richard-westwood Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 It's that lull before the storm of Cheltenham....but my friend said he's not managed to get the winner of the imperial cup in 9 years lol ....so has tasked me with breaking the hoo doo and try and fill the coffers before the fest Firstly ....we had to look at what's making it so hard ....looking at the race you just find the form horse ....lots of experience etc etc .....but nooooo.....if you look at previous winners of this race it always seems to be the hiding under a blanket ....probably hasn't shown anything or maybe won a lowly race ....in essence the usual winner improves 10lb on the day blitzing anything its done before so your looking for the proverbial unexposed superimprover So ....I tasked the computer to give small bonuses to horses that fitted the profiles of previous winners as well as having shown enough base form to be good enough to maybe win this if improving a bit and out of current 30 runners (only 22 will run ) it threw back the following Man o work Djelo Holetown hero Hardy de seuil Nickle back Paramount Winner may be on this list ...maybe not .....but Computer is saying these 6 are the nearest horses holding the required level of form and fitting the profile of previous winners I can't narrow down any further .....I've had 10pt on man o war at 15.0 ....purely because one of my notes I made said watch out for a irish horse coup ( They seem to aim at this )...and his price looked a bit crazy ....as long as he runs ... What I need is help trying to shorten this list ....do anyone have any of these horses on their trackers or notebooks as potential big improvers or big race potentials ????? yossa6133 and MCLARKE 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard-westwood Posted March 8, 2023 Author Share Posted March 8, 2023 (edited) From sporting life .... Edited March 8, 2023 by richard-westwood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard-westwood Posted March 9, 2023 Author Share Posted March 9, 2023 (edited) 15 hours ago, richard-westwood said: From sporting life .... Only man o work ( already backed 10pts 15.0) ....djelo and Hardy de seuil left so That makes it easy I'll back all 3 and hope lady luck lends a hand ...lots of dangers though Edit ..got 16.0 on other two Edited March 9, 2023 by richard-westwood LEE-GRAYS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budgie 65 Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 (edited) Hi Richard i have just rated the impprial cup It looks a difficult race Soaring star 95 3rd in a grade 1 Salsada 92 brilliant speed figure last race gr 2 punctuation 87 monviel 84 I like soaring star and see salsada as the big danger Edited March 9, 2023 by Budgie 65 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard-westwood Posted March 9, 2023 Author Share Posted March 9, 2023 21 minutes ago, Budgie 65 said: Hi Richard i have just rated the impwrial view. It looks a difficult race Soaring star 95 3rd in a grade 1 Salsada 92 brillian speed figure last race gr 2 punctuation 87 monviel 84 I like soaring star and see salsada as the big danger See ....this is exactly what I was on about above ....natural tendency is to back the highest form horses so it'll be interesting to just see how this one plays out ...downside is ground is heavy so that adds another factor Budgie 65 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budgie 65 Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 soft at the moment or when i rated but will look tommorow..anythimg wins if heavy richard-westwood 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedthewolf Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 On 3/8/2023 at 5:23 PM, richard-westwood said: It's that lull before the storm of Cheltenham....but my friend said he's not managed to get the winner of the imperial cup in 9 years lol ....so has tasked me with breaking the hoo doo and try and fill the coffers before the fest Firstly ....we had to look at what's making it so hard ....looking at the race you just find the form horse ....lots of experience etc etc .....but nooooo.....if you look at previous winners of this race it always seems to be the hiding under a blanket ....probably hasn't shown anything or maybe won a lowly race ....in essence the usual winner improves 10lb on the day blitzing anything its done before so your looking for the proverbial unexposed superimprover So ....I tasked the computer to give small bonuses to horses that fitted the profiles of previous winners as well as having shown enough base form to be good enough to maybe win this if improving a bit and out of current 30 runners (only 22 will run ) it threw back the following Man o work Djelo Holetown hero Hardy de seuil Nickle back Paramount Winner may be on this list ...maybe not .....but Computer is saying these 6 are the nearest horses holding the required level of form and fitting the profile of previous winners I can't narrow down any further .....I've had 10pt on man o war at 15.0 ....purely because one of my notes I made said watch out for a irish horse coup ( They seem to aim at this )...and his price looked a bit crazy ....as long as he runs ... What I need is help trying to shorten this list ....do anyone have any of these horses on their trackers or notebooks as potential big improvers or big race potentials ????? I really liked Djelo and followed after winning very easy at Exeter on stable debut but has been a big disapointment but could get involved if the ground gets reallly heavy. but does seem to be on a high mark. I really like Soaring Star but imho if it goes heavy it won;t suit the horse its entered for really Cheltenham next Friday were the ground will hopefully suit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard-westwood Posted March 9, 2023 Author Share Posted March 9, 2023 36 minutes ago, Tedthewolf said: I really liked Djelo and followed after winning very easy at Exeter on stable debut but has been a big disapointment but could get involved if the ground gets reallly heavy. but does seem to be on a high mark. I really like Soaring Star but imho if it goes heavy it won;t suit the horse its entered for really Cheltenham next Friday were the ground will hopefully suit. Itsza,shot in the dark ....but sporting life has picked hardy as their choice in race so fingers crossed ? ....venetias horses usually start firing around festival time so djelo could just come good on day ( like the profile ?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budgie 65 Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 (edited) playfull spirit 81 last time out winner on heavy 6/1 3rd lnickerbocker glorv 81 2nd in heavy last time 22/1 2nd And yes hopefully they pull soaring star out Edited March 11, 2023 by Budgie 65 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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