He will start off over fences and the way he gallops and jumps I’d imagine he will be going the shortest trip because he looks like an Arkle horse.īut there’s plenty of stamina in his pedigree and if he has to go out in trip that’d be no trouble to him. He was in particularly good shape on the gallop this morning, I thought. Some things just didn’t go right for him during the season but I’m very happy with him coming back this season. He probably didn’t do everything I thought he would do last year. We went down the two-mile route last season but he’s another horse I’m looking at aiming at the Ryanair, that middle distance, I think, and maybe a longer distance.Īt the moment, that’s the way my eye is set. He’s improved hugely in the last three weeks.Ī month ago, I didn’t think I’d have him ready until Christmas, but I see a huge amount of improvement in him. The ground was quite heavy after all the rain we’ve had – we had an inch of rain here on Tuesday. I liked the way he moved around the gallop this morning. He’s good around Cheltenham over that Ryanair trip and I think that’s where I’d like to keep him. He won the Ladbrokes Gold Cup at Punchestown, and people were maybe talking about the Cheltenham Gold Cup, but I think the Gold Cup trip might be a little too long for him. I think he’s ready for that, and hopefully back for a Ryanair Chase again, if we can. He’ll probably start off in the Clonmel Oil Chase.
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