….i know this sounds very unlikely, but there is a horse entered in the Gold Cup above that might just be a plot in one of the handicap hurdles.
Any horse running in the Pertemps Final at the Festival can only run if it finishes in the first 5 in one of a series of qualifying races. Those races are funny because trainers don’t want to win them because their horses get a significant rise in the weights. The trick is to look at something given a sympathetic ride that finishes comfortably placed in the first 5,
Most of those races have now taken place, including all of the Irish qualifiers. Gordon Elliott farms the race and in the last of the qualifiers over there, a horse of his called Dunboyne was the one to take out of it, the 25-1 was quickly snaffled up in the days after the race.
Anyway, getting back to the qualified Gold Cup entrant, David Pipe ran Remastered in an early qualifier and it came 2nd. The thinking was, Remastered was simply getting warmed up for a campaign over fences, hence it’s subsequent runs & the Gold Cup entry. There is a theory, though, that completely the opposite is happening.
Remastered has now qualified for the Pertemps Final and maybe all these runs over the bigger obstacles are just a plot to keep his hurdle handicap mark down. Pipe is that type of trainer. A couple of firms are suspicious of this too & only go 16-1 but Bet365 offer a whopping 40-1.
It has to be worth a very small interest at that price & Bet365 offer cash out if my theory is clearly wrong & the trainer says it’s being aimed elsewhere.