Equinties - monster in the pipeline

Gm Equinauts

The world of National Hunt racing witnessed something yesterday which would have made people feel, you know, different to normal.

Excited, speechless, dumbfounded, confused (and if you’re Irish, maybe even worried), these are a few but not all the emotions that would have been stirred by one different to normal horse yesterday.

It was a different to normal day for racing fans and it was a different to normal day for David Pipe too.

Let’s dive in.

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David Pipe already had a few to get excited about - JURANCON looked very good at Chepstow earlier this season, proving a horse on the up, especially when he see’s fences for the first time and KING TURGEON, a brilliant jumping grey who will no doubt target the National,

but yesterday it seems Pipe unleashed something from a different planet:

Pipe’s new Irish recruit WINDBENEATHMYWINGS absolutely obliterated a full field of winners yesterday making them look like they were made of concrete.

We don’t often say this, but the manner in which he won really was breath-taking with perhaps only CONSTITUTION HILL’s debut at Sandown a recent performance comparable in our minds.

His devastating dismantling of such a talented field not only left us genuinely speechless, but kicked our brains into overdrive to ask questions we immediately want the answers to.

What the hell did we just see…is this a fluke or is he really a monster, and if he is a monster, how the hell did David Pipe take him from Ireland?

On paper, the bumper was ridiculously hot. Nearly every runner had a 1 in the form book, their pages littered with strong family lines. It was so competitive, the market was rock steady all day offering near no clue as to what to expect. Even our pedigree analysis couldn’t land on just one.

It seems no one, even the market expected that performance yesterday and we really believe the yard who train him didn’t wither because he didn’t even go off favourite (Pipe’s yard love a good punt).

His performance yesterday was much improved from his Irish exploits to date, as although a twice winner, he was beaten in a Ballinrobe bumper three starts ago with each of his Irish bumper runs proving questionable form.

Pipe’s clearly trained him to a new standard and he’s delivered a run which allows trainer, owners and punters to dream.

We won’t have the questions to the answers we until he runs in his next race, which at this point, has to be the Champion bumper, so until then, we have to take the performance at face value and start to get excited about the potential of having another one of those horses which makes people go racing so they can say ‘I saw WINDBENEATHMYWINGS’.

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