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The 2019 gold cup winner Elegant Escape.
The gold cup winning season begins at Sandown today .
After they see what the legendary champ elegant escape does to Terrefort today there will be few who doubt that Elegant Escape will be crowned champion come March.
Didn’t you say on the RSA thread that if EE didn’t win you would never post on this forum again? Either way you were way way OTT last year on EE.
RSA form looking strong, EE a game winner but not Gold Cup class to me-PP a worthy favourite.
Pure class from.the Special One.
Will come on a bundle for that first run.
Next we take the Hennessy gold cup under a penalty.
Then by that stage they will all be bowing at the feet if the 2019 gold cup winner in waiting
Agree Joliff, EE shy of Gold Cup class, hence why he is 40/1 with 18 others ahead in the market. We will have months of potato telling us he is going to win the Gold Cup regardless though.
World of difference today, too what he will face at Newbury or Cheltenham. He will not win jot if he puts in any jumps like at the last today. He did well to get up and win though, and looks a nice horse.
Elegant Escape improved a little today, Potatoe; needs to progress a hell of a lot more to be up to even a Gold Cup place… and even if proving progressive is highly unlikely to be fast enough unless it comes up very soft. Better to aim him at the Grand National. Taken the 49/1 for Aintree, but it’s not really a race the Tizzards target.
Road To Respect won really well last week, Jack… You and I the only ones with him in the 10 To Follow.
Doesn’t need to improve much further to be right up with Might Bite and Native River and has age on his side. Only fourth in the Gold Cup last year, but that was on unseasonable very soft ground. Travelled well for a long way but his best form is on a sounder surface. Trainer wasn’t quite in as good form then as when winning the Christmas Chase. Won at the Cheltenham Festival in 2017 (proven at course and time of year) and could be just the type given no more than good-soft. 16/1 is far too good to ignore. 
Value Is EverythingWish I had that price, Charlie! You deserve a
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Held off until the reappearance because I was concerned could go for the Gigginstown/Ryanair.
But now seems highly likely to go Gold Cup.Value Is EverythingTerrefort – training held back due to ground and main target is the Ladbrokes, so a win would have been most unexpected.
Lacey will have been thrilled with Thomas Patrick
Very nice price Charlie.
Yes Ginge, hopefully we have spotted the winner from very early on! He was my idea of the winner last year up until the ground went against him. Agree with your comments on him- i believe he’ll be hard to beat in all the Irish G1s between now + March, only turning 8 as well. While you could argue Might Bite wasn’t suited by the going either, at the price R2R is def the bet.
If the ground was to show up bad again, Native River would be tought to beat but i just can’t see him being a 2 time GC winner- one thing he does have on his side is he was a fresh horse all last year really, and you’d hope one big performance like that wouldn’t bottom him like it has to some before.There’s no doubt she’d have to step up but isn’t Shattered Love reasonably big at 33s+25s? Nice reappearance with ground and trip against her- she has course form, and jumps lovely. With the mares allowance, she could spring a surprise or two.
The other i’d love to see turn in to a GC contender is Al Boum Photo- however, he really would need to cut out the jumping errors to have any chance. Even then, he has a fair bit to make up on figs, but i think he’s massively talented.
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Hindsight is 20/20 so make the most of it!I’ve just bet RTR at 16s with Baron Alco boosting the Plate form yesterday. Think this horse can go all the way to the top, jumps like a stag and has a serious engine.
My main concern about RTR would be the jockey.
Flanagan is 1 from 80 in Britain and has a mediocre record in big races. I like the horse but a jockey’s course record is one of the biggest factors for me.
Doesn’t need to improve much further to be right up with Might Bite and Native River and has age on his side. Only fourth in the Gold Cup last year, but that was on unseasonable very soft ground. Travelled well for a long way but his best form is on a sounder surface. Trainer wasn’t quite in as good form then as when winning the Christmas Chase. Won at the Cheltenham Festival in 2017 (proven at course and time of year) and could be just the type given no more than good-soft. 16/1 is far too good to ignore. 
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