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Ascot Gold Cup Bannaby - Some on here may remember I was raving about this horse for the Gold Cup last year, alas he picked up a small injury a couple of weeks before the race and didn't run and he's had a low key prepartion for the racet his year. Trained in Spain by top trainer Mauricio Delcher-Sanchez (record in Group 1's 3 from 4) he won the Group 1 Prix Du Cadran on Arc weekend in 2008, the only other Group 1 in Europe run over the Gold Cup distance of 2 1/2m. He then went on to finish a 2 length 4th to Yeats in a 2m Group 1 later that October. He was lightly raced in 2009 running over 14-16f in group and listed races having previously won a 10f conditions race in Madrid by 4 lengths. Generally speaking he runs on well in his races over too short a distance and was successful in his prep race over 1m 7f at Madrid last month - he's a class apart in Spain and contested a listed race at Saint-Cloud over 2m when finishing runner-up to Blek (good form ties in with Kite Wood - allowed an easy lead LTO and Kasbah Bliss). Bannaby beat Kasbah Bliss in the 2008 Cadran and the only reason he's as big as he is is because he's trained in Spain. IMO the further he goes the better he is.
Advice: Bannaby 3pts win, 1pt place @ 33/1 (Skybet/Boylesports)
I backed this in the Coronation Cup @ 9/1 where it never had a clear go in the run in at all being boxed in and then stuck up against the rail with little room, Saeed Bin Suroor seems to think the drop to 1m2f from 1m4f will suit it round Ascot, with the form of winning a Group 2 and a Group 1 over Age Of Aquarius plus its 3rd to Sea The Stars in the Arc de Triomphe got to think it has a chance in this.
Carneys Pint wrote:*FAO People After An Equiano Style Bet*
Ascot Gold Cup Bannaby - Some on here may remember I was raving about this horse for the Gold Cup last year, alas he picked up a small injury a couple of weeks before the race and didn't run and he's had a low key prepartion for the racet his year. Trained in Spain by top trainer Mauricio Delcher-Sanchez (record in Group 1's 3 from 4) he won the Group 1 Prix Du Cadran on Arc weekend in 2008, the only other Group 1 in Europe run over the Gold Cup distance of 2 1/2m. He then went on to finish a 2 length 4th to Yeats in a 2m Group 1 later that October. He was lightly raced in 2009 running over 14-16f in group and listed races having previously won a 10f conditions race in Madrid by 4 lengths. Generally speaking he runs on well in his races over too short a distance and was successful in his prep race over 1m 7f at Madrid last month - he's a class apart in Spain and contested a listed race at Saint-Cloud over 2m when finishing runner-up to Blek (good form ties in with Kite Wood - allowed an easy lead LTO and Kasbah Bliss). Bannaby beat Kasbah Bliss in the 2008 Cadran and the only reason he's as big as he is is because he's trained in Spain. IMO the further he goes the better he is.
Advice: Bannaby 3pts win, 1pt place @ 33/1 (Skybet/Boylesports)
I am waiting on cats +12 tonight for a nice little return..any cas fans think I have a chance?? I am not to confident was a coin flip kind of a choice...
EXILEDHULLADGATESHEAD wrote:I am waiting on cats +12 tonight for a nice little return..any cas fans think I have a chance?? I am not to confident was a coin flip kind of a choice...
I'd say not. Catalan players playing their 2nd game in 4days. Looking a poor team. Cas by 18.
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theres only one stan wall wrote:Not bothered because Wigan will win comfortably, Leeds pack is decimated.
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