Paddy Power Gold Cup
Vincenzo 10/1, 2pts win
Panic Attack 12/1, 2pts win
This is a handicap that tends to be won by a future graded horse or second season chaser so it's easy to see why Jagwar is popular in the betting given his upwardly mobile trajectory. He's already a Cheltenham Festival winner and only 6 years old although the handicapper is beginning to have his say. He isn't the only unexposed type in the race however. Sam Thomas is having a fine Autumn and he looks set to run Vincenzo here. The 7 year old is fairly unexposed still after just 4 chase starts and was last seen finishing 2nd in the Greatwood Gold Cup, just being denied by an inspired Sean Bowen on Booster Bob. He's a nimble jumper who's already had some experience of the Cheltenham fences and it's always good when a young novice manages to win round Sandown, which is a proper jumping test. He's in here off a mark of 137 which will see him carry a low weight (get's 11 pounds from Jagwar) and shouldn't care what the ground it like. Another who has only had the 4 chase starts is Dan Skelton's 9 year old mare Panic Attack. A listed winner over hurdles when with David Pipe she is 1 from 1 over fences for her current stable after hacking up at Windsor in January. She looked good that day and was being readied for the Festival in the Spring but didn't make it. She was quietly fancied for that but now arrives here off a mark of 135 this daughter of Canford Cliffs is still a relative unknown and must be feared for her shrewd connections.
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