Footpad

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Footpad now 8/10 on Yielding to Soft or softer compared to 1/9 on Good to Soft or quicker.
 
Paddy Power go 8/1 from 16/1 about Footpad for the Ryanair Chase. They go 12/1 from 33/1 on Footpad for the King George. For the Gold Cup then it’s 33/1 from 50s Footpad.
 
King George was definitely the first race that sprang to mind for me.
As said above PP have cut him to 12/1 for that, but 20/1 still available with Bet365 looks a good value E/W bet to me.
One of Cyrname or Altior exits the betting reckoning for the KG after Saturday and there's value to be had.
And of all WPM 'staying chasers' Footpad is most likely to show up in the KG imo.
Bristol De "Fly" in the ointment i see here, under same ownership and Jockey.
You just know Twister will want to run him, despite him being a 33/1 chance for it at present and previously showing he doesn't produce his best at Kempton.
 
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33/1 is the value in the Gold Cup market. Wouldnt fancy him as strongly for the King George and wouldnt want him emptying himself there. Softly softly. There are perhaps ten shorter-priced but less likely winners in the market. Checked Oddschecker there - 40s with Unibet.
 
Depends if Bristol gets beat tomorrow. They’ll send Footpad if so, if not it’ll be Bristol.
 
Dont think Mullins will wait until Monday of the festival to decide to train him as a Gold Cup horse or not. Id have him a single digit odds chance if it was heavy. The idea of the Gold Cup being inevitably on good ground thankfully passed.
 
Double J said:
Depends if Bristol gets beat tomorrow. They’ll send Footpad if so, if not it’ll be Bristol.
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Which also reminds me that Bristol de Mai at 50s for the Gold is even more ridiculous than Footpad, for all that his best is behind him, most likely.
 
Don't hold you breath on that Hawk Wing

The job of a trainer is to get the horse fit as a fiddle and to the track

It's up to the horse to prove himself a stayer over a trip, the trainer just gets it ready in terms of being right to race. Aside from the actual trip, I dont see there being a huge variance in how a horse is physically trained bar where he is aimed in terms of prep races

If they can get Footpad fit and firing, I wouldn't expect his target to be unveiled too early
 
One interesting aspect of the Mullins yard post ruby is campaigning of horses. I felt ruby often got horses to run in races which suited him, rather than what might have been best for the horse or yard as a whole.

I would imagine townend will be way less influential on running plans

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If he ran against the Gold cup winner in Tramore on New Years Day, in receipt of weight, he would be hard to beat.

But chances of trainer doing that..

Testing ground and keeping him on the bridle seem to be key.
 
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