Tag: Nico De Boinville
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A Constitutional Conundrum
The prolific racing blogger Stephen Power (@racingblogger) posted a very simple question in the immediate aftermath of the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle: “If you owned Constitution Hill, what would you do now?”? First, the back story. From the first time Michael Buckley’s animal was seen on a course, he was seen as one of…
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Seismic Cheltenham shakeup as Hill’s Constitution questioned?
Cheltenham betting markets could potentially be tossed into turmoil after it emerged that Constitution Hill worked poorly at Kempton this morning. While there’s no such thing as a certainty in racing, Nicky Henderson’s stable star looked primed to be the closest to the phenomenon there might ever be in the Champion Hurdle. However, the bombshell…
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The foreseen, the unexpected and the downright emotional
Less than 24 hours before the commencement of this year’s Cheltenham Festival, this corner had no problem admitting that, in some ways, not a sh** was given about the action at Prestbury Park. Mitigating such misgivings, though, was the hope that the sound of the Cheltenham roar at the start of the first race would…
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There’s always something to make you think twice
Willie Mullins recently ran a horse in a bumper owned by the Curb Your Enthusiasm Syndicate. Whether the steed won or not cannot be recalled, but is not relevant to the remainder of what you will read hereafter. Now read on… When I got into farming in my own right nearly a decade ago, one…