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Adonis hopes looking to muscle in on Triumph picture

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Gibralfaro: form has been franked in spectacular style

  PICTURE: Mark Cranham (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Andrew Dietz 5:47PM 26 FEB 2016 

WITH less than three weeks until the start of the Cheltenham Festival, Kempton’s card on Saturday offers one of the last chances for revellers to join the Prestbury Park party.

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Every contest has the potential to throw up a clue or two but all eyes will be fixed on the opening BetBright-backed Adonis Juvenile Hurdle, which has proved a key trial for the JCB Triumph Hurdle down the years.

Since 1999, five Adonis winners have gone on to score in the Triumph and trainers of the last three – Paul Nicholls (Zarkandar), Nicky Henderson (Soldatino) and Alan King (Penzance) – are back to test the credentials of their latest crop of juveniles.

All to play for in the Triumph

With the Triumph market one of the murkiest festival pictures, the Grade 2 contest, which has attracted seven runners, could not have come at a better time.

Just last Saturday the landscape was clouded further after the then second favourite Fixe Le Kap blew out at odds of 1-4 at Haydock, leaving Ivanovich Gorbatov, whose own ambitions suffered a dent at Leopardstown earlier this month, to be promoted back into clear favouritism at 7-2.

Next in the betting are two horses trained by King including Gibralfaro, who is favourite for the Adonis after his form was franked in spectacular style in the Listed Contenders Hurdle at Sandown.

The winner Connetable, who had subsequent Kingwell Hurdle scorer Rayvin Black and Champion Hurdle possible Peace And Co in behind, had previously been put in his place by Gibralfaro at Ascot.

Handicapper right about Gibralfaro?

King said: “I have been happy with him since Ascot, though I think the handicapper might have over-reacted in putting him up 9lb.

“I just hope the handicapper is right, but he is now rated 151 and there are plenty of Triumph winners who don’t get that high a mark.”

Nicholls landed the race with a newcomer in 2011 when Zarkandar won on his British debut and he has handed the same challenge to Pilansberg and Zubayr.

“They’re both very nice horses and we’re looking forward to seeing them both run,” the trainer said. “There’s nothing between them at home based on their schooling and work, so we just wanted to get a run into them and see whether we carry on forward to better races or leave them until next year.”

Conditions are set to be less testing than has been the case on recent weekends, with the ground at Kempton described as good, good to soft in places on Friday afternoon.

 

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