Wow! WINDBENEATHMYWINGS new Champion Bumper favourite after Ascot demolition

Windbeneathmywings produced a spectacular front-running display to land the King Edward VII Ascot Membership Open National Hunt Flat Race at Ascot.
A dual bumper winner from three starts in Ireland for Pat Flynn, the four-year-old was stepping up to Listed class on his first start for David Pipe.
Sent straight to the lead by Jack Tudor, the son of Free Eagle was still full of running rounding the home turn, with a whole host of previous winners struggling to lay a glove on him in behind.
The further Windbeneathmywings (7-1) went the better he looked as he just went further and further clear in the home straight, with Tudor nudging him out to the line to score by a widening 14 lengths from Dan Skelton’s 9-4 favourite Moneygarrow.
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[@mrdangiles90]

Love it when a jockey's arms are motionless when the others behind are hard at it. Very impressive! nice to see Pipey with a potential good horse in the yard

[@dominicspiller481]

Potential superstar. That was the best bumper run since Aintree in April. Machine

[@aodhan2023]

😂😂

[@tommyrix7793]

People like you know nothing sounds like you work for the media.

[@kieranbehan9395]

That was very impressive performance by windbeneathmywings

[@Andy-y7y]

Very impressive winner , reminded me of Faugheen .

[@davidhennell9861]

A field full of winners and a Listed Bumper.If it comes up soft or soft in the description in the going this horse will be hard to beat.Very impressive indeed.

[@robertdelacy3434]

He dosent need it soft he's won on good ground

[@davidpearson6785]

What a performance that was

[@Lonbet]

Pure class that one very impressive

[@Corfecastle]

That was one hell of a performance. Wow wow wow. It’s going to take a special horse to beat this at Cheltenham. One for the note book.

[@MH0763]

He has already had 4 runs under rules he is disqualified from the champion bumper so probably aintree maybe punchestown

[@robertdelacy3434]

No he's not

[@mowglieneil]

Wow this is some sort of horse,im sure without problems this horse is going to be something

[@smallsmalls3889]

This is about the 4 fav for Cheltenham.

[@janetmarshall7171]

COULDN'T ASK FOR A BETTER NAME FOR THIS UPLIFTING WINNING HORSE!!

[@ChrisHewitt-qz2gx]

Impressive but difficult to asses the quality of the rest of the field regarding champion bumper prospects, but better interesting to watch come march.

[@hughbasham4389]

Impressive.

[@paulterry7672]

So reminds me of Make a stand

[@paulbrophy9702]

My thoughts also

[@thecockerel86]

Memories.

[@robertguildford]

Impressive, Pipey knows how to win the fesitival Bumper.

[@JPwhoknows]

Wowza

[@elizabethgalligan1805]

Good race😊👌🏻

[@philipcunningham9708]

Bloody ell😱😱😱

[@STEOKEO]

The Irish will have something that beats him. They always do. The British hype horses get smashed up every year now.

[@noblshtplz]

Looks like the winner was out for a gallop for lack of something better to do. Impressive indeed...🏇🏆

[@leebrooks2955]

WOWZER.....

[@martinsaye6869]

loves cut !

[@johnobrien8398]

Looks like a good one the next champion hurdler oooh

[@BitcoinMoney8]

He'll be out the back of the TV at Cheltenham

[@MartinTaylor-g3x]

Not sure prices for the champion bumper and not really fussed what price it is, I think we all forget Cue Card won the champion bumper at 40's........

[@johnnyboy6608]

He’s had 4 runs in bumpers already, can he even run at the festival?

[@mrdangiles90]

As long as the horse is aged 4-6 you can run in the champion bumper

[@johnnyboy6608]

@ ah they must have changed the rules again, the new rule at the start of the season was you couldn’t run in the champion bumper if you had ran in 4 bumpers beforehand.

[@CJ2727]

I don’t think they’ve changed the conditions so he can’t run

[@jondon3182]

​@johnnyboy6608 what a stupid rule that is lol why call it a champion bumper if they're limiting runs. Hopefully they've scrapped that yeah

[@CJ2727]

@@jondon3182 I think it should be limited myself to minimum 3 or 4 runs

[@kh7431]

he could have improved but this has to be suspect, as he has already been beaten in Ireland and there is the obvious conclusion that the form of this race wasnt that good ?

[@paulrichards6894]

put an amazing speed figure on his last irish bumper win......probably the best we have whether that's good enough..

[@Folk_var]

Change of trainer may have helped.

[@ournomadslife]

Wowzer 😂

[@andrewrose4643]

Where is @clown lewis with his verdict on this then

[@James-fc4nv]

David Pipe 😂

[@edwinbongog449]

Favourite to win the bumper hahaha what a joke

[@waynenew9823]

Here we go,the so called expert's making it fav for Cheltenham, I think Mullins and Elliot will have something to say about that 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@seanscanlon9067]

Perhaps but until then, this one has been made favourite based on this performance but there could even be British trained runners that dislodge it as favourite if putting in a decent performance between now and Cheltenham.

[@harveyfleming9572]

no starting stalls

[@seanscanlon9067]

It is not a Flat race per se where for that code of racing they use stalls, this is Jumps or National Hunt (NH) racing, but it is a Bumper or NH flat race which young and/or inexperienced Jumps horses often run in before later going over hurdles and/or fences. The Jumps or NH code of racing never use starting stalls.

[@bobhadland2554]

He only beat a load of 100 to 1 donkey's

[@aodhan2023]

He won't be in the top 6 at a festival. Irish form somewhat average

[@robertdelacy3434]

His irish form is top class

[@aodhan2023]

Which piece of form is top class? It is certainly not the 4 length beating by soon to be handicapper Jerry from Kerry

[@jondon3182]

Even if he could win a champion bumper, Pipe will ruin him. I wouldnt be taking a favourites price on that performance either. What a load of nonsense

[@niall3973]

Yawn. The bumper is the dullest, silliest, possibly most pointless race at the festival. Hardly any winner goes on to do anything worthy of note when actually jumping obstacles. No one should give a damn about this race beyond the bet they place on it.