Jump season

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“Cobblers Dream given Cheltenham target…” read the Racing Post headline after the Lanzarote Hurdle.

Trainer Jane Williams wasn’t impressed and tweeted: “Headlines like this are ridiculous. The horse and connections have just won a major handicap with 20 runners worth 100k. Make the headline about that.”

It’s not just the Racing Post, the whole media are at it – the “Road To Cheltenham” seems to start just after they’ve weighed in after the Martin Pipe at the last one.

Never in the history of sport has one event within a sport dominated focus so completely.

Lingfield this Friday and Sunday provides an antidote to all that.

So what if it’s the “Heavy ground Festival.”

The Jumps season needs to start being about the Jumps season again.

I can’t wait and if anyone disagrees I’ll set the dogs on them.

[Garf79]

I am not even going to look at any horses for this until we get closer to the Friday the 18th of March. The weather is going to play a major factor in deciding the winners and the last few years we have had snow, heavy torrential rain and high winds around the festival date. So my advice is to wait until the weather man tells us the weather forecast and start picking your winners as close to the date as possible.

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21 hours ago, Garf79 said:

I am not even going to look at any horses for this until we get closer to the Friday the 18th of March. The weather is going to play a major factor in deciding the winners and the last few years we have had snow, heavy torrential rain and high winds around the festival date. So my advice is to wait until the weather man tells us the weather forecast and start picking your winners as close to the date as possible.

100% weather on most of animals games play a HUGE factor, but betting now is risky but a good payback when you win.