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16 March 2006
Beef Or Salmon The Main Course On
Day Four
On
the final day of the festival (St. Patrick's day), the Gold
Cup is the feature event.
This year's race looks
like wide-open affair with the Michael Hourigan-trained Beef
Or Salmon 4/1 favourite for the race with William
Hill. An
eight-time Grade 1 winner in Ireland, he'll be bidding to
make amends for three previous failures at winning national
hunt racing's Blue Riband.
The Irish ten year old is
for many an acquired dish, with many experts saying that the
horse just doesn't like Cheltenham. Hourigan's response to
this: "I don't think you can be confident going into a race
like the Gold Cup but it's a load of cobblers when people
suggest he doesn't like Cheltenham."
Best of the Brits could be
the still improving Monkerhostin (6/1 with William Hill), a
horse who has impressed this season, in winning the William
Hill Haldon Gold Cup at Exeter in November and in his
fast-finishing second to last years gold cup hero Kicking
King in the Stan James King George. One thing we can be sure
of this year is that we will have a new champion, with the
untimely demise of Best Mate and with reigning champion
Kicking King on the easy list.
The Gold Cup hasn't been
the best race in recent times for the green team, with just
three Irish-trained winners in the last 25 runnings (Kicking
King last season, Imperial Call in 1996 and Dawn Run 10
years before that). This year on St. Patrick's day, the
Irish will have four pronged attack on the Gold Cup, with
Beef or Salmon, War of Attrition, Hedgehunter and Forget the
Past, and William Hill go 2/1 for Ireland to sail back
across the Irish sea, with the treasured Tote Gold
Cup.
Elsewhere on day 4, Irish
eyes will be on Willie Mullin's Mister Hight in the Triumph
hurdle, the unbeaten four year old is 10/3 favourite with
William Hill to recoup some of Willie Mullins losses, after
all four of his horses finished unplaced in yesterday's
bumper.
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