Equinties - Charlie Hall Saturday

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6 UK and Irish race meetings, England face the West Indies in the cricket, the All Blacks will be dancing the haka at Twickenham and then CITY OF TROY runs in the big one at Del Mar tonight.

The All Blacks will be looking to make a BIG statement after this tweet last week:

THIS IS WHAT SATURDAYS ARE MADE FOR.

Let’s dive in.

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BRIGHTERDAYSAHEAD got the job done yesterday. Racing Twitter was full of praise for her performance in the Bottlegreen Hurdle – a few of the tweets would have naturally been pre-written – but what do we think of the performance?

Let’s start with her jumping.

If you watch the replay from the second last onwards, you’d be forgiven for thinking she is a poor jumper, but that isn’t necessarily the case.

As we said when talking about the decision to keep her to hurdles last week, she is a natural jumper of a hurdle, and yesterday displayed that.

Go watch the whole replay back and you’ll see what we mean. She takes those flights as if she is just striding over them, whereas KING OF KINGSFIELD (who will go novice chasing) and DADDY LONG LEGS had to be stoked into a few of them.

She’s a sexy jumper until she’s not, which was demonstrated at the last.

As for her engine, it’s certainly there.

She made all against a race-fit rival over probably an inferior distance, and she maintained her gallop even when Sam Ewing got low in the saddle earlier than a few of her opponents.

She’ll come on for the run massively and will probably prefer a pace to aim at rather than making all. So, in this circumstance, we do agree with Racing X.

However, quotes for the Champion Hurdle? No.

She was beaten at Cheltenham because it turned into a sprint, and surely Gordo will send her to the Mares if LOSSIEMOUTH goes to the Champion?

Anyway, nice performance.

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