2011 Betfair Chase

Ruby Walsh and Kauto Star win the Betfair Chase in a thrilling race at Haydock Park

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• Ruby Walsh
• Kauto Star
• Betfair Chase
• Haydock Park
• Paul Nicholls

[999LDS]

Racing UK are a bunch of tossers. I wont subscribe to their channel becos the commentary's of races are crap..... as this commentary was . When the chanel 4 race is put on youtube they claim copyright .

Its obvious they dont want us to hear the race by channel 4. Wankers .

[lazerus121]

the cheltenham hill will not cause kauto any problems if hes there fit and ready to go, long run needs to learn to jump

[frconvey]

@vixitrixalina i wud say kauto will tuck in second or third in the gold cup midnight chase should lead then take it up with about 6 or 7 to jump and try and burn them off looking foward to seeing long run do what he does best and smash through every fence on friday at newbury he will get away with it friday but he wont at cheltenham CUM ON RUBY+KAUTO 3 GOLD CUPS !

[vixitrixalina]

@frconvey also i wonder if they'll change his running style again. i think putting him up front would have freshened him up, but like you say he idle's a bit in front and i think he'd prefer to chase someone round. then again, when up front he can dictate his own pace and Ruby is genius at getting that right on him. personally i reckon the first half of the race he should be upfront setting his pace, then he should drop back a little, take a breather before fighting off the others at the finish.

[vixitrixalina]

@frconvey true, he has a fighting heart and i reckon eyeballing another contender, namely Long Run, would give him that extra spurt. he's a gritty old boy for sure! Kauto definitely relies these days on his high cruising speed and jumping, he runs the others into the ground but he has lost spectacular his turn of foot i think.

like you say, there's been plenty of time for him to rest and look forward to the Gold Cup :D fresh as a daisy he needs to be. only about a month to go - so excited!

[liverpool5917]

@frconvey Also there was only 5 weeks between Betfair and KG, not much time for an 11 year old, between KG and gold cup Kauto will be completely fresh :D

[frconvey]

@vixitrixalina was he getting tired in the king george though i mean he looked finished going to the last here and when long run came to him he ran away from him he was ideling in front here so im just thinking if long run got to him n the king george wud he have found more i mean kauto has jumped better and beaten long run twice what does he have to do to convice people he can win a 3rd gold cup

[vixitrixalina]

dear god i was brought to tears again by the end of this race.... "the old king" <3

[vixitrixalina]

@grinchy01 I dont know. I'm not going to put money on anything in the Gold Cup, I'm just going to watch the race and (hopeflly) enjoy it.

I want Kauto Star to win, it would make my year and silence all the doubters but I just don't know if he's still got it in him. He won this easy enough, he ran the King George superbly until he just got tired after the last and Long Run was closing. The extra 1/4 mile wont do Kauto any favours, but I cross my fingers that he'll do it just one more time...

[grinchy01]

is kauto star a good bet for gold cup??

[feelinghappy89]

@cmcgrath10 I'm completely agree with you, it's to racing's detriment that the Channel 4 versions aren't shown. Say what you like about the programme, but the races themselves are far superior than RUK versions in terms of commentary, emotion (mostly Holt), camera angles and reaction of connections. If RUK owns the rights to the Channel 4 footage then I think they are really missing a trick not uploading it officially. Otherwise they should leave user videos alone