Agree with befair, had Galopin won a fourth Irish Gold Cup today that would have been an amazing achievement. The race isn’t merely a prep race for Cheltenham.
The comments earlier in the thread about his owners being greedy are not supported by the facts in my view. The horse has never had more than five races in the same season.
The reason he isn’t showing quite as good form now is nothing to do with him being overraced in the past. It’s because he is 10, and age is starting to catch up with him. He’s still achieving a very high level of form though, and I believe that’s because he has been looked after.