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Why not? They'd got its mark down to a winning one. The Gold Cup was likely to be beyond it but why not run it when it can run close to its merits without having too hard a race. As I said, if the Gold Cup had fallen apart even more than it did he might have had a chance but he could have had a harder race trying to finish second and risk leaving the national at Cheltenham.Jenny Pitman: Corbiere, Royal Athlete, Esha Ness...Would anyone say Rule The World was trained for anything other than the National? Neptune Collonges? Sunnyhill Bay? Don't Push It? Pineau De Re?My brother told me over a year before it won that he thought Comply Or Die was being trained for its National. His reasoning (which I've pinched re SDR) was that they realised after the RSA it didn't have a Gold Cup in it so they set about getting its mark down. Needless to say he was on at 33/1 when the weights came out. I reckon more than half the field almost every year have been trained specifically for the National. Obviously only one can be successful but many will have been plotted up, either cleverly or not so cleverly.

<blockquote data-quote="Desert Orchid" data-source="post: 2565444" data-attributes="member: 65242"><p>Why not? They&#039;d got its mark down to a winning one. The Gold Cup was likely to be beyond it but why not run it when it can run close to its merits without having too hard a race. As I said, if the Gold Cup had fallen apart even more than it did he might have had a chance but he could have had a harder race trying to finish second and risk leaving the national at Cheltenham.Jenny Pitman: Corbiere, Royal Athlete, Esha Ness...Would anyone say Rule The World was trained for anything other than the National? Neptune Collonges? Sunnyhill Bay? Don&#039;t Push It? Pineau De Re?My brother told me over a year before it won that he thought Comply Or Die was being trained for its National. His reasoning (which I&#039;ve pinched re SDR) was that they realised after the RSA it didn&#039;t have a Gold Cup in it so they set about getting its mark down. Needless to say he was on at 33/1 when the weights came out. I reckon more than half the field almost every year have been trained specifically for the National. Obviously only one can be successful but many will have been plotted up, either cleverly or not so cleverly.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Desert Orchid, post: 2565444, member: 65242"] Why not? They'd got its mark down to a winning one. The Gold Cup was likely to be beyond it but why not run it when it can run close to its merits without having too hard a race. As I said, if the Gold Cup had fallen apart even more than it did he might have had a chance but he could have had a harder race trying to finish second and risk leaving the national at Cheltenham.Jenny Pitman: Corbiere, Royal Athlete, Esha Ness...Would anyone say Rule The World was trained for anything other than the National? Neptune Collonges? Sunnyhill Bay? Don't Push It? Pineau De Re?My brother told me over a year before it won that he thought Comply Or Die was being trained for its National. His reasoning (which I've pinched re SDR) was that they realised after the RSA it didn't have a Gold Cup in it so they set about getting its mark down. Needless to say he was on at 33/1 when the weights came out. I reckon more than half the field almost every year have been trained specifically for the National. Obviously only one can be successful but many will have been plotted up, either cleverly or not so cleverly. [/QUOTE]

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