile could not beat him today on that ground, he never will. The winner was value for more. It was push button after last.
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He lost a bit of momentum but if he pinged the last he was still getting beat. If anything MN got boxed in by Il Etait Temps and Dark Raven approaching the home turn and didnt have an easy passage allowing FV to have first run. Marine Nationale was easily the best horse in that race.
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Townend more or less conceded that point in his interview after
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I’m not so sure. I’d say if facile was coming at him he’d win.
Nearly everything that won was hunting as opposed to leading.
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I mentioned it here before I got it up at the festival one day and it paid less than 20 pound I was disgusted
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No way was Sullivan gonna give Townend a lead into the race
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I see they have O Sullivan down to ride Haut En Couleurs in the plate. Im sure there his phone will be hopping tonight ahead of Martin Pipe declarations tomorrow.
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Can’t do much if townend sets off him
I heard he was booked for firm footings but nothing confirmed.
You’d assume Ewing would get first choice off Elliot’s
I think I’ll go next year.
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Hard to top today. Meeting Berb might surpass it
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It’s a tremendous trip
It looked half a tired leap too.
A few ballystinions gone over for the week to support the pride of Ballysteen. The full week is too much altogether. Two days is plenty
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This is a nice docket now. Call. Me lyreen shortened hugely in the last while
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Jazzy was the big one. I won’t be going broke this week at least and I just realised there’s a Dundalk card Thursday evening.
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MN won fair and square for me no matter how facile was rode. However Willie did seem annoyed in the interview after the race at the tactics but said “We’ll leave it there” or “We’ll leave it alone” instead of going further. He didn’t want to look like a bad loser I’d say.
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