We pick out three soft ground specialists for the final day of the Cheltenham Festival, featuring the Boodles Gold Cup.
Monkfish on the menu in day's feature?
The giant MONKFISH has long been considered a possible Gold Cup project and the lightly-raced 10-year-old finally gets his chance on suitable ground this afternoon. He's run three times on ground officially described as Heavy and those form figures read 211. He's had some lengthy layoffs throughout his career but looked on good terms with himself when winning the Galmoy Hurdle at Gowran in January and trainer Willie Mullins reports him to be in good order.
Fergie time again at Cheltenham?
A day to remember for Sir Alex Ferguson and co-owners of Protektorat and Monmiral at the Festival on Thursday and connections could be feeling positive about SONIGINO heading into today's Martin Pipe. Paul Nicholls' horse has won on Good but the way that he cruised through the very deep conditions en route to winning at Aintree in December left the impression he was happiest when the mud's flying. Freddie Gingell takes the ride.
Preview posted at 0855 GMT on 15/03/24
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