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Mullins attention turns to Djakadam in Gold Cup trial

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Djakadam

Djakadam: general 7-2 favourite for the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup

  PICTURE: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos  

 By Andrew Dietz 3:15PM 25 JAN 2016 

AFTER Un De Sceaux and Faugheen passed tests of their credentials for Cheltenham’s championship races with flying colours, stable focus switches to Djakadam on Saturday with the Timico Gold Cup favourite going on trial for jump racing’s most coveted prize.

Djakadam, who scored impressively on his only start of the season in the Grade 1 John Durkan Memorial Chase, has been confirmed by connections for the BetBright Trial Chase at Cheltenham, where his potential rivals include last year’s winner Many Clouds and Hennessy Gold Cup hero Smad Place.

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Last season’s Gold Cup runner-up is a general 7-2 favourite to go one better in March with Willie Mullins-trained stablemates Don Poli and Vautour also high up the list in a tight market.

Rebecca Curtis has signalled her intention to run 2014 RSA Chase winner O’Faolains Boy and also entered fellow festival scorer Irish Cavalier, while Paul Nicholls could similarly be double-handed with Rocky Creek and Sam Winner.

The race is run over an extended 3m1f, a distance just short of the Gold Cup trip, and has proved a decent guide in the past with Looks Like Trouble in 2000 the most recent of four horses to have completed the double.

The main supporting contest on Cheltenham’s trials day card comes in the shape of the galliardhomes.com Cleeve Hurdle but that Grade 2 and the JCB Triumph Hurdle Trial have been reopened until Tuesday.

Cheltenham plan for Shantou Village

Neil Mulholland has entered Shantou Village in the Neptune trial, as well as the Albert Bartlett trial on the same day at Doncaster.

Shantou Village (Noel Fehily) leads

Shantou Village (left): set to run at Cheltenham on Saturday

  PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)  

“He’s in two races on Saturday but the intention is to go to Cheltenham,” the trainer said on At The Races. “The idea of going there is to test out the trip as we know he stays the three-mile trip for his pointing days.

“His win at Cheltenham was very good and the plan has always been to go back for trials day and then to the festival.

“He has improved and got stronger since November and the more time we can give him the better he’s going to be.”

Ziga Boy favourite for Sky Bet Chase

The feature race at Doncaster’s fixture, the £80,000 Sky Bet Chase, has attracted 22 confirmations with Holywell heading the weights and BetBright Trial Chase possibles Rocky Creek and Irish Cavalier also entered.

Ziga Boy has been made 7-1 favourite with the sponsors with Buywise next best at 8-1 and Le Mercurey joining Holywell at 10-1.

Mullins has made a whole host of entries on the Doncaster undercard, including three in the OLBG.com Mares’ Hurdle – Morning Run, Petite Parisienne and Whiteout – as well as the likes of Shaneshill (Lightning Novices’ Chase) and Up For Review (Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle).

 

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