Is Smad Place a serious Cheltenham Gold Cup contender?

Published: Tue, 02/02/16

A bit of a weekend off from the Mullins bandwagon and it was the horses on this side of the Irish Sea that were making the biggest waves in the Cheltenham Festival ante-post markets.


Yanworth, Barters Hill and Thistlecrack dominated their respective races and consolidated their positions as serious festival players.


The Gold Cup market also saw a couple of price-shifts (positive & negative) and that race is the major focus in this weeks 'What we learned from the weekend' post...

In today's post I look at ...

1. Is Smad Place really a Gold Cup player?

2. Are Djakadam's Gold Cup chances now FUBAR? (he has a horrible 1/103 stat to overcome if going straight to Cheltenham)

3. Who on earth can stop Thistlecrack?!


All of the above served with the usual hefty splash of trends, stats and opinions in today's...

 

Ben (NTF)
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