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I can feel a potential plot for the Hunt Cup coming on from the master of confoundery and obfuscation, and Padishakh is his name. Someone reportedly paid £200k to get him from Roger Varian last year, and who better than O'Meara to recapture some of that outlay by winning a couple of big handicaps before maybe higher grade targets.

Nicely 'unexposed'. Seems nigh on guaranteed a run. The question in my head is will he try to win one of the York handicaps in a couple of weeks' time to make sure (or for extra pennies), hold still for the big one off a break, or go for the dodgy 'he broke slowly, bumped his head leaving the stalls, had a runny nose, didn't sleep the night before, had hiccups' post-York and after he's won the Hunt Cup by a pulling up 3 lengths.

By my interpretation of the current weights, he wouldn't be wanting to drop (if that's possible), so if he goes to York he'll probably be off.

50-1 best for Ascot I think atm. Should really be 66 or 100.

Any other second guesses on the intent are welcome

PS Reportedly ''will be better on better ground'' - comment based on run at Doncaster (soft).

<blockquote data-quote="chaumi" data-source="post: 2679647" data-attributes="member: 66064">I can feel a potential plot for the Hunt Cup coming on from the master of confoundery and obfuscation, and Padishakh is his name. Someone reportedly paid £200k to get him from Roger Varian last year, and who better than O&#039;Meara to recapture some of that outlay by winning a couple of big handicaps before maybe higher grade targets.Nicely &#039;unexposed&#039;. Seems nigh on guaranteed a run. The question in my head is will he try to win one of the York handicaps in a couple of weeks&#039; time to make sure (or for extra pennies), hold still for the big one off a break, or go for the dodgy &#039;he broke slowly, bumped his head leaving the stalls, had a runny nose, didn&#039;t sleep the night before, had hiccups&#039; post-York and after he&#039;s won the Hunt Cup by a pulling up 3 lengths.By my interpretation of the current weights, he wouldn&#039;t be wanting to drop (if that&#039;s possible), so if he goes to York he&#039;ll probably be off.50-1 best for Ascot I think atm. Should really be 66 or 100.Any other second guesses on the intent are welcome <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />PS Reportedly &#039;&#039;will be better on better ground&#039;&#039; -&nbsp; comment based on run at Doncaster (soft).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chaumi, post: 2679647, member: 66064"] I can feel a potential plot for the Hunt Cup coming on from the master of confoundery and obfuscation, and Padishakh is his name. Someone reportedly paid £200k to get him from Roger Varian last year, and who better than O'Meara to recapture some of that outlay by winning a couple of big handicaps before maybe higher grade targets. Nicely 'unexposed'. Seems nigh on guaranteed a run. The question in my head is will he try to win one of the York handicaps in a couple of weeks' time to make sure (or for extra pennies), hold still for the big one off a break, or go for the dodgy 'he broke slowly, bumped his head leaving the stalls, had a runny nose, didn't sleep the night before, had hiccups' post-York and after he's won the Hunt Cup by a pulling up 3 lengths. By my interpretation of the current weights, he wouldn't be wanting to drop (if that's possible), so if he goes to York he'll probably be off. 50-1 best for Ascot I think atm. Should really be 66 or 100. Any other second guesses on the intent are welcome :) PS Reportedly ''will be better on better ground'' - comment based on run at Doncaster (soft). [/QUOTE]

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