![]() ![]() It will provide many hours of frustration, torment, mental exhaustion, stimulation, entertainment, and, ultimately, redemption. Good Fences is a virtual book of over 100 puzzle shapes, adding up to over 400 individual challenges. But can you then completely surround a shape using the smallest possible number of copies? How about the largest possible number? And if you can do that, can you also build a fence around your fence, that is, a second level of surround? You'll discover that some of these challenges require persistence and ingenuity. ![]() Sound easy? Well, OK, sometimes we throw in a gimme to lull you into a false sense of security. The idea is simple: build a Good Fence by surrounding a shape with copies of itself. Bravemansgame heads next to the Kauto Star over 3m at Kempton over Christmas with the Festival Novices' Chase, over the same trip, his likely Festival race.Good Fences is a fiendishly difficult solitaire game that combines Sudoku-like logical deduction with geometric intuition and spatial reasoning. Speed might help him in terms of jumping. I’d imagine Bob Olinger will stay over the intermediate trip, unless he happens to get turned over along the way. Will the pair meet over fences? Probably not. That’s judging him against a really high standard – there was nothing wrong with him - but Bravemansgame is the better jumper. ![]() I didn’t think Bob Olinger, who I believe to be the better horse, as he showed in the Ballymore last season, is just quite as a natural. It’s all so natural for him and he loves jumping. There’s a certainty about Bravemansgame’s jumping and you have confidence watching him – and that’s the way Harry Cobden rides him. You expected him to, whereas with Bob Olinger in tight I was wondering whether the landing gear would be out. ![]() You never felt watching him that he was he not going to land. He was sure of what he was doing and at the fourth-last he showed his intelligence: Harry spots a stride but the horse says ‘No’ and dances on the take-off side. It was all flowing and natural up high in front and out through the air. It just didn’t feel as comfortable watching him, when he got in really tight to a fence, as it was when watching Bravemansgame at Haydock.Īll the way through, when Harry Cobden asked him, he was really brave. But when he had to get really close, at the last, he didn’t make much of a shape and I was thinking ‘Is he going to land’? He was fine when long, or spot-on, and I didn’t mind him pecking three out as that was downhill and at speed. ![]()
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