sir des champs just love him
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Sir Des Champs had the perfect preparation and still couldn’t beat Bobs Worth. Fail to see how he reverses the form.
Sir Des Champs prep may have been good but things conspired against him on the day for me. His regular pilot was injured and the man who took over rode him far more aggressively than he was ever ridden before, pressing for the lead with a circuit to go over a trip which was the furthest he’d ever tried. Himself and Long Run cut each others throats on my opinion setting the race up for Bobs Worth.
The ground went against him too. The soft going definitely placed more emphasis on stamina (which makes the ride he got all the more strange), and his stamina completely ran out on the run in. He was only a couple f lengths off Bobs Worth with half a furlong to run and then Bobs put another 5 lengths between them on the run to the line.
This is the way I see it: with 3 furlongs to go, Sir Des Champs was cantering all over Long Run and Bobs Worth was flat to the boards. If he had been ridden more patiently I think there’d have been very little between them and on good ground I think he’d have won well.
He was beaten by a better horse, a better horse who has also put First Lieutenant in his place every time they’ve met.
And Bobs was nowhere near flat to the boards, either. Just cajoled along, and almost brought down by Silviniaco Conti. Geraghty doesn’t panic, just nudges along on Bobs and a 6 length gap at the turn is 2 lengths when they come to 2 out.