Cheltenham, Great Britain – it is a occasional thing for a coach to almost apologize for winning a race, especially the greatest race of his career, but Jeremy Scott observers might have expected nothing less over the years. As a man of exemplary manners, he would have difficulty enjoying the triumph in the face of other people's disasters, and there was drama and dismay in the G1 Unibet Champion Hurdle, which Scott won with the brave little mare Golden Ace (GB) (Golden Horn {GB}).
“It was probably not the most handsome,” said Scott, after the two former winners of the race had fallen. First of all, Constitution Hill (GB) (Blue Brisil (Fr}) the fourth flight from home and, as a BraTherDaysahead (FR) (KapGarde {Fr}), struck the run and then quickly emptied when the statesman (FR) (Doctor Dino {Fr}) was crossed by the second year in the first year. The racing gods had other ideas.
The defending champion approached the last five lengths, with Paul Townend being deeper in the saddle to pursue his third victory of the day against Willie Mulllins, but suddenly he was gone, broke the landing and left the golden ace to climb the hill as undisputed as Burdett Road (GB) (Muhahril (GB})). Burderdaysahead was hindered when the statesman fought his feet.
Scott admitted to feeling “amazed” and continued: “It's bizarre, but it's fantastic. It's a horse race and everything can happen.”
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In fact, it can. And on a day on which the already heated debate about the hurdle of G1 Close Brothers Mares is only flamed, Golden Ace not only benefited from the breakdown of some of their competitors, but also from the decision of the prosperous Ricci and Mullins, Lustsiemouth (FR) (Great Preton (Fri})) to keep against their own gender run. The latter won properly for the third time at the festival, and this decision helped again, Ian Gosden of Golden Aces to choose the Champion Route for his mare, against the advice of his coach and jockey Lorcan Williams. That favors happiness.
“It's incredible. I thought we would fight Losssiemouth, so we thought we could try it too, ”said Gosden. “We had already beaten Burdett Road and Burderdaysahead before and it was and is still undefeated over two miles. It's good luck.
“Constitution Hill came down and I thought he would also bring her down, but she was getting to him. Then she was third and I thought: 'Well, that's the dream, isn't it?' “
The dream, for gosden and Scott, who at the festival with Golden Ace in a row in a row to be faced with the realm of the nearby. She is the first winner of her father Golden Horn, who rises quickly through the ranks of the national hunting sires. Now seven she was bred by the Meon Valley Stud of the wine field family in the apartment, which also bred the best national hunting father, who has been in Great Britain in the overdue Kayf Tara (GB) in recent years. Golden Horn, who followed Kayf Tara for the Overbury Stud, has now started the baton.
“We are lucky that we can give them time, and Mr. Gosden was extremely patient and was a great voter of a race,” added Scott with a toasty laugh. “My wife and family are all involved and Camilla does a lot of work at home and has the patience of a saint.”
He added: “Can you give me a pinch to make sure that this is not a dream?”
Since teenage jump prospects are now regularly changing the owners for the amount of eyes, the history of the odd three -year -old, who was picked up for 12,000 GNS and became a champion, is an urgently needed abundance to the industry and in fact for the Cheltenham Festival Lore. Apart from the drama of the race, this was a result that restores the dream of smaller, fighting owners and coaches in the country. A surprising but very welcome winner could not have been delivered to a more deserved team of connections.
Why the races of mares are vital
Five of the last ten running of the Champion Hurdle have now been won by four different mares. The fact that these horses are led to the top level owes a lot of the determined expansion and moderator of the racing program for National Hunt Fillies and mares, with the hurdle of the G1 Close Brothers Mares at his exhausting climax. Some will argue that this race only affects the champion hurdle. This is Tosh.
In its 98-year history, only seven mares won the Hurdle Champion. The fact that so many of them won in the Open Company in the past decade is because the races of the Mares at the festival are geared towards having a Cheltenham winner. You have to remember the days on which the National Hunt stolen was almost worthless in sales, and it does not need a lively imagination to guess the potential welfare concerns when a feeble demand for 50 percent of the foal -sorted request exists.
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The work of the respective breeders' associations and racing authorities must be welcomed on both sides of the Irish sea. With incentive programs and improved race options, you have contributed to the flood of distortion more towards Fillies than to turn against them. A breeder should no longer worship a private scream of despair when the born in the birth of a foal. At a time when the national hunting population decreases in Great Britain, the number of mares in the country has increased by 30 percent since 2012, to 1,526 in 2025.
The Stalking triumph from Losssiemouth (FR) will undoubtedly argue that they should have run a race later in the Champion hurdle. Perhaps she and she should perhaps be the eighth mare to win this race next year, but for the time being we greet the Imperious Beast that it is, and leave your owners prosperous and Susannah Ricci, who have invested a lot in jumps over the years, enjoy another moment in the sun. As we have seen so spectacular that day, nothing in this sport can ever be considered a matter of course.
Every human heart
Some people can live under the misunderstanding that horse racing is only about horses. The horses always have to come first, even those who come recently but are involved in the life of racial horses are stories that are permeated by all human emotions.
When the campaign started in Prestbury Park on Tuesday and William Munny (Irish) carried up the hill with the colors of Barry Connell, it was impossible to follow Kopek of the Bordes (FR), not almost two years to the day on which Marine National (Irish) triumph in the same colors in the same colors. At that time they were worn by Michael O'Sullivan, whose name was tied to posthumous tribute this year the hurdle of the top Novices.
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A race later provided Jango Baie (FR) (Tiger Groom (Fr}) a striking finishing burst, which was not completely unlike his grandson Arazi in Breeder 'Cup Juvenile more than three decades earlier to claim the G1-Markle-Chase at the end of the day. One on the board for Nicky Henderson and Nico de Joinville before he Disappointing disappointment of constitution Hill and a balm of even greater comfort for his owner Tony Barney.
“It means a lot to me when I bought the horse on the day my son was killed. His name was James Barney, the horse is Jango Baie, the same initials, ”he said.
“Phenomenal. Blessed. My son looks down at me, that's sure. Where he came from behind – from loss to win. Great.”
A connection with a horse that began in the depths of despair and at least for this day his owner has removed his owner about the anesthetic pain that must go hand in hand with the loss of a child.
After such tragedies, the display boards hardly played vital, but the origins of the winners were a pleasant balance. Of course, two for Mullins and another for Joseph O'Brien and JP McManus with Puturhandstogether (Irish) (Caravaggio) in what we will still call Fred Winter, which is now sponsored by Hallgarten and Novum Wines. Three for Ireland and despite the binary nature of the Prestbury Cup, the four victories for British coaches were actually two for England, one for Scotland and one for Wales, with Lucinda Russell and Rebecca Curtis their names with myretown (irer) (Dylan Thomas {ire}) and Haiti Coule (fr) (dylan {}}}) {{{}) and Haiti -Coule (dylan {{}) and haiti -coule (dylan {{{}) and hai -cooule (dylan {{}) and hai -cooule (dylan {{}) (. at least a real Great Britain in sport.
