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Kid_Chocolate · January 23, 2014, 3:46pm

very impressive winner in limerick…should put people off lumping onto black Hercules but hard to back against him too

Mac · January 23, 2014, 4:21pm

Wow, Black Hercules wins very well. Had a few quid on at 5/6 but sickened I didn’t back him for Cheltenham. He’ll be no price after that. Good call @fenwaypark.

Kid_Chocolate · January 23, 2014, 4:43pm

shaneshill is supposed to be even better @Mac

thedancingbaby · January 23, 2014, 5:43pm

Not running per owner’s husband when cornered by a mate of mine in Gowran today

Sandymount_Red · January 23, 2014, 7:26pm

Had a nibble on OB e/w myself. Ran a cracker but winner was too good despite veering all over the shop.

Heard a whisper for another Tyner horse, Way Up In The Air, for the Boylesports. Stuck a few bob on e/w at 40/1 with Skybet.

Any Grand National types catch your eye today?

Fagan_ODowd · January 23, 2014, 7:49pm

Got on e/w myself. Thanks for that Mac.

thedancingbaby · January 23, 2014, 9:26pm

[quote=“Sandymount Red, post: 892038, member: 1074”]Heard a whisper for another Tyner horse, Way Up In The Air, for the Boylesports.
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Quick Jack is a certainty imo

dancarter · January 23, 2014, 9:50pm

Gilgamboa interests me. A novice of Enda Bolgers biding time before fences.12/1 massively unexposed. V impressive looking IMHO albeit bare form maybe questionable.

Mac · January 23, 2014, 10:10pm

Agree with this. Looks ridiculously well handicapped. Need to go through in detail but he sticks out.

fenwaypark · January 23, 2014, 10:14pm

Just need to look at the horses that finished behind him at Cheltenham in November.

thedancingbaby · January 23, 2014, 10:17pm

Compared to his mark across the pond he is thrown in - have to double check in morning but think he is 133 over there compared to 119 over here

Presumably laid out for this with the Cheltenham bonus on offer

fenwaypark · January 23, 2014, 10:18pm

Quick Jack could be two stone well in (potentially). He is one of the best handicapped horses in training. Would be no surprised to see him win this before heading to the County Hurdle.

Mac · January 23, 2014, 10:25pm

He was much more impressive in Cheltenham than winning margin suggests. Saw him in the flesh that day and in Listowel when he was 2nd to a Murtagh horse on the flat before winning a hurdle the following day. A slick hurdler who travels like a dream. He could hack up.

ciarancareyshurlingarmy · January 23, 2014, 10:33pm

How could the handicapper leave a Martin horse so far off his British mark?

Kid_Chocolate · January 23, 2014, 11:31pm

I think Martin and Elliot have pictures of Noel obrien , some of their horses get fucking ridiculously lenient marks

thedancingbaby · January 24, 2014, 8:21am

Just reading in the Post here Mac that Mullins seems to think Shaneshill is more likely to be the Wylie’s Cheltenham bumper horse

thedancingbaby · January 24, 2014, 8:23am

[quote=“Kid Chocolate, post: 892190, member: 553”]I think Martin and Elliot have pictures of Noel obrien , some of their horses get fucking ridiculously lenient marks
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Only one man owns O’Brien and we all know who that is

Mac · January 24, 2014, 8:23am

Interesting. Glad I stayed away from it so. Who’s due to ride Flaxen tomorrow?

fenwaypark · January 24, 2014, 8:25am

I think BH is made for Champion Bumper. IMHO Shaneshill looks more of a speed horse and will be seen to better effect next year over hurdles.

thedancingbaby · January 24, 2014, 8:41am

[quote=“Mac, post: 892247, member: 109”]Interesting. Glad I stayed away from it so. Who’s due to ride Flaxen tomorrow?
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A claimer of some sort I’d imagine