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By Stuart Riley
Saturday’s action at Sandown was different for different people. For Nicky Henderson it was disappointment as well as frustration, but for Harry Skelton it was the pinnacle of his cycling career as he landed consecutively in Grade 1 at Allmankind in Henry VIII Novices’ Chase and Politologue in a Tingle without Altior. Stream.
Going into the big race, the question was how diminished it would be as a competition without the ten-time Grade 1 winner, but such was the performance the Political Scientist under Skelton gave that the pilot summed it up: “It certainly did the job a little more easy, but it would have needed a good horse to beat him today. “
That would be.
No regrets: Nicky Henderson defends Altior’s withdrawal and debates Thursday
Nicholls has an exceptional record in this particular Grade 1 and appears to be able to deepen the well within his horses like few others, and the soon-to-be-ten-year-old who was adding a second Tingle Creek to his Champion Chase has already been at five festivals and could now head straight for another with his coach enjoying a possible rematch with the absent Altior.
“We were looking forward to facing Altior,” the coach, now an 11-time Tingle Creek winner, said in a typically combative manner. “The last time they met in Champion Chase two years ago there was a length and three quarters between them and we think we have this much better horse so it would have been an interesting race.
“The only option I would give him now, before Cheltenham, would be Clarence House in Ascot in January, depending on how he comes out of this. So we’re going straight to Cheltenham, or to Clarence House and then to Cheltenham.
“He’s in the shape of his life and that could be a great opportunity, he’s not getting any younger, he’s a Grade 1 and there’s a good gap with Cheltenham. He’s a real one, he stays two miles, he gallops and keeps jumping. , That is what it is “.
What his rider is, is simply a very good rider. He made his first race in February 2006. In the 2012-13 season he registered only eight winners. It took him until last year to register his first success at the highest level. To say that his career has been slow is an understatement, but here he lit up. He came to Sandown with three Grade 1 victories to his name and left with five.
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Skelton’s joy was evident. He kept punching the air and pointing at the crowd 100 meters after the line. “It means a lot,” he said. “I rode eight winners a season and I thought the world was going to end. It’s a difficult game, Paul has always told me to be patient and the afternoon I’ve had now, every difficulty has been worth it.
“I spent a lot of time at Paul’s, we learned the game from Paul, and today I came here and rode a Grade 1 winner for my brother. [Dan] and one for Paul. Everything I have put into my career has been worth it for this and I am very lucky to be in the position that I am in now, so you have to enjoy it. “
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Not that his rivals were not warned of what he was going to do. About 35 minutes earlier he had jumped, done everything, attacked the railroad fences and found a lot in Allmankind, and barely bothered to rinse the Surrey mud before repeating.
It’s all very well to know what’s going to happen, but it’s another thing entirely to try to stop the best horse in the race by executing such dominating tactics and Harry Cobden couldn’t get close to Greaneteen the second time than he did aboard Hitman. despite the advance warning.
Full Tingle Creek Result and Replay of the Race
Such was the dashing Gray’s dominance over all four of his rivals that he was downgraded to 9-1 at the best price (Betfred and bet365) to retain his Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase crown in March. With Nicholls working his magic and Skelton pulling the strings, it would be foolish to dismiss them.
Saturday reports:
Santini and Native River foiled in Many Clouds Chase by Stranger Lake View Lad
Allmankind performs a show jumping as four-year-olds dominate Henry VIII
‘He’s a star’: Vieux Lion Rouge gets Becher’s second win in race five
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FIRST POST 2:38 PM, DECEMBER 5, 2020
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