StableTalk: “He will run well and I do think he’s decent”

1.20 Doncaster – Adrakhan
He ran well at Cheltenham. He just got a bit left on the bend but to be fair he did then stay on up the hill. This race popped up on his radar a little bit late but it’s cut up a little bit. It’s a competitive looking race without looking particularly tough. I think this flatter track will help him and he should run well.

3.05 Doncaster – The Last Bar
She’s new to us. She jumps really well. She really is an exceptional jumper and to be fair that’s not my doing, the guys who bred her and own her did a lot of jumping with her. I don’t know how good she is, or what to expect. She was third in a bumper but it was bad ground that day. I will be a lot wiser tomorrow. She’s fit and she jumps, but apart from that I don’t know what’s coming. But she’s ready to debut.

3.40 Doncaster – Kafella
He’s a lovely great big grey horse by Kayf Tara. He’s a jumper for the future. He will run well and I do think he’s decent, but he’s not one of these flat horses that often run in these bumpers that are revved up to the minute. He has taken a different route from most as he was in a pre-training yard as a two year old, and because he’s so forward we thought there was little point in backing off him and restarting in the spring, as that wouldn’t be fair on him. We missed a race last week because of the bad ground at Haydock but there is lovely ground at Doncaster. He will run well but I don’t expect him to beat some of the more revved up horses in the race.

1.00 Leicester – Knockgraffon
He’s a nice horse and the form of his race at Liverpool is working out well. I have a lot of respect for Onefitzall however who loves soft ground and looks like a very good horse.

He drops into a seller. It’s his second run for us but he’s struggling with the handicapper quite seriously so hence we’ve entered him in this race.

I’ll be watching the Hennessy from Doncaster and I do think Saphir De Rheu is the potential Gold Cup winner in the field if there is one. Having said that Bob’s Worth is a previous winner of a Gold Cup but with the greatest respect to him his best days are behind him. That doesn’t mean he can’t win off his current mark because he’s been let in off a nice weight. I do think Saphir Du Rheu will win but have a lot of respect for a couple of the others. I think The Druid’s Nephew will run well for example.

All the best
Dan