With all the races that's been so far this season that is by far the biggest marker for the gold cup surely. Proper pace and Cue Card has gone and pissed it!
Always thought he had too many gears for Conti, who to me, has always been a bit of a boat winning soft ground slogs, usually against inferior horses or non stayers. Cue Card's been a horse with versatility, a stunning bumper winner and that's revenge for the King George robbery 2 years ago! Send him to the Gold Cup
After watching their 2 races today it seems amazing that Vautour is 5/2 for the King George and Cue Card 6s
Any merit to the idea Paddy Brennan's just a far better jockey than old boy Tizzard was, and simply gets a better tune out of CC???
That was a pleasing introduction and I couldn't believe he went off 5/2 to be fair, really sound jumping bar one down the home straight first time around and will only get better I would imagine. Holy god, Cue Card was sensational wasn't he? Surely will be keen on a tilt towards a Gold Cup now, breathtaking performance.
On a day we see our first snowfall, 3 horses with snow in their name run within an hour of each other. They were SNOWBALL, SNOWCLOUD and SNOWKING. Typically they all win at 3/1, 11/4 and 16/1.