Our podcast team, including Ben Linfoot and Matt Brocklebank, share their early thoughts on the Nyetimber December Gold Cup at Cheltenham.
Ed Chamberlin
“The Paddy Power Gold Cup form is up at the head of the market and history shows it should be even though it’s a different track and a different trip. It does bare out well.
“It’s very, very tricky. I could make a case for all four of the first five in the Paddy Power. The winner, Il Ridoto, won very easily that day really, the second Ga Law is absolutely rock solid. I remember the interview with Dan Skelton before hand and he said he didn’t know a great deal about Madara and didn’t know what to expect. I think they’ll have been absolutely thrilled and know a lot more now. I think he’ll be ridden differently and he’s a major player then you’ve got Fugitifwho this would have been his target. He didn’t look particularly fit …