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Tuesday 12 March 2024 6:46 pm
By:
Bill Esdaile
Bill Esdaile is Metropolis A.M. racing editor and managing director of Square in the Air.
IF THE talk about of the Cheltenham Competition preview circuit is to be believed then Reality To File is one the bankers of the complete four days in the Brown Advisory Newbies’ Trail (2.10pm).
2nd in remaining year’s Champion Bumper, Willie Mullins skipped a hurdle campaign with the seven-year-extinct, and after a disappointing debut over the larger obstacles, he has regarded in reality appropriate on his next two starts at Leopardstown.
He jumped fancy a stag in a duel with Gaelic Warrior remaining time and may perhaps wisely be an actual pressure over fences in the years to return.
The sizable undertaking I have with him is that he does examine fancy a horse with a great deal of speed and loads think he must be running in Thursday’s Turners as a result.
He may perhaps appropriate have too noteworthy class for them as many of the Mullins brigade have a tendency to enact, but at a very quick stamp and on ground that may perhaps wisely be very laborious work, I’m inclined to take him on.
If the rain continues to tumble, the ground is going to be verging on bottomless and stamina is going to be a must and that certainly brings STAY AWAY FAY into it.
He’s perchance doesn’t have the sexiest of profiles, but he is the reigning Albert Bartlett winner, has regarded a pure over fences, and most importantly for today, has bucketloads of stamina.
He tried his hand in start firm remaining time in the Cotswold Trail and modified into once removed from disgraced when finishing third to Capodanno.
There weren’t many going higher than him turning in and perchance expertise appropriate bought the higher of him, but connections would absolutely had been extra than happy with the speed and it would must have assign him up perfectly for this contest.
I have a feeling that can have brought him ahead massively mentally as wisely as physically and he may perhaps appropriate grind this one out at 10/3 with Grosvenor Sport.
Paul Nicholls has continually acknowledged this modified into once his Cheltenham target and, as each person knows, the Champion Trainer is rarely ever immoral when he targets one in every of his horses at a sizable pot.
I do know his jockey Harry Cobden believes Quit Away Fay is his ideally suited likelihood of a winner this week and I will explore exactly why he thinks that.
Of the others, Henry de Bromhead’s Monty’s Superstar definitely has a gamble along with his trainer talking him up in the weeks leading up to the coast.
He modified into once spectacular at Punchestown remaining time and is entitled to return on again for that, but he is facing appropriate Grade One horses here and he sunk with out a effect in remaining year’s Albert Bartlett behind Quit Away Fay.
The other one I wouldn’t entirely rule out is Lucinda Russell’s Giovinco.
A broad step up is required to win this, but he’s a horse the Russell yard think a host of and don’t neglect he gave Quit Away Fay a appropriate coast at Sandown in early December.
There aren’t many higher trainers with long distance chasers than Russell, so I may perhaps explore her charge running wisely, but I’m very noteworthy in the Quit Away Fay camp.
Prerequisites shall be ideally suited for him, and I fancy him to wait on it up to the favourite.
POINTERS
Quit Away Fay 2.10pm Cheltenham