ダンサー on 追跡する at Cheltenham

Exotic ダンサー will go on 裁判，公判 for the totesport Gold Cup in the £100,000 Grade Two Letheby & Christopher Chase, run over three miles and one and a half furlongs at Cheltenham on Saturday, January 27, Festival 裁判，公判s Day.

The Jonjo O’Neill-trained seven-year-old followed a superb Grade Three 二塁打

at Prestbury Park, taking the 米，稲 力／強力にする Gold Cup in November and then the boylesports.com Gold Cup the に引き続いて month, with an excellent eight-length second to totesport Gold Cup favourite Kauto 星／主役にする in the Grade One King George VI Chase at Kempton over three miles on ボクシング Day.

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Barry Simpson, racing 経営者／支配人 to owner Sir Robert Ogden, said today: "Our 意向 is to run Exotic ダンサー in the Letheby & Christopher Chase. He did some stronger work last week and we’re looking 今後 to sending him 支援する to

Cheltenham.

"It was a career best 業績／成果 from the horse in the King George at Kempton, and he has come out of the race 罰金. We know how good Kauto 星／主役にする is, so we have to be delighted with the run.

"He ran in three 最高の，を越す races in a 公正に／かなり short space of time and they took their （死傷者）数 somewhat, but he’s been freshened up by having a decent break, and he seems to have come 支援する very 井戸／弁護士席."

にもかかわらず never having won over three miles before, Simpson does not 心配する the 延長するd three mile and one furlong trip 原因（となる）ing any problems to Exotic ダンサー, although he would not commit the 進歩／革新的な chaser to a 割れ目 at the

totesport Gold Cup at Cheltenham on March 16 at this 行う／開催する／段階.

Simpson continued: "The way that he ran on to the line at Kempton, and the way he’s run up the hill at Cheltenham over two and a half miles 加える, doesn’t 示唆する that the 延長するd three mile and one furlong trip will be a problem.

"He’s bred to get the trip 井戸／弁護士席, so I’m 希望に満ちた he’ll stay. It’s 井戸／弁護士席 文書d that A P [McCoy] rides the horse 井戸／弁護士席 and gets the best out of him, so we’d like to have him on board again, but it all depends on what J P McManus has for the race.

"However, even if Exotic ダンサー won the Letheby & Christopher Chase, we wouldn’t やむを得ず have to go for the totesport Gold Cup, and 類似して a 敗北・負かす wouldn’t 支配する him out of the race.

"So much can happen in a short space of time in horseracing, as we’ve seen with 星／主役にする De Mohaison, that there’s no sense in making too many 計画（する）s. We can have our thoughts, but no 決定／判定勝ち（する） on his Festival 的 will be made until a lot nearer the time."

Exotic ダンサー could be in line for a 衝突／不一致 with Charlie Hall Chase 勝利者 Our Vic, trained by David 麻薬を吸う, in the Letheby & Christopher Chase, while Tom George’s Idle Talk, last season’s 王室の & SunAlliance Chase 走者-up, and Nigel Twiston-Davies’ pair Ollie Magern and 根本主義 could also take their chance at Cheltenham.

The Letheby & Christopher Chase has 証明するd a good guide to succes s in chasing’s Blue Riband, and four 勝利者s have subsequently gone on to glory in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup.

The Peter Easterby-trained Little フクロウ won the Letheby & Christopher Chase in 1981 before taking chasing’s 首相 Grade One contest the same year. Master Oats 達成するd the same feat for trainer Kim Bailey in 1995. See More 商売／仕事, successful in the 1998 Letheby & Christopher Chase and then again in 2001, 逮捕（する）d the totesport Gold Cup in 1999, while Looks Like Trouble 達成するd this brilliant 二塁打 in 2000.

In the last 10 years, high 質 performers of the calibre of One Man (1997), Cyfor Malta (1999), Behrajan (2003) and Jair Du Cochet (2004) have 逮捕（する）d the Letheby & Christopher Chase.

The Letheby & Christopher Chase, Race 32 in the Racing UK Order of 長所, is the feature event on a superb seven-race card at Cheltenham on Festival 裁判，公判s Day, Saturday, January 27.

An excellent supporting card 含むs the £60,000 Grade Two Byrne Bros Cleeve 障害物 (Race 31 in the Racing UK Order of 長所), run over three miles, and the 的 for 黒人／ボイコット Jack Ketchum, unbeaten in eight career starts, and the 現在の favourite for the Ladbrokes World 障害物 at The Festival on March 15.

The £55,000 Grade Three Ladbrokes トロフィー Chase (Race 33 in the Racing UK Order of 長所), run over two miles and five furlongs, could see a number of possible Festival 競争相手s on show, while the £30,000 Grade Two Ballymore 所有物／資産／財産s Novices’ 障害物, run over an 延長するd two and a half miles, and the £30,000 Grade Two Wragge & Co Finesse Juvenile Four-Year-Old 障害物, over two miles and a furlong, are also high-class contests.