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Equinties - Tingle Creek weekend
Gm Equinauts
We typed up this newsletter last night assuming Nicky Henderson’s horses were all running but in classic Hendo fashion, CONSTITUTION HILL, SHISHKIN and WILLMOUNT are all non-runners owed to the deep ground on the hurdles course.
We are furiously changing some text but apologies if some write up’s read as if Hendo’s monsters are still in it!
I’m told by owner Michael Buckley Constitution Hill will not run today @Sandownpark@itvracing 😢🏇
— Matt Chapman (@MCYeeehaaa)
8:00 AM • Dec 9, 2023
News on today's runners at Sandown
— Nicky Henderson (@sevenbarrows)
8:08 AM • Dec 9, 2023
What a damp squib of a Saturday!
Now, let’s dive in.
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HEADLINE ROUND UP
BROWN ADVISORY CLUES
Yesterday, STAY AWAY FAY was cut in from 8/1 for 11/2 for the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase due to his gritty success in the Grade 2 Esher Novices’ Chase at Sandown.
Talented and TOUGH! 👊
Stay Away Fay powers up the @Sandownpark hill to see off the strong-travelling Giovinco in the Grade 2 @Betfair Esher Novices' Chase, to make it 2-2 over fences.
He is one tough cookie!
@PFNicholls | @CobdenHarry
— Racing TV (@RacingTV)
2:38 PM • Dec 8, 2023
For the more immediate future, Paul Nicholls has highlighted the Grade 2 Reynoldstown Novices’ Chase at Ascot in February as a potential target, though a step out of novice company for the Grade 2 Cotswold Chase on Cheltenham Trials Day was also suggested.
Looking past these races, how does Paul Nicholls’ exciting novice shape up for something like Brown Advisory?
Nicholls doesn’t have an illustrious history with the Brown Advisory as he has only won one of the last 16 renewals, though DENMAN and STAR DE MOHAISON provided the boss of Ditcheat with a 2006-2007 double.
📆 March 14, 2007
📍@CheltenhamRaces🗣️ "And this is the moment all punters have been waiting for!"
The mighty Denman romped home by ten lengths in the RSA Chase. 😍
#CheltenhamFestival#IconicMoments
— Racing TV (@RacingTV)
7:31 AM • Mar 10, 2019
Much like DENMAN, the Albert Bartlett-winning six-year-old is a brilliant jumper, and, above all else, he has a mighty engine. Just look at yesterday’s contest against the smart GIOVINCO; he looked like a loser coming down the Sandown straight, though he jumped with accuracy and flew up the tough Sandown hill.
At this early stage, it looks as if GAELIC WARRIOR will stay at two-and-a-half miles for the Turners Novices’ Chase, as is the same STAY AWAY FAY’s stablemate HERMES ALLEN, and it looks as if CORBETTS CROSS might head down this route too.
The last time these two met was in the Albert Bartlett, a race that saw STAY AWAY FAY do it the hard way from the front. Who knows what would have happened if CORBETTS CROSS stayed within the track, but our guess is he ducked out when things got tough coming. Plus, it doesn’t exactly look like STAY AWAY FAY was going to be passed.
One may argue that because he isn’t an Irish horse he is still slightly underrated because, which is wrong because on the face of it, he looks like a proper horse.
Do you want one to keep an eye on at a price? AMERICAN MIKE might be kept to two-and-a-half miles this season, but what he did over fences at Navan in November was impressive and could be even better if stepped up to three miles.
That leap at the last 😍
American Mike is spring heeled at the last as he sees off the challenge from Fact To File to make a winning chase debut for a dominant @gelliott_racing team @NavanRacecourse this afternoon.
A treble on the afternoon for @jackkennedy15 💪
— Racing TV (@RacingTV)
3:17 PM • Nov 19, 2023
He has three Christmas entries over two, two-and-a-half, and three miles, so more information will be revealed in time.
Now, for this weeks action - LFG!
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