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Equinties - Tingle Creek Saturday
BGP Capital
December 06, 2025
Gm Equinauts
It cannot be overstated how much of an important day this is in the jumps racing calendar. The road from the leafy Esher in Surrey most certainly leads to Cheltenham and some brilliant, brilliant horses have travelled that path:
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Before we dive in, we need to give a big shout out to BREWIN’UPASTORM who makes his reappearance in Aintree’s last race. What a legend he is! Get home safely boy, it’s good to see you back!
Now…Let’s dive in!
HEADLINE ROUNDUP
TANK!
Relentless, remorseless… the real deal. His name is NO DRAMA THIS END.
We shan’t compare NO DRAMA THIS END to DENMAN like his trainer big Paul has been doing, because he’s his own man, but after watching him yesterday, you can defo call him Tank II and it’s defo time to get excited.
So, let’s try analyse it. Firstly, he was actually a bit of a monkey in the parade ring - we didn’t know he needed two handlers!
This didn’t seem to affect him on the track however, and it looked fairly simple from the get go. His slick hurdling it was impressed us most. Yeh, he was in second, maybe third gear the whole way round and finished the race on the bridle, but boy was he so so technically brilliant over the obstacles.
WHY CAN’T CONSTITUTION HILL JUMPS LIKE THAT!
Back to the new Tank. If there are negatives to look at (stick with us), he got through the top of the fifth, Cobden looked to be squeezing away for a little bit in the final circuit, and he got low into the saddle for a few strides at the top of the straight. He is a relentless galloper though, and one would imagine that he is going to be epic over three miles in time. Things will go a little slower for him, and you’d hope that means Cobden doesn’t have to cajole him through it. After all that, when he pinged the second-last, he found another gear from nowhere, and that was probably the most impressive thing about the race.
He looks good, and he looks like one who could win at Cheltenham for Nicholls. He’s the typical ‘whatever he does over hurdles’ type, and Nicholls might even miss the Challow (which is his MO) after this run today.
It’ll be interesting to see what Cheltenham race they go to, because he should end up there. He is a horse who likes Prestbury Park, and he can handle the 2m5f of a Turners, but three miles would surely see him at his best. We imagine he is too good for the Bartlett, and the race does have a habit of ruining horses, but the Turners is usually a classy race who can have a mix of stayers and speedsters taking each other one. Just take last year’s race – THE NEW LION is a Champion Hurdle horse, and FINAL DEMAND is fav for the Brown Advisory. For this reason, he is not a Turners certainty just yet. He’s probably further away from being a certainty than some people on Racing X would have you believe, and without trying to downplay the horse too much, he hasn’t beaten too much established form bar HEADS UP (Champion Bumper runner-up) and THE BLUE ROOM (one Olly Murphy likes plenty).
That being said, he is hopefully the proper horse that Paul Nicholls and all in Ditcheat have been dying for. We truly hope this is the case.
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