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Cheltenham Tips - Champion Horses Have Recent Form!
With the big championship races (The Gold Cup, World Hurdle, Champion Hurdle and Queen Mother) you can rule out horses which didnt finish in the first three on their latest start. 31 of the last 32 winners of these races all ran in the last three on their most recent run.
Cheltenham Tips - Age of Championship Winners
Out of the last 32 Championship winners at the Cheltenham festival, 28 were aged between seven and nine. A great tip which will rule out a lot of runners. - cheltenham-betting.co.uk
This looks like KAUTO STAR's race unless the ground is really soft or he falls.
DENMAN looks the best of the rest and has a chance if the ground comes up soft. He would be the likely winner in most other years.
Kicking King out of Gold Gup
Kicking King failed to sparkle in a workout and misses the Gold Cup
by Tony O'Hehir
KICKING KING will miss the Totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup after failing to please trainer Tom Taaffe in a gallop on Wednesday morning.
The trainer now hopes the 2005 Gold Cup winner can return to action at Fairyhouse later this month or the Punchestown festival.
Taaffe said: "Kicking King won't be going to Cheltenham. He failed to sparkle as he should have done when he worked this morning and there is no point in sending him for the Gold Cup."
KickingKing has run twice this season since returning from an absence of over two years due to a leg injury.
He finished second to Nickname in the three-runner Normans Grove Chase at Gowran Park before finishing a disappointing third in the Red Mills Chase at the same track last month when a trapped nerve was reported to have affected his performance.
Owner Conor Clarkson said: "Unfortunately after a work-out this this morning Tom Taaffe wasn't happy, and neither was Barry Geraghty, with his work.
"We've therefore no option but to say he will not be running in the Gold Cup.
"Obviously there just something a little amiss at the moment," he told At The Races.
"His legs are fine but the quality would not be up to the standard of the Gold Cup.
"He's just not firing on all cylinders."
Clarkson insists Kicking King will not be retired after this setback and will instead be primed for the Punchestown Gold Cup in April - a race he won three years ago.
"This has nothing to do with his retirement, it is just the quality of his work," he added.
"His work was reasonable but Tom is an astute trainer and Barry is a top jockey.
"The quality of his work was just not up to the quality that he'd been producing in the last coupleof months.
"There may be a lingering, low-grade virus there and he'll have a nice little break now.
"If he shows sparkle in his work in the next couple of weeks we'd be delighted to go to Punchestown.
"The Punchestown Gold Cup is now the target."
Kicking King, also a winner of the King George VI Chase in 2004 and 2005, was as low as 20-1 to regain his Gold Cup crown on March 14. - channel4racing.com
Key Trends
No winner older than 10 for 39 years.
13 of the last 14 winners aged between 7 and 9.
8 of the last 10 winners were placed at the Festival before.
The last 53 horses to be beaten in the Gold Cup before were beaten again. - cheltenhamreview.net
CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP
TOTESPORT - Betting w/o KAUTO STAR, DENMAN, EXOTIC DANCER.
ANOTHER PROMISE 100 E/W @ 20/1 - 3 places.
atr - Ferdie is getting this one ready and will be backing it!!
As the race is likely to only have 6/7 runners as long as he gets round we should be in the money!!
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