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If Sir Gino where to lack fitness and back from injury I’ll also go Golden Ace
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Golden Ace for me. The head says she’s being too easily overlooked by the ‘experts’ and I sense she is improving. And the heart says she owes me nothing at this stage after the Champion and Fighting Fifth wins.
I wouldn’t be too worried if she ran well and got beaten here, to my eye Cheltenham is her course, and my main wager is another win there in March.
Realistically her best chance is a place in March , it’ll be interesting to see how she matches up against Sir Gino , maybe a marker of how he is after his year off
I think they’ll be as easy as they can on him , it’s the hill question , if he comes off the snaff what’s there
I suppose Sir Gino will win this easily if he is back to his old level. Rubaud always seems to run his race at Kempton and maybe can get second.
Rubaud 8/1 (without Sir Gino)
Very classy performance. It also rules out Constitution Hill to make a CH bid in March.
Did what he needed to do and that to me tells you all you need to know about where Golden Ace (who had general and race fitness on her side) stacks up…she needs the principles to fall or underperformed in order to win.
With State Man out, they need to campaign him purely as a Champion Hurdle contender and nothing else so I don’t want to hear any more nonsense about him still having the options to go novice chasing as potentially he will be the owners number one Champion Hurdle horse even if State Man returns at the same level he was at before the injury.
Never in any doubt. Champion Hurdle looks a must.
As for Golden Ace … false champion.
As for Golden Ace … false champion.
Her OR of 152 is spot on. Beating Anzadam and Nemean Lion by almost two lengths is EXACTLY how good she is.
The connections always get angry when she’s called lucky. That’s exactly what she is though. She’s not even near as good as an Epatante and is extremely fortunate to have won a Champion Hurdle and Fighting Fifth.
On sheer ability, she’s only a high level grade 2 performer.
He won , that’s the main thing , if State Man had stood up he would have destroyed Golden Ace so I’d say he still has to improve to win , let’s see what Lossiemouth and the New Lion do
I was impressed by Sir Gino because he was very fresh after a long layoff and ran away with Nico a bit, yet still had plenty in the tank at the business end. He’s entitled to come forward from it.
The New Lion is one to take on which will also appeal to a lot of Skelton’s horses come spring.
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