🔵🟣 David McCarthy confirmed yesterday that Kopek Des Bordes has no injury at present so looks to be on track for an Irish Arkle battle with Romeo Coolio; should be a cracker. Some very interesting prices knocking around though 🤔
Seen a lot on here this week about people having a poor experience at Cheltenham. I thought it was brilliant when I went on Wednesday. No queue for the toilets, no queue for food, not overcrowded. I understand it’s a little costly but let’s not forget it’s once a year. Not sure what all the noise is about.
⚫️⚪️ I might be eating my words tomorrow when the decision is made, but I’m quite confident, with the drying ground, that anyone with an Arkle slip for Romeo Coolio can tear it up.
🤞🏼 Praying that the @KtdaRacing team give the Brown Advisory a go with Romeo Coolio.
It’s understandable that they’re hesitant to step him up to three miles with his long-term aspirations in mind but he’d have a miles better chance than in the Arkle.
⚫️⚪️ Gordon Elliot on Romeo Coolio: “For me, two miles would be a worry round Cheltenham. He could just get took off his feet early”. The KTDA team have to be considering the Brown Advisory surely. What do we think?
🔵🟣 How concerned are we about Kopek Des Bordes only having one chase start prior to Cheltenham? If he’s at his best surely he wins the Arkle, and will probably end up favourite on the day, but let’s hope it is the Supreme winner that turns up.
🟡⚫️ As classy as Lulamba is, I can’t help but worry about his out and out speed and he wasn’t particularly fluent in the Game Spirit either. Saying that, he got the job done when things weren’t going his way and you’ll need that in an Arkle.
🟢🟡 Majborough will take some beating in the Champion Chase. His jumping previously might be a slight concern but the cheek pieces seemed to bring him back to life and if he jumps as well as he did the last day, it might not even be close.
🟡🔵 Willie Mullins doesn’t think that Doctor Steinberg would stay three miles around Cheltenham given how keen he is but is open to the idea of Paul Townend riding him differently to settle him. Could they be considering the Turners?