Never miss an episode of the Final Furlong podcast. Subscribe now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And now, here's your host, Emmett Kennedy. You're very welcome to the show. We've got Adam Mills and Jamie Wren to break down what was. Fascinating weekends racing. There's got a lot to talk about. This year's fighting fifth was supposed to be the moment that champion returns. Instead, it was deja vu all over again

is for the third time in four starts, Constitution Hill fell on the floor at the second. The new line on the floor at that very same flight, two out, in the very same spot as well, which was really, really weird. And Golden Ace, for the second time in eight months, the mayor who keeps her head when all those around her are losing theirs and their ability to jump does exactly that and picks up her second grade one win, both of them, in two mile open company. In the aftermath, we've got a new champion hurdle picture that's just more chaotic than ever. Lossie Mouth is the favorite she didn't even run at the weekend. The new line drifts, but arguably enhanced his credentials, or did he? Constitution Hill's future is probably the biggest question mark in racing. Let's get stuck into it. Barry Garrity used the phrase indecision when talking about Constitution Hill, saying he's now just mentally unsured his hurdles. Do you think that's it? Or is it something else, Adam Mills? Indecision? I don't know. Is it indecision or ignorance? Because you kind of,

any horse can fall. So once, something else, Adam Mills? Indecision? I don't know. Is it indecision or ignorance? Because

you can have, what, a horse can, any horse can fall. So once, once it could fall, twice is a

coincidence, three times is a pat. The exact same mistake where the front legs don't get

high enough and he crashes into them. There's nothing to do with the padded hurdles. He's just,

he just doesn't pick his front legs up. And it's kind of, it's getting a bit boring now. We're talking about it all the time. But it's just, if he's been schooled, surely he spent the last six months being schooled endlessly to make sure he doesn't do this. And he does it the second hurdle when they're going, no gallop. I don't know. I really don't. And it's kind of, it's getting to the stage now where it's

sort of, it's becoming almost like, how many more times are we going to go through this whole charade?

He's schooling wonderfully and it's all brilliant and I can't wait to run him and then we actually

turn up on the track and he doesn't complete. And it's of it's getting now kind of it's now three years

in my book since he produced a top class performance and it's it's kind of his he's a nine-year-old

you know this talk of all we're going to run him on the flat what are you going to achieve

the horse this age on the flat at this stage. Come on, silly. I don't really

know where they go. I'd assume they just plow on to Kempton and have another go, but it's kind of that that's, that is what it is. What's a little bit more concerning is the new line, because I kind of thought, well, the Constitutional isn't back to his best. The new line should mop this up.

I don't think he wants to be in front.

I didn't like the way he nearly ran out down the back.

He may jump in errors and then he's come down too out.

He just looks like he wants to take a lead,

which is how they rode him last year.

They'll probably go back to the 60s.

But it is kind of, I personally would be of the opinion.

Constitutional's gone. He certainly will never carry my money because I don't think you can trust him anymore.

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