Quote Originally Posted by gwru View Post
If you saw the race Ar Mad his jockey trainers son showed jockeys can lose races. He set off like a scolded cat. Over the open ditch in the back straight he set off to soon, just cleared it. Then jumped next bad. Got back into the race at the end. I think that jump at the open ditch cost him the race. If I thought he had got beat easy I would have said so.
Yeah I watched the race. He did go off too quick, but his jumping was poor at a few fences too. I still think the quality of Un De Sceaux and Sire De Grugy told though.