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A few will take hammer and blowtorch to Gold Cup but it looks between Galopin Des Champs and A Plus Tard

Patrick Mullins

A Plus Tard, with Rachael Blackmore up, left, leads eventual second-placed Minella Indo, with Robbie Power up, over the last at the Cheltenham Gold Cup last year. Expand

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A Plus Tard, with Rachael Blackmore up, left, leads eventual second-placed Minella Indo, with Robbie Power up, over the last at the Cheltenham Gold Cup last year.

A Plus Tard, with Rachael Blackmore up, left, leads eventual second-placed Minella Indo, with Robbie Power up, over the last at the Cheltenham Gold Cup last year.

A Plus Tard, with Rachael Blackmore up, left, leads eventual second-placed Minella Indo, with Robbie Power up, over the last at the Cheltenham Gold Cup last year.

Last year’s Gold Cup was more a ballet than a brawl, and it played right into A Plus Tard’s speedy hands. There is a time in every champion’s life when they have it all. That was A Plus Tard last year. It doesn’t look the same this year, and I expect a few horses to try and take a hammer and a blowtorch to this race.

Noble Yeats, Royal Pagaille, Stattler, Ahoy Senor and Minella Indo all need a gallop to have a chance. Last year, everyone with a stayer sat around and looked at each other and let it turn into a sprint.

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