As the curtain falls on another jumps’ season tomorrow, the ups and downs of ante-post betting are all too apparent once again. Threeunderthrufive, put up three weeks ago at 20-1, is now 7-1 second favourite for the bet365 Gold Cup (tomorrow, 3.35 p.m.) at Sandown. With his favoured good ground almost guaranteed, he will have a live chance of defying top weight in the 20-runner contest.
My second ante-post bet in the race, Desertmore House, had looked an even better proposition. Put up two weeks ago at 25-1, he was heavily backed into 7-1 second favourite. He, too, had his favoured good ground looming only for his trainer Martin Brassil to decide to skip Sandown in favour of a run in his native Ireland. Ouch.
Not before time and after week after weeks of rain, good ground horses are finally going to run on their preferred terrain tomorrow in a big-race handicap so I am also keen to have a bet on AMIRITE for the Henry de Bromhead/Rachael Blackmore trainer/jockey combination.
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