Hennessy Gold Cup

I've already posted my thoughts on this race. Ten days ago or so I wrote::

Diamond Harry is a horse I've mentioned a lot of here and he has to be backed for the Hennessy in a couple of weeks. He races off a mark in the early 150s and whilst I love Denman to bits Nick Willimas star animal is incredibly well handicapped even if he will be a few pounds out of the handicap. I can't see the tank giving him almost two stone. Pandorama is also a second season chaser with scope who must go close under 10st. There are a lot of horses in this race who are either too slow, or too past it to be contenders and for me it is possible to narrow it down to three or four live contenders - one of which is Denman of course.

Nothing has changed and I have also backed Pandorama, an animal who must be respected off 10st given how his form worked out last year with Weapon's Amnesty. Weird Al and if course Denman are my idea of the dangers but for me are unbackable at current prices. Indeed the latter makes the race from a punting point of view as he has an awful lot on his plate compared to when he won his other Hennessy's. There are a number of other animals in the race like Neptune Collonges, Taranis and Madison du Berlais who totally do not fit the profile of a live contender given that this race usually goes to a promising young chaser. And Burton Port looks very flattered by his run in the RSA.

Diamond Harry £60w @ 8/1 (won)

Pandorama £30w @ 9/1 (pu)


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