Although he didn’t win at the weekend one who impressed me was the Pipe’s Champers On Ice. Staying seems to be the name of the game re this one and you would imagine that his optimum trip would be some way, and I do mean some way, in advance of the 3 miles he galloped over in Saturday’s Listed heat.
That run was his 2nd run over the big ‘uns and you really do have to ponder where he will go next (has Options with a capital ‘O’) or latter in the term. The race that quickly sprung to mind was the NH Chase (currently 25’s). Or perhaps the Scottish National later in the campaign. Given who trains him though (and I’m talking about the man who really makes the decisions rather than young Dave) you would have to wonder if they’d go for the Grand National this year. Probably too early (or, you could say, too late as he’d, I believe, need 3 runs over fences prior to the publication of the weights next month) but you’d rule nothing out re those rogues.
