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With the risk of Grey Dawning not running I’m happy to play Flooring Porter , the national is the aim but couldn’t touch Spillane and you can’t back a Wiliams horse so I’ll play Porter , yard now in form and he jumped so well last time , he’s the play
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
I think Grey Dawning leaves any chance (slim though it is) of a Gold Cup behind if he runs here – they said they would yank him if the ground turns heavy but even on very soft ground it will be just as attritional especially with Flooring Porter likely to gets his way out front.
GD’s Betfair form isn’t looking the strongest now either with Royal Pagille (2nd), Stellar Story (3rd) and Handstand (4th) all being well beaten next time out.
To me L’Homme Presse won’t get a better chance of winning this seaon, it was a bit of a strange pipe opener on his seasonal debut in that at times he looked like he was going to be well beaten but then stayed on under his top weight of 12st (giving 24lbs to the winner and third) after the last to get 2nd.
Yes the trainer’s form is worrying but then he ran well on that debut when the stable was equally out of form – he won this race last year on probably similar soft ground that he faces today (time was over 21s slow) and Flooring Porter if he uses his usual tactics should give him a good lead.
Spillane’s Tower is the dark one – just 3 mere runs ago he was finishing 2nd (albeit a long way behind) GDC in the Punchestown Gold Cup but the fact that they have stuck to hurdles so far this season (albeit his 3rd to El Fabiolo was more encouraging) isn’t a glowing recomendation especially given that Cheltenham is the course picked for his return to chasing. Best watched here.
Surely Skelton will look after Grey , if the Williams horse ran to form then he’s he could win however there isn’t a cloud over the stable its a tropical storm , can’t touch him , as for Spillane I couldn’t touch him after his 2 runs this year , I’ll be honest I smell a JP touch in a hcap with him at some point
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
I’ll try Spillane’s Tower, he didn’t really get his ground last year but I liked his last run over hurdles where he finished well. He’s a year younger than Grey Dawning too.
This should be L’Homme Presse’s Gold Cup and 5/1 is okay, but I can’t fancy the horse on stable form.
I had a saver on the forecast Grey Dawning to beat my selection Flooring Porter.Well done winners, but what a laughable Cotswold Chase. Told us nothing….. Apart from the fact that Grey Dawning will bypass Cheltenham.
Thanks. Wonder how much schooling over fences he has done, he looked shocked when faced with the first. A good ride though he needed the weight advantage. Very gallant effort from l’Homme Presse. Don’t think any of these will be winning the gold cup.
He won , that’s all you can ask , Flooring had a lovely schooling job , wonder if the stewards will say anything , I’m guessing nope
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
Interesting race but I am not sure that we have seen a Gold Cup winner there.
I think LHP (who was dossing for most of the first circuit with his ears pricked) could have gone a little faster earlier on (there were some almost 18s furlongs clocked) to make it more of a stamina test as Spillane’s Tower didn’t win by as far as he looked like he was going to when he cruised upsides.
I am not convinced that GD was actually going to be involved in the finish even before the mistake at the 2nd last and while the kick he got from the winner before the start didn’t seem to affect him it wouldn’t have been ideal.
Flooring Porter – odd that he was held up and he didn’t pull like he has when they have tried more restrained tactics in the past even with the slow early gallop. Not sure what to make of it as it is almost like they were there just to get a run into him.
Why does Skelton keep piping on about the Gold Cup. Grey Dawning has never been a Gold Cup horse and never will be. An absolute waste of a run it’ll be imo.
The horse won’t finish in the first 5 places.
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