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Don’t know if bachasson will go here but PP more in tune at 20/1 than the rest at 33s. This is a tough little horse.
Don’t think it was a weak race at Punchestown. Killultagh Vic would have been favourite for the JLT but for his injury. Thistlecrack would have beaten him all ends up but for terrible luck in running getting block in on the rail coming on to finishing straight. The holes you pick are small and some even filled in now sice Reve De Sivola’s recent run. Saphir De Rheu may be the fly in the ointment but his career has been more about disappointing people rather than surprising them.
Last time I went round Cheltenham I p*ssed all over the opposition on an extended 3m, including beating the recently impressive Theatre guide by 36L. I did the same thing to the Henessy field at the end of November with another front running display. In between I badly co*ked up the King George finishing 4th with a change in tactics.
I am at least double the price of the 5 in the beating ahead of me. Of these , 1 is below me on official ratings, one is off the same mark but failed to make it round C&D recently and has a question mark due to an injury sustained in the same, of those rated above me, one has failed to win in two attempts in Cheltenham falling around here once and recnetly in the KG, the other 2 has a question mark over their ability to stay extended 3ms.
And having said all that i’m still not convinced to back Smad Place but on known form 12-1 will look ridiculous if he manages to pull it off or is even in the first 3.
Felix Yonger at 8/1 w/o UDS is also looks overpriced. He will have to beat ex champs that are trying to bridge 2 and 3 year gaps to winning (SDG and SS) or whose prep has been disastrous (DB). He has a lot to find on OR but this horse is reaching his peak in his 10th year…there looks to be a big race in him.
Yorkhills tolworth hurdle win makes him look very overpriced for the supreme at 12/1 or 8/1 NRNB.
One other – rated as high as 104 on the flat. Not out of the first 3 in last 11 starts (excluding 1 UR) with Parlour Games, Alpha des Obeaux, FAugheen and Identity thief all looking at his arse in 2015? Nichols Canyon out to 11/2 for poor showing in a swamp…and the 2 in front of him no longer running?
