Gold Cup Winner Kauto Star
Kauto Star is being laid to lose at Haydock on Saturday. Backers can get a great price, but layers are assuming that Kauto Star will not handle the groun. They also point to Master Minded getting beaten last week at Cheltenham.
Racing Diary has said that at 5/4 Kauto Star is the bet of the season. Here is what Champion Trainer Paul Nicholls has to say ahead of Saturday’s Betfair Chase at Haydock.
“People talk about this race last year but there really is no comparison as I shouldn’t have run him that day, having already been to Down Royal. This year he is fresh and ready to go. We’re very happy with him and he isn’t like Master Minded, who needed the run at Cheltenham last week.
“I suppose you never know how much they will need the run until they actually go, but we are very pleased with where he is at the moment.”
Although much of the country has been hit by torrential rain, Haydock appears to have escaped the worst of it, with just two millimetres of overnight rain on Thursday. Kauto Star has won on soft ground on five occasions since joining the champion trainer, who warned it would be folly to write him off on Merseyside.
Nicholls added: “They’ve only had the two millimetres of rain overnight and obviously it’s going to be soft ground. But I don’t think it will be too different to how it was when he won at Down Royal last season.”
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